Electric Sign Catalogue of the Metropolitan Engineering Co. (1906) — Digital Download

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About this book

Electric Sign Catalogue of the Metropolitan Engineering Co., 1906. The 1906 electric sign catalog — back in print.

In 1906 the electric sign was brand new, and the Metropolitan Engineering Co. was selling it: this 42-page catalog offers the electric signs, letters, and equipment of the industry's infancy — illustrated for the buyers who were lighting up Main Street for the first time.

For the sign historian it is a founding document of the electric sign business; for the ephemera collector, a scarce illustrated catalog from the dawn of the lit sign. The letterforms and fixtures are pure 1906 — the moment the night streetscape changed forever.

The electric sign catalog that started it all, reproduced complete.

Details: PDF digital download, 42 pages.

?? Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a digital edition scanned from a historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1906 printing, and the quality of your download reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1906 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1906 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.