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Lion & Sons furniture display
Gordon, John C. (photographer)
Undated
English
Display of a dining room set at Lion & Sons furniture store. The display includes a table and chairs made of dark wood and one chair in a lighter color. The table is set. A vacuum cleaner stands in the center. A sign on the floor reads "L. Lion & Sons Co."
Image/jpg
8 x 10 in.
Photographic prints
Urban life
Stores & shops Furniture stores Dining tables Table settings & decorations Chairs Vacuum cleaners
San Jose -- California
John C. Gordon Photograph Collection
San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives
Series I, Box 2, Folder: Business interiors--Lion & Sons
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"Founded in 1856 by Lazard Lion, the company moved to this new building at the corner of Second and San Fernando Streets in 1908. Though L. Lion went out of business in 1967, the structure still remains, with the first floor occupied by the Gordon Biersch Brew Pub." From: Bob Johnson. "San Jose," Arcadia Publishing. p. 20. (http://books.google.com/books?id=azqvDO8PnasC&lpg=PA20&dq=lion%20and%20s...)
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
