Description

Much like the food trucks that line the Mall today, food wagons in the late 1800s catered to office workers and tourists. Here a wagon offering "Hot Waffles 6 for 5c" sits on the Mall near the southside of the Treasury Department building.

Creator

Uriah Hunt Painter (photographer)

Date

04/22/1889

Coverage

1860-1889

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. View Original.