Cabinet card portrait showing Rene Pullen and his young daughter posed beside a two-wheeled ox-drawn wagon in front of H.W. Plummer’s shoe shop on Cony Street in Augusta, Maine. The bearded man holds a goad stick while standing beside a yoked ox, while the girl, dressed in a dark coat and cap, gazes toward the camera from beside the cart’s large wooden wheels. The storefront signage and adjacent posted advertisements on the neighboring wall provide rich period detail and a rare sense of small-town street life in turn-of-the-century Maine.

Photographed by Fairfield, whose studio imprint appears at right, the image offers a striking view of rural working-class life captured against a well-preserved architectural backdrop. Identified in period script on verso.