Serving Table for the Connecticut College for Women

Serving Table for the Connecticut College for Women

Furniture--Drawings; Furniture designers; Furniture industry and trade--Massachusetts--Gardner; ; Schools--Furniture, equipment, etc.

A design drawing for a serving table designed for the Connecticut College for Women by the Heywood-Wakefield Company. The drawing is labeled "CA7860" and is dated July, 18 1961. It is one of many design drawings for many pieces of furniture designed for the Connecticut College for Women. Started in 1826, the Heywood-Wakefield Company was the largest furniture manufacturing company in America by 1926. In addition to their chairs and household furniture, Heywood-Wakefield produced seats for trains, airplanes, buses, baseball parks, and auditoriums, as well as school furniture. Many of these products were designed and produced by request, such as the furniture that they designed for the Connecticut College for Women

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1961-07-18

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Is part of the W. Joseph Carr Collection, LaChance Library, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts, http://www.mwcc.edu/Html/Library/index.html. For further information, see the Greater Gardner Furniture History Documentary Project website, http://www.mwcc.edu/gardnerfurniture/default.html.

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