heating and plumbing supplies ; tool room and machine shop equipment ; shipping room equipment ; hose and fire equipment ; hand plows, wheelbarrows and drag scrapers for factories, road making and construction ; radiators ; blacksmith shop supplies ; engine room supplies ; locks ; thermometers ; railroad lanterns ; miners' and transportation scales ; lawn mowers, trimmers and edgers ; school, carpenters', lumber, metal workers' and railroad crayons and chalk ; millers' tools ; counting machines ; metal lath ; iron and steel sheeting ; brass, bronze and copper wire rods, cloth and sheets ; mining wire cloth ; pulleys ; leather, rubber and canvas belting ; oil filters and pumps ; bath tubs, sinks and water closets ; bathroom furnishings and fittings ; "The House of Service" ; filed with cataloged item ;
Includes:
Trade catalog and price lists
Black and white images
Physical description:
4 pieces; 3 boxes
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Heating; ventilation and air conditioning Search this
[Trade catalogs from Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co.]
Company Name:
Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co. Search this
Related companies:
Edison General Electric Co., Dept. of Engineering ; Edison General Electric Appliance Co., Inc. (Chicago, IL) ; Edison Electric Appliance Co., Inc. (Chicago, IL) ; Edison Decorative and Miniature Lamp Dept. of General Electric Co. (Harrison, NJ) ; Edison Lamp Dept. of General Electric Co. ... See also Edison Electric Light Co. ; Edison Portland Cement Co. ; Edison Electric Institute ; Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York ; Edison-Splitdorf Corp. ; Edison Mfg. Co. ; Edison Swan Electric Co., Ltd. ; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; Edison Electric Pen & Writing Agency ; Edison Phonoplex ; Edison Co. for Isolated Lighting ; Edison Phonograph Works ; A.B. Dick Co. ; General Electric. Search this
Notes content:
Edison "Mazda" lamps ; street lighting ; reflectors for incandescent lamps ; "Pictoral History of the Edison Lamp" ; electric sign, poster panel, and bulletin lighting ; motor car, garage, and display lighting ; unique items included. Dynamos for electric railway power stations ; electric motors ; electric coal cutters. Electric bakery, hotel, restaurant, and marine galley equipment ; "Hotpoint" ranges. Decorative and miniature lamps.
Hill Refrigeration, Inc. ; Hill Phoenix ; Search this
Notes content:
Dairy display refrigerators ; cold storage doors ; coolers ; Hill refrigerators (brand) ; company history can be found on the Hill Phoenix web site: http://www.hillphoenix.com/company/history/index.html ; "We worked with Clarence Birdseye to design a specialized showcase for his 'frosted foods,' and the first frozen food merchandiser was born [in 1929]." (from the web site cited above)
Unique circa 1925-1935? sample book of Parchkin vegetable parchment paper made by the Paterson Parchment Paper Co. for use in greeting cards, diplomas , brochures, menus and stationary. The company now focuses primarily on making parchment paper for use in baking (see http://www.patersonpaper.com/parch.html).
Includes:
Trade catalog and samples
Black and white images
Color images
Types of samples:
A dozen or so different types of printing and writing parchment paper
Physical description:
1 piece; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Passaic, New Jersey, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Foods and beverage products and processing equipment (including brewing; distilleries; beer; wine; etc.) Search this
Printing; publishing; paper and bookselling (including type specimens) Search this
Artists; drafting; crafts materials and supplies Search this
Pardee Steel Corp., Greuby Faience and Tile Co., Matawan Tile Co., Pardee Matawan Tile Company. . Pardee Works was also the exclusive United States agent for Royal Delft Faience. Search this
Notes content:
A hardbound catalog copyright 1928 featuring the clay tiles of the C. Pardee Works founded by Calvin Pardee. The company made "white bright glazed wall tile, white and colored ceramics, Greuby-Faience and Flint tile, White and colored satin-finished tile" and distributed Royal Delft Faience from the Netherlands. Catalog features full-size sections of wall tiles and trim, black and white and color illustrations of tiles, black and white and color illustrations of tiles installed in room settings , color illustrations of Royal-Delft Faience lines such as "moorish" tiles, the Stations of the Cross, square tile masks , plus towel bars and toilet paper holders.
Includes:
Trade catalog
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
1 piece; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States
Date range:
1800s-1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Artists; drafting; crafts materials and supplies Search this
Maddock Pottery Co. ; Millington, Astbury & Poulson ; Millington, Astbury & Maddock ; Thomas Maddock & Sons ; Thomas Maddock's Sons Co. ; Lamberton Works ; Search this
Notes content:
"Lamberton" china ; food service ; tableware for hotels and restaurants ; "Sanitary Earthenware" ; bathroom fixtures ; bathtubs ; toilets ; sinks ; plumbing ; pharmaceutical and chemical apparatus ; other products . See Trenton City Museum "History of Trenton Pottery Making" for history of Maddock Co. and other pottery works http://www.ellarslie.org/about_pottery.htm
"Metalwash" rotary bluing machine ; "Metalwash" metal parts washers ; "Metalwash" pot and pan washer ; other metal washing equipment ; industrial washing machines