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(CYANOTYPES)
Group of 21 photographs apparently depicting the Gould Battery Storage Company.
With professionally-
shot interior views of turbines and heavy machinery, control panels, apparatus associated with a
power utility, and a few scenes of a brick outbuilding in a rural setting. Cyantoypes, each
approximately 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, a few with numeric notations in
the negative. Circa 1910
[1,000/1,500]
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(SALESMAN’S SAMPLE ALBUM)
Album with 84 photographs depicting the Gainaday Electric Company and the New
Gainaday Electric Washer.
With professional photographs of trade displays, storefront installations, the machine parts, trucks
with the company’s advertising on the side, executives and salesmen associated with the company,
and a mother and daughter doing their washing. Silver prints, 7
1
/
4
x9
1
/
4
inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), and
the reverse, mounted to linen recto only, many with a caption and occasionally a date in the negative
(including locations of storefronts across the Northest and Midwest), and some with the
photographer’s credit (Kaufman), in ink, on mount verso; with a few additional photographs, both
advertising shots and snaps, laid in. Small 4to, gilt-lettered leather with a twin-bolt binding and
snapped flap enclosure. Circa 1927-29
[2,000/3,000]
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