Suggestions for practical & artistic home decoration : compliments of Rood & Chapman, general merchandise, paints, oils, varnishes, etc., Baltic, Conn. : agents for Rogers paints & varnishes.
This is a 1901 trade booklet of home decorating suggestions issued by the Detroit White Lead Works and distributed through Rood & Chapman, a Baltic, Connecticut general merchandise dealer, to households considering paint jobs. Its pictures show Rogers paint cans beside line drawings of men and a woman applying paint to porches, floors, barns and furniture. A designer might take from them the plain, confident period advertising style of tins, labels and working figures in early twentieth-century trade print.
