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November 21, 2015 New Cleveland Window Glass Co page. I have several more important trade catalogs that need to be scanned, but they are bound such they can't be processed on my flatbed scanners. Sending them out to be professionally scanned is expensive, and an A3 book-edge scanner is about $1,500, so I am stuck for now. Hopefully I will find a way to get these online soon. November 14, 2015 One new addition to the Library: Solar Prisms in Ornamental Designs by the Solar Prism Company, provided courtesy of the Rakow Research Library, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Deutsches Luxfer-Prismen-Syndikat · 1905 "The glazing of Solar Prisms in ornamental designs is a new departure with us, and the latest development in prismatic lighting." What's new: sheet prism glass cut up and leaded into sashes of decorative patterns, but that also were prismatic. Luxfer was also into this act; see page 24 of Luxfer Daylighting. More work on the Solar Prism Company page, including some new ads and Brown's bullseye design patent drawing. Finally took note that the Standard Glass Company of Cleveland made Solar Prism Company's tiles. They both have the same address, though, 222 Champlain! So did Solar actually manufacture their own tiles? Brown is the manager of Standard Glass, and it's his design patent (No. D31,811) which is Solar's trademark bullseye. Note there are many glass companies named Standard Glass; it's the Cleveland one we want. Identified the "C" deco prism tile: it's from the Cleveland Window Glass Company, using James G. Brown's prism patent No. 665,170 (yes, the same Brown again). They also have a plain tile, of course, both of which have the different, alternating prisms on the back (which is what the patent is about). New Deutsches Luxfer-Prismen-Syndikat ad from 1905 (see right) November 7, 2015 Four new additions to the Library: A Booke of Sundry Draughtes by Walter Gedde, 1615 (reprinted in 1898 by Leadenhall Press), is mostly drawings of leaded glass patterns. The full title is "A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers: Plant of the Berger Mfg Co, Canton and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners: be sides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof". Glass and Glass-Making, The Mentor #177, 1919. British Glass, Pilkington Bros, ca 1923. House Wiring Made Easy, Sears, Roebuck & Co, 1939. New postcards: Berger Mfg Co plant, Canton, OH (see right). H. C. Fry Glass Co, Rochester, PA, postmarked 1908. New photos: NOS Berger brass sidewalk marker, embossed "BERGER'S / Raydiant / TRADE MARK / SIDEWALK LIGHTS". Update on vault lights at the School for the Deaf at Devils Lake, ND, courtesy Dave Dahle. Original "spike" deck prism in bezel and an NOS bezel. October 31, 2015 One new addition to the Library: Siemens Glas/Glass/Verre/Vetro/Vidrio, No. 2071-2161. Interestingly, in 1933 Siemens was still making Falconnier-pattern bricks of styles #8, #9 and #10 (though called types 1, 2 and 3). This catalog has multiple translations of glass terminology, which is useful: German: AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT FUR GLASINDUSTRIE VORM. FRIEDR. SIEMENS, NEUSATTL bel ELBOGEN, Tschechoslowakei (Böhmen) Siemens-Prismenglas für Glasbetonbau Siemens-Fußbodenplatten Siemens-Glasbausteine English: AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT FUR GLASINDUSTRIE VORM. FRIEDR. SIEMENS, (FRDK. SIEMENS LIMITED) NEUSATTL near ELBOGEN, Czechoslovakia (Bohemia) Siemens Prismatical Glass Plates and Stones for every type of Skylights, Floor Plates etc. Siemens Floor Plates Siemens Glass Bricks French: SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES VERRERIES ANCIENNE MAISON FRÉD. SIEMENS à NEUSATTL près ELBOGEN, Tohéco-Slovaquie (Bohême) Dalles et Pavés Prismatiques Siemens en Verre pour le Béton Armé Dalles en Verre „Siemens” Briques en Verre „Siemens” Italian: SOCIETÀ ANONIMA PER INDUSTRIA DEL VETRO GIÀ FRIEDR. SIEMENS NEUSATTL presso ELBOGEN, Cecoslovacchia (Boemia) Vetri Prismatici Siemens per costruzioni in Vetro-Cemento armato Piastrelle per Pavimento Siemens Mattoni di Vetro Siemens, cavi, per costruzioni Spanish: SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA DE INDÚSTRIA DEL VIDRIO AMTES FRIEDR. SIEMENS NEUSATTL bel ELBOGEN Checoslovaquia (Bohemia) Baldosas Prismaticas Siemens para cemento armado Baldosas Siemens Pieadras huecas de Vidrio Siemens Identified new prism glass people/companies: Aktien-Gesellschaft für Glasindustrie, Czechoslovakia; see Siemens Glas catalog. B&B Foundry and Ironworks, Boston Banner (Banner's Self-Fastening Coal Plates and Frames), London Chase Brothers & Co (using Walter's 1855 patent), Boston. Wilson & Co (Wilson's Patent Dioptrical Lenses), London Hyatt vs Ingalls and Mark, an 1887 lawsuit that has a lot of interesting first-person testimony from the big players of the time, Hyatt, French, Cornell, Ingalls, Mark, etc, though interspersed with much legal tedium. 511 (small) pages. Of particular interest is the Reply of Thaddeus Hyatt to a Circular of Certain Infringers Denying the Validity of Hyatt's Basement Extension Patent, wherein he describes the development of his basement extension. October 24, 2015 Two new additions to the Library: The Drama of Glass by Kate Field. A PDF already exists in the wild but is low quality, so here's a better one. Facts of Interest to Architects about Mason Safety Tread, 1898 — includes illuminated coal covers and Mason Safety (Sidewalk) Lights. More information about Ernest Chanteloup (the Montréal foundryman and vault light maker) thanks to Lise Noël, who shared her research. Photos of a Triple-Spike deck prism (right) Falconnier briques in Les Arts et l'Industrie du Verre by Henry d'Ancy, 1899 Preston's Patent Illuminator October 17, 2015 Six new additions to the Library: Catalogue of Glass Department of the Alpha Glass and Metal Co, ca 1890 Centre Hospitalier de Toulon: La coupole en béton translucide (Editions ARIS - Bandol) · JPG, PNG Architectural Iron and Steel, 1892 Experimental Glass Blowing for Boys, 1909, reprinted ca 1935 as Gilbert's Glass Blowing Catalogue No. 10: Sheet Metal Products, Berger, 1913 A Skylight that Ventilates just as Efficiently as it Daylights, American 3 Way-Luxfer Prism Company, 1925 Catalogue No. 27: Berloy Steel Ceilings, Berger, 1927 New US prism glass maker identified: the Alpha Glass and Metal Co, which was founded on patents by James G. Pennycuick (12) (glass) and Pennycook (metals). New African prism glass companies page, starting with an envelope for Félix Benfredj of Oran, Algeria — "Le Batiment" ... "Pavés de Verre." New photos: Postcard of a concrete/glass cupola at the Centre Hospitalier de Toulon (top right). A. J. Lely & Son promotional pavement light. Keppler Glass Constructions floor/roof light. Vault lights in Dublin, Ireland. Storm disconnect whatsit bolted to a Hemingray beehive. October 10, 2015 Three new additions to the Library: Keppler Glass Constructions, 1914 Daylight For Industry, 1952. This would have you believe, in the brief Extremes in Industrial Lighting section, that prism glass had never existed until the 1950s. They talk about construction ca 1890, but never mention the prism glass revolution started by Luxfer in 1897. Then they talk about ca 1920 factories "with no light control", but never mention Factory Ribbed glass. A Walking Tour of Cast Iron Architecture in SoHo, 1983, by the now-defunct Friends of Cast Iron Architecture. 1890 invoice from Berger Mfg to O. M. Scott & Bro (right) October 3, 2015 Photos of a Jupiter Prism transom in Oakland, California (donated by tile collector Jeff Burke). One new addition to the Library: Cristalleries du Val Saint Lambert. This 1931 publication is mostly photos with captions on opposite pages, mainly of facilities. No glassmaking is shown, but it's still very interesting. I'll be ebooking this eventually, but for now here are the captions: Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert fondées en 1826. Siège social à Val Saint-Lambert (près Liège) Belgique. Usines à Val Saint-Lambert à Namur (Herbatte) à Jambes à Jemeppe. Edition 1931. Conseil d'Administration: Président: Mr Jean Jadot. Gouverneur de la Société Générale du Belgique. Administrateurs: M.M. le baron Fernand de Macar, M.M. levicomte Auguste de Lantsheere, M.M. Georges Laloux, M.M. Alexandre Galopin, M.M. Hadelin d'Andrimont, M.M. Georges Henry de Frahan. Collège des Commissaires: M.M. Jules Dewez, M.M. Fernand Puissant-Baeyens, M.M. le comte Lous d'Oultremont, M.M. Albert Houtart, M.M. le baron Hermann de Pitteurs de Budingen. Directeur Général: Marcel de Fraipont. Les Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert sont installées sur l'emplacement d'une ancienne abbaye cistercienne du XIIIe siècle, reconstruite vers le milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Quelques rares vestiges de la première abbaye du XIIIe siècle subsistent encore. L'abbaye de Val Saint-Lambert fut abandonnée depuis la révolution française (1789) jusqu'en 1797, date à laquelle elle a été vendue. Elle fut occupée par divers locataires jusqu'en 1826 époque de la fondation des Critalleries. Les Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert ont leur siège social à Val Saint-Lambert, Commune de Seraing, Province de Liège, Belgique. Leurs installations s'étendent sur une superficie de 75 hectares dont 45 hectares de surface bâtie. Les Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert sont actuellement les plus importants établissements de l'es pèce. Elles occupent plus de 4000 ouvriers et ouvrières. Les bureaux de la Direction Générale. Ces bâtiments faisaient partie de l'Abbaye reconstruite vers le milieu du 18e siècle. Habitation du Directeur Générale. Gare de chargement. Habitations d'employés. Une habitation de chef de service. Type de maisons ouvrières construites en 1850. Art Institute of Chicago Life Drawing class · 1905 (PNG) (Nothing to do with Val Saint-Lambert!) Type de maisons ouvrières construites en 1900. Type de maisons ouvrières construites en 1907. Une allée ombragée dans les Cités ouvrières. Décoration florale de la cour d'honneur. Le kiosque à musique où se font parfois entendre la Société Royale de chant des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert (200 exécutants) et la Société Royale d'Harmonie des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert (70 exécutants). Une vue des ateliers au siège social du Val Saint-Lambert. Vues de l'Usine d'Herbatte. Une vue de l'Usine de Jambes. Une vue de l'Usine de Jemeppe-sur-Meuse. Les bureaux at dépôt de Bruxelles. 5, Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains. Pensionnat d'apprentis-verriers. L'Ecole gardienne pour les enfants des membres du personnel. Une section de l'Ecole ménagère. La Cuisine économique. L'Infirmerie. Une des salles d'opération. Une des salles du magasin alimentaire. En 1930 le chiffre des ventes a été de 13 millions de francs. Banquet du Centenaire des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert, Juin 1926. A la table d'honneur: S.A.R. le Prince Léopold de Belgique — à sa droite: Mr Jean Jadot, Gouverneur de la Société Générale de Belgique et Mr. Wauters, Ministre de l'Industrie et du Travail — à sa gauche: Mr. Henry Jaspar, Premier Ministre, Mr Gaston Grégoire, Gouverneur de la Province de Liège. Centenaire des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert, 1926. Banquet de 1400 couverts offert aux membres du personnel décorés pour 25 années ou plus de bons services. Honoré de la présence de S.A.R. le Prince Léopold. Décorés Médaille d'Or et première classe (Groupe de 1926) Décorés deuxième classe (Groupe de 1926) Centenaire des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert, 1926. Le Prince Léopold dans les Cités ouvrières. Visite le 27 Mai 1924 de S.A.I. et R. le Ras Tafari Makonnen, actuellement Empereur d'Ethiopie. Visite du Roi d'Egypte Fouad Ier le 31 Octobre 1927. Visite du Prince et des Princesses Damrong de Siam le 5 Juillet 1930. Visite de LL. AA. ll. le Prince et la Princesse Takamatsu de Japon le 2 Août 1930. Palais du Verre et de la Céramique à l'Exposition de Liège en 1930. Participation des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert à l'Exposition de Liège, 1930. Participation des Cristalleries du Val Saint-Lambert à l'Exposition de Liège, 1930. La fontaine lumineuse. Le vase du Royaume de Belgique portant les écussons des neuf provinces. September 26, 2015 Five new additions to the Library: Pocket Hand-Book of Electro-Glazed Luxfer Prisms Two pamphlets ca 1890; each is folded up from a single sheet of paper: French's Patent Vault, Sidewalk, Floor, Roof, and Sky Lights Dauchy's Sidewalk and Vault Lights Another Daylight Prisms Co catalog, ca 1899, Canadian Centre for Architecture via The Internet Archive. Metal Building Materials, Berger Mfg Co 1914 (includes Raydiant sidewalk lights) Timms, Cress & Co postal cover to United Railway, 1914 (boring) 1907 letter from Champion Iron Works with great engraved letterhead, including a factory scene (see top right) Champion Iron Works · ca 1907 September 19, 2015 Five new additions to the Library: Catalogue Modèle de l'Architecte, § Le Béton Armé Translucide. Identified four new prism glass companies from this, all in Paris: G. Joachim et Cie A. Maillet Raymond Payart Union Commerciale pour la Vente des Produits Spéciaux des Glaceries Two American 3-Way Luxfer Prism Company catalogs, both from the Canadian Centre for Architecture via The Internet Archive: Daylight By Means of the Modern 3-Way Sidewalk Lights Daylighting An 1884 Champion Iron Fence Co catalog (later Champion Iron Co) from the Winterthur Museum Library via The Internet Archive. Hennebique's Le Béton Armé, September 1926, from the Ghent University Library; they have many more issues here, starting from 1898. Winterthur Digital Collections' scan of an American Prismatic Light Co advertising postal cover from 1901 (see top right). More work on the Champion Iron Company page, including a Frank Cessna Dougherty biography and engraving (he was a vice-president). Two new bits of Mombel-Bossart & Fils paper, a 1905 letter touting their products and a 1921 ad. Identified another French company, Ets P. Dindeleux, from this 1951 ad. American Prismatic Light Co cover · 1901 Winterthur Digital Collections Tout from Mombel-Bossart & Fils · 1905 September 12, 2015 One new addition to the Library: Haywards Ltd catalog, ca 1920. This covers their entire product line, not just pavement lights. Sadly, the cover is missing, so it's just pages 2-61. Sections: Pavement Lights Floor & Roof Lights Haywards Ltd Catalog · ca 1920 Insulating Lights Patent Cellar Flaps Reflecting Stallboard Lights Daylight Increasing Prismatic Glazings and Reflectors, etc. "Pludelux" Prismatic Glass Daylight Reflectors Coal Plates Iron Staircases Improved Ventilators Boilers and Radiators Improved Stable Fittings Patent "Jhilmil" [fire-resisting steel lath] Patent "Putty-Grooved" Steel Sashes Standard Cast-Iron Sashes Patent "Putty-Grooved" Steel Casements Fittings for Sashes and Casements Patent Steel Collapsible Gates Steel Doors Leaded Glazing & Casements "Reform" Patent Roof Glazing "Reform" Skylights Standard Glazed Dome Skylights Ornamental Ironwork Motor Garage "Copperlite" Fire-Resisting Partitions September 5, 2015 Re-scanned my J. A. King Glas-Crete Reinforced Concrete and Glass Constructions catalog (see Library), making a better job of it this time (halftone images processed, scanshadow removed); it's now available as both JPG and PNG. New Mombel-Bossart & Fils paper Trade Card (undated) 1905 Letter to Charles Demol (see right; excellent graphics and color) Identified another european vault light company, Dieudonné Petit, a Val-St-Lambert dealer in Belgium. Scanned this flier showing the various bulletins put out by the Berger Mfg Co; it was included with my Bulletin #13 (Raydiant Sidewalk Lights, also in the Library). More progress on the Hyatt Brothers / Thaddeus Hyatt page. Mombel to Charles Demol · 1905 August 29, 2015 One new addition to the Library: "Berger's Raydiant Sidewalk Lights" by The Berger Mfg Co, Canton, 1916 (fully scanned now). August 22, 2015 One new addition to the Library: "Iperfan" Vetrocemento by Fidenza, ca 1935. There was a mistake on page 18 of the Fry Ovenglass catalog (missed processing one of the halftone images), so I fixed that and updated the zip/tar/pdfs. Photos of Falconnier bricks at the «Bella Vista» in Genève-Bellevue, Switzerland, taken and donated by Jacques Lasserre. You can see more of his Art Nouveau photography at The Art Nouveau World. More progress on the Hyatt Brothers / Thaddeus Hyatt page. Falconnier bricks at the «Bella Vista» August 18, 2015 Four more additions to the Library, but none of them are mine: West St Pole Line, NYC · 1898 Daylight Prisms, Daylight Prism Co, 1900. This PDF, which is unfortunately only 100DPI, has been kicking around the web for awhile. I'm not sure who created it, but I am crediting The Association for Preservation Technology International who used to host it [see archive]. Luxfer Daylighting, American Luxfer Prism Co, ca1912, via Corning Museum of Glass. Art Glass Metals, Chicago Metallic Sash Co, 1925. Lead/zinc came, automobile trimmings, metal-covered wood mouldings, rosettes, sash bars, equipment (saw machines, benders, cutters, saws), and ventilators (including a prismatic ventillating sash), via The Internet Archive Dalles et Paves "Astoria-Blocs", Gaston Blanpain-Massonet, 1935. Taco Hermans owns this catalog and donated the scan. Added two new Deutsche Glasbau-Gesellschaft patents: Swiss patent No. 112,921 by DGG and Beschränkter Haftung: "Verschalungselement zur Herstellung der Betontragrippen von durch Glaskörper gebildeten raumabschliessenden Bauteilen", dated 1925. UK patent No. 397,371: "Improvements in Moulds for use in the Construction of Floor Slabs, Wall Panels, Pavement Lights, Windows and the like of Glass Framed in Ferroconcrete", dated 1933. Photo of the corner of West St and ???, New York City, 1898 [see above right], showing a telegraph pole in front of L. D. Fredericks & Co with more than 32 crossarms visible— the pole extends out of the top of the frame so there are actually yet more. I have some duplicates of the "Sur les fils télégraphiques" postcard line now, and am looking to trade for more in the series. There were seven more "lovlies"-type postcards in the lot of ten that I bought, so I added them to the postcards page too, just because. August 15, 2015 Two more additions to the Library: How Glass Bottles are Made, Whitall Tatum Co, 1935 Insulux Glass Block, Kimble Glass Co, 1953 [prismatic inner surfaces] More progress on the Hyatt Brothers page New Mombel-Bossart & Fils images lifted from Delcampe auction-house August 8, 2015 CD 252 Hemingray-62 dark olive amber flashed amber Rare new addition to the insulator collection: CD 252 Hemingray-62 LOWEX in dark olive amber (right); already had the more common flashed amber. Hyatt Brothers / Thaddeus Hyatt & Co get their own page New cut of a sidewalk vault from the 1865 Badger's Illustrations of Iron Architecture Made by The Architectural Iron Works of the City of New York New Condie-Neale Glass Company postcard (fairly boring actually, but all CNGC paper is rare) More boring paper: a letter from Brown Brothers wondering about payment on a draft Nice new Solar Prism Company postal cover (right) Several new US vault light makers identified, mostly from White-Orr's Reference Register for 1918-19 (NYC): Wm. H. Addoms & Co, Inc James C. Calder Davis, Carpenter & Co Geo. M. Davis Solar Prism Co postal cover · 1905 A. De Mateo Enterprise Prism Co Humboldt Iron Works Insert Vault Light Corporation Johnson Brothers Maltby Prism Co aka Maltby Reflector & Prism Co Manhattan Prism Glass Co Theo. W. Morris & Co Manhattan Vault Light Co Mullen Replaceable Vault Light Co H. Neustein Peerless Prism Co Pressed Prism Plate Glass Co Riehl & Dugro Shapiro Iron Works Co United States Vault Light Co, Inc Vault Light Corporation Westing & Hafer Added two more catalogs to the Library: Fry Ovenglass, Catalog No. 4, ca 1925 The Surge Electric Fencing Handbook, Babson Bros Co, 1941 The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens The Hunting of the Snark, Fit the Fifth: The Beaver's Lesson — Lewis Carroll Illustration by Henry Holiday · 1876 August 1, 2015 Added two more catalogs to the Library: Mason Safety Tread (including Mason Safety Vault Lights), American Mason Safety Tread Co, ca 1915 The Surge Fencer, Babson Bros Co, 1941 July 25, 2015 Added two more catalogs to the Library: Simplex Skylights, American Bar Lock Co, ca 1915 Glass and Glazing, Chas. H. Dauchy Co, 1916 July 18, 2015 Added two more catalogs to the Library: Hayward's "Reform" Roof Lights, ca 1950 [Canadian] Luxfer Prism Co catalog, ca 1910 July 11, 2015 Added three more catalogs to the Library: 3-Way Lighting Systems, Catalog 14-S, American 3-Way Prism Company. Il Vetrocemento Armato, Saint-Gobain Chauny & Cirey. Architect's Standard Catalogue, 1936-38, Section 31, Whitefriars Press. July 4, 2015 Identified new European vault light player, Mombel-Bossart & Fils, who were a dealer of glasshouse Val-Saint-Lambert. See Mombel's 1927 catalog (16 pages). New Library page, with bundled scans of catalogs as tar, zip and pdf. March 7, 2015 Vault lights in Tijuana, Mexico Picture of vault lights in Tijuana, Mexico, courtesy Ruben Michel Murillo. 1899 invoice from Tice & Jacobs New listings for US prism glass makers: Dixon Art Glass Company HR Co (nothing known) SOLORAP (ditto)