Union Lifttop Movable Chair Desk
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1925
notes: label: Description
content: This movable wooded school chair-desk consists of a chair with a adjustable, liftable desktop. The desk features a drawer under the chair seat and metal rails and was produced by the Union School Furnishing Company. The chair part has a cut out handle are for moving. Desk top tilts at angles for better positioning for penmanship and light on desk surface. There are minor differences such as the geometric design on the drawer pull which was also used as a border on the company's advertising literature. This desk is an example of one of the many knock offs of the Moulthrop design chair desk. In 1922, H.D. Fowler sued the company in Chicago for commission sales as a result of their patent.
label: Description
content: Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 to about 1927. The company sold school supplies, books, and school furniture.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: used
content: Education
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0244.118
label: accession number
content: 2014.0244
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0244.118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: desk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oak (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (supports, screws, drawer handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, seat to edge of desk top: 23 3/4 in x 18 in x 21 3/4 in; 60.325 cm x 45.72 cm x 55.245 cm
label: Measurements
content: desk top: 3/4 in x 18 in x 13 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 45.72 cm x 34.29 cm