[Photo Albums]: Camp National. National Electric Lamp Association Camp held at Association Island, Henderson, New York

by LANE, W. George

$4,000 · Offered by Biblio

[Association Island, Henderson Harbor, New York: National Electric Lamp Association, 1910. Softcover. Near Fine. Three volumes, each an oblong folio (each approximately 13.5" x 11"). [48; 24; 16]pp. Thick card stock covers in tan, blue, and red with decorative elements. Containing 401 original tipped-in gelatin silver photographs ranging in size from 1" rounds to 6.25" x 9", all mounted into the albums, mostly with printed text captions. Additionally present are 101 tipped-in color images, playbills, programs, small booklets (ranging in size from 16mo. to octavo) and with a TLS laid into the first volume addressed to William Lockwood Coale (1870-1929), general manager and sales director for the Sterling Electric Manufacturing Company, and one of the founding members of the National Electric Lamp Association Camp, who continued to work in the incandescent lamp industry until his accidental death from a baseball injury in 1929. Some modest edgewear, creasing, and bumping at the corners of the albums, a minor closed tear at the spine of one volume, but still attractive and near fine. Three wonderful souvenir photo albums for management retreats hosted by the N.E.L.A., filled with over 500 items. Apparently created for the attendees (one has a title page; the other two do not), lavishly produced souvenir albums filled with original photographs, playbills, broadsides, and the texts of talks by participants for the National Electric Lamp Association at their Camp National on Associ

• Publisher: National Electric Lamp Association
• Year: 1910
• Binding: unknown

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