(From The Telegraph files) Cameras were still marvels of modern technology when a photographer raised what was likely his very basic box camera to capture a somewhat husky teamster driving a two-horse carriage in a Fourth of July parade way back in 1884. It appears as though the rig is towing an open-top carriage with four men aboard. Upon close inspection, the image and words on the horse blanket show that the "float" belongs to the White Mountain Freezer Company, and the image is of the popular, hand-crank ice cream freezer that the firm produced en masse back in the day. Perhaps the men riding in the carriage were company executives who hired the team for the parade. The photo last appeared in the Telegraph in June 1953, one in a series of vintage photos that the paper ran throughout 1953 as a tribute to Nashua's Centennial year.

Cameras were still marvels of modern technology when a photographer raised what was likely his very basic box camera to capture a somewhat husky teamster driving a two-horse carriage in a Fourth of July parade way back in 1884. It appears as though the rig is towing an open-top carriage with four men aboard. Upon close inspection, the image and words on the horse blanket show that the ‘float’ belongs to the White Mountain Freezer Company, and the image is of the popular, hand-crank ice cream freezer that the firm produced en masse back in the day. Perhaps the men riding in the carriage were company executives who hired the team for the parade. The photo last appeared in the Telegraph in June 1953, one in a series of vintage photos that the paper ran throughout 1953 as a tribute to Nashua’s Centennial year.