Seven Illustrated Brochures on Camping needs of 1920s Automobile Campe
by (CAMPING - CATALOGUES)
(CAMPING - CATALOGUES) Seven Illustrated Brochures on Camping needs of 1920s Automobile Camper and Traveler. Seven items. 1st: 8vo. 39 pages, photo illustrated (1 double-page centerfold text illustrations. Color illustrated wrappers, with pocket in rear of back cover (minor shelfwear, inventory number at upper left corner); 2nd: (4) page printed on khaki-tinted paper; 3rd: 12mo. (4) pages, printed & illustrated in blue on white glossy paper stock; 4th & 5th: 8vo. (4) pages, illustrated (one two copies) with printed price list on back; 6th: 16mo. (3 1/4 x 6 1/5 inches (8) pages, color printed & illustrated leporello accordion-style which opens into oblong 4to. (13 x 6 1/5 inches); 7th: 16mo. (3 1/3 x 6 1/5 inches) (8) pages, color-printed & illustrated leporello accordion-style which opens into oblong 4to. (13 x 6 1/5 inches). First editions of these nicely illustrated brochures for all the camping need of the 1920's automobile camper and traveler. The centerfold spread for the first catalogue, "Gold Metal" folding Furntiure: the recognized Standard. Comfort for Home and Camp... includes uses of Gold Medal camping furniture in tourist camps, motor camps, onboard ship, a Boy Scout Camp, and even a large dealer's floor display. Also included are portable folding canvas bath tubs, infant table-tubs, and folding furnishings for sun porches and sanitariums. Founded originally in 1892 - by R.B. Lang, W.G. Gittings ^ J.G. Teall - as th Racine Camp Furniture & Novelty Manufacturing Co. to better serve clientele interested in camping, and living by producing tents, sleeping bags, cots, stools, folding chairs, and leisure furniture. The Company won the 1893 Exposition Gold Medal award for excellence, and continued with that name and family-owned until 1989. The price list offers excellent reference, a small laid-in ad for the special slipcover made of awning stripes for the folding G Medal Porch Chair, and the quintessential Aladdin Thermalware jug, and Kampko stoves fill out the offerings. No copies located on OCLC of the Gold Medal C Equipment; one copy of the Aladdin Thermalware Jug; one copy of the Kampkook. All items near fine. (40663). (Inventory #: 40663)