Papers, 1930-1992.

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Papers, 1930-1992.

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The papers consist primarily of newsclippings, tear sheets and sketches of Lambach's furniture and appliance cabinet designs, including work executed for Admiral, Zenith, Pacific Mercury, and Sears. Products include chairs, desks, cabinets, dressers, lamps, radios, phonographs, and televisions. The designs are all for mass-market items in a mix of traditional and art deco styles. There are also designs for an all-wood baby carriage (for conserving metal during World War II), an unbuilt ketch for Lambach's own use, and two interiors of private jets.

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Sears, Roebuck and Company

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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

Pacific Mercury Television Manufacturing Company.

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Admiral Corporation

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Zenith radio corporation

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Lambach, A. D. (Adolph Daniel)

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A. D. Lambach was an industrial designer and furniture manufacturer. He was born in Europe and came to Chicago with his father in 1924. He began as an apprentice with the Macey Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1928, later working for the Progressive Table Company of Brooklyn, N.Y., and as a freelance designer for many of the large North Carolina furniture manufacturers. He returned to Chicago as vice president and general manager of the Chicago Cabinet Company, which manufactured radio, phonog...