Online Lighting Catalogs
Primarily Lighting Catalogs and Documents from 1800 to 1950.
Oil Lamp Catalogs
1800-1900
A Catalogue of Tin, Japaned, & Zinc Wares Sold by Robert Howard & Co. 1842
S. B. Bowles Catalogue of Railroad, Locomotive and Car Builders' Supplies 1859
Christopher Search and Co. 1876
Huntington, Hopkins & Co. - Illustrated Catalogue and Price List 1884
Tubular Lanterns, Railroad Lanterns, Dash Attachment for Lantern, Street Lamps, Carriage Lamps, Police Lamps, Headlamps,
Negretti & Zambra's Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Reference Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, Philosophical, Photographic and Standard Meteorological Instruments 1886
Dominion Lantern Company Catalog 1887
Catalogue of James Walker & Son 1889
One Page of Square Lamps and Triangle Lamps. Other pages have unrelated hardware.
Berger Manfu. Co. Lantern Catalog (1880s-1890s?)
1900-1960
Rice Lewis & Son Limited 1900
Acetylene Bicycle Lamps, Oil Bicycle Lamps, Brackets. Other Bicycle Parts, Chucks, Vises, Fishing Rods, Base Ball Mitts, Golf Sticks, Hammocks, Boxing Gloves, Dog Collars, Ammo, and Guns. Everything you could ever need for your Bike.
Buhl Stamping Co. Lantern Catalog #35 1900
Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson Catalogue No. 114 1903
Shows Mammoth General Store Lamp, Ham Tubular Driving Lamp, Daisy Candle Lantern, Bullseye Police Lantern, Ham Tubular Lanterns in General, Railroad Lanterns, then Buhl Tubular Lanterns including Square Tube Cold Blast 275. Goes further into Street lamps, Headlamps, Mine Lamps, Ed Miller Street Lamps, Nautical Lamps, Then Burners, Globes, Chimneys, and Parts. Lastly Gasoliers and Gas Wall “Banjo” Lamps.
Ed Miller Catalog #97 (Circa. 1904)
Ed Miller was one of the key players in the production of Oil Table Lamps, among other lamps like hanging library lamps, wall lamps, and more.
Litchfield Lamp Manufacturing Co. Catalog 1905
Wheeling Stamping Company 1906
C. Cowles and Co. Catalog 1907
Wagon Driving Lamps, Carriage Brackets, Carriage Hardware, Steps, Whip Sockets, Other Misc. Hardware.
Waterhouse & Lester Co Catalog No. 9 - 1908
Carriage Lamps, Driving Lamps, and Parts.
Pritchard Strong Company (Prisco) Catalog 1915
Dietz Lanterns 1917 (In Geo. B. Carpenter Catalog)
Shows Top Lift DLite, inside lift Blizzard, Wizard, Monarch, Vesta, Junior, Beacon, Little Star, as well as Street Lamps, and Parts.
Dietz Lanterns 1918
Buhl Sons & Company is not Buhl Stamping Company to be clear.
Shows Dietz line in 1918.
Canada Cycle & Motor Company Limited 1918
1 Page of Bicycle Lamps, 1 Page of Motorcycle lamps. Other Misc. Bike Parts.
The Warren Stamping Co. Catalog Post 1916
Embury (Camlox and Windsor) Lantern Catalog - 1920s(?)
The SMP Line (Sheet Metal Products Canada) Catalog Part 1 of 1922
The SMP Line (Sheet Metal Products Canada) Catalog Part 2 of 1922
Defiance Lantern Co. Catalog 1924
Embury 1940 Full Page Advertisement
Dietz Lanterns, Highway Torches, Transistorized Hazard Warning Lights, 1955
Gas / Gas Mantle Lamp Catalogs
Starr, Fellows & Company 1856
Early Maker of Chandeliers, Table Lamps, Hanging Pendants, Marble Base Candelabras, Camphene Lamps, Etc.
The Globe Gas Light Company of Boston 1877
The Globe Gas Light Company of Boston 1879
C. Cowles And Co. Catalog And Price List 1886
Wagon Driving Lamps, Carriage Brackets, Carriage Hardware, Steps, Whip Sockets, Other Misc. Hardware.
Alex. Wright & Co. Illustrated and Descriptive Price List of Apparatus for Ascertaining the Illuminating Power and for the Analysis of Coal Gas 1886
E.P. Gleason Mfg. Co. Catalog 1887
Gas burners, “Banjo” Gas Wall Lamps, Gas Lamp Shade Holders, Gas Cocks, Gas Interior Wall Lamps, Chimneys, Glass bowl Shades, Decorative Gas Shades (Large Selection.)
Gas Reed Mirror Reflector Chandeliers.
For Oil Lamps: Smoke Bells, Shades,
Triangle and Square Lamps, Post Street Lamps (Large Selection)
Beautiful Color Illustrations at end of Catalog. Pgs 320-338.
The Imperial Gas Lamp Co. Catalog 1890
Newton Chambers & Co. Catalog 1894
Welsbach Boxed Lights - 1900
Welsbach Company Gas and Combination Fixtures Catalog 1900
Welsbach Gas Electric Combination Fixture Catalog 1900
Bauer Gas Fixture Works - Catalog #4 - Gas Lamps - 1900
The Sun Incandescent Light Catalog 1902
Best Light Co. Catalog 1906 (?)
Welsbach Company Bulletin, Scoville Facility 1907
Wagon Driving Lamps, Carriage Brackets, Carriage Hardware, Steps, Whip Sockets, Other Misc. Hardware.
Nernst lamps General Catalog Carbon Arc Lamps 1907
Welsbach Company Bulletin relating to Indoor Incandescent Gas Lamps 1907
Welsbach Company Manufacturers of Incandescent Gas Goods 1908-09
Welsbach Company Reflexolier and ChandelierCatalog - 1910
Welsbach Catalog 1911
Welsbach Price list 1911-12
Welsbach Company The Encyclopedia of the Gas Trade 1915
Welsbach Catalog No.17 1916
The Alexander Milburn Co. 1917
Manfu. of Acetylene Lighting and other Appliances
Welsbach Company Gas and combination fixtures Catalog 1920
Welsbach Company Gas and combination fixtures Catalog 1920
Coleman 1936 Table Lamp, and Lanterns. Dietz and Road Torches on Last Page
Justrite Carbide Cap and Hand Lamps 1950s(?)
Faries Patent Adjustable Electric Lamps
Electric Lighting Catalogs
The Arago System of Electric Arc Lighting 1880
The Maxim Electric Light and Power Co. 1882
The United States Electric Lighting Co. 1882
Brush-Swan Electric Light Co. - Swan Incandescent Electric Lamp 1883
Brush-Swan Electric Light Co. - Swan Incandescent Electric Lamp 1883
The Edison System of Incandescent Electric Lighting 1883 <- MUST SEE
Van Depoele Electric Light Company 1884
Novelty Electric Company - Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Everything Electrical 1885
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company 1885
The Edison Incandescent Electric Light 1887
The Ball Electric Light System 1888
The Waterhouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn. 1889
Baxter Lighting Company - 1890
Denny Brothers Mechanical Engineers 1890
Edison General Electric Company 1891
The Siemens Band Arc Lamp 1893
Kitson Hydro-Carbon Heating and Incandescent Lighting Co. 1899
L. Bardon Ingenieur Constructeur Electricien 1899
Constant Potential Arc Lamps - 1900
Marshall-Sanders Company - "Anchor" Electrical Specialties - Feburary 1900
Manhattan General Construction Co, Catalog 1902
Series incandescent Street Lighting 1905
Welsbach Company Reflexolier and Chandelier Catalog 1909
Westinghouse Lamp Co. Combined Schedules Catalog 1909
Plume & Atwood - Electric Lighting Fixtures 1912
Railway Electric Equipment Co. 1914
George Cutter Company - Cutter White Way Lighting 1917
General Electric - Novalux Street Lighting Units 1919
Banner Iron Works Catalog 1920
Street Lighting with Mazda Lamps 1923
General Electric - Street lighting transformers 1924
Pittsburgh Transformer Co. Pittsburgh Street Series lighting System 1925
General Electric - Ornamental Novalux - 1927 Street Lamps
General Electric - Street Lighting Catalog - 1936
Glass Maker Catalogs
McKee & Brothers 1868
Jefferson Glass Company Catalog 1915
Primarily Electric Shades with a fitter size of 2 1/4″. Good 120 page Catalog, some color pages.
The Lippincott Glass Company Catalog no. 20 (1920?)
Maker of Lamp Chimneys, Gas Chimneys, Lantern Globes, Gas Globes, Silvered Glass Reflectors, Lamp Founts, Candy Jars, Etc.
REX Flint Brand Chimneys
REGAL Flint Chimneys
IDEAL Flint Chimneys
BANNER Flint Chimneys
COLUMBIA Flint Chimneys
QUEEN Chimneys
ECLIPSE Chimneys
Located in Alexandria, Indiana, Operated from 1892 to 1926.
Bought out by Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company, a modern factory was built on the thirteen-acre lot which was later incorporated as a village with the name Aladdin.
Macbeth-Evans Glass Company Electric Shade/Lamp Catalog 1912
Sneath Glass Co. Lantern Globes, Lamps and Lamp Founts 1914 (?)
Catalog date unknown, but Dlite Globe is shown, which was introduced 1914.
Phoenix Colonial Cut Glass Lamps 1927
Phoenix Residential Lighting 1927
Phoenix Commercial Lighting Units 1927
MacBeth Evans Glass - Alba Globes for Street Lighting
Railroad Catalogs
Crerar, Adams & Co Catalog 1914
Catalog has 800 pages of Railroad Supplies etc.
Plows, Wheelbarrows, Hot Box Coolers, Hand Cars, MOW Cars, Velocipedes, Water Towers, Boiler Feed Pumps, Water Pumps, Hose Carts, Fire Grenades, Valves, Vises, Oiler Cups, Railcar Scales, Hand Carts, Fasteners, Block and Tackle, Hoists, Dump Cars, Machinery, Rotary Flue Cleaner, Portable Crank Pin Turning Machines, Lathe Chucks, Turn Table Mules, Forges, Torches, Headlamps, Lanterns, Station Benches,
Crerar Adams & Co. sold Railroad goods out of Chicago, and may have been the supply and distribution side of consumables and tools, where as Adams & Westlake (Same Adams) was the Manufacturing side of the business.