Name/Title
"POLE AND TUBE WORKS"Entry/Object ID
2000.300.1.1Description
Color: Brown; White
"Pole and Tube Works," issued by Pole and Tube Works, Inc. 1926. The eight-page catalog has a white paper cover with the name and address of the company at the top left of the front. At the center are six sepia photographs of flagpoles in different areas such as a baseball stadium and at the top of a building. At the left of the back is a line-drawing of a flagpole and at the top right is a photograph of a city skyline. Below this is, "Eleven Visible and about 50 invisible 'Poletube' / Flag Poles within 5 blocks across Manhattan Island." Written on the bottom right in black ink is the name and address of William Debu, while the rest of the printing on the back and the front is in brown ink. At the beginning of the inside are general information and a list of distributors. Items listed include flagpoles and their hardware, as well as weather vanes and pedestals. Sepia illustrations of the merchandise are included. An insert, "Circular F," is at the end and provides illustrated instructions for the installation of window poles, roof poles, and more. With abrasions, creases and dents on the cover, as well as stains and heavy soiling, the object is in poor condition.Lexicon
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Weather vanesSearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Catalogs, Pole and Tube Works, Inc., Architecture--Details, Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Poles (Engineering)
