Thomas Beckman collection of trade cards for convertible furniture
Collection
Identifier: Col-0109
Scope and Contents
Cards depict convertible furniture, chiefly objects that could be transformed into beds. Cards are unique to individual manufactures. Such items at the "Celebrated Windsor Folding Bed," Albee's National Upright Parlor Bed," Boyington's Automatic Folding Bed," "Ham's Convertible Chair and Wash-Bench," and desks and mantels that are actually beds are featured. One of the cards--from Paine's Furniture Store in Boston--shows a room setting with a youngster pulling down a bed from a corner.
Dates
- Creation: c.1875-c.1895
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Full Extent
16 item(s)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession 91x108, purchase, Thomas Beckman.
- Author
- Original MARC catalog record by Laura Parrish. Finding aid transferred from MARC record in December 2024 by Carley Altenburger.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository