Carriage archives, [ca.1790-1960].

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Carriage archives, [ca.1790-1960].

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Records of carriage manufacturing companies, papers of individual carriage designers and trimmers, scrapbooks, photo albums, prints, broadsides, postcards, trade catalogs, receipted bills, tax records and ephemera pertaining to the history of carriages, horse-drawn vehicles and horses. Of note are papers of Herman Durholz, carriage designer for Brewster & Co. of New York, including sketches and measured drawings of carriage designs, drawings of decorative crests and monograms, notebooks, photographs and catalogs; papers of James Marsh Whitehead, carriage trimmer for Charles Grube Carriage Co., Rahway, N.J., including account books, tools and patterns for upholstery and other trimmings, 1867-1907; drawings and blueprints of James Cunningham Son & Co. of Rochester, N.Y., including working notes and details of hearses, wagons, carriages and accessories, 1890-1910; lesson plans and diplomas of James Stolfi from the Technical School for Carriage Drafting and Construction in New York City, 1909-1913; photoprints from glass negatives of vehicles built by Abbott-Downing Co. of Concord, N.H., including police and fire wagons, ambulances, sleighs and commercial delivery wagons; account books, invoice books, letter copy books, records of notes payable and miscellaneous hand-colored saddle sketches of Smith-Worthington Co. of Hartford Conn., 1822-1876; drawings, blueprints and photos of Henry Hooker & Co., New Haven, Conn.; and carriage designs of Hooper & Co., London, England, carriage maker to Queen Victoria.

25 cubic ft.

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