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DescriptionDistributing ship cargo of standard buggies coast of Australia, Columbus Buggy Co.jpg	"Columbus Buggy Co. Standard. World over. Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Distributing ship cargo of standard buggies coast of Australia." Advertising poster for the Columbus Buggy Company showing a buggy drawn by large birds (ostensibly emus, but they look more like ostriches) on a country road leaving a port installation. Insets show more wildlife and an illustration of the Columbus factory. The Columbus Buggy Company was originally known as the Iron Buggy Company. Located in Columbus, Ohio, the company claimed to be one of the largest buggy manufacturers in the world. By 1900, the Columbus Buggy Company employed eight hundred people. Clinton Dewitt Firestone was the company's president. Both Harvey S. Firestone and Edward V. Rickenbacker got their early business experience while working at the Columbus Buggy Company, before moving on to other ventures. With the advent of the automobile, buggy and carriage manufacturers faced serious competition. Like some other companies, the Columbus Buggy Company's management decided to begin producing automobiles in the early twentieth century. The company built several different lines, using both electric and gas power. Unfortunately, these changes were not enough to help the company to survive. The Columbus Buggy Company went bankrupt in 1913.
Date	before 1913 date QS:P,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author	Cincinnati Lith. Co.
Other versions	File:Columbus-Standard-Buggies Australia ca1880.jpg (smaller but less dark)

"Distributing Ship Cargo of Standard Buggies, Coast of Australia", a ca. 1880 chromolithograph poster (published in the United States) advertising the Columbus Buggy Co. of Columbus, Ohio.

This shows a "standard buggy", recently arrived on the coast of Australia, being driven away by its new owners (the white couple). The buggy is fancifully depicted as being drawn by four giant ostriches (perhaps actually intended to be emus??), with two Aboriginal boys riding postillion.

An inset at lower left attempts to depict the fauna of Australia, while the inset at lower right portrays the Columbus Buggy Co. factory (with the requisite belching smokestacks, then considered a sign of progress).

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