"Bedroom 42"

Item Information

Title:
"Bedroom 42"
Description:
Photo album titled "Bedroom 42." Title is hand printed on a round paper label affixed to spine; volume number is also printed on a paper label that had been affixed to spine. Volume number label is loose and has been placed inside front cover. Album has a heavy textured dark brown covering and is held together with two metal brads. Album has 114 olive green pages; 32 of the pages are blank. Album contains 82 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, chiffionieres, 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. The album also contains a pencil drawing of a mahogany bureau (CC010.002.119.001). The sketch is between pages 94 and 95; the photograph on page 95 shows the finished bureau. Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.
Date:
1880–1973
Format:
Albums/Scrapbooks
Photographs
Genre:
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
CC010: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I
Subjects:
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)
Extent:
1 photo album containing 114 pages and 82 photographs (11 x 15 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches); 11 in. x 15 1/2 in. x 2 1/4 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/296025
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Identifier:
296025
Call #:
CC010.002.119