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[HEAVY EQUIPMENT -- ROADBUILDING FACTORY ALBUM]. [JAEGER, Gebhard].Biblio.com

Finishers Type “D” Type “C” and Road Forms Type “H.” Massive Jaeger and Jaeger-Lakewood Machine Co. factory photo album documenting the widespread use of their roadbuilding finisher equipments in projects across the United States with a focus on California including the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge construction.

1934réf. 64509Columbus OH Cleveland OH Portland OR Universal City Los Angeles & Oakland CA: Jaeger Machine Co. Lakewood Engineering Co. M.L. Cohen & Co. General Photographers Arthur M. Prentiss Commercial Photographer Orville Logan Snider Terryfoto W.H. Wolfram Commercial Photographers 1934-1942. Thick oblong 4to. 12 x 9 x 4.5 in. 282 silver gelatin photographs w/ over 80% backed in white or gray linen most w/ typed or stamped captions on versos identifying product about 30% marked by company as “Master Book Print” w/ rubber stamp nearly all stamped w/ Jaeger Machine Co. stamp a few w/ Lakewood Machine Co. Stamp some typescript captions majority either ink or pencil manuscript on versos some typescript captions w/in negatives arranged in reverse chronological order. Contemporary De Luxe Systems Peerless Toplock Sectional Post Binder Style 4 olive-green cloth nickel-plated piano hinges partially covered slide-lock & post system neatly written in drafter’s hand ms title on front cover burgundy-coloured calf corners dustsoiling edgewear rubbing rubbing to corners soot & dustsoiling to thick photo block fore-edges w/ some scuffing edgewear occasional minor closed tears a couple loose a few misbound in reverse or upside down about 30% of the photos with identifying stamps on images still a VG original exemplar. This stupendous factory photo album offers an essential photographic record of the vital role of road building emerging from the Good Roads Movement during the opening decades of the 20th century into the New Deal projects driven by the Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression and aspirations of creating and improving a massive Interstate Highway system. At the end of the 19th century less than 50% of roads within American cities had been paved and the very few highways and turnpikes connecting cities and towns were little more than crushed rock macadam dirt roads or even paths. By the early 1930’s there were many highways but most were in rudimentary condition forced through bottlenecks in every town along the route and all required significant upgrade to strengthen the cement and asphalt add rebar within the underlying roadbeds and special demand for the finisher machines produced by the Jaeger Machine Co. in Columbus and subsidiary Lakewood Machine Co. in Cleveland. Jaeger Machine Co. was originally founded in 1906 by Gehard Jaeger 1874-1959 and specialized in cement mixers roadbuilding equipment and later specialized concrete and cement finisher equipment for roads and airports. The 282 in-house photographs document not only the variety of cement finishers and road forms developed by Jaeger and Jaeger-Lakewood during the 1930’s into World War II but also capture street scenes road crews along with the growing demands in the West especially California. Projects such as road paving for the Bay Bridge project between San Francisco and Oakland CA by the Bates & Rogers Construction Co. of Chicago IL depict them working with Type D Jaeger-Lakewood Finishers the Type D Vibratory Machine and others laying and finishing the road deck from 1935-1937; several photos of the Type D Finisher used by the Pacific Bridge Co. on the Golden Gate Bridge road deck job from 1935-1937 featuring for both photos of the equipment as well as operating on the bridges. Also included are photos of Jaeger Finisher’s laying foundations of the Metropolitan Acqueduct Conduit in the desert East of Los Angeles CA in Mecca Riverside County operated by the Thompson-Starrett Co. firm. In addition there are photos of finishing the bottom concrete conduit for the aqueduct near San Jacinto CA by the Griffith Co. of Los Angeles in 1935. Road construction photos of the Type D Type C and later Type H finishers include those in Fort Knox KY near the Battalion Barracks in 1934; street scenes in and around Columbus OH showing roadbuilding and homes and street scenes in the background 1934-1935; road construction near Portland OR in Feb. 1935; F.P. McElwarath contracting building roads through Rockdale TX in 1934; as well as R.G. Curtis working with Type D Finisher for highway 10 miles east of Long Angles in 1936 along with photos of a Type D Finisher building roads through Minneapolis MN in Sept. 1936. Additional photos depict the Type D operating with new vibratory tube introduced in 1939 Type H Finisher working from 1940-1942 including the construction of airfields at the Muroc Bombing Airbase in Southern California in 1941-1942 now Edwards Air Force Base with the base’s main 15000-foot runway completed by December 1941 in a single pour of concrete using Jaeger finisher’s and roadbuilding equipment. The majority of the photographs are either marked with the T.H. Wolfram photographer’s imprint who appears to have been the major in-house photographer for Jaeger Machine Co. & Lakewood Engineering Co. through the 1930’s and early 1940’s. Theodore Henry Wolfram 1868-1960 began his career as a German-American chemist and photographer before the end of the 19th-Century in Columbus and would work as commercial studio through World War II. Arthur M. Prentiss 1864-1941 worked with Benjamin Gifford 1859-1936 George Weister Company and then Kiser Photo Co. until 1922 when Prentiss became a single professional photographer after acquiring Weister’s Studio and negatives. He specialized in views of the Columbia River Highway. Orville Logan Snider was a noted Southern California photographer best known for his many scenic night shots in and around Los Angeles and Hollywood as well as his movie studio photography from the 2920’s through 1950’s. Although the occasional product catalogues are held by Ohio Historical Assoc. libraries a few institutions including the Smithsonian as well as archival material held by the Columbus Metropolitan Library this cataloguer could locate no similar albums or small collections and/or archives of factory photos for Jaeger or Lakewood Engineering. Jaeger Machine Co., Lakewood Engineering Co., M.L. Cohen & Co., General Photographers, Arthur M. Prentiss, Commercial Photograph hardcover

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