1910 Larkin Co. Catalog No.63 on CD - Period Dept Store, Household goods

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1910 Larkin Company
Catalog #63
Product and Premium List
Spring & Summer, Buffalo, NY
Looking through this wonderful catalog is like traveling back in time.  Notice the  Frank Lloyd Wright Office Building on the back cover above.  There are 127 pages of items and prices from before WWI.  This is a fantastic research resource for clothing and costume designers; historians of fashion and couture; antiques dealers and collectors.
Catalog includes over a hundred pages of line drawings of thousands of products.
The Larkin Company was founded in Buffalo in 1875 by John D. Larkin as a small soap manufacturing company.  By the early years of the twentieth century, the Company had reached the most prosperous era of its existence, and was manufacturing soap, household goods, furniture, food, drugs, paint; in short, almost everything.
Serving as a mail-order  supplier to the entire United States, and operating numerous retail stores in  the Buffalo area, it is reported that money poured into the Larkin Company  offices at such a tremendous rate that it was removed from the envelopes and  deposited into baskets and barrels, filling them rapidly.
The Larkin company recruited  housewives and neighborhood boys and girls to market their products  door-to-door, much like Avon products are now sold. "Larkin Secretaries", as  they were called, organized "Larkin Clubs" in their neighborhoods.
The plan was that each month  each of the ten members of the club would pledge to order worth of Larkin  goods. That month, one member, selected at random, would receive the premium  and the next month the premium would go to another member.
All these pages are scanned   into .pdf files for viewing and/or printing from Windows or Macintosh systems.   A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is included on every CD.
Unlike expensive "Reprints", this Compact disk contains high resolution scanned images which faithfully depict the pages of the Original.