Wood and iron wheelbarrow painted red. Designed to be pushed by a single person, the wheelbarrow has two handles spaced a comfortable gripping length apart. It has a single wheel, and two additional supports to keep the barrow upright when not in motion. The storage area tapers toward the front in order to distribute the weight between the pusher and the wheel and allow for greater maneuverability. The maker, A. Buch’s Sons Company, described it as "A durable, neat garden Barrow” in their catalog, "Buch's Wheelbarrows, Bag Trucks, Feed Cutters."
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Moving things around the garden or gathering things such as weeds, flowers, or produce required something to transport them in. Wheelbarrows were use forms of transportation in the garden and made an otherwise arduous task lighter and easier. Wheelbarrows of the nineteenth century were usually made of wood or wrought iron. Wooden wheelbarrows often had removable sides, so that it could be built up to store a larger capacity.
