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(ENGLEWOOD, ILLINOIS EXPOSITION)
RoaringTwenties album with more than 80 photographs depicting a wide range of (largely) upscale
consumer goods displays (washers, automobiles, baby grand pianos, furniture, local colleges, beauty
shops, as well as ground coffee, shoes, dresses, women’s hats), plus public service booths promoting
the American Red Cross and Army recruitment, Heinemann Photographers (“The New Home of
the Famous Wedding Photographs”), fashionable cards with decorative bunting and signage, and
one print that depicts an overview of the circus grounds. Linen-backed silver prints, 7
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4
x9 inches
(18.4x22.9 cm.), a few with the credit ofWood Bros. studio in the negative. Oblong 4to, leatherette,
twin-bolt binding; two leaves are detached. 1926
[2,500/3,500]
Englewood was a wealthy Chicago suburb in which local businesses mounted a trade fair in which they
advertised their products.
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(INDUSTRIAL CYANOTYPES)
Select group of 10 industrial cyanotypes
depicting machinery and the operations at
British Thomson-Houston, an engineering
and heavy industrial company based at
Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Cyanotypes,
each measuring approximately 7x9 inches
(17.8x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with
numeric notations in the negative, and British
Thomson-Houston’s embossed blind stamp
on recto, each also with a typed caption, on
verso, and all but one with a company hand
stamp, also on verso. Circa 1920
[2,000/3,000]
Thomson-Houston Company was founded as a
subsidiary of the General Electric Company (GE) of
Schenectady, NewYork.They were known primarily
for their electrical systems and steam turbines. BTH
was taken into British ownership in 1928.
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