Cartoon Promoting Electrification

ID: 228 ~ Source: The Mascot" newspaper, 21 October, 1893 issue, via microfilm in New Orleans Public Library

Image is in the Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ~ Creator: "Gumbo" ~ Date: July 15, 1893
This file appears in: Mules and Modernization

Notice how the artist has depicted the mule as gaunt or sickly. Before the streetcars were electrified, it would not have been uncommon to see these overworked animals all over the city.

This file appears in: Mules and Modernization

By Alison Laurence
Facing Jackson Square, one should see a line of mules and their drivers ready to take visitors on a trip around the French Quarter. Now a tourist attraction, these animals played a vital role for New…