[Rarebooks] FS: 4 Cabinet Photos of Hat-Making / Moulding Machines in Chicago

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Four Cabinet Photos of Hat-Making / Moulding Machines at Gage Hat Co. 
Chicago.

A set of four images with an inscription on the back of one- “Machines 
designed to operate Merry Widow Hats at Gage Hat Co. Illinois about 
1911. Designed by Fred [illegible] and built by Adolph Machine Ltd.”.

Gage Brothers made hats for fashionable ladies; a period advertisement 
for the Merry Widow hat shows a wide-brimmed, flat-crowned hat with 3 
pom-poms, or perhaps small, tame hedgehogs, on the brim. These can also 
be clearly seen in the photos, sans the hedgehogs. The moulding machines 
remind me of something the Martian invaders in H.G. Wells’ ‘War of the 
Worlds’ might have ridden in. Nonetheless, a wonderful look at 
Edwardian-era hat-making equipment, in situ.

Four cabinet photos. 12”x10” [mounts], 8.75”x7” [images]. One mount with 
some stains, overall light wear and minor soil. The image on the stained 
mount has some adhesion loss in that corner and a crease. Several other 
'bubbles' in the images. [49909]  $250

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