"Desks: Writing Tables, Italianate, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William & Mary, Queen Anne, Georgian"

Item Information

Title:
"Desks: Writing Tables, Italianate, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William & Mary, Queen Anne, Georgian"
Description:
Photo album titled: "Desks: Writing Tables, Italianate, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William & Mary, Queen Anee, Georgian 53." Title, subtitle, and volume nuber are hand printed in black on spine. Album has a beige fabric covering and 142 dark gray pages, all of which are now loose. Fourteen of the pages are blank. Album contains one loose and 130 mounted black-and-white photographs. Photographs are of a variety of desks and writing tables manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. The style of most of the items photographed are not described by the album's subtitle; album cover may have been reused. The order number and year are often shown on a display in the photographs; model numbers have also been provided in some cases. Customer names are handwritten on some album pages. Named customers are: Abercrombie and Fitch Co.; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, MA); J. J. Bodell (Providence, RI); Brockton National Bank (Brockton, MA); Mrs. E. Cushing; W. P. Draper (New York, NY); H. B. Endicott (Dedham, MA); Essex County Club; H. H. Flagler (New York, NY); E. R. Grabow Co. (Boston, MA); Mrs. Emilie L. Heine (Cincinnati, OH); Hodgson Kennard & Co. (Boston, MA); Henry Hornblower (Boston, MA); E. B. Horne; Merchants National Bank (New Bedford, MA); Henry Miller; Northampton Instittute (Northampton, MA); Noyes Buick Co. (Boston, MA); Parker House Hotel (Boston, MA); Mrs. C. M. Pratt; E. Parmalee Prentice (Williamstown, MA); Hotel Lenox (Boston, MA); F. F. Reuter; F. S. Ruth (Mountain Lake, FL); Samford Building Corp. (Samford, ME); T. Suffern Tailer; Mary Tileston; and Union of St. John the Baptist of America. Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.
Compiler:
Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co.
Compiler:
A. H. Davenport Co.
Compiler:
Irving & Casson
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:
desks
writing tables
Extent:
1 photo album containing 142 pages and 131 photographs (14 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches); 14 3/4 in. x 12 1/2 in. x 3 1/4 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
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Identifier:
295496
Call #:
CC010.002.079