Details
Title [Chamberlin weather strips trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1930]
Physical Description 3 prints : half-tone photomechanical prints ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.25 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards featuring exterior views of buildings constructed with Chamberlin weather strips, including "Shriner's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.," "Gillingham & Hynes built terraces, Philadelphia, Pa.," and "Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa." Trade cards also contain the names of the architects and contractors, including Phillip H. Johnson and Raymond A. Raff Co. (Shriner's Hospital, 1926); Gillingham & Hynes (terraces); and York & Sawyer (Pittsburgh, Pa.), E.P. Mellon (New York), and W. T. Grange Construction Co. (Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital). Views surrounded by ornate border and flanked by vignettes of Chamberlin products, including sill and side strips for sliding windows; interlocking center for in-opening casements; brass sill--outopening casements; Chamberlin at D.H. sill; interlocking equipment for outside transoms; and corrugation windows.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Playing card designs printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children.
Window industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children with disabilities -- Care.
Geographic subject Roosevelt Boulevard (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 8400.
Genre Trade cards -- 1920-1930.
Halftone photomechanical prints -- 1920-1930.
Playing cards -- 1920-1930.
Associated name Johnson, Phillip H., 1868-1933, architect.
Associated name Mellon, E.P., architect.
Associated name Gillingham & Hynes, contractor.
Associated name Raymond A. Raff Co., contractor.
Associated name W. T. Grange Construction Co., contractor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Chamberlin [P.9450.6-8]
Accession number P.9450.7
P.9450.7(v)