The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Green, Susan                                      

Title:               Susan Green research papers on coach lace

Dates:             1830-ca.2008, bulk ca. 1980-ca.2008

Call No.:         Col. 879

Acc. No.:        10x101

Quantity:        13 boxes, 1 folder

Location:        11 F 1-2

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Susan Green of Pennsylvania was the librarian for the Carriage Museum of America.  She is interested in horse-drawn vehicles.  She received a grant from Early American Industries Association to help fund research for her project on coach lace.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Research notes, correspondence, photographs, and negatives gathered by Susan Green while writing her book Coach Lace for Passenger Vehicles.  Although the book includes information on horse-drawn vehicles, railroad passenger cars, and early automobiles, the materials in this collection focus on the use of coach lace in horse-drawn vehicles, with a little about railroad cars.  The collection is especially rich in color photos of carriage interiors and coach lace, with the photographed vehicles being both in museum collections and privately owned.  The collection also includes materials on several American manufacturers of coach lace, a list of American and British manufacturers, and a list of those who sold coach laces.  Coach lace was a woven trim, similar to braid, and not at all like bobbin or point lace.  Two samples of coach lace are part of the collection.  Also found is an original receipt from Henry Korn of Philadelphia, dated 1830.

 

           

ORGANIZATION

 

Boxes 1-8 hold correspondence, notes, negatives, and larger photos.  Smaller photos are in Boxes 9-11, and medium photos are in Boxes 12-13.  Information on a particular topic might be found in all three sizes of boxes.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are mostly in English, with some French and German.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Gift of Susan Green, May 2010.

 

 

RELATED MATERIALS

 

Susan Green donated materials about the use of coach lace in early automobiles to the Antique Automobile Library in Hershey, Penn.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

            People:

                        Hayden, Peter, d.1888.

                        Korn, Henry, ca.1788-1876.

                        Marsh, Wilson, 1750-1828.

                        Pardee family.

                        Ray, Andrew.

                        Walker, Dean, b.1793.

 

Topics:

William H. Horstmann & Sons.

Carriages and carts - Decoration - History.

            Carriages and carts - Photographs.

            Railroad passenger cars - Decoration - History.

            Textile fabrics - Specimens.

            Textile manufacturers - Great Britain.

            Textile manufacturers - Untied States.

            Receipts.

            Photographs.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 11 F 1-2

 

 

Box 1: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folder 1:         Carriage Museum of America: negatives

                        [see photos in Boxes 9, 12]

 

Folders 2-3:    “Coach Lace for Passenger Vehicles”: copy of text   

 

Folder 4:         Day, Jack: carriage collection (Monkton, Md.): negatives

                        [see photos in Boxes 9, 12]

 

Folder 5:         “Esthetique Industrielle et Stylisme,” book about train upholstery, with photos, 1980

 

Folder 6:         Granger Homestead Society, Inc. (Canadaiqua, N.Y.)

                        [see photos in Box 12]

 

Folder 7:         Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

                        [see photos in Box 9]

 

Folder 8:         Le Roy Historical Society (N.Y.) and Chautauqua Historical Society (N.Y.)

                        [see photos in Box 12]

 

Folder 9:         Lorenzo State Historic Site (N.Y.)

                        [see photos in Box 9]

 

Folder 10:       Manufacturers

 

Folder 11:       Manufacturers: Braidex (Peterborough, Eng.)

 

 

Box 2: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folders 1-2:    Manufacturers: Clinton Company (Erastus Bigelow) (Mass.)

                        [see photos in Box 9]

 

Folder 3:         Manufacturers: Context Weavers (reproduction fabrics, England)

 

Folder 4:         Manufacturers: Hayden, Peter (N.Y. and Ohio, including state prisons)

 

Folders 5-7:    Manufacturers: Horstmann, William (Philadelphia)

                        [see photos in Box 12]

 

 

Box 3: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folder 1:         Manufacturers: Korn, Henry (Philadelphia)

                        Includes receipted bill (on printed form), 1830

 

Folder 2:         Manufacturers: lace weavers in Gettysburg

 

Folders 3-4:    Manufacturers: Marsh, Wilson (Quincy, Mass.)        

                        [see photos in Box 12]

 

Folder 5:         Manufacturers: Pardee family (Conn.)

 

Folder 6:         Manufacturers: Rabbit Goody and Thistle Hill Weavers (reproduction fabrics, New York)

 

Folder 7:         Manufacturers: Ray, Andrew (Scotland and New Jersey)

                        (surname also spelled Rae)

 

Folder 8:         Manufacturers: Vogt Company (Rochester, N.Y.)

 

Folder 9:         Manufacturers: Walker, Dean (Mass. and Baltimore)

 

Folder 10:       Manufacturers in New York City

 

Folder 11:       Manufacturers in United Kingdom census, 1841-1901

 

 

Box 4: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folder 1:         Martin Auction, Nov. 2000: coach from Shelburne, Vt.

                        [see photos in Boxes 9, 12]

 

Folder 2:         Miscellaneous negatives and two samples of coach lace

                        [see photos in Box 9]

 

Folder 3:         Museums at Stony Brook

                        (Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages)

                        [see photos in Boxes 10, 12]

 

Folder 4:         Museums at Stony Brook: “Coach Lace for the Museums at Stony Brook”

 

Folder 5:         National Railway Museum (York, Eng.)

 

Folder 6:         New York State Museum

                        [see photos in Boxes 11, 12]

 

Folder 7:         Philadelphia library: negatives (images from periodicals)

                        [see photos in Boxes 11, 12]

 

Folder 8:         Powell, Richard E., Jr., “Coachmaking in Philadelphia

                        (from Winterthur Portfolio, v. 23, no. 4, 1993)

 

Folder 9:         Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

                        [see photos in Box 12]

 

Folder 10:       Selling agents [sellers of coach lace]

 

Folder 11:       Shelburne Museum

                        [see photos in Boxes 11, 12]

 

Folder 12:       Smithsonian Institution

                        [see photos in Box 13]

 

Folder 13:       Sowles Foundation: negatives

                        [see photos in Boxes 11, 13]

 

Folder 14:       Stratford Hall (Va.): Lafayette carriage

 

 

Box 5: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folder 1:         Studebaker Museum

 

Folder 2:         Use of coach lace on horse-drawn vehicles

                        [see also Box 8]

                        [see photos in Box 13]

 

Folders 3-4:    Use of coach lace on railroad passenger cars

 

Folder 5:         Weaving: photos

 

Folder 6:         Weaving and dying coach lace: notes and weaving diagrams

                        [see also Box 8]

 

Folder 7:         “Weaving Coach Lace,” article by Susan Green translated into German

 

Folder 8:         Weaving Coach Lace: books on weaving

 

 

Box 6: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc.

 

Folder 1:         Weaving Coach Lace: Britist patent drawings

 

Folder 2:         Weaving Coach Lace: looms, etc.

 

 

Box 7: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc. (legal size files)

 

Folder 1:         Books:

                        Tymeson, Mildred McClary.  The Lancastrian Towns [of Massachusetts].  Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1967.

                        Benson, Anna P.  Textile Machines.  Shire Album 103.  1983.

                        Benson, Anna, and Warburton, Neil.  Looms and Weaving.  Shire Album 154.  1995 and 2002 (2 copies, one from each year)

 

Folders 2-3:    Directories: coach lace weavers

 

Folders 4-5:    For list of coach lace weavers (continues in next box)

 

 

Box 8: correspondence, notes, negatives, etc. (legal size files)

 

Folder 1:         For list of coach lace weavers (continued from previous box)

 

Folders 2-4:    Use of coach lace on horse-drawn vehicles: notes and photocopies

                        [see also Box 5]

 

Folder 5:         Weaving and dying coach lace: notes and photos

                        [see also Box 5]

 

 

Box 9: smaller photographs

 

Carriage Monthly, Sept. 1901(?)

Carriage Museum of America

Day, Jack (Md.): collection

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

Lorenzo State Historic Site

Manufacturers: Clinton Company

Martin Auction, Nov. 2000, Lot 130: coach from Shelburne, Vt.

Miscellaneous photos

 

 

Box 10: smaller photographs

 

Museums at Stony Brook (Long Island, N.Y.)

 

 

Box 11: smaller photographs

 

New York State Museum

Philadelphia library [photos of a periodical]

Shelburne Museum

Sowles Foundation

Taylor, George

Unidentified locations

 

 

Box 12: medium photographs

 

Carriage Museum of America

Day, Jack (Md.): collection

Dunkirk

Granger Homestead, N.Y.

Le Roy Historic Society (N.Y.)

Manufacturers: Horstmann

Manufacturers: Marsh, Wilson

Martin Auction, Nov. 2000, Lot 130: coach from Shelburne, Vt.

Museums at Stony Brook (Long Island, N.Y.)

New York State Museum

Philadelphia library [photos of a periodical]

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Shelburne Museum

 

 

Box 13: medium photographs

 

Smithsonian Institution

Sowles Foundation

Unidentified: found loose

Use of coach lace on horse-drawn vehicles

 

CD: contents unidentified, in envelope with return address of Bridgeman Art Library

 

Disk: Scanned transparencies about weaving coach lace, in German, by Fritz Wunderlich at the firm of Rudolf Stief

 

 

Oversize folder on shelf:

 

3 photos of coach laces