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Tables

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1880-1973, undated

GUSN

GUSN-298801

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Description

Photo album with a heavy textured dark brown covering and held together with two metal brads. Binding is missing on spine where title had been affixed with a paper label. Label is not present. Volume number "77" is handwritten on a paper label affixed to spine. Album has 112 olive green pages; nineteen of the pages are blank. Album contains 94 mounted black-and-white photographs. Photographs are of a variety of tables manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. Order number and year are displayed in some photographs; model numbers are also provided in some photographs. One customer name -- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp (Quincy, MA) -- was noted on two photographs. Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.

Details

Descriptive Terms

tables (support furniture)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Strong Museum number 189.77

Physical Description

1 photo album containing 112 pages and 94 photographs (11 x 15 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches)

Collection Code

CC010

Collection Name

Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

Date of Acquisition

2012

Reference Code

CC010.002.152

Acquisition Type

Museum Purchase

Dimensions

11 x 15 1/2 x 2 3/8 (HxWxD)(inches)

Record Details

Originator

Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. (Compiler)
A. H. Davenport Co. (American furniture manufactory, active late 19th-early 20th centuries) (Compiler)
Irving & Casson (Compiler)

Material Type

photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs

Description Level

File

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