Hingham Stage
date: label: Date made
content: 1835
name: label: maker
content: Farmer, J.
label: engraver
content: Hall, John H.
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white advertising broadside for the four-horse stagecoach between Hingham and Boston.
label: Description
content: John Farmer was born in Half Moon, New York in 1798. He moved to Michigan in 1821 and died in Detroit in 1859.
label: Description
content: John Hall was an engraver and lithographer born in Cooperstown (New York) but did his apprenticeship with Dr. Alexander Anderson in wood engraving in New York City. In 1830 he was in Lancaster, Mass. With Carter, Andrews & Co. In 1834 he was in Boston as one of the founders of the Boston Bewick Company. He was a senior partner in the Albany firms of Hall, Packard, and Cushman (1838) and Hall and Cushman (1839). He died in California in 1849, after moving out for the gold rush.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Hingham
topic: label: Subject
content: Communication, broadsides
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1830-1839
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Carriages
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3638
label: catalog number
content: 60.3638
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wood engraving
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 14 1/2 in x 11 in; 36.83 cm x 27.94 cm