Fabulous Columbus 1893 WCE Chicago Worlds Fair Buggy Ship Train Map Trade Card
1800's - Columbus - 1492 / Columbus Buggy of Today. " - Authentic Antique Card "Columbus Buggy Co. Supplying the World with the Finest Vehicles. " / "All Nations Gather in 1892-3 to Honor... First Sighting of the New World / 1492.
" / "Columbus Buggy of Today... One of the BEST Columbian Exposition / Chicago World's Fair cards of 1892, 1893. - Dynamic illustrated Graphic Advertising.
Railroad train in Mountains: To the Western Coast. " / Industrial Railway Image: "To the Eastern Coast. "Columbus First Voyage" Map Route / San Francisco Bay and New York Harbor ports on American U.All Nations Gather in 1892 -3 to Honor the Name of Columbus... And the World's Fair at Chicago. 6.75 x 6 inches (unfolded) - Condition... Edge wear and tear flaws. See More 1800's Exposition, Uncle Sam, etc.
The Columbus Buggy Company: (from Wikipeida). Begun by three business partners, the company set up its manufacturing facilities in what is today the.
Arena District producing inexpensive buggies and dashboards, and quickly saw success. At its height it employed 1,200 people and was producing 100 buggies a day which were. The company was one of the city's major employers and a. Significant portion of the city's buggy manufacturing economy. After the turn of the century the company oriented itself toward production of.
Electric vehicles and, later, of automobiles. Crippled by the Great Flood of 1913 and unable to compete with cheaper alternatives like the. Model T, the company eventually went bankrupt in 1913, reorganized, and closed its doors a few years later.It influenced the early automobile industry production methods and several notable employees. Including Eddie Rickenbacker and Harvey S. The company buildings, after some time empty. Have since been re-developed as office space in the Arena District.
The success of the business brought attention to C. Firestone, who became a prominent figure in the. Carriage industry and he became president of the Carriage Builders National Association in 1888. Clinton Firestone's cousin, Harvey S. Firestone, was a salesmen for the company.
During his time as a salesman, and racing buggies through the streets of Detroit, Michigan. Clinton Firestone met Henry Ford, who helped him obtain tires for custom-built racing carriages. Firestone, seeing the advantage of the buggies' thick rubber tires, left the company and in 1900 founded the. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron to produce rubber tires for carriages and buggies. 130+ Years Old - 19th Century Farm: Agriculture, Auto, Patriotic, etc. Trade Card + Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card Store. + Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card Store. SEE the above HUGE SCANS to note any and all FLAWS! Size: -- see ruler in the scans. All of the Dave Cheadle Card Store cards are Authentic Antiques = 100% Guaranteed Original After approx.50 years of collecting, I'm thinning my archives of thousands and thousands of pre-1900 cards. My inventory includes items ranging from common and affordable cards. To one-of-a-kind rarities that I have used to illustrate.
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