Shades and globes : catalogue number 42 / Macbeth-Evans Glass Company
A 1912 trade catalogue (number 42) issued by the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company of Pittsburgh to sell pressed and molded glass lampshades and globes to electrical supply dealers, fixture makers, and jobbers. Halftone photographs group numbered shades against graded grey backgrounds, showing ribbed, faceted, fluted and leaded-look profiles with stencil-like numerals beneath each form, useful as silhouette stock, pattern repeats, or period product-page layouts.
