Seeley Brothers : manufacturers of Averill paint, ready for use
A trade catalogue issued in 1886 by Seeley Brothers of Chicago, a firm selling Averill ready-mixed paint to builders and householders across the United States. The pictures are chromolithographed plates showing Victorian houses and a church, each framed with the firm's name and its New York, Boston and Chicago offices. They show Second Empire mansard roofs, patterned shingles and jigsawn bargeboards, which a designer could use as reference for period architectural colour schemes and ornamented Victorian façades.
