Illustrated catalogue / Crocker Chair Company.
This is a trade catalogue issued in 1881 by the Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, with a New York office, aimed at retailers and buyers of furniture. The pictures are plain wood engravings of cane-seated and spindle-back armchairs drawn in profile and three-quarter view against a tan ground. A designer could take their clean line work, turned spindles, and woven cane texture as a reference for Victorian chair silhouettes.
