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The Irish Jaunting Car. Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Publishing Co., circa 1890-circa 1900.

This and similar postcard illustrations were often accompanied by a verse from "The Irish Jaunting Car" by Valentine Vousden, an Irish music hall performer who was born in 1825:

If you want a ride round Dublin shure
     you'll find me on the stand,
I'll take you to Raheny to pick cockles on
     the Strand,
I'll take you to the Phoenix Park, to Nancy
     Hands and then
I'll take you to the strawberry beds and
     back to town again.

Source:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Digital ID: (digital file from original) ppmsc 09947. Click here to view source.

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