Published: 2025-12-28

Carriage production in nineteenth-century Warsaw

Dariusz Główka , Elżbieta Mazur
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM73.2025.3.003

Abstract

The article presents the previously unexplored history of the production of various types of vehicles, such as carriages, coaches, buggies, phaetons, landaus, American carriages, and others, in 19th-century Warsaw, the largest center of their manufacture in Poland. It provides information on the number of factories, production volumes and
employment, the names of owners and the location of workshops, which were mainly concentrated on Elektoralna, Leszno and Orla streets. It describes the activities of prominent entrepreneurs such as Jan Lier, Józef Rentel, Antoni Hesse, Władysław Romanowski and Karol Sommer. It discusses domestic industry exhibitions organized in Warsaw and foreign exhibitions in Paris, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Philadelphia, where Warsaw carriages and their creators, honored with numerous
awards, were presented.

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carriages, Warsaw, 19th century, material culture, manufacturing

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Główka, D., & Mazur, E. (2025). Carriage production in nineteenth-century Warsaw. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 73(3), 345–387. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM73.2025.3.003

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