1960 īen Schroeder Saddle Tree Co., Inc., Catalog 4, n.d. Co., Cataīaum’s Spurs and Bits, Price List, ca. Catalog, 2003Īmerican Steel & Wire Company, Catalog, 1927Īniser Mercantile Co., Catalog 58, 1918-1919Īugust Buermann MFG. Furstnow Saddlery Company, Cata / Catalog and Price List, ca.1913 Īllison’s Stockman’s Western Store, Cowboy Catalog 9, 1948Īmazon Drygoods, Shoes and Boots Catalog, 1994Īmazon Vinegar & Pickling Works, 3 Catalogs, 1994Īmerican Indian College Fund, Catalog, 2005Īmerican Leather Workers, New Big Book, 2007Īmerican Livestock Supply, Inc. Furstnow Saddlery Company, Catalog 27, ca. Seitzler, Saddle Catalog, 1913 Īhlstrom & Gunther, Saddle CataĪL. Visalia is represented by more than a dozen catalogs, pocket calendars, brochures, and other items from the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century.Īdditional saddlery catalogs and related material can be found in the Ron Bledsoe Trade Catalog and Ephemera Collection.įolder Title / Content Description and DatesĪ.D. The Porter Company material includes an interesting 1940s-era publication entitled Know Your Saddle that goes into great detail about the saddle trees, fronts, cantles, horns, skirts and rigging, fenders, and stirrups available on Porter saddles. Hewitt Saddle, Harness & Trunk Maker of Springfield, Massachusetts, and an elaborately decorated 1907 receipt issued by Hermann-Sanford Saddlery Co. Gallup Saddlery.Īdditional saddlery catalogs and related material can be found in the Ron Bledsoe Trade Catalog and Ephemera Collection.Ĭollection highlights include an original 1881 military saddle catalog from the Whitman Saddle Co., a beautiful 1852 advertising lithograph for J.
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Other important saddle manufacturers represented in the collection includes Edward H. Porter Co., and the Visalia Stock Saddle Co. Shipley Saddlery & Mercantile Co., Colorado Saddlery Co., Hamley & Co., N. It includes a cross-section of major saddle manufacturers and distributors along with a number of smaller and lesser-known makers.Īmong the saddlery manufacturers with the best coverage are Chas. The Saddlery and Cowboy Gear Catalogs Collection consists of more than 500 trade catalogs focusing on saddles, cowboy boots, clothing, and tools from the American mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The collection is geographically diverse, with makers from all over the United States, as well as Canada and Mexico. To improve access, the decision was made in 2004 to pull these items together into an artificial collection. The material in the this collection was gathered from unprocessed catalog collections curator’s research files for a writing project concerning holsters, cartridge belts, and other gun leather and purchases.
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They promote sales by making advertising claims, give instructions in using products, provide testimonials from satisfied customers, and include detailed descriptions of sale products. Trade catalogs are printed materials published by manufacturing, wholesaling, or retailing firms. Some western saddles will also have a second strap known as a flank or back cinch that fastens at the rear of the saddle and goes around the widest part of the animal’s belly. Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to an animal’s back by means of a cinch, a wide strap that goes around the animal at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.
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The Collection of Saddlery and Cowboy Gear Catalogs & Ephemera contains over 500 original and reproduction items from more than 100 saddle and cowboy gear makers and distributors from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Traditional Cowboy Arts Exhibition & SaleĬollection of Saddlery and Cowboy Gear Catalogs & Ephemera, 1852-2003.Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale.