Illustrated catalogue of the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory.
This 1869 trade catalogue was issued by the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory to show and sell its brass wind instruments to musicians and bands. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of valved brass instruments shown in tidy rows against blank or faintly printed page backgrounds, with small printed labels naming each model. A designer could take from them the clean, repeated curves of bell and tubing, arranged in stacked sequences that work well as a graphic pattern.
