1880-1973, undated
GUSN-296026
Photo album titled: "Bedroom 42." Title is handwritten on spine; volume number is also printed on a paper label that is affixed to spine. Album has a heavy textured dark brown covering and is held together with two metal brads. Album has 118 olive green pages; thirty of the pages are blank. Album contains 88 mounted black-and-white photographs. Photographs are of a variety of coordinating bedroom furniture pieces manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. Types of furniture shown include: beds, cabinets, bureaus, chests, chests of drawers, chiffonieres, mirrors, night stands, stools, side chairs, desks, dressing tables and other tables. The order number and year are often shown on a display in the photographs; model numbers are also provided in some cases. No customer names are noted. Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.
beds (furniture)
chests (case furniture)
chests of drawers
desks
side chairs
stools (seating furniture)
somnoes
night tables
mirrors
dressing tables
chiffoniers (tall chests of drawers)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
Strong Museum number 152.42
1 photo album containing 118 pages and 88 photographs (11 x 15 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches)
CC010
Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I
2012
CC010.002.120
Museum Purchase
11 x 15 1/2 x 2 1/2 (HxWxD)(inches)
Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. (Compiler)
A. H. Davenport Co. (American furniture manufactory, active late 19th-early 20th centuries) (Compiler)
Irving & Casson (Compiler)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
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