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Crescent Electric Company, Electric Motors and Fans, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1895

Crescent Electric Company, Electric Motors and Fans, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1895
The business card for James D. Brinser, who was the superintendent of the Crescent Electric Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The card was printed by D. B, Landis, Pluck Print, Lancaster, Pa.

I relied on listings and ads in various publications for the approximate date of 1895. The Annual Report of the Factory Inspector for Pennsylvania in the year 1894, for instance, gives the location of the Crescent Electric Company as 117 East Chestnut in Lancaster, as printed on the card. In 1896, however, Brinser assigned an Electric-Motor Fan patent to the Marietta Manufacturing Company in Marietta, Pa., which suggests that fans were no longer manufactured in Lancaster by that time. By 1898, the ads for Crescent Electric Fans indicated that the Marietta Manufacturing Company made them.

The Crescent Electric Co.

Manufacturers of Electric Motors and Fans

111 to 117 East Chestnut Street, Lancaster, Pa.

Electrical and general machine repairing.
Armature and magnet winding a specialty.
New and second-hand motors in stock.

Prompt attention. Obliging service. Reasonable prices.

James Brinser, superintendent.

Telephone.

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