- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- HARNESS DEPARTMENT. BONA ALLEN'S FACT. BUFORD, GA.
- Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Merchants--Georgia--Buford
Business--Georgia--Buford - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Buford, 34.12066, -84.00435
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Buford, ca. 1915. Workers in the harness department of the Bona Allen Harness and Saddle Factory located on Main Street gather for this photograph. The factory was part of Bona Allen, Incorporated which was founded in 1873.
2003/06/19: The city of Buford is going to erect a statue of Roy Rogers, Trigger and Jack Johnson, the last living Bona Allen saddle maker. In the late 1940s, Roy Rogers had a custom saddle made in the big city of Buford. The Bona Allen factory also made custom saddles for the actors on the Bonanza show. The factory burned down in Dec. 1981. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gwn169
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gwn169
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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