Summer and household goods.
A Marshall Field & Company trade catalogue of 1899 from Chicago, offering summer and household goods to retail buyers. Its pictures are plain wood-engraved line drawings of a wooden washing machine with a hinged wringer, a hand-cranked churn with a dasher, a dasher-and-crank butter or ice-cream style churn on a frame, and a folding wooden trestle stand, all drawn with dense hatching and shadow. A designer could take from them the crisp hatched-shading technique and the sturdy, utilitarian Victorian object forms.
