“LA VIERGE” SOAP FACTORY, Félix EYDOUX, - Lot 334

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“LA VIERGE” SOAP FACTORY, Félix EYDOUX, - Lot 334
“LA VIERGE” SOAP FACTORY, Félix EYDOUX, Marseille, 1900 Album belonging to Félix Eydoux. Oblong 8mo with raspberry-colored percaline cardboard binding, featuring gilded initials “F.E.,” produced by the Moullot printing house for the 1900 World’s Fair (19 x 29.5 cm), containing 24 plates, including one for the title and an explanatory note about the factory, and 22 period silver-print photographs mounted on cardboard with captions printed on the mounts: 5 exterior views (rue d’Eguison, rue Rolland, rue d’Espagne, rue d’Albi) and 17 interior views (inner courtyard of the factories, oil storage and receiving area, oil deglycerinization, glycerin clarification, machine room, repair shop, production room, sodium carbonate causticization room, soap boiling room, soap pouring room, soap solidification room, soap molding, preparation of scented soaps… Prints: 12 x 17 cm, montage: 18 x 25 cm
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