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What kind of fan?
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Steve Stephens
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 07:12 am
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Above the telephone booth?
http://www.shorpy.com/node/6996?size=_original

http://www.shorpy.com/node/6997?size=_original

It doesn't look like a desk fan but some kind of ventilator maybe?

Last edited on Fri Oct 16th, 2009 07:14 am by Steve Stephens
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 02:29 pm
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Steve,

 

Love all the magazines, I may have that issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine shown in display.

Cheers from Dallas,

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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 03:48 pm
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are you sure it is not a desk fan? there could just be some other piece of equipment behind it and the perspective causes it to look weird (like the fan is in some big metal tube)

in any case my bet is it is an Emerson. those blades look exactly like my improved Parker blades on my Emerson 73668 I'm betting that that is a 16" fan as well up on that balcony. 

here's a picture for comparason:
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 04:31 pm
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Jerry, many unfamiliar faces on those magazines but some old time favorites as well. The radio craze was in full swing having gotten started about 1921 for home radio.

William, don't the tips of those fan blades look completely rounded unlike the Emerson blades?
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 04:53 pm
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I dont think its an Emerson. I blew the picture up so the fan fills my screen, the blades dont look like Emerson, more like common GE style blades. Still, its hard to be sure. And I think William is right, it looks like there is something behind the fan that makes it hard to tell what your looking at.
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:03 pm
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There were companies(plural) in that time period producing fan powered HUMIDIFIERS. Can you zoom in close enough Ralph to see a ID tag. :D
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:08 pm
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Hmm yea. The blades are from our perspective almost a lightbulb shape, completely smooth. Also, I dont see a stand so I wonder if the thing behind it is really a part of it.

Who knows! :wondering:
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:10 pm
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I was thinking some sort of ventilation system. Maybe that was stuck inside a wall or ceiling so air could be brought in up there.
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:12 pm
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heres a screen shot of it.

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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:14 pm
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Russ Huber wrote:
There were companies(plural) in that time period producing fan powered HUMIDIFIERS.
Could that be a water tank in front of the fan just under the blade?
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:22 pm
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Steve Stephens wrote:
Russ Huber wrote:
There were companies(plural) in that time period producing fan powered HUMIDIFIERS.
Could that be a water tank in front of the fan just under the blade?

That could very well be a water reservoir. :up:
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 07:00 pm
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hello fellas

i think thats a westinghouse fan

the blades shout rotaire

they look like westinghouse blades

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 Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 07:56 am
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Is that a Woman or a dude in drag in the second picture?

Last edited on Sun Oct 18th, 2009 07:57 am by Michael Mirin
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Just a fugly woman Mike.
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 Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 02:43 pm
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Western electric, R&M, Westinghouse, those are my guesses as to what this fan could be. It could be an exhaust fan. But with brass blades?
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 Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 03:06 pm
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I can see what looks like S wires and struts though.  Course I saw a blade shape that wasn't there too... but I'm much more sure about the S wires and struts than I was about the blade.

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