Posted by Robare M Novou on February 27, 2004
Moderator Note: Robare posted this information in a post below, but I figured it needed to have its own Subject line so we can find it easier in the future. I also included the photo Robare was referring to in his post. MJ
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"As a side note, I found out that the Rawson and Evans Exhibit at the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 was in the "Manufactures Building and Liberal Arts Building", according to this book..."Official Catalogue of Exhibits" Worlds Columbian Expo. They were in "Group 95" titled "Stained Glass in Decoration" of which thier classification # was "596" titled "Civic and Domestic Stained Glass Work, panels, windows, etc. Of which there were about 11 companies exhibiting thier own stained glass windows and ornamented glass. R&E was proably the only one there with the chipped and silvered glass signs.
As most of the other exhibitors were stained glass concerns.
The picture of thier display at the Exposition in the R&E catalog (page 36) shows a number(#94)on a pole on the left side of the image..that number is a group #. Group #94 was the glass and glass ware display area....R&E was in area #95 right next to or in the same display area...its hard to tell from this info exactly where, just generally.
I suppose that pole #95 was cropped out of the picture or never made it into the picture to begin with. But with that number 94, its easier to place and confirm thier location at the Exposition.
I've provided this info as a recent finding in my search for more on R&E. And hopefully, someone reading this will have additional knowledge to add to this or be able to use it in locating more on the subject of R&E."
RMN
Rawson & Evans section on TheLetterheads.com
http://www.theletterheads.com/lhparts/r ... ctory.html
Joe Crumley
Mike JacksonThese are wonderful photographs.
How rare is this catalogue and , where would I search for one
Congratulations on a great post.
Joe
Hi Joe,
Most of the sepia toned photos on the site came from my book. I bought it from the Glawson estate last year. It is pretty frail and I hate to open it enough to get the scans, but I figured it was worth it as long as I didn't get carried away. The book is quite rare. Robare might own one, I don't know. He has a very good collection. The American Sign Museum has a tattered Rawson catalog that I hear Rick donated once he got a better one. I've heard of one other glass collector with one, and certainly there are others scattered around, but I only actually know of three right now. Rick made photocopies of the book and sold them at Esoteric Sign Supply. They might have one or two left.
Danny Baronian has a different salesman's catalog or maybe two and Robare has access to one of those. Many, if not all the pages from those smaller catalogs are shown on the site.
Happy Viewing!
Mike
Robare M. Novou
Mike JacksonHey Mike, thanks for reposting the R&E Finding, and for posting the picture to go with it. Now those who read this will have a better understanding of what I was referring to.
I would also like to correct part of what I previously stated...that being the way I listed the name of the building...my statement should have read "Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building".
I do not own an original copy of the R&E catalog.
Maybe someday....I do have a Glawson copy, and about a few months ago purchased another copy for a friend from Esoteric2. I dont know how many copies they have left. Im sure they have a few. I haven't a clue as to what they will do when they run out of reprints...unless they have a set that they make the copys from. the cost was about $30.
Like Mike, I only know of 3 original copies. Im still searching...maybe someday someone will discover several boxes of pristine catalogs tucked away and forgotten.
Im still waiting for someone who has an original to make a quality reprint. Just like Signs of the Times did with the Strongs book of Designs.
For a quality copy, I would gladly pay $100 plus.
And heck...theres no color plates in the book.
Wouldn't that be a great fund raiser for the museum!? Sure beats selling candy bars door to door.
If reprinted it should be done in the style of the following book..."Saloons, Bars, and Cigar Stores" by Rodger E. Kislingbury of Pasadena, California. He was good friends with Rick Glawson. This Black Oblong Hard Cover has Gold Embossed Lettering. Between the covers are 300 plus pages of reprints from Old Sepia Toned Pictures and some colorized picture postcards, of interior and exterior Saloons and Bars. The book cost $60 and is still available. you can get a copy from Jeff Lang at AMAL. As he is in the process of securing several copies for sale through the AMAL Book Store. There is a great deal of eye candy in the book.
There was a famous artist/blacksmith-metal worker that came from Germany to America to help with the German exhibit at the 1893 worlds fair...he decided to stay in America and moved to Milwaukee to settle in with its huge German population, where he set up shop. Some of his fancy ornamental work consisted of framing Rawson and Evans signs in the Milwaukee area. This metal artisan died in 1957, but his daughter lived on into the 1990's, where she was befriended by a local Blacksmith of similar artistic ability as her father. It is through this friendship that much of what I have currently found has surfaced through. This third generation(although not related) blacksmith has been dubed the aire aparent to that famous german imigrant of artistic metal forming ability. As I find out more about this R&E conection...I will keep you all abreast.
RMN
Rawson & Evans Main PageThe link I included in the original post actually takes you to one of the inner Rawson and Evans pages. Click the link below to go to the main page and you can see a lot more images and scans similar to the one above.
Mike Jackson
http://www.theletterheads.com/lhparts/rawsonevans.html
Bob Rochon
Joe CrumleyThanks Mike for taking the time to set all that up. I'm over stimulated haha
Joe CrumleyI am trying to get some grasp as to the size of this catlogue. Assuming it is 9"X12", how many pages deep?
Joe
Mike JacksonLetterhead Sign Supply has six bound copies of Rawson & Evans.
Joe
Hi Joe,
The book is 6.5" x 10" with 160 numbered pages. It has a dark brown leathery embossed cover and back with black "tape" looking binding.
When Rick copied the book, he photocopied it on 8.5 x 14" white paper and put a cardboard back and plexi binder on the front (mine's that way anyway). The photocopies are pretty good, but nothing like looking at the originals. One night, after a busy Conclave, we got his book out of the safe. Interestingly, many of the images are hand drawn to imitate chipped glass. There WERE numerous actual photos, but most of the sample designs in the front half of the book were drawn to look like fern chips as seen in the image above. Pretty impressive!
Mike
Denver Chapter of the Letterheads