BIOLETTO Photographie Lyon. Lot n° 23

Machines and wine-making equipment-V. Vermorel*-Villefranche (Rhône)-The Construction Workshops. c.1900. Oblong album (19,5x 28,5cm), period binding in used olive green percaline (detached), gilt title on the 1st plate and name of the photo studio on the 4th plate, composed of 34 period silver prints glued on 34 mounting boards on the front, captions printed on paper strips glued on the front of the mountings. Set in good condition. Size of the prints : 13x17,5cm Size of the mounts :18,5x23,5 cm The Boiler House, The hand balancers, "Eclair" slurry, "Eclair" slurry - Weighing of packages, "Eclair" slurry - Drying ovens, "Eclair" slurry - Packaging, "Eclair" slurry - Product boxes, Assembly of the "Eclair" pulverizer - Great Hall, The pumps and stills store, Exit from the workshops, Exterior view of the offices, Correspondence office, Parcel post service, Sprayer production, Mounting of the horse sprayers, Mounting of the "Torpille" sulphurizer,The big lathes, The drilling machines, The grinding, planing and filing machines, General view of one side of the big workshop, The lathes, A row of fitters, Another row of fitters, The metal shears, The small machine tools, The cutting of copper, The rolling of apparatus, The painting, View of the wood stores, The big store, The carpentry, The metal store, The engine building, The main steam engine, The manufacture of cannons Victor Vermorel, French industrialist, was born on November 29, 1848 in Beauregard (Ain) and died on October 13, 1927 in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône). Senator of the Rhône from 1909 to 1920, he was also a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. He was the author of works on wine and vines, including the 7-volume Ampélographie Viala et Vermorel, published between 1901 and 1910. He was also president of the Comice Agricole et Viticole du Beaujolais and director of the Villefranche Viticultural Station. We owe him the invention of the "Eclair" manual backpack sprayer which bears his name and which has become part of everyday language. Made entirely of copper, it is used to spray Bordeaux mixture against mildew. Victor Vermorel founded the Vermorel company, which specialised in metallurgy, in Villefranche-sur-Saône. In 1893, he created his company for the manufacture of agricultural machinery. Provenance: Gabriel Gastine then transmitted by descent.