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(No. 10606 )  [Wagner, Herbert A., President, Consolidated Gas Electric 
Light and Power Company of Baltimore]. SINCE 1816: AN INDEPENDENT OPERATING 
COMPANY SERVING ITS IMMEDIATE TERRITORY AND BUILDING ITS BUSINESS ON ITS 
CUSTOMERS' NEEDS
 ANNUAL REPORT AND YEAR BOOK, CONSOLIDATED GAS ELECTRIC 
LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY OF BALTIMORE, 1933.
[Baltimore]: (s.n.), [1934]. First printing, Wrappers, Octavo, 21 and 34 
pages, black and white photographs. Near fine.
      Depression-era annual report bound together with a "Yearbook" 
containing some very interesting history of this company and the city of 
Baltimore. Rembrandt Peale inaugerated the gas industry in America by a 
demonstration of gas lighting at his art museum in Baltimore in 1816. Good 
information on the development of hydroelectric production on the 
Susquehanna River. Bound in printed paper covers, saddle-stapled binding, 
Yapp edges. Minor edge wear....... $50.00
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