Westland Safety Lamp Co. trade card
Description
Highly pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of Westland Safety Lamp Co. with large image filling card and yellow ink details. Company name on unfurling scroll at top left and curtain drawn back at side of card. Large decorative chandelier suspended from top of card with panel below depicting clocks and lamps. Decorative figure holding gas lamp on plinth in foreground advertising 'carbonic acid gas'. Transcription: WESTLAND SAFETY LAMP CO. 52 NORTH MAIN STREET. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Forbes Co, Boston
Westland Safety Lamp Co. trade card - image 1
Highly pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of Westland Safety Lamp Co. with large image filling card and yellow ink details. Company name on unfurling scroll at top left and curtain drawn back at side of card. Large decorative chandelier suspended from top of card with panel below depicting clocks and lamps. Decorative figure holding gas lamp on plinth in foreground advertising 'carbonic acid gas'. Transcription: WESTLAND SAFETY LAMP CO. 52 NORTH MAIN STREET. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Forbes Co, Boston
Westland Safety Lamp Co. trade card - image 2
Highly pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of Westland Safety Lamp Co. with large image filling card and yellow ink details. Company name on unfurling scroll at top left and curtain drawn back at side of card. Large decorative chandelier suspended from top of card with panel below depicting clocks and lamps. Decorative figure holding gas lamp on plinth in foreground advertising 'carbonic acid gas'. Transcription: WESTLAND SAFETY LAMP CO. 52 NORTH MAIN STREET. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Forbes Co, Boston
Metadata
| Identifier | f3jnqg6j |
| IRN | 718559 |
| Class Mark | MS 2241/4/1/119 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/f3jnqg6j |
| Collection(s) | Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History |
| Category | Archive |
| Technique | chromolithograph |
| Medium | |
| Support | pasteboard |
| Object | width 82mm height 150mm |
| Parent Record | Metalwork and Continental Trade Cards |
| Creator(s) | Westland Safety Lamp Co., Forbes Co. |
| Date | c.1880 |
| Size and Medium | 1 trade card |