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Elevator industry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Otis Elevator Company advertisements

 Collection
Accession: 1993-238
Abstract:

The Otis Elevator Company manufactures, installs and maintains elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Elisha Otis (1811-1861) founded the company in 1853 in New York. This collection consists of thirteen tear sheets of advertisements with sketched illustrations for Otis Elevator Company elevators (8) and escalators (5). The escalators are shown in five different styles for department stores installations.

Dates: circa 1929

Otis Elevator Company installation of electric lifts for the London Underground photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1970-176
Abstract:

The Otis Elevator Company manufactures, installs and maintains elevators, escalators and moving walkways. In 1904, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, a precursor of today’s London Underground, purchased 170 electric elevators from the company, to be installed between 1905 and 1907. The album contains images of elevators and elevator equipment being installed at subway stations in London. The photographs are labeled by station and date. Most of the images show the equipment used to raise, lower and brake the elevator, often already installed at the top of the elevator shaft or in a machine room.

Dates: 1905-1907