A reminder that the saddlers of old were not necessarily some old man in a corner building saddles. This is W.T. Wroe, the 'other' saddlery with Kluge Bros. in the 1906/07 Austin city directory. I see roughly three dozen men in the image, which is undated but turn of the last century because Wroe appeared in an article with far fewer 'hands' at the very end of the 19th, and became a car/truck sales company by 1915. Wroe, like Kluge and Brill, was a wealthy man.
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Among such large saddleries we can count Lawrence and Heiser in the very early 20th century, from the articles and images I have on hand.
This all pales in comparison with Emerson Gaylord whose company made saddlery and gunleather for the North during the Civil War: I've a bio on Gaylord stating his peak workforce for leather harness etc was 450 men.