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193946634Shanghai: Nishimura Company 1939. Edition not stated. Quarto 26.5cm; black simulated leather stamped in red and gilt in brown paper slipcover; unpaginated photo-illustrated plates w/ rice paper overlays. Wear minor scuffs and soiling to boards; toning and foxing intermittent throughout text especially on overlays; some overlays creased or torn. Slipcover worn and chapped with abrasions and two large one repaired tears across front panel. Photo-illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Very Good in Good slipcover. All text in Japanese with some obsolete/antiquated kana/kanji oriented right to left. This is a privately-issued commemorative yearbook-type photo album shashin-cho published on behalf of the Imperial Japanese Army medical forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945. Specifically it was produced for those who served under military physician captains/commanding officers Nobuo Isa and Tetsuo Fukaya who were stationed in or near Shanghai at the time.<br /> <br /> By July 1939 the Imperial Japanese Army was beginning to feel the impact of its own mounting casualties and costs; the Chinese Red Army would launch a major offensive later that November. While the Japanese occupation of Shanghai was notably brutal there is little evidence of violence in this album. However some photographs do depict the aftermath of battle with ruined buildings and soldiers being treated for injuries. Other subjects are mundane in nature: Staff and group portraits hospitals and other facilities physicians at work company events and ceremonies. Also includes photographs of Shanghai and a fold-out map of the Hangzhou Bay area. Apparently not cataloged in OCLC or available commercially as of November 2019. Nishimura Company unknown
1960233821960. Industrial factory photograph archive documenting large scale machining systems automated tooling equipment and precision manufacturing processes during the height of postwar American industrial expansion circa 1960s. Several scenes feature Sundstrand branded machinery associated with the Sundstrand Corporation a major Rockford Illinois manufacturer of machine tools aerospace components and industrial automation systems during the Cold War industrial economy. By the 1960s American factories increasingly relied on massive numerically controlled machining equipment capable of producing aircraft parts turbine components and heavy industrial hardware with levels of precision unattainable in earlier manually operated machine shops. These photographs record the physical scale of that transition capturing the integration of computerized or semi automated production systems into factory environments that formed the backbone of aerospace defense transportation and heavy manufacturing industries during the period.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 9 Large Silver Gelatin photographs each 8" x 10" circa 1960s. Interior factory scenes show enormous industrial machining centers occupying tiled production floors beneath overhead lighting and exposed structural systems. Multiple photographs depict large circular indexing tables rotary cutting assemblies suspended tooling heads and enclosed control units bearing visible "Sundstrand" identification. Engineers and machinists wearing shop coats and protective glasses appear adjusting tooling mechanisms calibrating machine components and servicing cutting assemblies surrounded by heavy cables hydraulic systems and banks of industrial controls. Several machines are shown actively engaged in metal cutting operations with curled metal shavings accumulating beneath rotating tooling heads and across surrounding platforms. One scene captures technicians removing or fitting a large machined component beneath a circular cutting apparatus while another documents reel based electronic control equipment integrated into the production system reflecting the growing use of automated process control in industrial manufacturing during the decade.<br /> <br /> The 1960s marked a decisive transformation in American manufacturing as industries shifted from conventional machining toward automated and numerically controlled production methods capable of supporting aerospace engineering military procurement automotive manufacturing and mass industrial output. Companies such as Sundstrand played a central role in supplying the specialized tooling and machine systems that allowed factories to machine increasingly complex metal components at industrial scale. Some curling scattered edge and surface wear as well as foxing to margins; images remain sharp with strong detail. Overall in good condition. The photographs preserve direct visual evidence of the machinery labor practices and production environments that defined late midcentury industrialization before many such facilities were modernized outsourced or dismantled during later waves of deindustrialization. unknown
2007165430New York: Chronicle Books 2007. Hardcover. First American Edition. As New. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.<br /> <br /> Between 1978 and 1992 Factory Records was one of the most important record labels in Britain. It launched the careers of Joy Division New Order and the Happy Mondays and others. The entity was launched jointly with the legendary Hacienda Club and Dry Bar both in Manchester; and it introduced along with its new music a new concept of high-quality cutting-edge design. <br /> <br /> A complete full-color chronological catalog of the label's output with each release accompanied by its original inventory number along with photos of album sleeves singles special editions flyers posters stationery and architectural projects. <br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Chronicle Books unknown
1950233261950. Garment factory photographs documenting women's industrial sewing labor machine based apparel production and managerial oversight in the postwar United States circa 1950s with direct evidence of how mass clothing manufacture depended on large sewing rooms specialized equipment and gendered factory work. Archive documents the production floor as a working system rather than a single portrait scene placing rows of women at Pfaff machines beside piles of cut or partly finished garments while a separate executive portrait and staged equipment views link shop floor labor to administration and industrial sales culture. The group matters because postwar clothing production relied heavily on women's wage labor in factories where speed repetition and machine specialization turned fabric into standardized output for a growing consumer economy.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 5 Large silver gelatin photographs each 8" x 10" circa 1950s. Two photographs show the main sewing room from wider angles with long rows of women seated at machine stations beneath suspended electric lines and task lighting while large heaps of striped fabric or finished garments spill across tables and benches in the foreground. The workers are positioned close together in a dense production space organized around straight runs of tables and sewing heads with little separation between labor stations and material flow. One photograph isolates a woman operating a large Pfaff industrial unit in a cleaner demonstration setting while another gives a close technical view of a Pfaff machine head and work plate. A fifth photograph shows an older male executive or manager seated in an office.<br /> Postwar apparel production expanded through factories that combined assembly line logic with skilled but repetitive needlework and women formed a large share of that labor force in garment plants across the United States. The Pfaff machines represent the technological side of production while the sewing room views show the human structure that made the machines profitable with women handling fabric continuously at closely arranged stations under managerial control. Light handling wear and minor curling to edges. Overall very good condition. The archive preserves the relationship between labor machinery and output at a moment when industrial clothing manufacture still depended on concentrated factory work before later shifts toward overseas production transformed the industry. unknown
1945234071945. Reading Pennsylvania factory photo archive documenting textile machinery production and hosiery manufacturing work circa late 1940s to early 1950s at or near the Wyomissing industrial complex associated with Textile Machine Works and Berkshire Knitting Mills. Reading became one of the major American centers for full fashioned knitting machinery after Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen founded Textile Machine Works in 1892 and the equipment seen here belongs to the world of stocking manufacture before seamless nylon hosiery reshaped the industry in the 1950s.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 17 large silver gelatin photographseach 8 x 10 inches Reading or Wyomissing Pennsylvania circa 1940s to early 1950s. Rows of large knitting machines fill long factory rooms under fluorescent lighting; workers stand beside circular or braiding machinery marked with chalked Greek words; an engineering office includes men studying large technical drawings; machine tools metal stock exterior factory buildings tanks and utility structures place the scenes within a large industrial plant. Several versos are stamped "Paul Bauer Photographer 608 Franklin St. Reading Pa." and "Photo by Paul Bauer." Several shop-floor views include a chalked Greek vocabulary list beside the machinery a striking detail in a Reading industrial region that had an established Greek immigrant community by the early twentieth century.<br /> <br /> The archive records the machinery workers drafting practices and plant environment behind Pennsylvania's textile machinery economy at the point when American hosiery manufacturing still depended on large specialized mechanical systems and skilled shop labor. Documenting the production floors machine details engineering rooms workers and exterior plant views. Minor edge and curling; images remain clear and well preserved. Overall in very good condition. unknown
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
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
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
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
