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[[Image:peddler.gif|right|thumb|250px|Even peddlers needed a license in Dubuque. Photo Courtesy--Bob Reding]]PEDDLERS. Wandering salespeople. Peddlers usually traveled by foot | [[Image:peddler.gif|right|thumb|250px|Even peddlers needed a license in Dubuque. Photo Courtesy--Bob Reding]]PEDDLERS. Wandering salespeople. Peddlers usually traveled by foot carrying their wares or with a cart or wagon. They sometimes doubled as performers, supposed healers, or fortune-tellers. | ||
Peddlers had an important role in supplying isolated populations | Peddlers had an important role in supplying isolated populations with basic goods such as pots and pans, horses, and even news. In the United States, the era of the traveling peddler probably peaked in the decades just before the [[CIVIL WAR]]. Advances in industrial mass production and freight transportation during the war laid the beginnings of modern retail and distribution networks. Increasing dense population, modern transport, mail order, refrigeration and other technologies have allowed even rural residents other ways of obtaining needed goods. | ||
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Revision as of 02:57, 18 March 2010
PEDDLERS. Wandering salespeople. Peddlers usually traveled by foot carrying their wares or with a cart or wagon. They sometimes doubled as performers, supposed healers, or fortune-tellers.
Peddlers had an important role in supplying isolated populations with basic goods such as pots and pans, horses, and even news. In the United States, the era of the traveling peddler probably peaked in the decades just before the CIVIL WAR. Advances in industrial mass production and freight transportation during the war laid the beginnings of modern retail and distribution networks. Increasing dense population, modern transport, mail order, refrigeration and other technologies have allowed even rural residents other ways of obtaining needed goods.