The standard paints for structural purposes : H.W. Johns' asbestos liquid paint.
A trade catalogue issued in 1888 by the H.W. Johns Manufacturing Co. of New York, promoting its asbestos liquid paint for structural and building use and aimed at architects, builders and buyers of paint. The pictures are rows of flat colour swatches numbered and named, such as lilac, light green, apple blossom, deep blue, terra cotta and Tuscan yellow, set in tidy plates with printed labels. A designer could take from them a ready palette of muted, period industrial tones, from slate greys and blacks to ochre and brick reds.
