Steam powered roller built by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company of Springfield, Ohio. Shop No (serial) 11523 is stamped on the name plate.
John A. Pitts produced Buffalo brand threshers in Buffalo, New York, in 1851; his firm was known as Pitts & Brayley when Pitts died in 1859. Portable steam engines were added in 1860, and by 1866, the firm had been renamed Brayley & Pitts Works, named for John B. Pitts and James Brayley, John A.’s son and son-in-law respectively. Pitts Agricultural Works was incorporated, also in Buffalo, in 1877, and the firm was called Buffalo Pitts Company by 1897.
The Buffalo Pitts name had been used since at least 1892, when the Buffalo Pitts Niagara Road Roller steam roller (three-wheeled roller) was in production. Roller production was assigned to a subsidiary, Buffalo Steam Roller Company, by 1901. Buffalo Steam Roller merged with Kelly-Springfield Road Roller Company in 1916 to form The Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company. Buffalo Pitts ceased operations in 1935.
I photographed this Buffalo-Springfield roller at the Museum of Transportation near St. Louis, Mo.
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A short break between severe thunderstorms yesterday afternoon.
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No smoke with this forest fire. The evening sun lights the snow covered trees the evening after our first snowstorm of this winter. Just a couple miles from Tiskilwa, Illinois.
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Recently one of my sons was married in a Chicago suburb in a neighborhood with vintage homes. Just before dusk I walked around the block to photograph a few of the classic homes. This one shows the styling of the late 1880's Victorian Queen Anne designs. It looks a lot like it could have been designed by Chicago architect George O. Garnsey. I don't really know if this is one of his or not, but having been involved in restoration on several of Garnsey's Victorian homes, this one's style and colors match up perfectly.
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Fresh fish delivery by Eagle Air Express.
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