Spring catalog : chair department.
A trade catalogue of chairs issued in 1883 by the Baltimore firm McCaddin & McElwee for retail buyers in the furniture trade. The pictures are rotated line engravings of folding and rocking chairs with turned wooden frames, woven or caned seats and backs, and patterned panels, numbered as catalogue entries. A designer could take from them the turned spindle rhythm, the bent-wood rocker curves, and the decorative inlaid or stencilled seat panels of Victorian furniture.
