Item description for Barnum (1916) Iron Wire Works CATALOG Builders Architects porticos gates stairs

Modern Catalog, reproduced from the original trade sample advertisement.

Company/Creator: E. T. Barnum, Detroit Michigan, Barnum Wire and Iron Works.

Catalogue Title:

1916 E T Barnum Builders' catalogue No. 514 : Wire, Iron, Brass and Steel Work of Every
Description : Designs for 1916.

Details about this publication:

Replica of the original 1916 trade samples catalog of architectural ornamental building design elements manufactured in the early 20th century. 40 pages, in very good, like new condition. Flex covers, coil binding.
-- Reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers. (undated) Circa 2008.

A delightful look at many different architect choices for metal and iron ornamentation to be used in residential, commercial and industrial buildings in the early 20th century. This catalog shows exterior and interior samples, supplies, styles available to purchase wholesale from builders, architect firms, and general architect's merchandise jobbers.

Ideal catalog for collectors, designers, restorers, or antiques dealers salvaged architectural building elements.

-- Profusely illustrated with examples and renderings.

Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, flex covers, coil bound, a sturdy book with typical slight wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored flat. Overall wonderful copy, informative resource. It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you.

About the Company:

The E. T. Barnum Wire and Iron Works, of Detroit, Mich., is one of the foremost and representative manufacturing institutions of the country, and is probably the largest wire and iron works in the world. Their mammoth factory at the corner of Howard street and Wabash avenue, recently completed, is a four-story brick building, 240×350 feet, and contains about 330,000 square feet of floor surface. In this immense factory about 700 hands are employed, the majority of whom are skilled mechanics, while every floor is filled with the most approved power machinery.

The goods manufactured embrace all kinds of iron and wire work; wrought iron fences, all kinds of builders' iron work, bank and office railings and elevator enclosures receiving special attention. Then, among other things, may be mentioned window guards, flower-pot stands, lawn furniture, and crestings, tower ornaments, weather vanes, iron doors and shutters, stable fixtures, iron and brass bedsteads, iron grating and illuminating sidewalk lights, jail work of all kinds, wire signs, window screens, wire netting, housekeepers' wire goods of all kinds and grades of wire cloth for fanning mills, thrashing machines, cotton gins, etc., while their patent balcony fire escape and Fire King fire extinguishers are in great demand by practical and economical people. Source: glassian org.

Firmly readable, ideal for reference and collecting.   Very nice.   Modern, undated replica. Facsimile edition
     Clean Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English.   Reproduced directly from the original.

-- Defects: General wear from being moved around the shop. Otherwise none found.

--As is with all old ephemeral works made of paper. **Some of the text may be small, so it may be a little hard to read. As well paper quality of the original may have been low, and thus some images may be cloudy or faint in nature. Please see pictures.

Enjoy!

Location: from inventory, Barnum Wire and Iron Works