Trade catalogs from Frick Co.

Date Range: 1800s-1900s

Company Name: Frick Co.Related Companies: Frick & Co. ; Frick Co., Inc.

Place: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States

Topic (Romaine Term): Agricultural tools and machineryButchers’ supplies (including meat processing industry)Clothing (including hats; shoes; accessories; etc)Engines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc.Farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment)Foods and beverage products and processing equipment (including brewing; distilleries; beer; wine; etc.)Fuel (includes oil; petroleum; gas; coal; etc.)Heating; ventilation and air conditioningLumber; logging; timber and forestryMills and milling suppliesRecreationRefrigeration and ice-making equipmentRetailers equipment and suppliesTopic: Agricultural implementsAgricultural machineryAir conditioningAmusementsBeverage industryButchersClothing and dressCoalDairyingDistilleriesDress accessoriesEnginesFarm equipmentFood industry and tradeForests and forestryFuelHatsHeatingHeating and ventilation industryHobbiesIce -- ManufactureLumberMeat industry and tradeMilling machineryMotorsPetroleum

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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_15480

Type Of Material: Trade catalogsTrade literature

Notes Content: Engines: traction, portable, stationary. Saw mills, steam boilers. Knicker-bocker refrigerated food lockers ; Refrigeration and ice making equipment. refrigerating machines for use in cold storage depots, packing houses, breweries, ice factories, etc. ; Cotton gins, feeders, separators, vibrating threshers, condensers, lawn and field rollers, pulleys, gearing. Balanced slide valve for locomotive or slide valve engine. Bulletins: refrigeration, ice-making and air conditioning equipment; low-pressure refrigerating units; direct-drive refrigerating units; combined refrigerating units; ammonia refrigerating units; belted refrigerating machines; large, enclosed-type ammonia compressors; force-feed oiling system for enclosed ammonia compressors; carbon-dioxide refrigerating equipment; carbonic ice making plants; solid carbon dioxide making plants; ice-making equipment; refrigerated food lockers; refrigerated farm storages for fruits and produce; pipe coils; group-life equipment for harvesting ice; ice scoring machines; refrigeration for breweries; refrigeration for oil industry; air cooling units; ammonia valves and fittings; cold storage for furs; refrigeration for markets, grocery and other food stores; ice skating rinks; purgers; float valve controls; freon compressors; evaporative condensers; refrigeration for dairy industry; air conditioning systems. Bulletins: page corrections. General catalogs: saw mills, edgers, trimmers, engines, threshers, 1904-1920, c. 1920s-1930s ; ammonia fittings and supplies, refrigerating and ice making machinery, Corliss engines, 1910s-1920s ; company catalogs, 1910s-1940s. Company histories: "Seventy-five years of progress, 1853-1923," "A history of Frick Co." 1952. Dealer ad cut book. "Frick System" newsletter, 1932-1941. Misc. brochures: compressors, refrigerating machines, heavy duty timber edger, gang edgers, trimmers, hydraulic log turner, automatic riderless timber carriage, swing cut-off saw, continuous belt freezers. Misc.: engines. Misc.: manuals. Misc.: threshing machinery. Price Lists: machinery and extras, 1906-1951. Price lists: parts, repairs and extras, threshers, saw mills, tractors, engines. Parts lists: belt feed sawmills.Includes: Trade catalog and historiesBlack and white imagesPhysical Description: 373 pieces; 44 boxes

Record Id: SILNMAHTL_15480

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