ca. 1800's - California Agent: Columbus Buggy - Authentic Antique Trade Card
"Columbus Presenting to the King and Queen of Spain Trophies Secured in the New World, 1492."
NOTE: Columbus holds a MAP of the New World... with a Columbus Buggy Factory View on the top!
Reverse: "C.D. Firestone" - see Wikipedia info below.... Harvey S. Firestone / Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
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California: "PACIFIC BRANCH: 221 and 223 Market Street, San Francisco, CAL. / A.G. Glenn, Manager."
The Columbus Buggy Company: (from Wikipeida)
"An early buggy and automotive manufacturer based in Columbus, Ohio, United States, from 1875 to 1913.
"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 sold in every state in the United States. 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. Firestone. 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. D. 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.
By 1904, it was the largest tire manufacturer in the world."
Approx. 6 x 3.85 inches - Condition... shows age with flaws. Reverse glue damage. Please study the scans.
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Condition: - Displays with evidence of aging, flaws and wear, as seen in HUGE scans far above.
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