[Catalog]

Sweetser, Pembrook & Co. (New York, N.Y.) · 1891 · The Company · 302 pictures

A trade catalogue issued in 1891 by Sweetser, Pembrook & Co. of New York, a dry-goods firm, offering goods to retail buyers and shopkeepers. The pictures show ornamented boxes, a purse with a repoussé crest, a bound book with decorated covers, and a metal-framed handbag, drawn in fine engraved line with dense cross-hatching for shading. A designer could take from them the scrolled acanthus and floral borders, the shaped clasp frames, and the banded texture of the leather and cloth covers.

Dry-goods

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