Noble & Cooley : Manufacturers of toy drums, banjos, tambourines, zitherns, rolling hooples
A 1901 trade catalogue from Noble & Cooley of Granville, Massachusetts, a maker of toy drums, banjos, tambourines and zithers, issued to show and sell these instruments to retail buyers. The four pictures are black-and-white photographs of drums with rope tensioning, dark shells and bands, and one painted with a stars-and-stripes flag pattern and a looping scroll border, which a designer could use for vintage folk-craft graphics, band-and-parade motifs, or patriotic decorative borders.
