Drink Kitchen Stoves (1 results)

Oblong 12mo. 6.75 x 4 in. [66 leaves (unnumbered).], all linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, sized 5.5 x 3.75 in. mounted on white linen hinges at gutter margin, w/ first photo providing a birds-eye view of the factory in Rochester, NY, and sign atop the factory announcing "Red Cross Stoves & Furnaces." Flexible maroon-coloured cloth cover post-binder, nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin (minor thumbing, soiling, minor curling to photo block), still a VG exemplar. First edition, thus, of very scarce original salesman sample photo catalogue of the noted Co-Operative Foundry Co. line-up of gas, combination ranges, cabinet kitchen ranges with vent collars in front of the back guards, as well as line-up of home and commercial building furnaces. These beautiful stoves could be purchased with enamel finish, and as one oven cabinet ranges, two oven cabinet ranges, some with nickel-plated accents, others with baked enamel, as well as a few fitted with glass-fronted upper stoves, and warming units. The nicely executed colour-tinted linen-backed photographs depict such Red Cross stove line-ups as Popular, Welcome, along with Empire & Prize commercial kitchen ranges. Also included are coal and wood stoves for heating, including Bermuda, Ajax, as well as Genesee, and Empire parlour stoves. Their company logo was the Maltese Red Cross, and were one of the most successful employee-owned foundry operations in the United States. They were founded during the post-Civil War depression of 1867 when John K. French & Co. went under, and the unemployed molders with the aid of Henry Cribben, and encouragement of William Sylvis, the molders union leader organized the Equitable Foundry Co., later the Co-Operative Foundry Co., and within 1 year were operating in Rochester, Troy, West Troy, Albany, and other locations, with still more under consideration. The company remained in operation until the Great Depression. No similar copies located in Worldcat (specifically Univ. of Rochester which holds a number of ephemeral catalogues, trade cards, and items).