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General Publication Office - Hallway Entrance - North View - Lit By Second Floor Skylight.

Hallway entrance to the first floor of the Newspaper's General Publication office.

Interior:

With the exception of the carpeting, the interior is all original - circa 1917 - which includes the entire vestibule area, door, woodwork, baseboards, newel post, banister & stairs (red oak), Arts & Crafts stained glass, Lincrusta wainscot, pine floorboards & ceramic tiles (under carpeting).

Furnishings:

Table: Gilbert Rohde for Troy Sunshade. All original chrome with "Troylite" laminate. "Waterfall" legs. 1930s.

Phone : Western Electric Model 202. 1930s.

Skyscraper Lamp: Stacked Lucite base, clear Lucite shaft with red Lucite fins, original lampshade of jute over resined parchment. Late 1930s/1940s.

Clock: American Timer, Chicago. Applejuice Lucite. 1940s.

Picture Frames: Lucite. 1940s.

Brochure: New York World's Fair, 1940.

Chairs: Royalchrome. All original chrome and green vinyl with beige piping. 1940s.

Runner: Radio City Music Hall, Main Lobby - Ruth Reeves. Original - not a reproduction. From the Hall's late 1970s renovation & interior furnishing's dispensation.

 

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Uploaded on October 11, 2012
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