Waffle Vendor on the Mall

Title: Waffle Vendor on the Mall
Creator: Uriah Hunt Painter (photographer)
Date: 04/22/1889
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.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. View Original.
Coverage: 1860-1889
Original Format: Photographic Print