Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Wagons
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Wagons
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3.25 Cubic feet
consisting of 7 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 2 map case folders.
1818-1919
bulk 1840-1910
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Wagons is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Preferred Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Wagons, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Processing Information
In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections.
For this subject, minimal processing included arrangement to the folder level, based on prior processing and preservation action, with retention of the pre-existing arrangement when possible, if applicable. Otherwise, an order was imposed by the Processing Archivist. Some materials were consolidated to eliminate excess bulk but items within folders were not arranged further. The guide may or may not include a more refined list of folder contents. Nonarchival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have
not all been removed.
Minimal level processing and machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, 2016 December.
Scope and Contents
Contains materials relating to the manufacture and sale of wheeled and ski-based vehicles, primarily horse drawn, but in some cases human powered such as wagons, carriages, buggies, sleds, and sleighs used for transportation of goods and person. Includes information about a variety of wagon types runners, cutters, coaches, trucks, surreys, and phartons. Accessories include harnesses, reins, metal wheels, axles, spokes, tops, aprons, ornaments. There is one example of a baby carriage.
Businesses include general merchants, specialty dealers, service, parts and accessories, and repair.
Materials represent a sampling of daily transactions such as receipts and invoices for purchases. Marketing materials consists of price lists, ads, and brochures. There are several illustrated catalogues which provide good coverage on product lines. The images files provide good visual content of wagons used for work and leisure.
No extensive runs or complete records exist for any single company, brand, and no particular depth is present for any singular subtopic though some publications may provide general and historical overviews of a person, company, or facet of industry.
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
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Series 1: Business Ephemera
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Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
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Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
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Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Arrangement
Wagons is arranged in three subseries.
- Business Records and Marketing Material
- Genre
- Subject
Sales letters
Farm equipment
Ephemera
Trade literature
Trade catalogs
Illustrations
Legal documents
Publications -- Business
Printed ephemera
Trade associations
Printed material
Trade cards
Patents
Commercial catalogs
Business records
Manufacturers' catalogs
Carriages and carts
Periodicals
Sales catalogs
Advertising
Advertising cards
Advertising fliers
Carriages and carts -- Design
Advertising mail
Carriages
Print advertising
Business cards
Advertisements
Letterheads
Licenses
Publications
Invoices
Carriage and wagon making -- 1880-1910 -- Maryland
Printed materials
Horse-drawn vehicles
Wagon manufacturing
Receipts
Photographs
Carriage and wagon making
Mail order catalogs
Business letters
Wagon wheels
Instructional materials
Commercial correspondence
Carriage industry
Catalogs
Wheels
Correspondence
Road vehicles
Wagons
Sales records
Consumer goods -- Catalogs
Sleds
Sleds (animal-powered)
Catalogues
Business ephemera
Business Records and Marketing Material
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1819-1918
A
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1854-1904
1
1
B
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1849-1905
1
2-3
Brown, D. Arthur and Company
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1873
2
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Two invoices.
C
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1831-1915
1
4-5
D
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1845-1911
1
6
E
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1837-1917
2
1
F
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1843-1909
2
2
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Includes board mounted photos for Finnesay and Kobler.
G
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1846-1914
2
3
H
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1848-1908
2
4
I
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1854-1890
2
5
J
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1853-1902
2
6
K
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1819-1898
bulk 1865-1898
2
7
L
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1847-1907
2
8
M
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1856-1914
3
1
N
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1858-1902
3
2
O
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1866-1908
3
3
Scope and Contents
Ohio Wheel Company is well-represented.
P
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1847-1915
3
4
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Portsmouth Wagon Store is well-represented.
Q
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1867-1898
3
5
R
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1856-1905
3
6
S
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1850-1918
3
7-8
T
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1836-1916
bulk 1850-1916
4
1
U
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1868-1890
4
2
V
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1859-1902
4
3
W
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1854-1915
4
4
Y
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1860-1899
4
5
Advertisements, Oversize
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68
1
Scope and Contents
Broadsides, circulars, and price lists for wagons and related products. Includes an ad for the Sidway Collapsible Baby Carriage.
Advertisements, Oversize
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203
1
Scope and Contents
Broadsides, circulars, and price lists for wagons and related products. Includes a tri-fold for Studebaker's wagon combo that carries a hot road oiler (circa 1910). Also present are ads for transfer ornaments, aprons.
Advertisements, Oversize
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2
American Carriage Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
Circular.
Emerson, Fisher, and Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Hiram W. Davis and Company
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circa 1888
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Hiram W. Davis and Company
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1887
Scope and Contents
Broadside including monthly calendars.
Hull Brothers
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undated
Scope and Contents
Circular featuring the Blue Ribbon Line.
International Harvester Company of America
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1924
Scope and Contents
Circular featuring the Weber Wagons.
International Harvester Company of America
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undated
Scope and Contents
Circular featuring the Columbus Wagons.
T.W. Lane's
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Little Salesman
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undated
Scope and Contents
Circular
Parry Manufacturing Company
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1914
Scope and Contents
Circular.
Sidway Mercantile Company
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1914
Scope and Contents
Circular featuring the Allwin and Sidway brands of baby carriages.
Standard Wagon Company
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1889
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
A. Streich and Brothers Company
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circa 1914
Scope and Contents
Circular.
Vehicle Apron and Hood Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside featuring Blizzard.
Advertisements, Oversize
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Chadwick Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Cleveland Hardware Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Davis Gould
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undated
Scope and Contents
Broadside.
Standard Wagon Company
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1890
Scope and Contents
Broadside with calendar boxes. Note: damaged, pieces in envelope within enclosure.
Import/Export
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1868-1879
4
6
Scope and Contents
Two import packets for port of entry Philadelphia.
Miscellaneous
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1836-1915
SUPP
34
1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, a receipt, trade cards and marketing fliers, plus a coaching parade ribbon and few images wagons.
Railroad Financial Account Statements
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1853-1856
bulk 1854-1854
4
7
Scope and Contents
New York Central Railroad Company, listing payments for goods and services.
Genre
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1841-1918
Catalogues
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Arrangement
Foldered alphabetically by company. One catalogue for each company, unless otherwise noted.
A
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4
8
American Carriage Company
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1896-1900
Scope and Contents
3 catalogues.
B
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4
9
Barbour Buggy Company
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Binghamton Wagon Company
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1895
Blees Buggy Company
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Boston Buckboard and Carriage Company
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1879
1895
Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Boub and Scheu
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1909
Bradley and Company
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Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Buckeye Handle, Gear and Bending Company
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C
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4
10
Cash Supply and Manufacturing Company
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1901-1902
Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
C
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1870-1902
5
1
Chamberlin E., Son and Company
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1870
Concord Axle Company
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Cortland Wagon Company
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Cowley, L.H.
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D-E
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5
2
Davis, Gould and Company
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Eagle Carriage Company
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Eames, A.M. and Company
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1902
Electric Wheel Company
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Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Company
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1902-1903
1886
Scope and Contents
3 catalogues.
Empire Manufacturing Company
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Excelsior Carriage Company
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1902
F-G
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1900-1914
5
3
Farmers Handy Wagon Company
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Fish, A.C.
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Freeport Vehicles
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1914
Fuller Buggy Company
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1900
Gere, Truman, Platt and Company
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H-J
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5
4
Haydock Brothers
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1891
Scope and Contents
3 catalogues (2 copies of second catalogue).
Hitchcock Manufacturing Company
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House
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Jackson Wagon
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K-L
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5
5
Keyes and Wilson
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Scope and Contents
Successors to Flandrau, A.S. and Company.
Kimbark, S.D.
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1894
Kingman and Company
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Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Kingsley, L.J. Company
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Landsen Company
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Locke and Jewell
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5
5
M
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6
1-3
Madison Wheel Company
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1905
Manville, B. and Company
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McCabe, Young and Company
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Michigan Buggy Company
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Milburn Wagon Company
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Scope and Contents
2 copes of catalogue 104. No. 3274 registered to William Potts, Parkesburg, PA. No. 5483 registered to United Export Bureau, New York City.
Mitchell, Lewis, and Company
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1882-1884
Scope and Contents
5 catalogues (2 each of 1883, 1884). The 1883 and 1884 catalogues are formatted as almanacs.
Moline Plow Company
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1914; undated
Scope and Contents
3 catalogues. Each features a different product: T.G. Mandt Wagon, "Henney" Vehicles, Crescent Farm Wagons.
Moon Brothers
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1890; 1893
Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Murray, Wilber H.
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N-O
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6
4
Newton W.H. and Son
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1894; 1899; undated
Scope and Contents
3 catalogues.
Norwood Manufacturing Company
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1893
Noyes Cart Company
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1890
O'Neill Wagon Company Limited
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1884
Scope and Contents
2 copies.
Ohio Carriage Manufacturing Company
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Owenboro Wagon Company
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Oyler Geo. K. Carriage Company
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P-R
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1912
undated
6
5
Prouty and Glass Carriage Company
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1912
Rice , Louis P. and Company
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S
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1890-1908
unknown
7
1
Schwartz, Jos. and Company
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Scott, Chas. and Company
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1890
Sears, Roebuck and Company
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Scope and Contents
2 catalogues, on features cutters and sleighs.
Sechler and Company
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1892
Sechler, D.M. Carriage Company
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1904
Scope and Contents
2 copies, Louisiana Purchase Exposition souvenir booklet (cover color variant).
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company
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1908; undated
Scope and Contents
4 catalogues. 1908 is formatted as an almanac.
Sullivan Brothers
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T-Z, plus Company Unknown
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undated
1893
7
2
Tubular Steel Sled Company
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Union Machine Company
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Watson Wagon Company
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undated
Scope and Contents
2 catalogues.
Wertz Buggy Company
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1893
[Company Unknown]
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Scope and Contents
2 catalogues. One on wagons and buggies, the other on cover material with textile sample included.
Images
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Illustrations and Prints
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Oversize Carriages and Wagons
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undated
1899
203
1
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3 items. A printed photograph of the "Telegraph" coach, branded Potters Bar and listing persons appearing in image, as issues by The Road (Christmas Number, 1893, Plate No. II). A B&W printed illustration of an Old Oxford coach. A color illustration of an open carriage leisure ride.
Oversize Carriages and Wagons
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undated
1900 November 17
68
1
Scope and Contents
2 images. Printed B&W sketch of a late 19th Century city corner with a carriage in the foreground. B&W illustration of the Mail Phaeton: Correctly Appointed (supplement to the Rider and Driver, Vol. XX, No. 13, November 17, 1900).
Sleighs and Sleds
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undated
7
3
Wagons and Carriages
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undated
7
4
Photographs, Wagons and Carriages
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undated
1918
7
5
Scope and Contents
One image indicates Portland, Maine. Another has the date of 1918 on verso.
Legal, Intellectual Property
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circa 1850-1900
7
6
Scope and Contents
Patent and trademark, with illustrations and drawings.
Serial Publications
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1841-1907
7
7
Home and Country, "Driving"
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1894 August
Scope and Contents
Excerpt, pp. 45-52.
Penny Magazine, A Day at a Coach-Factory
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1841 December
Scope and Contents
Excerpt, pp. 45-52.
Spokesman of the Carriage and Associate Trade
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1907 January
Scope and Contents
Spokesman Publishing Company. 1 issue: 1907 January, Vol. XXIII, No. 1.
Vehicle Dealer
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1904 December
Scope and Contents
1 issue: 1904 December, Vol. VI, No. 3. Note: cover missing.
Ye Centennial Hub Almanac
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1876
Scope and Contents
Hub Publishing Company. 1 issue: 1876.
Vehicle Licenses
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1902-1919
7
8
Scope and Contents
5 licenses from Ohio, Connecticut, Delaware.
Subject
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circa 1852-1916
Carriage Builders' National Association 44th Annual Report
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1916 September 26-28
7
9
Writings, General
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circa 1852-circa 1872
7
10
Scope and Contents
Four unrelated items.
Amesbury, Massachusetts: the Carriage Center of the World
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undated
"Broad-Rimmed Wheels", Letter to the Editor
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1882 March
"Carriage Axles and Springs"
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1872
Scope and Contents
Excerpt, pp.1272-1282. Source unknown.
Changing Arms, Instruction Card
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undated
Pictorial Gallery of Arts, "Arts Relating to Vehicles and Land-Travelling"
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circa 1852
Scope and Contents
Excerpt, Chapter VI, pp.227-254.
"Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, and Sleighs"
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undated
68
1
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An incomplete article/prospectus excerpt (source unknown) illustrated with portraits of C. Studebaker and J.M. Studebaker, plus a wagon and their production facility in South Bend, Indiana.