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Diagrams [ ] illustrating lectures on ventilation [deliv]ered before the Franklin Institute by L. W. Leeds 1866-67. [graphic].
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Contributor
P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title
Diagrams [ ] illustrating lectures on ventilation [deliv]ered before the Franklin Institute by L. W. Leeds 1866-67. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, Son & Co
Date
[ca. 1867]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 50 x 59 cm.(19.5 x 23.25 in.)
Description
Sheet containing 9 captioned diagrams explicating the correct and incorrect modes of proper ventilation for a heated room as lectured by Leeds, Civil War health inspector and consulting engineer of ventilation and heating for the U.S. Treasury Department. Captions read Erroneous; The Popular Mistake; The General Remedy - Very Bad; Partial Improvement; Correct. When Heating and Ventilating by Warmed Air; Change of Circumstances, Consequently, Incorrect; Incorrect; Correct; Direction Radiation - Exclusively. Diagrams include red and grey shading to represent heat and "foul air"; representations of flues and windows; and human figures. Figures include men, women, and a baby. The figures sit at a table, read in chairs, sleep in bed, sitin a toddler chair on the floor, and iron in the kitchen. Other room furnishings include a nightstand, stove, and fireplace. Also contains two proverbs "Man's own Breath is his greatest enemy" and "Always sleep with Open windows" and a warning about direct radiation from steam pipes as done in most printing offices and editorial rooms as the most "killing arrangement ever made."
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 50
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Print Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 1
Variants of six of the diagrams published as two lithographs in Lewis W. Leeds Lectures on ventilation: being a course delivered in the Franklin Institute,.... (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1868). [LCP Am 1868 Leeds, 17720.O].
Separated into 3 pieces and upper corners missing.
Subject
Leeds, Lewis W.
Ventilation.
Rooms & spaces.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Diagrams -- 1860-1870.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Society Print Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 1
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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