Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mason, William, 1808-1883 (manufacturer)
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content: William Mason Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1839-1857
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0045, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One large purchase in 1849 of furnishings included:

Mahogany bedstead

2 hair mattresses

2 bolsters  and 4 pillows

Walnut bedstead

Walnut washstand

Walnut bureau

Walnut night table

4 cane seat chairs

6 mahogany chairs

rosewood centre table

4 rosewood chairs

2 rosewood sofas

1 rosewood armchair

1 rosewood console table

1 rosewood morocco arm chair

1 rosewood oval dinning table with 4 leaves

2 Mahogany burears

8 Mahogany chairs

4 Mahogany towel stand

1 Mahogany arm chair

2 Mahogany tete a tetes

1 Walnut towel stand

1 oak wardrobe

2 oak hall chairs

1 Mahogany ladies secretary

1 Mahogany night table

1 rosewood bedstead

1 rosewood washstand

1 rosewood night table

4 rosewood chairs

1 rosewood oval centre table

1 rosewood library table and desk

2 rosewood low arm chairs

2 rosewood high arm chairs

2 rosewood book cases

1 rosewood ladies chair

1 rosewood toilet table

1 rosewood glass wardrobe

2 circular window cornices with green and gold brocade curtains

Brown linen covers for sofas, chairs, arm chair

1 rosewood card table

1 rosewood folio stand

1 large circular cornice with silk and lace curtains

1 rosewood moroccan chair

Painting of Caesar & Cleopatra