Animals

Scope and Contents

This artificial and still open collection contains receipts for household products and personal goods. Material culture including house furnishings, clothing, pottery, textiles, food, etc. are included. Of the 150 or so items in the collection, over 60% date from the 19th century; the remainder originated from the 18th century.

Scope and Contents Consists of numbered illustrations showing baskets, glassware, a wide variety of toys, and a few other items. This German sample book, or catalog, opens with 11 pages of illustrated baskets, 3 styles of straw hats for men, various kinds of trim, and glassware (jars, beads, bottles, flasks, thermometers and other scientific implements, mirrors, and pipe bowls). Then, in the second part, 25 full and some partial leaves of illustrated dolls, games, play sets, and toys--shown at one sixth full...