Illustrated catalogue.
A trade catalogue of beds issued by Hall & Stephen of New York in 1880, aimed at retail buyers and dealers in household furnishings. The four pictures show slatted cots and daybeds drawn in engraved line with plain wooden or iron frames, some with scrolled head rails and folding X-shaped legs. A designer could take from them the simple proportions of slatted seating and the clean, hatched line style used for furniture in trade catalogues of the period.
