wagon: Quick Facts

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Dejbjerg wagon, made in a Celtic workshop in southern Germany or northeastern France, 1st century bc; in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen.

Horse-drawn wagons loaded with goods in Philadelphia, c. early 1900s.

A group of Mennonites in traditional clothing ride in a horse-drawn wagon along a rural road in Belize, with open fields and trees in the background.

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