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Horse Collar Factory
Blair Separable Horse Collar
and Blair Horse Collar Company

 

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Four Locations:

Blair Separable Horse Collar
Just west of the 16th Street (Walker Avenue) on Park Street -- Just west of the north/south railroad tracks.

More from the 1890 4th of July program


1889 Sanborn Map  (The building is gone on the 1897 map)

1897 Sanborn Map shows the Blair Horse Collar Company at lot 21 of block 36  (next to the livery)  (just east of the dry cleaners and west of 1 Blair Place.)

 

1902


Between West (23rd)  and French (24th) Street, on the South side of Nebraska Street.


 

 

Blair Horse Collar Company  [link]
today’s Seventeenth and Washington, now houses Edward Jones Investments.

  

This building first shows up in the 1909 Sanborn Map

City Council Meeting -- April 17, 1906
Moved and seconded that the city engineer be instructed to ascertain grade on the three sides of New Collar Factory building bordering alley sixth street and Washington to determine the probable amount of dirt to be moved and probable cost thereof.


Blair Horse Collar
Trans Mississippi International Exposition of 1898
H.M. for Honorable Mention Award

http://www.omaha.lib.ne.us/transmiss/secretary/awardlist.html

Photos
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Times Gone By   Tuesday, March 4, 2008 -- 120 years ago (1988)
From The Pilot:  Stock totaling $30,000 had been subscribed and articles of incorporation drawn up for the new Blair Collar Factory.  A new building was to be erected to house the concern.

 

Research

www.proleptic.net
Classified Ad  $22.50 for 20 words

Shetler's Collar Shop
5819 Flat Iron Rd
Conewango Valley, NY 14726

Coblentz Collar Shop
3348 US Route 62
Millersburg, OH 44654
Phone: 330-893-3858

Southern Indiana Collar Mfg.
RR 3 Box 22290
Montgomery, IN 47558

Brodhead Collar Shop
101 E Main Street, PO Box 27, Drakesville, IA 52552
(Bloomfield)
641-722-5222
www.brodheadcollar.com

What makes the collar from the Blair Separable Horse Collar factory unique?

Were there special markings on the  collar from the Blair Separable Horse Collar factory?

Could a collar from the Blair Separable Horse Collar factory be identified and then either photographed or purchased to be exhibited in local historical museum?

 


 


 

 

 
 
 
 

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