Cabinet organs.
A trade catalogue issued by the Mason & Hamlin Company of Boston in 1863, presenting its cabinet reed organs to prospective buyers, with engraved views of each instrument. The pictures show the organs' cases, keyboards, pedals and carved ornament in clear, uniform black-and-white engraving. A designer might take from them the scrolled fretwork crests, turned columns and diamond-lattice pedal panels typical of mid-nineteenth-century American furniture.
