Photos Of Old Harness And Saddle Shop, Circa 1910

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

Thank you very much for sharing. Doesn't look like things have changed all that much from then till now. Bruce I thought of you the instant I saw those splitters. Wouldn't you like to just walk back in time and go through that door, looking for some work?

It is easy to get lost in time. Thanks again,

Bob

[simontuntelder]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

I tried searching for threads here dedicated to pictures of old work shops but I didn't find much.

- Should we make one?

[shoepatcher]

Any chance of seeing more pics of the old harness shop? I am particularly interested in more pics of the equipment in the shop.

glenn

[chapelstone]

I like seeing these old pictures. I hope more people who them will post them.

[Wallyphyfe]

Those were all of the shots of the harness shop; there were three or four more of individual saddles, with nothing in the backgrounds. I perhaps created an erroneous impression that all of the glass plate negatives that one of the saddle shop owners had taken were of the shop and their gear. Most of them were of other subjects--family members, their ranch, the town, houses, the community--many historically interesting, but not fitting here.

[claireEm]

I have a brass buckle?/harness decoration that was a gift to my mother.....the card says "from Ye Olde Harness Shop, Penzance, Cornwell, England.  It was a given to her around 1970.  Definitely handmade.  I'd like to know more about it if possible.  

[Cumberland Highpower]

What's the machine in the lower right corner of the first plate?

[Cumberland Highpower]

I forgot to mention that when I looked at your photos last week I took a few sec. to look up the shop on Google just out of curiosity.  Seems the owners held several thousand acres of land in the area, and the shop turned to making tops for cars in the 20's.  Closed and was torn down in the 1930's to build a Standard Oil Gas Station.