2017 Acquisition -- 1 of 2

Description

This series contains design drawings and photographs depicting a variety of furnishings manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co.

The design drawings include chairs, desks, mirrors, room elevations. sofas, support furnishings, and tables.
The photographs include beds, benches, candlesticks/costumers, case goods, chairs, chaise longues, desks, mantles, mirrors, paneling/room trim, support furnishings, and tables. Interior elevations are also included. Photographic and printed design resources assumed to be used by artists of the firm are present in this series. A portion of photographs of furnishings in the series indicate on the verso that they were manufactured for a single client named F. E. Anderson of Houston, Texas.

Many of the photographs in this series portray ecclesiastical carvings and furnishings. There are two photographic negatives of ecclesiastic images included. A portion of photographs of ecclesiastical carvings are signed E. Pellegrini, or initialed E. P.

A small number of printed catalog pages are included. Approximately 40 individual typed pages (invoices) showing client names and manufacturing costs are included. A consolidated list of approximately 160 clients is available upon request.