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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1951 



R. H. SPALD^TnG, 



Successor to H. Porter, and sole Manufacturer of 



coiposraoi mmim rw: 



ALSO, 



SUPERIOR CAMPHENE AND ALCOHOL. 



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MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER IN 



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ASTRAL, SOLAR, HANGING AND SIDE LAWS; 



GIRANDOLES, CANDELABRAS, HALL LANTERNS ; 



CHINA, TERRA-COTTA AND BOHEMIAN VASES. 



ALSO, 



GLOBES, SHADES, GLASS PRISMS, &c. &c. &c. 



Wos. 8 and 9 TREMONT ROW, Boston, 



OPPOSITE THE HEAD OF HANOVER STREET. 



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Figure 1. — Woodcut advertisement from the Illustrated American Biography, by A. D. 



Jones, vol. I, Boston, 1853. 



bition of Domestic Manufacturers, sponsored by the Franklin Insti- 

 tute, the Committee of Judges on Lamps commented that in the 

 mantel lamps of Cornelius & Company "the brass castings are grace- 

 ful and durable, and exhibit a great richness of hue . . . The astral 

 lamps of the same artists are remarkable for new, original, and deli- 

 cate forms." The word "original" is here significant. In the same 



