Vintage Lighting Vintage hardware catalogs

[JonCarter]

In cleaning our old (really old!) files I've found a number of catalogs of theatre lighting equipment and hardware. I'll be glad to send this material to anyone who collects such. I hate to send it to the paper recycler!

 

[rsmentele]

I may be interested. Pictures?

 

[JohnD]

I'm surprised more people haven't responded. If no one else chimes in I would also be interested. I don't know about my scanning skills but it would be great if someone could make these available.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

Interested. What do you have?


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[JonCarter]

Gafftapegreenia, JohnD and rsmentele, please excuse my slow response! I have been tied up on other projects and didn't see your responses until today. Please give me a week or so and I will get some photos up for you, or if you send me ([email protected]) your email addresses I can email them to you directly.

 

[JonCarter]

Well guys, it took longer than "a week or so." At this time of year the garden's coming in and canning season is upon us and it seems little else gets done. But the oldies are finally photo'ed and I have the covers of the items I've located. (There may be more.) I would be glad to scan any one (or a few) to .PDF if you're interested. Please email me, [email protected]. If there's someone who maintains a library of such stuff and makes it available to all, I'll ship it to such a person or organization. Now, to see if I can attach JPGs. . . . Seems there's a limit of 10 files per post, and I've got 41 of them. So here goes the first 10.

 

[JonCarter]

Nest 10 . . .

 

[JonCarter]

Next 10 . . .

 

[JonCarter]

Next 10 . . .

 

[JonCarter]

Last one! Enjoy!

 

[derekleffew]

Is there a date on either the Capitol or Century Remote catalogs?

I'll try to drag @ship into this thread. In the past, he has had someone at his company scan and create PDFs of catalogs. Don't know if that service is still available or not.

 

[JonCarter]

Derek, The Capitol catalog carries a copyright date of 1963; the Century Remote literature carries a copyright date of 1959. The Capitol item is a full catalog, about 3/8" thick; the "Century Remote" piece is a 4-page brochure.

 

[Evans Poulos]

I for one, would love to see scans of these types of documents available to peruse.
I have a few old radio parts catalogs that are just fascinating to browse.

 

[ship]

I for one, would love to see scans of these types of documents available to peruse.
I have a few old radio parts catalogs that are just fascinating to browse.

seems my switched back to internet - Comcast is running a lot slow tonight - hard to get on. Something in the space/time continuam probably. And still busy building the castle loft bed for my child at the moment.

Where I work I normally have the receptionests when not busy photocopy to PDF such catalogues. They can create a thumb drive file I can mail to Derek or email large PDF file that he can post to the net these catalogues. Than I will ship the catalogues back to you for ebay type resale, your own collection or I can ship them off to Fred at ETC or Penn State. I have a few catalogues of my own but am not a collection source for seeing viewing them. I believe those two sources are the most notable locations to send historical stuff to at this point.

 

[JohnD]

I would love a scan of the American Stage lighting catalog, I used to buy from them (they used to advertise in Theatre Crafts magazine, pre-internet that was the main way to find suppliers.
Interesting for @ship to suggest sending things off to Fred@ETC, I wonder if they would be interested in becoming the de facto repository for such things, that would be awesome.
Soooo, how did your garden do this year, do you put up pickled okra?

 

[JonCarter]

JohnD,
No pickled okra, but about 120 qts of tomato juice, 100 pints of other assorted tomato stuff (sauce, paste, salsa, jam, etc.), 50 pints of green beans, a dozen qts of dill pickles, 40 pints of carrots, 50 pints of apple sauce, a bunch of apple pie filling, 65 pints of sliced peaches, peach preserves, peach pie filling, and tomorrow, apple jam. We usually don't dig the potatoes until mid-November. Also a load of dried peaches & apples to snack on.

If you give me your email address I'll be glad to scan send you the 'Amerian' catalog on PDF. [email protected], and give me a few days.

 

[ship]

Great if JohnD can do this. Busy on other works.

 

[JonCarter]

JohnD emailed me, I scanned the catalog he requested and sent it to him. Anyone else? As I said earlier, I will gladly ship all of this material to anyone willing to archive it and make it available to all who want/need it. Otherwise my kids will just send it all to the paper recycler some day.

 

[ship]

If John D can put it on the web, any more shipping or scanning wouldn't be needed. Otherwise I can also have it scanned and send a thumb drive to Derek, who than can put it on the website file of them. Let me know.

 

[JonCarter]

Ship, please email me ([email protected]) and let's coordinate on this. I'm more than willing to ship to whoever can handle this.