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The Emerson and Fisher company

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Description: Image of a footman in a long cloak standing on the back of a horse-drawn carriage as it moves along near trees in an advertisement for the Emerson and Fisher Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1896
Call number: priJLC_ART_003109
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Davis Gould & Co. Cincinnati, O. U.S.A

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the Davis, Gould & Co. carriage manufacturers of Cincinnati, Ohio, containing twenty-two side views of carriages and wagons, each captioned with numbers and titles, and a center image of an eye-level exterior view of the Davis, Gould & Co. factory building in Cincinnati, Ohio, with buggies lined up on the street in front, and signage on the building.

priJLC_TRAN_001384

Harper's Nov'b'r

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Harper's magazine November 1898 issue featuring two women getting into a horse-drawn carriage; a driver with a blanket over his lap holds the reins and waits for the women.

priJLC_ART_003168

Ohio Female College, : College Hill, Hamilton Co. Ohio

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Ohio Female College campus in Cincinnati, Ohio, showing a street with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground, and the landscaped grounds with pond, rowboat, gazebos, fountain, and college buildings, in the background; information about the college printed in margin.

priJLC_EDU_000637

Otterbein University. : Westerville, Ohio

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Otterbein University campus in Westerville, Ohio, with three buildings and a church with steeple, and people walking on the sidewalks and a horse-drawn carriage and a man on horseback in the street, in the foreground.

priJLC_EDU_000684

"Fashionable Paris" illustrated by Castaigne

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Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine April issue; interior view of a busy outdoor area in Paris, France, with people seated or standing watching horse-drawn vehicles decking in flowers go by.

priJLC_ART_004628

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Subseries B. Carriage and Wagon (large size)

Visual Materials

This subseries contains twelve prints pertaining to carriages, coaches, wagons, and similar horse-drawn vehicles primarily in the United States between the 1830s and 1900. The prints include five broadsides and posters advertising the goods and services of wagon, carriage, and sleigh manufacturers; five prints depicting landscapes including an early 1870s view of Mount Shasta advertising the California and Oregon Stage Company (priJLC_TRAN_001870), views of factory buildings, and scenes promoting wagon and wheel companies; a broadside providing the toll rates of the Milford and Chillicothe Turnpike in southern Ohio (priJLC_TRAN_001361); and an advertisement for a Connecticut stage line (priJLC_TRAN_001195).

The Emerson and Fisher company

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Davis Gould & Co. Cincinnati, O. U.S.A

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Subseries B. Carriage and Wagon (large size)