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Wallace Nutting collection of American antiques, John Wanamaker, New York, New York

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1918

Location Note

Product catalogues: Furniture and furnishings: Furniture (3 of 3)

GUSN

GUSN-284671

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Description

Nutting sold the furniture from the Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the Cutler-Bartlet House in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Hospitality Hall in Wethersfield, Connecticut, through the John Wanamaker department store. Text on the front cover reads, "Exhibition and sale, au quatrième, John Wanamaker, New York."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
furniture
Windsor chairs
historic house museums (buildings)
presidents
department stores
exhibition catalogs

Physical Description

1 exhibition catalog : illustrations ; 10 x 6 3/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.12.009.002.081

Image Dimensions

10 x 6 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Herbert Browne, 16 October 1918.

Places

New York City (New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (Designer)
John Wanamaker (Firm) (Publisher)

Material Type

exhibition catalogs

Other People

Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Webb, Joseph, d. 1761
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807

Subjects

Revolutionary War

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Product catalogues: Furniture and furnishings: Furniture (3 of 3)

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