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L. C. Boyington trade card

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/3/195 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: L. C. Boyington trade card

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/3/195

Creator(s): L. C. Boyington

Site Location(s): Based in - Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, North America( 41.85, -87.65 ); Based in - New York, New York, United States of America, North America( 40.7143, -74.006 )

Date(s): c.1881

Size and medium: 1 trade card

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/vsqt6pdr

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721506

Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Highly pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of L. C. Boyington. Large image filling front of card depicting Boyington's trade marked automatic folding bed being operated by girl in petticoats. Trader details on reverse with images in centre of folding bed open and when closed resembling chest of drawers.


Transcription: L. C. BOYINGTON, PATENTEE AND SOLE MANUFACTURER Boyington's Patent Automatic Cabinet Folding Beds, MOST COMPLETE AND PERFECT ARTICLE OF THE KIND NOW MANUFACTURED. Made in - BUREAU, BOOK CASE, DRESSING CASE, SIDEBOARD, CABINET AND WRITING DESK STYLES/ BOYINGTON'S CELEBRATED SILVER LEAF WOVEN WIRE MATTRESSES. NEW YORK WAREROOMS - E. H. NORTON, MANAGER, 88 Mulberry, near Canal Street, NEW YORK CITY. OFFICE AND FACTORY - L. C. BOYINGTON, 1463, 1465, 1467 & 1469 S. State Street, CHICAGO.

Physical characteristics

Technique: chromolithograph

Medium: print

Support: paper

Object: width 132mm height 88mm

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