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E. R. Beers Electric Co., Lighting Fixtures and Lamps (1920). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries; digitized by Internet Archive for the Building Technology Heritage Library.

Public domain. The Building Technology Heritage Library provides its digitized trade catalogs as public-domain research material. Page images here are resized derivatives of the cited scan; no fixtures have been redrawn or reconstructed.

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Early electric interiors · 1920

E. R. Beers Electric Co.

Lighting Fixtures and Lamps

E. R. Beers organized this catalog by fixture form rather than by a single decorative movement. Its plates move from ornate hanging fixtures and wall brackets through exposed-candle chandeliers, shaded ceiling lights, portable lamps, and art-glass domes. That range makes the book especially useful when an old fixture feels transitional rather than neatly Victorian, Colonial Revival, or Arts and Crafts.

The catalog documents how completely electric lighting had entered the furnished interior by 1920. Ceiling fixtures appear as coordinated objects rather than bare electrical hardware, while table and floor lamps occupy nearly half the book. Model numbers printed beside the illustrations and the surviving price list provide stronger identification evidence than a modern seller's style label.

The scan is the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library copy at Columbia University Libraries. The complete digitization contains 76 images, including covers, front matter, 68 numbered catalog pages, the index, and price-list leaves.