Premium catalogue 1903-4
A 1903-4 premium catalogue issued by the Bishop Tea & Spice Co. of Philadelphia, offering household goods to customers who collected trade coupons from grocery purchases. The pictures are small halftone-style engravings of furniture set against plain paper, with light shading and minimal background. A designer could take from them the plain, sturdy catalogue look of turn-of-the-century furniture, such as turned legs, bail pulls and stacked drawers.
