"Automatic Fire Escape" -- Early Fire Safety Product
Tilton, New Hampshire: Automatic Fire Escape Company, c.1915. Advertising booklet for an "Automatic Fire Escape" marketed to American families and "all classes of owners of buildings" as a compact and "fool proof" method of escaping a fire from an upper level. Includes a lengthy description of the product, which functions as a kind of pulley system to lower people to the ground, and how to operate it. Published c.1915 when the American public was beginning to demand better fire safety standards following incidents including the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911. Single vol. (9.5" by 6"), pp. [8], illus., staple din original illus. self wrps. Very good. Toned with a couple short tears, rust staining from staples.
Price: $225.00
Item #24002596