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[Trade Catalog of Early 20th Century Furnaces Designed for Public School Buildings]
[Trade Catalog of Early 20th Century Furnaces Designed for Public School Buildings]
An early 20th Century trade catalog promoting the National Series of coal and wood burning furnaces produced by the Standard School Heater Company of Chicago to be utilized in forced air heating and ventilation systems in schools. Sales text promotes the products superior "sanitation" versus traditional classroom stoves and radiant heatres prevalent at the time and further notes the use of asbestos insulation.
The addition of six blueprint drawings further illustrates technical product dimensions and construction, combining with the catalog itself to produce a vivid and illustrative surviving sales document from the boom in school construction during the Progressive Era of public education in The United States
[Trade Catalogs]. THE STANDARD "CLEAN AIR SYSTEM" NATIONAL SERIES OF WARMING, VENTILATING AND SANITARY APPARATUS FOR SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Chicago, Illinois: Standard School Heater Company, [ca. 1913]. 12 1/4" x 9." 12 leaves: [6]pp. of text plus 6 illustrated plates. Red printed paper wrappers with black lettering to front. String-bound at left margin. Wrappers fragile, flaking a bit at edges and stressed at string binding. Faint finger smudging, staining about edges of first text leaf, otherwise contents neat, bright. Overall very good. [WITH] Two tack-bound booklets of blueprint drawings (three prints in each, for a total of six blueprints).
An early 20th Century trade catalog promoting the National Series of coal and wood burning furnaces produced by the Standard School Heater Company of Chicago to be utilized in forced air heating and ventilation systems in schools. Sales text promotes the products superior "sanitation" versus traditional classroom stoves and radiant heatres prevalent at the time and further notes the use of asbestos insulation.
The addition of six blueprint drawings further illustrates technical product dimensions and construction, combining with the catalog itself to produce a vivid and illustrative surviving sales document from the boom in school construction during the Progressive Era of public education in The United States
[Trade Catalogs]. THE STANDARD "CLEAN AIR SYSTEM" NATIONAL SERIES OF WARMING, VENTILATING AND SANITARY APPARATUS FOR SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Chicago, Illinois: Standard School Heater Company, [ca. 1913]. 12 1/4" x 9." 12 leaves: [6]pp. of text plus 6 illustrated plates. Red printed paper wrappers with black lettering to front. String-bound at left margin. Wrappers fragile, flaking a bit at edges and stressed at string binding. Faint finger smudging, staining about edges of first text leaf, otherwise contents neat, bright. Overall very good. [WITH] Two tack-bound booklets of blueprint drawings (three prints in each, for a total of six blueprints).