Scissors and yardstick, or, all about dry goods : a complete manual, giving a detailed description of each article included in the several departments, together with upholstery and house-furnishing goods ; also, a list of all the principal dry goods manufacturing cities and towns of the world
Scissors and Yardstick, or, All About Dry Goods is a trade manual by C. M. Brown and C. L. Gates, published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1872 for dry goods merchants and buyers. Its engravings show textile mills and factory interiors, with buildings drawn in plain, documentary views. A designer might take from them the sober engraved look of nineteenth-century industrial architecture, with its long rows of windows, smoke plumes and mill yards.
