The Carriage Ride of April 14th VIDEO

[Eva Elisabeth]

The carriage is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (this might have been posted before):
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibition...s-carriage
   
Upon seeing the carriage (which is quite touching), I wonder and would like to ask forum members - how did four persons, two of them with expanding hoop skirts, and one with expanding legs, fit in such a (one! Not two opposite benches as I had always assumed before) small seat???