LIGHTOLIER LAMPS

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"LIGHTOLIER LAMPS"

Entry/Object ID

2000.299.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Blue; Gold; Orange; Red "Lightolier Lamps," issued by the Lightolier Company, 1924-1925. The 18-page catalog has a paper cover with a color illustration of an orange-shaded lamp on the center of the front. In the background is blue wallpaper with a floral pattern. A border with gold ornate vines is around the illustraion while at the center of the bottom in red are the title and the date. An introduction to the company and the catalog is at the beginning of the inside. Many styles and sizes of lamps are listed with names literary like Coleridge, Stevenson, Huxley, Poe, and much more. Color-tinted photographs of the merchanside are included. The artifact is brittle and has creases, tears, and soiling as well as losses on the cover and some stains, making it in poor condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Lamps

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Catalogs, Lightolier Company, House furnishings, Lampshades

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Catalogs