Vintage work crew photos

[Toolmaker51]

My first thought was that a horse drawn street sweeper was an exercise in futility but I suppose that as long as the horses pull rather than push the device everything will work fine.

Street sweeping in the first decade of the century must have provided employment for lots of people.

Well, I suspect some horses wore bags to collect droppings; typical in parades, mounted city police, carriages etc.

And street sweeping took a lot of employees. Good position for those 'city jobs' from brother-in-law in public office. Especially if he didn't care for them so much.