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Champion Lighting Fixture Co. The Fourteenth Salesbook, 1930Read all 52 scan pages ↗

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Champion Lighting Fixture Co., The Fourteenth Salesbook: Presenting Modern Ideas in Residential Lighting Equipment (1930). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries; digitized by Internet Archive for the Building Technology Heritage Library.

Public domain via the Building Technology Heritage Library. Page images are resized derivatives of the institutional scan and preserve the maker's captions, model numbers, and finish terminology.

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Residential lighting at the Deco turn · 1930

Champion Lighting Fixture Co.

The Fourteenth Salesbook

The Fourteenth Salesbook presents a broad residential line at a genuine stylistic hinge. Crystal chandeliers, candle fixtures, and historical revival ornament fill the early plates; later pages introduce increasingly low ceiling bodies, exposed-bulb clusters, and geometric glass that read as distinctly interwar.

Champion's specifications page is unusually useful evidence. It defines fixture measurements, ordering practice, and a named finish palette that includes Colonial Brass, Antique Gold, Silver and Black, Goldlume, and several polychrome treatments. Those commercial names explain why surviving fixtures often carry complex toned or highlighted surfaces rather than a single plain metal finish.

The catalog identifies Champion's factory at 418 Cherry Street in Philadelphia and describes fixtures as wired complete, with shades as shown but without Mazda lamps. The complete Avery Library scan contains 52 images, including 46 salesbook pages, an index, and a telegram code page.

Selected pages from the original scan

These are unaltered page compositions from the cited catalog, resized for the web. Open any page to inspect it in the complete institutional scan.

Two modern hanging fixtures with faceted hand-wrought glass panels.
Scan page 5 Two modern hanging fixtures with faceted hand-wrought glass panels.
A shaded ceiling fixture, two-light wall brackets, a decorated bowl, and candle sconces.
Scan page 10 A shaded ceiling fixture, two-light wall brackets, a decorated bowl, and candle sconces.
Exterior lanterns with hanging, ceiling, and wall-mounted configurations.
Scan page 17 Exterior lanterns with hanging, ceiling, and wall-mounted configurations.
Tiered crystal chandeliers and coordinated wall brackets.
Scan page 23 Tiered crystal chandeliers and coordinated wall brackets.
A compact ceiling fixture and several candle-form revival designs.
Scan page 28 A compact ceiling fixture and several candle-form revival designs.
Lower ceiling fixtures and wall brackets with exposed rounded bulbs.
Scan page 35 Lower ceiling fixtures and wall brackets with exposed rounded bulbs.
Compact close-ceiling fixtures, including a geometric glass wall light.
Scan page 40 Compact close-ceiling fixtures, including a geometric glass wall light.
The late-catalog modern group: shallow ceiling fixtures with compact clustered lamps.
Scan page 46 The late-catalog modern group: shallow ceiling fixtures with compact clustered lamps.

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