Pomona #2 collection, 2008.

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Pomona #2 collection, 2008.

The collection includes eight scanned photographs, both black and white and colored, of Kaltenbaugh's childhood home which was an Aladdin kit home model Pomona #2, 1923. The black and white original images date from the 1920s-1930s. The color original images date from 2008. Also included is a letter from Kaltenbaugh to the Clarke Historical Library explaining her interest in the material, and three scanned pages, 2008, from the 1923 Aladdin Company catalog showing the layout and exterior of the Pomona #2, and a page showing the cabinets and fireplace in Kaltenbaugh's childhood home.

1 folder : ill.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959732

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Aladdin Company

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The Aladdin Company was established by two brothers, William J. and Otto E. Sovereign, as a partnership in 1906. The original name of the company was the North American Construction Company, which changed to the Aladdin Company in 1916. The Company manufactured readi-cut houses, which it sold through mail-order catalogs. It stopped manufacturing houses in 1982 and was legally dissolved in 1987. The Company's success was based on advertising. The houses it manufactured and sold indicate popular t...

Kaltenbaugh, Susan.

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Kaltenbaugh lived in Jefferson, Md., in 2008. Her father, Edwin Rice, of Arendtsville, Pa., bought the Pomona #2 model in 1923 from the Aladdin Company. From the description of Pomona #2 collection, 2008. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 191902375 ...