[Catalog]

C.F. Rice (Chicago, Ill.) · 1879 · The Company · 64 pictures

A trade catalogue issued in 1879 by C.F. Rice of Chicago, Illinois, for retailers and buyers of picture frames and framing. Its engraved plates show carved and moulded wall frames, mirror frames, and wall brackets, numbered for ordering and priced by size, with some items shown in outline. A designer could draw on the scrolled cresting, pierced ornament, and shelf-and-bracket profiles of these Victorian wooden frames.

Picture frames and framing

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