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Horse-drawn vehicles

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: A wheeled vehicle pulled by one or more horses, that transports people or goods. Including: carriages, buggys, surreys, stagecoaches, buckboards, wagons, chuckwagons, delivery wagons, Conestoga wagons, hearses, wagonettes, gigs, and carts. Also sleighs and bobsleds.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bridesburg Machine Works lithograph

 Collection
Accession: 1969-163
Abstract:

The Bridesburg Machine Works of Alfred Jenks & Son were manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing. The lithograph shows the plant exterior, people in the street, and a delivery wagon carrying textile machinery. Vignettes of machines surround the main view.

Dates: circa 1856

Conestoga wagon tool box contents list

 Collection
Accession: 1995-259
Abstract:

This collection is a list on cardboard of the contents of a Conestoga wagon toolbox. Conestoga wagons were used to haul freight between farms and cities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio between the years 1750 and 1855.

Dates: undated

Finnesey & Kobler photographs of delivery wagons

 Collection
Accession: 1989-267
Abstract:

Established in 1909, Finnesey & Kobler manufactured delivery wagons and carriages. This collection consists of thirteen builders photographs of wagons made by Finnesey & Kobler, N.E. corner Brown and 27th Streets, Philadelphia. Each wagon is posed in front of the office and warehouse.

Dates: 1900-1920

Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, Inc. records

 Collection
Accession: 1374
Abstract:

Hoopes Brothers & Darlington was a firm that produced wooden wheels. It was founded by brothers Thomas Hoopes (1834-1925) and William Hoopes (1830-1917) on their farm about a mile northwest of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1866. Initially, they manufactured spokes for wagon wheels from local timber. In 1869, they established a factory in West Chester proper and, within three years, were manufacturing complete wooden wheels. In time the firm became the largest establishment of its kind east of the Allegheny Mountains. The records of Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, Inc. are relatively complete and give a full picture of the firm during its peak years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1868-1967

Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, Inc. records

 Collection
Accession: 1294
Abstract:

Hoopes Brothers & Darlington was a firm that produced wooden wheels. It was founded by brothers Thomas Hoopes (1834-1925) and William Hoopes (1830-1917) on their farm about a mile northwest of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1866. Initially, they manufactured spokes for wagon wheels from local timber. In 1869, they established a factory in West Chester proper and, within three years, were manufacturing complete wooden wheels. In time the firm became the largest establishment of its kind east of the Allegheny Mountains. This small collection consists of an account book of rim stock; a biography of one of the firm's founders, Thomas Hoopes; the autobiography of lime kiln owner John G. Robison; Edward S. Darlington's membership certificate in the Carriage Builders National Association; and board of directors' meeting minutes from 1903 to 1932.

Dates: 1894-1932