Catalog no. 1.
A 1905 catalogue issued by Chas. W. House & Sons of Brooklyn, New York, a piano parts supplier, addressed to piano makers and repairers who bought components. Its engravings show individual piano mechanism parts drawn in isolation, with the maker's initials stamped on each piece. For a designer, the clean, single-object drawings of felt wheels, hammers and brackets offer a plain, technical vocabulary of mechanical forms.
