RARE Amusement Park Man Shaw & Chamberlain Boston Little Giant Heater Trade Card for Sale

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RARE Amusement Park Man Shaw & Chamberlain Boston Little Giant Heater Trade Card For Sale

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RARE Amusement Park Man Shaw & Chamberlain Boston Little Giant Heater Trade Card:
$85.00

Lorenzo D. Shaw: 1841-1912 / Photographer, Inventor, Carnival Ride entrepreneurGenius Inventor - Dreamer: Shaw filed for numerous patents and tried his hand at everythingfrom a Boston Photography enterprise (1877-79 Shaw & Chamberlain at 31 Milk Street in Boston)to a Boston Fire Escape business... perhaps after one of his dangerous \"Little Giant Heaters\"
malfunctioned or broke a glass lamp flame and smoke chimney and caught a building on fire?
Shaw is best know for his photographs and Amusement Park Rides:He was a Pioneer in Amusements and Built Glen Echo Park, and in
the summer of 1882 Mr. Shaw owned, built, and operated a toboggan at Coney Island.
To See More of the BEST 19th Century Cards Click Here: (( MORE GREAT CARDS ))ca. 1879 ?: Little Giant Heater: Lamp Chimney Heater Attachment - Hot Air\"Shaw & Chamberlain, 31 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Sole Proprietors of the U.S. Pat. for the...\"Little Giant Heater ... Hot Air Chamber. Territory allotted to dealers & Agents....\"
NOTE: Shaw & Chamberlain are associated with inventions, 19th Century Photography, Stereoview Cards, etc.!
See More Lamp, Transportation, Gas & Oil Cards Click: (( MORE AUTO CARDS )) \"Shaw, LDB: L.D. Shaw. Formerly Shaw and Chamberlain. (Lorenzo D. Shaw & Joseph M. Chamberlain, from 1877-79 worked at 51 Washington St. Boston, then Joseph Chamberlain moved to Revere MA) CDV Printed date of 1879, 51 Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts MA.
(known to be photographer, inventor and entrepreneur Lorenzo D. Shaw 1841-1912
who started work as a photographer in Boston in 1876 at 51 Washington Street. His other addresses were 9 Trenton (East Boston) from 1878-79, 135 Brooks (East Boston) 1880-82 and Revere. His businesses:
1877-79 Shaw & Chamberlain (photography); 1880-81 Shaw & Lord at 498 Washington St., corner Bedford St., entrance to Bedford St. (photography); 1882 Shaw & Block, Produce Company at 111 South Market St.; 1882 Superintendent at Shaw Fire Escape Manufacturing Company at 31 Milk St, Room 48.
Lorenzo Dow Shaw was born to Timothy Rowe Shaw 1808–1868 of New Hampshire and Betsey Davis Butters Shaw 1814–1893 of Maine. He married Annie Francis Palmer Shaw 1852–1931 of Albion, Kennebec, Maine. They married in Exeter, Penobscot, Maine in 1878 and had these children, Harry E Shaw born 1879, and Walter P Shaw born 1885, Annie C Shaw born 1891, Hazel Shaw, born 1893, and Ruth E Shaw born 1895.
In the 1880 US census he and Annie live in Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts with his occupation as a photographer. They then move to Washington DC and he was the
proprietor of the famous Amusement Park \"Glen Echo Park\" in Maryland.
He is also seen as Lorenzo Dow B. Shaw. HIS OBITUARY, WASHINGTON POST: \"Glen Echo Park: Washington Post, Monday, July 29, 1912 Headline: L.D. SHAW IS DEAD. Was
. Article: Lorenzo D. Shaw, one of the pioneer amusement men of this country,
inventor of the famous “dip,” and
the man who first built a toboggan slide at Coney Island,
died last evening at his residence, 1365 Park Road Northwest, after a lingering illness of six months. Death was due to vesical calculi. Mr. Shaw was 70 years of age.
In the summer of 1882 Mr. Shaw owned, built, and operated a toboggan at Coney Island.
This created quite a sensation, and was imitated in amusement parks all over the civilized world. Mr. Shaw also built several amusement devices at Revere Beach, near Boston, but for twenty years, both winter and summer, made his home at Coney Island. Mr. Shaw came to Washington later and built the devices and buildings at Glen Echo Park.
He was the first to conceive the idea of the thrill in mechanical amusement devices, and as a result his world famous “dips” are installed in parks all over the country. Mr. Shaw was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade, and took an active part in celebrations of a civic nature....\"
(From: 19th c Victorian Photographers CDV Cabinet Card Database site)Authentic 19th Century invention card printed on pink paper.
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