Noble & Cooley Company : Granville, Massachusetts
This is a 1924 catalogue from the Noble & Cooley Company of Granville, Massachusetts, a maker of drums, banjos and tambourines sold to music dealers and toy trades. The four pictures show plain photographic views of single drums: a rope-tensioned military drum with a painted battle scene on the shell, a nickel-trimmed snare, and a bass drum with a cymbal and pedal. A designer could draw on their polished shells, rope lacing and simple chrome hardware as clean, mid-century mechanical forms.
