The new issue of Nineteenth Century (a magazine published by the Victorian Society in America) has a four-page article on the Kimbel & Cabus photographic catalog in the holdings of the Cooper-Hewitt library. The article includes a brief history of the firm and provides some context for their work, information on the Cooper Hewitt's accession of the catalog and an overview of the types of objects in the catalog and their stylistic characteristics. It concludes by briefly touching on the use of trade catalogs by furniture makers and how the K&C catalog differs from those used by other firms, and offering several hypotheses for the purpose of the catalog/scrapbook. There are five illustrations; four of them are plates from the catalog, the fifth being an drawing of the K&C display at the Centennial Exhibition. The author is Stephen Van Dyck, chief librarian at the Cooper-Hewitt.
While I believe the magazine is not sold on news stands (it is a benefit of membership in the VSA), eventually it will probably become available as a back issue directly from the Victorian Society. The issue is Volume 28, Number 1.
Article re Kimbel & Cabus catalog
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The new issue of Nineteenth Century (a magazine published by the Victorian Society in America ) has a four-page article on the Kimbel & Cabus photographic catalog in the holdings of the Cooper-Hewitt library . The article includes a brief history of the firm and provides some…