Folding bed catalogue.
A trade catalogue of folding beds issued in 1891 by Ames & Frost Co. of Chicago, aimed at furniture dealers and buyers. The four pictures show upright wall-bed cabinets with a central beveled mirror panel, pilasters and a shelf-like top, and a drawer or base below, rendered in grained wood. A designer could take the tall paneled cabinet proportions, the carved scroll and rosette ornament, and the framed mirror arrangement as period furniture reference.
