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1940235071940. Women's wartime factory labor photo archive depicting rubber molding inspection precision trimming packing and bench production in the United States during the World War II era. More than six million women took wartime jobs in American factories and wartime labor needs moved women into industrial work involving machinery inspection aircraft parts laboratory work and other production roles previously coded as male labor. The captioned Parker views place women inside a rubber parts operation where quality control hand finishing and distribution preparation were treated as essential production work. The archive records the practical shop-floor labor behind the larger wartime shift: long tables stools bins boxed parts inspection lamps trimming tools and women working in sequence across a factory interior.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 4 large silver gelatin photographs each measuring 8" x 10.75" United States circa 1940s. One caption reads "View of inspection of Parker-molded rubber parts" with women seated along a long worktable examining parts before distribution. Another caption reads "Operators with equipment for precision-trimming of mold rubber parts" showing women working at a row of bench stations with overhead cords boxes and factory equipment. Additional scenes show women packing sorting and assembling small molded components at long tables surrounded by stacked cartons metal containers industrial windows and production shelving.<br /> <br /> During and after World War II women's factory labor did not simply fill temporary vacancies; it proved women could perform skilled industrial tasks in defense-related production even as many employers pushed women out of those jobs when men returned from military service. Light handling wear corner wear minor creasing and curling; photos generally clean and clear and captions remain legible on two mounts. Overall in very good condition. This archive shows the wartime demand for women's labor in order to keep American production moving during the war. unknown
19692081402109803362Koyu-sha 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Koyu-sha paperback
1930149350N.p.: N.p. 1930. Archive of six double weight borderless photographs of the Ethan Allen Creamery in Essex Junction VT circa 1930s. The photographs contain images of both the creamery buildings and interior of the facilities including the vats used to pasteurize milk at what the creamery's sign claims is "Vermont's most modern and sanitary milk plant."<br /> <br /> Photographs roughly 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Fine. Tipped onto linen on the left edge and bound with a string. Housed in a contemporary card folder with a vintage photography studio label to the rear pastedown. N.p. unknown
1q20007TZuber & Cie Rixheim um 1968. 50 Blätter mit einfarbigen und farbigen Tapeten-Mustertafeln betitelte Original-Leineneinband mit Schraubbindung Imperialfolio-quer ca. 675 x 43 cm teils leicht fleckig/Titelseite mit leichter Knickspur/Namensschildchen auf Vorsatz. - sonst gutes Exemplar / Klassische Landschaften aus Vorlagen von 1804 - 1930 meist von Mongin / Pierre-Antoine Mongin 1761 - 19. Mai 1827 war ein französischer Maler und Kupferstecher. Mongin entwarf die 1807 von Zuber & Cie herausgegebene Bildtapete LHindoustan / Die Preise für eine Wand variieren von 5.500 bis 30.600 DM / dreisprachig: französisch englisch und deutsch - unknown
1940233241940. Dictaphone Corporation factory photographs documenting women and men manufacturing dictating machines in Bridgeport Connecticut circa 1940s showcasing the postwar expansion of women's employment inside a growing communications technology industry. The group centers on Dictaphone's Bridgeport plant at 335 Howard Avenue where workers appear at long rows of benches with recording and transcription equipment tool drawers lamps wiring and partly assembled machines placing this archive within the larger World War II and postwar reorganization of American factory labor. Several photographs give women a central place within that system not as incidental figures but as seated operators bench workers and posed employees inside the production rooms themselves grounding the archive in the history of women's industrial employment as office technology manufacturing expanded beyond clerical use into large scale commercial production.<br /> <br /> Archive of 21 pieces including 20 black and white and one red photographs ranging from 2" x 2" to 5" x 7" and original envelope. Bridgeport Connecticut circa 1940s. One original company envelope is printed "DICTAPHONE CORPORATION / 335 HOWARD AVENUE / BRIDGEPORT CONN." fixing the factory location. Interior views show crowded production rooms under fluorescent strip lighting with dozens of workers seated at benches operating or assembling dictating machines and related components; in the largest image male workers fill a deep factory floor while several men in the foreground lean into handsets or testing devices at stations packed with equipment. One view shows a male worker alone at a bench in a long machine lined room with belts tools and suspended mechanisms overhead; several smaller prints show women seated at desks or worktables women and men posed together on the shop floor and mixed groups of workers assembled outdoors or around demonstration tables with supervisors and visiting men in suits. The images repeatedly emphasize rows of benches machine bodies cords lamps and standardized work positions while the envelope and repeated factory interiors tie the lot to Dictaphone's manufacturing operation rather than to sales or office promotion alone.<br /> <br /> During World War II and the immediate postwar years firms producing office equipment occupied an important place in the broader American communications and business machine economy supplying devices that organized dictation transcription record keeping and administrative workflow for corporations law offices and government users. This archive makes that industrial system visible at the level of labor showing how the growth of business technology relied on factory discipline gendered employment patterns and the integration of women into production space during a period when wartime labor demand altered who worked at the bench and who appeared in the industrial workforce. Light edge wear envelope toned. Overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of 1940s office machine manufacturing placing women's industrial labor inside the production history of one of the leading American dictation companies. unknown
19692091502135202851Kyo bunsha 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 37cm Number of books: 1 Kyo bunsha paperback
1940233861940. Marathon Paper Mills and later American Can Company industrial safety archive documenting workplace medicine accident prevention campaigns first-aid training and factory safety administration in Menasha Wisconsin from the 1940s-60s. The album records how Midwestern paper and graphic arts manufacturers attempted to reduce industrial injuries during a period when paper mills and printing plants remained physically hazardous workplaces filled with heavy rollers cutting machinery chemical exposure steam systems and high-speed industrial presses. During the postwar decades American manufacturers increasingly institutionalized safety committees plant nursing departments and employee first-aid instruction in response to rising workers' compensation costs union pressure and national workplace safety campaigns promoted by organizations such as the National Safety Council. Marathon Paper Mills was acquired by American Can Company in 1957 placing the Menasha Graphic Arts plant within one of the nation's largest packaging and industrial printing corporations.<br /> <br /> Photo and scrapbook archive of over 100 pieces with approximately 75 black-and-white photographs including twelve 8 x 10 inch prints with typed programs corporate memoranda newspaper clippings conference photographs official correspondence and safety-related ephemera Menasha Wisconsin 1940-1969. Group portraits identify attendees at the Fox River Valley and Lakeshore Safety Conferences of 1940 1941 and 1942. Numerous mounted photographs depict factory nurses treating workers administering oxygen equipment conducting examinations teaching first-aid procedures inspecting washrooms and sanitary facilities and leading emergency-response instruction for plant employees. Workers stand beside industrial presses and mechanical equipment while captions stress housekeeping sanitation accident reporting and machine safety. Several pages preserve newspaper coverage celebrating "one million safe man hours" and "three consecutive years of safe working without a disabling injury" alongside a 1969 letter signed by Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles congratulating the American Can Graphic Arts Plant on its safety record. A 1953 letter from the National Safety Council thanks Marathon Corporation for photographs displayed at the Industrial Nursing Section exhibit during the National Safety Congress in Chicago directly tying the album to nationally circulated industrial safety programming.<br /> <br /> The album preserves a narrower glimpse into ground level industrial plants with the emergence of workplace medicine and safety management as formal corporate systems. The main photographs focus on the Marathon First Aid Department where nurses supervisors and workers collaborated in organized training programs intended to reduce accidents and standardize emergency response inside hazardous production environments. Captions repeatedly emphasize sanitation inspections accident prevention emergency transport and employee instruction demonstrating how industrial safety became both a managerial program and a public relations tool during the postwar era. Photographs mounted with corner tabs throughout; scrapbook pages retain mounted newspaper clippings letters and typed documentation; light toning occasional adhesive discoloration and minor edge wear present. Overall in very good condition. unknown
172893NAKAZAWA DYEING FACTORY. Ouchi. Emperor's Palace. 80 silk colour samples mounted on 5 cardboard sheets. 8vo 240 x 140 mm publisher's tied cloth. Kyoto: Nakazawa n.d. An elegant collection of colour samples. hardcover
19051730061905. LYON. MANUFACTURE LYONNAISE de MATIERES COLORANTES. La Teinture de la Laine et l'Impression sur Laine avec les Colorants. x 397 pp. with 408 tipped-in fabric samples. 8vo 246 x 156 mm publisher's boards. Lyon: Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes 1905. A splendid and rare early twentieth-century work on dyeing which is made extremely attractive by the presence of 408 tipped-in fabric samples. OCLC lists only Art Institute of Chicago and Virginia Tech in the U.S. hardcover
19021730051902. MANUFACTURE LYONNAISE de MATIERES COLORANTES. La Teinture du coton et des fibres similaires avec les colorants de la Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes Lyon Concessionnaire des brevets de Leopold Cassella & Cie Francfort s.-l.-M. ix-446 pp. profusely illustrated with 697 mounted fabric samples. 8vo 246 x 160 mm publishers boards. Lyon: Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes 1902. WITH: CASSELLA Leopold. 1er Supplement à la Teinture du Coton et des fibres similaires avec les colorants de la Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes. vii 191 pp. text and 98 tipped on fabric samples. 8vo 249 x 160 mm publisher's boards. Lyon: Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes 1904. A rare complete set of these important early twentieth century works on dyeing with both volumes illustrated with original fabric samples. For the first title OCLC lists only Yale and Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and for the second lists only a copy in Lyon. hardcover
19131730221913. MANUFACTURE LYONNAISE de MATIERES COLORANTES. Les Colorants pour Coton de la Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorants. 179 pp illustrated with 927 mounted fabric samples. 8vo 250 x 156 mm publisher's cloth. Lyon: Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matieres Colorantes 1913. One of the more elaborate dyeing manuals with an unusually large number of samples. As always it is rare with no listing on OCLC. hardcover
0081089New York: Wooster Projects 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. 2008. Portfolio of 4 cibachrome photographs of Edie Sedgwick by Nat Finkelstein. Each photo signed and numbered by Finkelstein on the blank side. This copy is 1 of 3 artists proofs from a total of only 31 sets produced. Photos in full color and mounted between dibond aluminum and UV acrylic. Each measures 9 x 14 inches. In original black clamshell case. All contents Fine and like new. Published a year before Finkelstein's death. Nat Finkelstein 1933-2009 was a well known photographer who studied under Alexey Brodovitch and was a regular habitue at Andy Warhol's Factory from 1964 to 1967 and in fact was employed by Warhol as the Factory photographer. It is his photographs that mainly illustrated 'Andy Warhol's Index Book' and many of his photographs uncredited were published in Up-Tight the Velvet Underground Story. A rare and beautiful collection. Digital images available upon request. Wooster Projects hardcover
171961720Brooklyn NY: Brenack Inc. Moving & Shipping Co. Brenack Stevedoring Co. Inc. ca. 1917-1945. Two vols. 4to. 33; 70 leaves unnumbered. of archival mylar sleeves. Preserving 132 original photographs & negatives sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. many of them linen-backed including as well four 7.5 x 9.5 in. silver gelatin photos mounted on 8 x 10 in. studio boards all 4 w/ evidence of having been previously framed w/ old matting residue and mounting glue at fore-edges 2 original negatives; Vol. II’s majority of images are 8 x 10 in. several sized 4 x 6 in. and a few silver print negative prints with most of the images in both vols. bearing photographer’s imprint on verso w/in negative or embossed in lower fore-edge many w/ annotations several w/ typescript explanations occasional minor soiling edgewear some evidence that linen-backed were intended to be held in post-binder salesmen’s sample albums for the Brenack Co.; two TLS dated 1932 and second dated 1943 w/ several negative photo state silver prints to hand out to clients as endorsement letters during World War II. All now preserved in pair of cloth-bound 3-ring binders nearly all images with bright crisp contrast and excellent archive. This factory photo sales archive captures the innovations of Thomas P. Brenack 1882-1961 with his groundbreaking streamlined methods of employing vast warehouse spaces for disassembling packing and shipping of automobiles trucks aircraft and odd-sized industrial equipment overseas out of the Brooklyn NY docks during the opening decades of the 20th Century. Before FedEX UPS and other shipping companies became household names Brenack while working for B.J. Hall & Sons had concluded that the port of New York was so congested with freight awaiting shipment and every stevedoring enterprise overloaded with orders a new freight system was required. Subsequently beginning in 1916 he designed an entirely new system of specialist teams to quickly and efficiently disassemble and package difficult items as well as implementing better cranes upgrading flatbed trucks to carry the large shipping crates along with more systematic flow. Eventually the company developed logistics warehouses with capacity of 40000 tons of freight and entire lumber yards and companies fed the warehouses with supplies sufficient to disassemble and box up to 300 automobiles per day for shipment by sea along with other specialist items such as large amphibian clipper aircraft. Brenack Inc. employed several different commercial photographers including Rudy Arnold 1902-1966 Garcia & Zeuner Inc. Al Hoffmann Photo George W. King Commercial Photographers Union Photo Co. and even the photos of military freight shot by the U.S. Signal Corps. The first archive album opens with photos of a Mack Truck packed into a large crate being hauled by a 1924 Fordson Tractor followed by images of a open stave bed Mack Truck for the Orinoco Oil Company and image of a Mack Truck entirely disassembled and neatly in piles ready to be crated. Further images show Ford touring cars awaiting disassembly nested truck chassis being prepared for boxing along with images of a MACCAR dump truck and early Mack passenger buses. Many of the photos show the staged crates and frames to hold parts carefully boxed freight wooden boxes for M.S. Friede Co. and still more showing piles of boxed parts for shipment to the Soviet Union. Other images depict the vast warehouse floor filled with chain-driven conveyors and wooden crates unspecified drums being loaded into barges; aircraft parts from the Keystone Aviation Co.for the U.S. Navy being loaded into ships; followed by series of photos showing massive Sikorsky boxes 50 feet long being loaded from flatbeds. The second volume opens with images of the Brenack Inc. wooden boxes followed by series of photos capturing the company’s specialized service of shipping aircraft. Images encompass those of the Lockheed Electra fuselage with landing ear down onto the barge “Clermont;†Ford Tri-Motor parts loaded onto deck of a ship; stages of trucks being disassembled; vast piles of crates and boxes in warehouses along with a photo of the E.F. Ryman Lumber Co. yard and truck which was a supplier out of Wilkes-Barre PA. A 1932 letter to Brenack dated April 4 1932 outlines that “The equipment arrived there in very good shape with the exception of one job which had the case broken and showed signs of being roughly handled the lower crank case was cracked on this pumper. . . Everybody down there Bogota was pleased with these jobs.†The TLS is followed by series of photos showing the Mack Truck fire trucks operating and then crated for shipment to Colombia. Many other photos show the loading of several of Sikorsky S-43 “Baby Clippers†being disassembled and shipped which were used primarily for flights in the Caribbean to Cuba and within Latin America. Others depict the Naval versions of the Grumman G-21 Goose flying boars which were 8-seat commuter aircraft. Of particular interest are the several photos including silver prints of original negatives for the famed Martin M-156 “Russian Clipper†which had been rejected by Pan Am as they decided to use the Boeing 314 for the Clipper line in the Asia-San Francisco routes. The M-156 was packed up and shipped to the Soviet Union by Brenack where it flew with Aeroflot in the Soviet Union’s far-East routes under the designation of PS-30 flying until 1944. Also included is an original TLS from the Commanding officer of H.M.S. LST 428 of the British Royal Navy dated June 1st 1943 writing that “With reference to the cradles and securing of two tugs on the deck of this ship. You will be pleased to hear that your work stood the passage excellently and although at times we were rolling 35 degrees each side we hever had to touch any of your gear. . . .†Included in this archive are several photostat copies intended as promotional customer letters to hand out to Defense Dept. officials and other war materiel shippers during World War II. LST-428 was a tank landing ship transferred to the Royal Navy in Feb. 1943 after commissioning as part of Roosevel’s Lend-Lease program during the War and was returned to the US Navy June 10 1946 and decommissioned and scrapped by Oct. 1947. This cataloguer could find no similar archive of photos or even similar individual images in Institutional Collections; See: Germinal for Gravesend Bay The Success of a Brooklyn Boy Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 25 1919 p. 3; NY Marine News Service 1920. Brenack Inc., Moving & Shipping Co., Brenack Stevedoring Co., Inc., hardcover
192453007Rochester NY: Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. 1924-1953. Two vols. 4to. 147; 131 leaves all w/ 278 silver gelatin photos sized 8.5 x 11 in. all preserved in archival mylar sleeves and nearly all with typed captions dated and often pen & pencil annotations on versos most with hole punches at gutter blank margin from being bound originally in 3-ring factory binders. Uniformly bound in recent black cloth post-binders gilt lettering stamped on covers & spines NF set. This remarkable factory photo archive documents the durable and invaluable machine tools which built American industrial production through the 1920s and the post-World War II era. The Colburn drill presses turning lathes boring machines and boring mills were essential for such companies as Ford Motor Co. Maxwell Motorcar Co. John Deere Oakland Motor Car Co. Delco Light Co. International Harvester Nash Motors Co. Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Caterpillar Tractor Co. Monarch Tractors Co. Hughes Tool Co. of Los Angeles part of Hughes Aviation Westinghouse and so many others. Many of the images show the connecting rods gears bearings engine blocks and other parts manufactured by these massive machines. A large number of the photos in the first volume show machines built and installed for the first National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition which was held Sept. 19-23 1927 in the Cleveland Auditorium and attracted over 12000 attendees including Henry Ford the Dodge Brothers Durant George Westinghouse and many other automotive and industrial innovators and builders at the time. A number of these machines were also sold to Railroad companies including the Missouri Pacific the International & Great Northern Railway in Palastine TX the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. in Huntington WV and more. The second volume includes Newton duplex milling machines cold saws and hot saws for metal especially aluminum and more. These photos show Newton machines being sold to Dodge Chrysler Buick General Motors Ford Bendix Wright Aeronautical Corp. ALCOA as well as photos showing engine blocks being milled and the internal works of many of the machines. Newton was originally founded in 1880 by Charles C. Newton who specialized as a twist drill manufacturer in Philadelphia and continued to expand operations until merged with Betts Machine Co. and Colburn Machine Tool Co. in 1922 to form the Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. of Rochester NY. Colburn Machine Tool Co. was founded sometime in 1890 by Henry J. Colburn and after his death in 1902 was run by his son Leslie who died in 1918. The Company which maintained a number of machinery patents for drill presses and table saws was merged later with Consolidated in 1922. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. operated on Blossom Road in Rochester NY producing tools and machinery used in metal and plastics manufacturing. In 1951 they were acquired by the Farrel-Birmingham Co. operating until 1983 when they were sold to the Conlon Corp. See: Directory of American Toolmakers: Early American Industries Association 1999; Betts Machine Co. Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017; Colburn Machine Tool Co. Franklin PA Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp., hardcover
017531Belgium: Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes A Feu. Very Good. Leather Flexi-board. Black pebbled leather album 7" x 11" with gilt title on cover and spine. Wear to edges binding pulling from spine but all pages holding tight. Marbled endpapers. Leaves show light foxing to edges plus definite wear from use. Most pages are linen backed with photo images securely mounted to either album leaf or thinner note paper bound in. Images generally are 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Album contains 145 photographs plus several pages tipped in from printed trade catalogs. In addition 6 pages of ledger sheets are tipped in at back of album. This remarkable in-house catalog contains photographs of shot guns pistols and revolvers which Manufacture Liegeoise produced for hunting military and personal use. All photographs are stamped "ML" Manufacture Liegeoise or "Cockerill" the English steel supplier and founder of Manufacture Liegeoise 1866. The company continued production until 1929. Five photographs at the beginning of the catalog depict the manufacture's "ateliers" or workshop each showing a differing stage of production. Most pages show a single weapon or grouping with many illustrating the ornately crafted rifle stocks and ornamentation. Extensive handwritten annotations on every page refer to the types of weapons prices technical specs and model numbers. A photo pasted down on the first endpaper shows various medals awarded the company up till 1897. Many of the photographs are dated in manuscript 1906-7. A rare and valuable record of the manufacture of weapons for aristocrats the military and common folk. ; 84 pp . Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes A Feu hardcover
193148849Brooklyn NY: Consolidated Lithographing Corporation 1931-1962. Two vols. Thick oblong elephant folio 24 x 20 x 6 in. 206; 190 pp misnumbered in ink manuscript on corners of each page. With 2375 chromolithograph and colour lithographed cigar labels and cigar box labels most printed with elaborate embossed & gilt borders many with raised lettering & printing ranging in size from 3.25 x 3.5 in. up to 12 x 18 in. outer cigar box wrappers 25 printer’s proof sample pages -- mostly for Doubleday Books and Garden City Press largely 4to and Folio sized 3 Lotos Club menus 30 elaborately printed samples of Christmas wrap for Seagrams Avon Reader’s Digest & Revlon 1 giant Seagrams Christmas promotional banner 5 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. several uncut proof sheets for Paul Jones and Philadelphia Gold Label Whiskey Labels and even game box labels many with extensive manuscript ink annotations indicating lithograph stone No. production run and amount and date printed. Contemporary gray-green buckram over heavy boards rounded leather reinforced corners thick card stock leaves some of the labels creased w/ minor damage some paper-clipped in multiple batches tipped-in to each other minor tears some leaves cropped with samples taken out in which the stones were no longer some labels removed edgewear rubbing to covers still a remarkable set of factory sample catalogues including numerous in-house typed memos printer’s notes and more. These colossal and striking factory sample catalogues for cigar box labels wonderfully display a chromolithographic advertising archive by one of the largest commercial printing firms in the United States from the Great Depression until the Kennedy Administration. Jacob A. Voice formed the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation around 1925 by merging Wm. Steiner & Sons Lithographers the label producing division of American Lithographic Co. in 1929 as well as two other companies. So by 1935 Voice’s company was printing 6500 different labels for over 4000 million cigars. From the 1880s until the 1950s cigar manufacturers were one of the most competitive and lucrative industries in the United States and they employed raised lettering embossing and chromolithography of exceptional quality using printing processes which remained largely unchanged until the mid-20th century when photo-mechanical colour printing largely replaced traditional lithography. These samples provide incredible visual historical records of the cigar-box labels appearing on the ends top and sides of boxes serving as vital advertising display material in cigar stores and with the inner beautifully printed labels on the inside of the lid drawing the attention of the customers. In addition these provide an invaluable cultural archive of the influence of cigars produced from Cuban Puerto Rican and Floridan tobaccos in the 20th century. Over 150 different cigar company labels are preserved in varying states some with special holiday labels others with different colour schemes for varying markets and many over decades showing the changing tastes of the consumer and the advertising art. Included are such companies as Alcazar Judge Wright Ardova Phillies Stetson Wabon Faustino Rubens La Magnitaz Treaty Bond especially striking with images of Napoleon & Jefferson Famous Players White Owl Juan de Fuca White Heather Hauptmann’s National Speaker -- Joe Cannon Havana Ribbon Villa Reina Jockeys Benson & Hedges El Macco La Palina Paramount Admiration -- E. Regensburg & Sons Wm. Penn Panatelas Socrates Muriel Gato Donalda Jose Arango Van Dyck Optimo Dutch Masters Moonshine Crooks and many others. In addition there are product labels included for White Rock Orange Soda Ginger Ale Cola Root Beer Yuban Coffee Prest-of-Flex watch bracelets Champion Prest-o-Slide Buckles Flagstaff Jellys & Preserves Rubinstein & Revlon Cosmetics and much more. Consolidated also served as the colour printers for many of the Doubleday Books published in the 1950s including McCracken Hoofs Claws & Antlers; McCracken Charles Russell; Dare Wright Lonely Doll; Palazzo Don Quixote and many others. The beautifully printed Christmas wraps for cigar companies liquor companies such as Seagrams as well as Rubinstein Avon and Revlon are striking with colour embossing and gold work. The large Seagrams Christmas advertising Banner for 1954 at over 5 feet tall is visually impressive and offers a superb example of mid-Century advertising artwork and printing by Consolidated. The numerous memos blue-lines and proof sheets inserted throughout offer a historical record of how these labels wraps posters and books were produced at the time. See: Rickards Encyclopedia of Ephemera 2000 pp. 94-96; Twyman A history of chromolithography pp. 189-191. Consolidated Lithographing Corporation, paperback
192061659New York: American Publishing & Engraving Co. J.J. Schultz & Co. 184 William St. Bookbinder ca. 1920-1939. Thick folio. 13 x 19 x 3.5 in. 135 leaves numbered reverse in pencil on versos of last half. on linen with 4274 camera-ready clipart samples all w/ inventory numbers rubber stamped below the image sized approx. 2 x 2 in. throughout arranged in montages of 24 28 32 & 40 per page each carefully mounted some crossed out w/ annotation “Killed†and others worn through at the lower right corner of some leaves while just a few have been removed and in once case clipped from the upper fore-edge of the leaf. Contemporary light gray/beige buckram soiled dampstained wear at fore-edges partially shaken rebacked still a VG- exemplar. An extraordinary printing & engraving firm’s factory sample catalogue for over 4000 of their camera-ready clipart advertisements for subscribing businesses following World War II through the Great Depression and the New Deal programs of President Roosevelt. This superlative archive of images traces Art Deco styles spanning nearly two decades advertising campaigns printing styles fonts and with almost not repeated images offered by American Publishing & Engraving Co. AP&E Co. to their extensive client list. In addition these engravings capture the revolutionary changes in American industry and commerce with nearly 50% devoted to the automobile industry including automobile manufacturers and dealerships accessory suppliers automobile repair public safety from bad driving the fast-growing electric motors and battery industries and more. Ford the Dodge Brothers Buick Studebaker Cadillac Plymouth Auburn Chrysler Essex Auburn-Cord DeSoto Hudson Terraplane and many others all are featured here advertising their service departments features speed and more. A significant portion also reveal the very real needs to wash the cars clean engines repaint the lacquer update the automobile tops replace batteries repair radiators and the always pressing need to maintain safety equipment and tires. Interspersed as well are automobile movers commercial body builders for trucks and commercial delivery vehicles with a significant percentage showing cylinder grinding engine rebuilding boiler repair and other very necessary secondary market needs as metal alloys and tolerances were far less durable with breakdowns an ever pressing problem for the motorist. Public safety notices reflecting the impact of the Progressive Era illustrate the dangers of the automobile with many indicating streetcars potentially hitting stalled cars which had not been repaired properly gridlock automobile accidents from ignoring traffic signals and police traffic officers as well as speeders hitting pedestrians or ignoring motorcycle police traps. Early in the sample illustrations are many reflecting the interest in building large Tudor Revival or Arts & Crafts homes installing electric lighting new furniture stylish clothes & shoes beautiful Oriental carpets and jewelry and watches for young flapper-era women. There are also promotional ads for Art & Stained Leaded Glass windows for homes interior decorators a panoply of beauty products many reflecting the Flapper Era hair and dress styles as well as evolution of the Art Deco lettering. As the AP&E Co. continued to add their sample engravings through the Great Depression not only is there a greater emphasis on repairing automobiles shoes recovering furniture and even repairing mattresses reflecting the belt tightening of the 1930’s but there are also increasing influences of more streamlined automobiles introduction of appliances such as refrigerators appearance of beer ads following the repeal of Prohibition and the fast growing radio industry. American Publishing & Engraving Co. based out of New York was one of a myriad of job printer engraving firms who emerged at the end of the 19th Century and initially specialized in publishing local histories and genealogies for historical societies by subscription typically with illustrations. Although this cataloguer could find no specific trade reference either in contemporary magazines or newspapers they appear to have operated out of the same locations as the Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co. with some overlap and by the beginning of the 20th Century had largely dispensed with publishing local histories engraved portraits or vanity press projects. Contemporary court cases and other references indicate that they operated a subscription service for businesses advertising art to be run in magazines newspapers pulps or added to trade literature for matchbook covers business flyers etc. and by 1916-1925 were managed by Thomas W. Smith. No similar factory sample collection or published collection located in Worldcat. American Publishing & Engraving Co., J.J. Schultz & Co., 184 William St., Bookbinder, hardcover
3051Rome mid-19th century. 8 volumes. 823 white plaster cast medallions each bordered with gilt paper manuscript numbers added in ink generally between 1.5 and 5 cm in diameter some larger. Arranged and mounted in recessed double-sided faux book-boxes lined with red paper. Manuscript list of contents not entirely corresponding to the content in brown ink to front and rear pastedowns of each volume. In original matching full vellum binding gilt spines with 2 labels lettered “Paoletti†and “Impronte opere antiche†or “Impronte opere moderne†with the volume number. A few medallions detached from backing three with visible traces of crack and one broken. Some of the bindings are partly dusted some labels are rubbed with losses to the extremities. Front panel of Vol. 16 discolored spine somewhat rubbed labels worn. Overall in fine condition. Generally a very well-preserved collection. 8 volumes. 823 white plaster cast medallions each bordered with gilt paper manuscript numbers added in ink generally between 1.5 and 5 cm in diameter some larger. Arranged and mounted in recessed double-sided faux book-boxes lined with red paper. Manuscript list of contents not entirely corresponding to the content in brown ink to front and rear pastedowns of each volume. In original matching full vellum binding gilt spines with 2 labels lettered “Paoletti†and “Impronte opere antiche†or “Impronte opere moderne†with the volume number. Box size: ca. 34 × 22 cm. An 8-volume collection of 19th-century plaster impressions of intaglios and other engraved gems and miniature copies of ancient and later sculptures and monuments in matching original bindings manufactured by the Paoletti firm.<br /> <p><p><br /> A fine collection of mid-19th century plaster medallions intaglios cameos known in Italian as ‘impronte’ manufactured by the Paoletti family Bartolomeo Paoletti 1757–1834 and his son Pietro 1801–1847 in Rome. These souvenirs became highly popular among aristocratic and fashionable travelers on the Grand Tour during the early part of the 19th century especially from England. Such distinguished figures as Goethe Catherine the Great Belozerskaya 2013 p. 201–3 Ferdinand III Grand Duke of Tuscany and Lord Elgin were among the clients of the Paoletti firm.<br /> <p><br /> Like a miniature museum of the history of art these carefully arranged and mounted plaster impressions show mythological or classical scenes portraits of Greek and Roman gods emperors warriors philosophers and poets masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and portraits of famous artists and writers. Many of the intaglios are life-size copies of ancient gems cameos coins and medals others are miniature representations of classic or later sculptures and portraits.<br /> <p><br /> Four of our volumes cover antique themes and the other four are dedicated to “modern artâ€. The antique section comprises a volume titled Impronte in Stucco cavate dalle Gemme Antiche and contains 116 portraits of Greek and Latin poets and philosophers antique military leaders and rulers. Each of the remaining three volumes is titled Istoria-Miteologica they comprise medallions 119135109 of mythological and classical scenes and portraits. <br /> <p><br /> The first volume of Impronte opere moderne has a mixed content of Opere del Secolo XVI chiamato 500 13 Opere Moderne Di Antonio Picler Anton Pichler 7 Opere di Giuseppe Picler Johann-Joseph Giuseppe Pichler 12 Opere di Nathaniel Marchant 49. The next two volumes are titled Opere di varj Autori and contain examples of miscellany “modern art†12796 and the last one titled Incisioni appartenenti a S A. il S.e Pr’pe Poniathowski is a selection of 40 pieces of the Poniatowski gems.<br /> <p><br /> Literature: Belozerskaya M. 2013. Medusa's Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese. New York: Oxford University Press.; Lucia Pirzio B. S. 2013. La collezione Paoletti. Stampi in vetro per impronte di intagli e cammei II. Roma: Gangemi. unknown
