Flanderian
Practically Family
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These illustrations are from a 1935 catalog of an unknown maker. While I'm not certain, my surmise is that it was a wholesale catalog, rather than intended for the retail customer. I'm not certain because during that era in the U.S. farming was still a major occupation, and a larger percentage of the population still lived in rural areas, some of them remote. A significant mail order business had by then become common to serve them. And a greater diversity of forms and options might well have been ordered directly by retail mail-order customers. And it is precisely this variety of details and forms that I find make the illustrations so interesting and informative.
These illustrations are from a 1935 catalog of an unknown maker. While I'm not certain, my surmise is that it was a wholesale catalog, rather than intended for the retail customer. I'm not certain because during that era in the U.S. farming was still a major occupation, and a larger percentage of the population still lived in rural areas, some of them remote. A significant mail order business had by then become common to serve them. And a greater diversity of forms and options might well have been ordered directly by retail mail-order customers. And it is precisely this variety of details and forms that I find make the illustrations so interesting and informative.
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