Visual Materials

Purdy's spheric lamp

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Description: Image of a two-fold advertisement for John H. Purdy & Company, a supplier of jewelers' supplies and watch materials locate din Chicago, Illinois; image sof a spheric lamp, engraving block, and pendulum foot wheel on recto; watch glasses case and velvet boxes for watches and jewelry on verso.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886-1891
Call number: priJLC_FASH_Hunt_003658
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Progress. Always send to headquarters for good in our line

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for Harmon H. Kayton, trade supplier of optical goods, watch materials and jewelers' supplies in New York, New York; images of spectacles, parts, and tools such as screwdrivers, lathes, knives, tweezers, lamps, and pliers interspersed with descriptive text and prices.

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Sam'l Swartchild, 71 Washington Street, Chicago, wholesale dealer and importer

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for watches, watch materials, jewelers' findings, tools, and optical goods sold by Samuel Swartchild of Chicago, Illinois; images of tools and medals awarded for watch glass with text on recto; illustrations of gems and cameos with stock numbers on verso.

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Heeren Brothers & Co. wholesale jewelers

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Image of an order form for watch glasses from Heeren Brothers & Company wholesale jewelers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; diagram of watch glass varieties illustrating height and thickness option available on verso.

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Special cash price list of Warne S. Creveling, importer, manufacturers' agent & commission merchant

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for Warne S. Creveling, a crockery, glassware, and lamp merchant in New York, New York; text and price lists on recto and verso; images of three lamps on verso.

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L. Martin & Co.’s superior … lamp-black

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Image of an advertisement for lamp-black manufactured by L. Martin & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; various varieties of lamp-black pictured packaged in quarter pound, half pound, and one pound quantities; decorative border.

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Grover's Chestnut St. Theatre. Aladdin : or the wonderful lamp

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Image of a gold oil lamp radiating rays of light; the poster advertises the production of the musical dramatic spectacle "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp," based on the Middle Eastern folktale, at the Chestnut Street Theatre (or Chesnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, managed by Leonard Grover.

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