Illustrated catalogue.
An 1885 trade catalogue from Hard Brothers & Co. of Oneida, New York, showing beds and bedsteads for commercial buyers. The pictures are plain engraved line drawings of bed frames and spring bases seen from above and from the side, with the maker's name stamped on the rails. A designer might take their simple woodcut-style hatching and clean, utilitarian furniture silhouettes as a model for period product drawing.
