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Slide Shows of Old Catalogs

I have made slide shows of the catalogs of American manufacturers I found at Archive.org, plus the two I scanned myself. Missing is the S.C. Johnson one from Hathitrust. You can get an overview with the thumbnails, and deep link to each page. Move between slide shows.

• Boughton & Linville, Largest Manufacturers: 1889
• Wm. Hannam & Co: Wood Carpet Co.'s elegant parquet and inlaid floors: circa 1890
• Interior Hardwood Co: Book of Designs. Ornamental Parquet Floors and Borders: 1892 [my scans]
• Interior Hardwood Co: Parquet Floors and Borders: 1892 With Price List [my scans]
• Interior Hardwood Co: Parquet Floors and Borders: 1903
• Interior Hardwood Co: Parquet Floors and Borders: 1911
• Chicago Floor Company: Ornamental hardwood floors and grilles: circa 1900 or later
• Roberts' Illustrated Millwork Catalog: 1903 (pages 325-340 with floors)
• E.L. Roberts & Co. General catalogue: 1908 (pages 327-340 with floors)

Catalogs Viewable Online

Most in this section also have slide shows listed above. Not above is the S.C Johnson at Hathitrust, John W. Boughton at U of Houston, and the two European ones at the section end.

• Boughton & Linville (Boston, MA)
  • Boughton & Linville, Largest Manufacturers
    Copyright 1889
    Description: 31 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm., trade catalog
    Online at Archive.org
    OCLC: WorldCat page

• Wm. Hannam & Co. (New York, NY) [dealer for Wood Carpet Co.]
  • How to make the "Home Beautiful" by using the Wood Carpet Co.'s elegant parquet and inlaid floors, wainscots and ceilings.
    Published circa 1890
    Description: 24 pages
    Online at Archive.org
    Not in OCLC WorldCat
    Reprint available at Amazon

• Interior Hardwood Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  • Book of Designs. Ornamental Parquet Floors and Borders, 15th Ed.
    Copyright 1892
    Description: 24 pages : ill. (some col.) ; 16 cm
    My Slideshow (my purchase and scans)
    OCLC: WorldCat page

  • Parquet Floors and Borders, 23rd Ed.
    Copyright 1892
    Description: 28 pages : ill. (some col.) ; 16 cm [includes 4 pages of price lists]
    My Slideshow (my purchase and scans)
    Not in OCLC WorldCat

  • Parquet Floors and Borders.
    Copyright 1903 [1895 year at archive.org is wrong]
    Description: 44 [2] pages: color illustrations ; 16 × 25 cm
    Online at Archive.org
    Online at Archive.org: Alternate Page [poorer page]
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    OCLC: Alternative WorldCat page [1907 price list tipped in]

  • Parquet Floors and Borders a.k.a. Fine Hardwood Floors: 6th Edition
    Published 1911
    Description: 58 pages (47 numbered). 16 x 24 cm
    Online at Archive.org
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Notes: Price list (July 1915) tipped in.
    Tipped in: Parquet Floors and Borders. 33rd [pocket size] ed. [Interior Hardwood Co., 1914].
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University, Indiana Historical Society
    Reprint at Amazon

• S.C. Johnson (Racine, WI)
  • Suggestions for parquetry floors
    Copyright 1893
    Description: 15 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
    Online at Hathitrust.org Digital Library [View online only]
    OCLC: WorldCat page and WorldCat page
    At Google Books

• Chicago Floor Company (Chicago, IL)
  • Ornamental hardwood floors and grilles.
    Published circa 1900
    Description: 28 pages: 23 cm
    Online at Archive.org
    Not in OCLC WorldCat

• E.L. Roberts & Co. (Chicago, IL)
  • Roberts' Illustrated Millwork Catalog: A Sourcebook of Turn-of-the-Century Architectural Woodwork
    Published 1903
    Dover 1988 reprint at Amazon [used ones are very cheap]
    OCLC: WorldCat page for reprint
    OCLC: WorldCat page for original

  • General catalogue of E.L. Roberts & Co., wholesale manufacturers of doors, glazed sash, blinds: no. 600
    Published 1908
    Description: 431 pages: 28 cm
    This is very similar to the prior entry.
    Online at Archive.org
    OCLC: WorldCat page #1 and WorldCat page #2 and WorldCat page #3
    OCLC: WorldCat page for Price Supplement

• John W. Boughton (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Wood carpet, parquetry floors, wainscots, Moorish and Egyptian fret work, grilles, etc.
    Published 1907
    Description: A 7-page booklet published in 1907. Content includes numerous illustrated designs of their wood floors, folding screens, and the designs that won awards. [but no borders]
    Online: M.D. Anderson Library at University of Houston
    OCLC: WorldCat page

• European
  • Emile Naets & Co., Antwerpen
    by Emile Naets & Co.
    Published 19--?
    Description: 7 leaves: 16 × 23 cm
    Parquet floors with a few pages of borders at the end.
    Online at Archive.org

  • Parquet-Fabrik Gebruder Wyrsch, Buochs, Suisse, gegruundet 1875.
    by Parquet-Fabrik Gebruder Wyrsch, Zurich : s.n., [1910]
    Published 1910
    Description: 52 pages: all. col. ill. ;18 × 29 cm
    Mostly parquet floors. Some borders, many rather grand, are at the end.
    Online at Archive.org

Catalogs Found only in OCLC: WorldCat

Hopefully someday the catalogs below will be scanned and move to the section above. Especially for the following American manufacturers that are listed below, and are not listed above.

• Decorative Wood Carpet Company (Chicago?)
• W.C. Runyon & Co. (Rochester, NY)
• National Wood Manufacturing Co. (New York, NY)
• John W. Boughton (Philadelphia, PA) [parent of Boughton & Linville above]
• Boughton & Terwilliger (New York, NY) [subsidiary of John W. Boughton, Philadelphia]
• E.B. Moore and Co. (subsidiary of John W. Boughton)
• Wood-Mosaic Flooring Co. (Rochester, NY)
• Wilke Manufacturing Company (Anderson, Indiana)
• Bostwick-Goodell Co. (Norwalk, Ohio)
• Lanham Hardwood Flooring Company (Louisville, KY)

Only in Libraries:

• Steinitz & Company (London, England); London Parquetterie (London, England)
  • Parquets or inlaid wood for flooring, ornamental ceilings, wainscoting and surbasing
    Date: 1846
    Description: 8 pages ; 22 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page and WorldCat page and WorldCat page
    Libraries: Yale, New York State Library, University of Maine at Orono, Cleveland Public Library

• A.J. Arrowsmith & Co. (London)
  • A.J. Arrowsmith & Co's patent solid parquet flooring : illustrated price list.
    Date: 18--?
    Description: 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: University of Cambridge, National Library of Sweden

• Decorative Wood Carpet Company (Chicago?)
  • Wood carpet and parquet floors : plain and ornamental wainscots.
    Date: approximately 1880
    Description: 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Athenaeum of Philadelphia

• W.C. Runyon & Co. (Rochester, NY)
  • Illustrations of the wood-mosaic floor and borders
    Date: 1883?
    Description: 16 pages [i.e. 1 preliminary leaf, [2]-5 pages, 1] leaf illustrations (some color) 23 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: University of Rochester, VCU Libraries, Chicago History Museum

• National Wood Manufacturing Co. (New York, NY)
  • Wood carpeting, parquet floors and wainscots
    Date: approximately 1880
    Description: 30 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley, University of Delaware, The Strong

  • Designs of parquet flooring.
    Date: approximately 1886
    Description: 16, iv pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: none

  • Wood carpeting: parquet & inlaid floors, wainscoting and ceilings.
    Date: approximately 1890
    Description: 1 sheet ([16] pages) : illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm folded to 11 x 8 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • Designes of parquet flooring from the National Wood Mfg. Co.
    Date: 18-
    Description: 20 pages of color illustrations 28 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hagley, Harry Ransom Library at University of Texas

• Wm. Hannam & Co. (New York, NY)
  • All that is needed to know about parquet floors: How to take care of them. Their different modes of finish, care and treatment. How to clean and wax floors. Recipe for making wax. The best woods to use for different rooms. The best mode of construction and finish.
    Date: 1887
    Description: 37 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 x 8 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: NC State University

• John W. Boughton (Philadelphia, PA)
  • John W. Boughton, manufacturer and proprietor of wood carpet, parquet and inlaid floors, wainscots and ceilings.
    Date: approximately 1877
    Description: 50 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley

  • John W. Boughton, manufacturer and proprietor of wood carpet, parquet and inlaid floors, wainscots and ceilings.
    Date: approximately 1880
    Description: 42 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • Wood carpet and parquet floors, wainscots and ceilings.
    Date: approximately 1884
    Description: 50, [2] pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Athenaeum of Philadelphia

  • J.W. Boughton, manufacturer of parquetry, wood carpet, for floors, wainscots walls and ceilings ...
    Date: 1887
    Description: 31 pages : color illustrations ; 14.7 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page and WorldCat page
    Libraries: University of Delaware, The Strong

  • Parquet floors: new styles, new designs, original with us, and never before offered
    Date: 1889
    Description: 31 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: The Strong, NC State University, John Peace Library at University of Texas at San Antonio
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: University of New Mexico-Main Campus

  • Wood carpet, parquetry, or ornamental wood floors, wainscoting and ceilings.
    Date: 1890
    Description: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 23 x 14 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Our parquetry goods: wood carpet are used for floors, wainscottings, walls and ceilings.
    Date: 1890
    Description: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 x 31 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • Interior decorations & artistic wood floors.
    Copyright 1893
    Description: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Van Pelt, Hagley, University of Delaware

  • Parquetry floors -- wood carpet, & grilles.
    Copyright 1898
    Description: 15 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley

  • J.W. Boughton, largest manufacturer of the finest parquetry floors, wood carpet, Egyptian and Moorish fret work and grilles, etc.
    Date: 1898
    Description: 66 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley

  • Wood carpet, parquetry floors, wainscots, Moorish and Egyptian fret work, grilles, etc.
    Date: 1907
    Description: 23 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm [price list and index laid in, dated February 1907]
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: M.D. Anderson Library at University of Houston

• Boughton & Terwilliger (New York, NY) [subsidiary of John W. Boughton, Philadelphia]
  • Wood carpet and parquet floors, wainscots and ceilings ...
    Date: 188-?
    Description: 50 pages illustrations 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Harry Ransom Library at University of Texas

  • Boughton & Terwilliger, manufacturers of parquetry, (wood carpet), for floors, wainscots, walls and ceilings : wholesale and retail.
    Copyright 1886
    Description: 31 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • Parquet floors.
    Date: 1892?
    Description: 31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley

• E.B. Moore and Co. (subsidiary of John W. Boughton)
  • E.B. Moore and Co. manufacturers of parquet floors.
    Copyright 1893
    Description: 44, [4] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University, University of Minnesota

• Interior Hardwood Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  • Book of Designs, Ornamental Parquet Floors and Borders, 5th Ed.
    Date: 19--
    Description: 24 pages, [1] pages of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Indiana Historical Society
    I put the entry here, as this is the 5th Ed, and it should be before the 9th Ed.

  • Book of Designs, Ornamental Parquet Floors and Borders, 9th Ed.
    Date: 1892
    Description: 24 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Alternate OCLC: Ornamental parquet floors and borders : book of designs
    Libraries: Columbia University, Indiana Historical Society
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University, Indiana Historical Society, Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin

  • Book of Designs, Ornamental Parquet Floors and Borders, 19th Ed.
    Date: 1892
    Description: 21 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University
    I would think this is really the 9th Ed.

  • Design Book. Parquet Floors and Borders
    Date: circa 1895
    Description: 1 volume (loose-leaf) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 16 x 26 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University
    Is this the same as the book with the same year and two entries in Archive.org? Just unbound? I think so, but the lack of a page count here holds back the match. Also that book shows 1903 on the cover and is cataloged as 1895.

• Wood-Mosaic Co. (Rochester, NY)
  • Some designs in parquetry ...
    Copyright 1891
    Description: 15 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hugh M Morris Library, University of Delaware

  • Parquetry: description and catalogue
    Date: 1893
    Description: [2] pages, [10] leaves of plates, [4] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: The Strong

  • Parquetry: description and catalogue
    Date: 1893?
    Description: [6] pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 36 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • Parquetry.
    Date: 1898
    Description: 16 pages, 15 leaves of plates, 4 pages : illustrations, plates (including 1 folded plan) ; 35 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Princeton University, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Rochester Public Library

  • Illustrative and descriptive catalogue and price list of parquetry : hardwood flooring of every kind
    Date: 1901
    Description: 32 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: none

  • Illustrative and descriptive catalogue and price list of parquetry.
    Date: 1905
    Description: 32 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Rochester Public Library

  • Wood-mosaic flooring
    Copyright 1908
    Description: 15 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

  • [Trade catalogs on Wood-Mosaic flooring and finish : plain and ornamental hardwood flooring, hardwood floors, wood-carpet, parquetry borders, flooring strips ...].
    Date: 1908-
    Description: <2> volumes : illustrations (some color)
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Smithsonian Institution Libraries: American History Trade Literature Collection

  • Wood-mosaic floors ...
    Copyright 1912
    Description: 31 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: University of Delaware

  • Wood-mosaic hardwood floors.
    Description: 3 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

• Wood-Mosaic Company (New Albany, Indiana)
  • Wood-mosaic flooring
    Copyright 1914
    Description: 15 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Athenaeum of Philadelphia

• S.C. Johnson Wax. (Racine, WI)
  • Parquetry flooring.
    Copyright 1895
    Description: 18 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Cleveland Public Library, Wisconsin Historical Society

  • Ornamental hardwood floors: parquetry, borders, strips, floor finishes, weighted brushes
    Copyright 1901
    Description: 24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28/29 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page and WorldCat page
    Libraries: Hagley, Columbia University, Yale, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, New York State Library, University of Maine at Orono, Cleveland Public Library, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

• Wilke Manufacturing Company (Anderson, Indiana)
  • Fine hardwood floors and parquetry.
    Date: 1904
    Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color), plan ; 11 x 13 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Columbia University

• Bostwick-Goodell Co. (Norwalk, Ohio)
  • "B-B" plain and ornamental hardwood floors: made only by the Bostwick-Goodell Co.
    Date: 1907
    Description: 23 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 11 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, John Peace Library at University of Texas at San Antonio

• Lanham Hardwood Flooring Company (Louisville, KY)
  • Border and field designs for parquetry floors
    Date: 1915
    Description: 16 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
    OCLC: WorldCat page
    Libraries: Baker Library at Harvard Business School, John Peace Library at University of Texas at San Antonio

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Found on eBay (where most of these can be found for sale):

1888
S.C. Johnson,
Racine, Wis.

1891
S.C. Johnson,
Racine, Wis.

1893
Wood-Mosaic Co. &
National Wood Mfg. Co.

1894
Parquet Floors,
J.W. Vanderwerf

1890s
Chas. B. Wells ad
for their floor
department.

1899
Jno. A. Smithe ad
for their Artistic Grille Work.
Also for parquet floors
and wood carpet.

1908
Hollis Brothers

1918
Stevens & Adams,
London, UK

Other Prints

• PARQUETRY DESIGN by DAMMAN & Co. 1910
  Size: 14-1/6" × 16-1/8"
  For sale at The Bookpress, Ltd.

  

• Parquet-Floor-Design-Ornament-Plate 15-Daly-Spiegel-1877
  Overall size: 25" × 17.7"
  For sale at The Prints Collector

  

• Aug. Lachappelle Bord. No. 43