[Catalog]
An 1891 trade catalogue issued by Ames & Frost Co. of Chicago, Illinois, presenting its bedsteads and bed parts to furniture buyers and dealers. The pictures are plain black-and-white line engravings of metal bedsteads with turned posts, spindle headboards and footboards, and one flat mattress or spring base, drawn in a clear commercial style that suggests how to lay out a product sheet with minimal, technical imagery.
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