Loose fly leaf has “Oakley V. Weeks, 1934, a local Grand Rapids resident, presumed to be the later owner, but perhaps might suggest a later publication date. Furniture items illustrated are numbered, and the source begins with No. 200, ending with no. 816. Broadly Victorian.

File — Box: unknown, Folder: unknown

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Arranged alphabetically by company name.

Previous to 2003, national furniture trade literature was not part of the collecting scope of the GRPL Archives. With the Furniture Trade Book Collection's move to the department, now called Grand Rapids History & Special Collections Center, national ephemeral literature which had not been previously processed and was problematic for traditional cataloging and book shelving, came to the Archives.