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C. 1917 - 1921 Group of 5 Photographs of the Employees and Principals of the Oakley Chemical Co. Of New York with a TLS and Photo Signed from David C. Ball of the Company
1917ref. 22060New York: Oakley Chemical Co. 1917. 5 photographs include: 1918 Oakley Chemical Co. Annual Conference in the Laboratory depicting a group of about 50 tie-and-jacketed men in one of the lab rooms at least two of the men in military uniform many others with a service ribbon on lapel photograph with the studio embossed imprint at lower right of photographer Edwin Levick New York 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" mounted on gray stiff paper backing; with 1920 & 1921conference member group photos also by Levick very similarly taken outdoors at the company offices same photo size on heavier cardstock mounts; with a portrait of D.C. Ball 7 1/4" x 9 1/4" approx. on thin mount card inscribed at bottom "To My Friend Walter A. Graue sincerely D.C. Ball" and with a tipped-on small news clipping illustrated with a bronze lion that had been presented to him "By his friends in the Oakley Chemical Company." - the bronze seen prominently next to Ball in the photo-portrait which is not photographically credited; with an accompanying letter on letterhead to Graue dated 1921 thanking him and others for their long-standing support and friendship in the company and enclosing the photograph and giving thanks for the magnificent bronze memorial; with an additional photograph of D.C. Ball with 3 other people perhaps family members 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" on the original decorative gray cardstock mount no studio noted; light wear to all; in very good condition; the Oakley Chemical Co. founded in 1909 now part of the Chemetall international group of companies; Oakley known for its 'Oakite' product family of metal cleaners and compounds; interesting American industrial history and commercial photographic portraiture. . Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. Oakley Chemical Co. Paperback
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