Ok,if I loose this bid and I hope I don't; I would hope who ever gets the E-Bay bid for this 1916 catalogue for Chiago Stage Lighting Company would do the proper thing in posting it page by page on controlbooth.com and Kliegl Brothers website. This is very important history of stage lighting I for one have never seen before.
This is also a company I have been searching for info on for many years now, and while unlikely my 1920's PC fixture from them will be in the catalogue, it will be still great to see what else they sold - this given a black hole of info about them in lighting history as a company othrwise so far. This other than address and phone number and them ending as a company somewhere before like the mid-1930's I think in no longer existing in listings for stag lighting companies at that point.
Perhaps Chicago Stage Lighting was a 1929 depression casualty or bought out by Major? Who knows... yet to learn more about them beyond having one of their antique fixtures and a Major next to it in looking somewhat similar but not really and the Major is dated to I think most likely 1926 - the year the theater it was found in opened. Both brands are from Chicago, and neither are in business today. Such a catalogue at least with gear sold back than would be a fascinating look at what was available back in 1916. This catalogue could further date stage lighting history in general. Kliegl webiste has a 1913 catalogue posted, what advancements in that three year period between the two companies were made in filling the hole beween than and the posted 1922 Kliegl catalogue that did list incandescent lamps? Or at least further refinement of it from another source is very important in history.
When did the incandecent plano-convex fixture come out as for-runner to the Leko? Perhaps Chicago Stage Lighting did it before Kliegl did it? Was it out there yet in 1916 or was it perhaps only lensed carbon arc light at this point? 1922 Kliegl catalogue lists the incandescent source Ovallite.. when did it come out within that nine year period?
Hope I win the bid, but otherwise anyone else winning it has a responsibility to publish what's in this catalogue I think.
This is also a company I have been searching for info on for many years now, and while unlikely my 1920's PC fixture from them will be in the catalogue, it will be still great to see what else they sold - this given a black hole of info about them in lighting history as a company othrwise so far. This other than address and phone number and them ending as a company somewhere before like the mid-1930's I think in no longer existing in listings for stag lighting companies at that point.
Perhaps Chicago Stage Lighting was a 1929 depression casualty or bought out by Major? Who knows... yet to learn more about them beyond having one of their antique fixtures and a Major next to it in looking somewhat similar but not really and the Major is dated to I think most likely 1926 - the year the theater it was found in opened. Both brands are from Chicago, and neither are in business today. Such a catalogue at least with gear sold back than would be a fascinating look at what was available back in 1916. This catalogue could further date stage lighting history in general. Kliegl webiste has a 1913 catalogue posted, what advancements in that three year period between the two companies were made in filling the hole beween than and the posted 1922 Kliegl catalogue that did list incandescent lamps? Or at least further refinement of it from another source is very important in history.
When did the incandecent plano-convex fixture come out as for-runner to the Leko? Perhaps Chicago Stage Lighting did it before Kliegl did it? Was it out there yet in 1916 or was it perhaps only lensed carbon arc light at this point? 1922 Kliegl catalogue lists the incandescent source Ovallite.. when did it come out within that nine year period?
Hope I win the bid, but otherwise anyone else winning it has a responsibility to publish what's in this catalogue I think.
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