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Wooton patent desks : a place for everything and everything in its place.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-152714

Description

94 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Desks Exhibitions.

Originator

Showalter, J. Camille.
Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst.
Indiana State Museum.
Oakland Museum.

Contents

Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The office in the 19th century / Page Talbott -- Makers of the king of desks / Betty Lawson Walters -- A biographical sketch of William S. Wooton / Betty Lawson Walters -- Evolution of Wooton patent desks / Deborah Cooper -- The men who made Wooton patent desks / Susan J. Dickey.

Publication

Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana State Museum ;
Oakland, Calif. : Oakland Museum

Description

94 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Notes

"J. Camille Showalter and Janice Driesbach, editors"--Copyright p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Rodris Roth Library.

Call Number

Roth TS882.U6 I539 1983

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