[Collection of design patents, drawings, text transcriptions]

Title: 
[Collection of design patents, drawings, text transcriptions]

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Author/Artist: 
Brothers, J. Stanley, compiler.
Publisher: 
Kalamazoo, MI : J. Stanley Brothers, [1843-1950]
Description: 
13 looseleaf notebooks : ill. ; 28 cm.
Other Authors: 
United States. Patent Office
Format of Material: 
Trade Catalogs
Microform
Subjects: 
Patents United States.
Tableware United States Design.
Glass novelties United States Design.
Bib ID: 
68384
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - J. Stanley Brothers Collection
Call Number: 
Patents
Location: 
Microforms
Call Number: 
R-508
Location: 
Microforms
Call Number: 
R-509
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Notes: 
Arranged by patent number (i.e., chronologically) with extensive handwritten attributions and cross references.
Volumes for: 1843-1875; 1875-1885; 1885-1890; 1890-1908; 1909-1916; 1918-1921; 1922-1925; 1926-1936; 1936-1939; 1939-1940; 1941-1946; 1946-1950.
Volume 13, titled "Design Index" is an annotated numerical list of design patents.
Contents cover a selective collection of designs for glassware dated 1845-1950, with emphasis on glass tableware and novelties. Note: These are not actual patents, but designs.
Years indicated on the notebooks are a range and do not necessarily mean that patents have been included for each of the years.
First few pages on R-508a were filmed backwards; some patents have been filmed out of order: 1843-1907; 1918-1921; 1909-1916.