1880-1973, undated
GUSN-294838
Photo album titled: "Sideboards: Italian, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William & Mary, Queen Anne, Empire, Miscellaneous 27A." Title is hand printed in black on front cover; subtitle is hand printed in black on spine. Album has a beige fabric covering and 108 dark gray pages, all of which are now loose. Six of the pages are blank. Album contains 103 mounted black-and-white photographs. Photographs are of a variety of sideboards and servers manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. The order number and year are often shown on a display in the photographs; model numbers have been provided in some cases. Customer names are handwritten on some album pages. Named customers include: Black Point Inn (Scarborough, ME); Earle Perry Charlton (Westport Harbor, MA); Elton G. Cushman (Taunton, MA); Ed K. Davis (Marstons Mills, MA); J. W. Hayden (Boston, MA); W. E. Lannefield (Arlington, MA); Ernest Whitworth Marland (Ponca City, OK); W. M. Marston (Newton, MA); Mrs. A. H. Morse; E. Parmalee Prentice (Williamstown, MA); F. S. Ruth (Mountain Lake, FL); E. F. Tomlinson (Boston, MA); Mrs. J. T. Wainwright (New York, NY); William M. Wood, Jr.; F. W. Woolworth (Glen Cove, NY); and the 107th Regiment Armory (New York, NY). Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.
case furniture
sideboards (furniture)
servers (sideboards)
Elizabethan Revival
Jacobean Revival
William and Mary
Queen Anne Style
Empire (style)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
photographs
Strong Museum number 53.27A
1 photo album containing 108 pages and 103 photographs (14 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 2 5/8 inches)
CC010
Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I
2012
CC010.002.035
Museum Purchase
14 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 2 5/8 (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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