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[Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. fine carriages, wagons, etc., South Bend, Ind. trade cards] [graphic] / Gray-Parker.
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Creator
Gray & Parker, artist.
Contributor
Gies & Co., printer.
Title
[Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. fine carriages, wagons, etc., South Bend, Ind. trade cards] [graphic] / Gray-Parker.
Publisher
Buffalo: Gies & Co
Publisher
NY. Buffalo. 1890
Date
[ca. 1890]
Physical Description
2 prints: chromolithograph; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.) or smaller.
Description
Trade cards containing views of "Studebaker Platform Spring Truck. No. 281." and "Studebaker Platform Spring Coal Wagon. No. 481 " Views also show horse teams hitched to the vehicles, the drivers, and background scenery of a storefront and coal mill. One of the cards also contains vignette views of Stuebaker Bros. Mfg. main and branch buildings printed on the verso. Buildings depicted include "Carriage Works, South Bend, Ind."; "Factory & Repository, 203-205 Michigan Ave. Chicago"; and "Wagon & Spring Wagon Works, South Bend, Indiana." Views include street and pedestrian traffic. Strudebaker Bros., established in 1852 and incorporated in 1868, opened a Chicago factory in 1884. Other "Branch Houses" included New York City; San Francisco; Kansas City; Portland, Oregon; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Salt Lake City Utah.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company.
Carriage manufacturers and dealers -- Indiana -- Southbend.
Horse-drawn vehicles.
Factories -- Middle West.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.60 & 61]
Accession number
P.2011.10.60
P.2011.10.61
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