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but now came a change with Herter Brothers a german   house and Cattier & Co. an English House came new Ideas and very old   Ideas revived which still continue -    after Baudouines business was given up in 1855-56 I went west to   Milwaukee Wis St. Louis Mo and finally to New Orleans  at New Orleans I worked for Sampson & Keene in Bienville near Royal   Street a furniture Store who mostly got their suply from Henry Weil in New   York, they in turn sent me to the St. Charles Hotel on their account repairing   furniture were I"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c549f8e1-79eb-4438-8db1-e56a71117b95/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2540,"width":1718,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bdee9d64-6172-44a1-b5e0-886f384ae8aa/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bdee9d64-6172-44a1-b5e0-886f384ae8aa","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2540,"width":1718},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"spent the winter returning to New York in the Early Spring 1858 by way of   Havana    I now formed a partnership under the name of Meier & Hagen with my old   friend and shop mate Mathew Meier and bought out our old Employer A.   Dohrmann keeping it up at the old place 106 Norfolk St the outlook was not   very bright, - we worked ourselve at the bench with 2 or 3 hired men and   could hardly make as much as our men which was about 1 Dollar a day after   defraying shop expenses, we economized were we could and held on hoping   for a good time to come, we worked mostly for the trade suplying the   furniture stores who paid very poorly and had to wait a long time to get it   and also lost some pretty large bills alltogether by failures"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bdee9d64-6172-44a1-b5e0-886f384ae8aa/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2560,"width":1731,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6bc80439-0fde-409d-b157-8d49f9b3c961/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6bc80439-0fde-409d-b157-8d49f9b3c961","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2560,"width":1731},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"we made a specialty of Extension dining table, and our tables being   somewhat better than those in the market at that time we soon were known   to the better kind of trade and sold to the Broadway houses but by mere   accident we got a private trade among some of the old New York familys   who lived on the lower Second Avenue at that time ourselve - there was a   fire a block away from our shop were a lot of Mahogany Chairs were   damaged and Mr Wm Hibbard the President of the Bowery fire Insurance   Company had them sent to our shop to be repaired - the work was   satisfactory he recommended us to all his friends and so we got in with the   Winthrops, Folsums, Chanler, Branson, Andrews Appletons and other   familys at once Mr Benjamin R. 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Christian Schwarzwaelder was the most prominent and respectable of the   Chatam Square dealers he done a considerable trade and also had a good   West India export trade and paid very promtly (crossed out: and never took a   receipt for any payment made) and was very sucesfull.    [drawing of a chest of drawers] this is a “lyre front bureau” one of the   attractions of Chatham Square they were all veneered Mahogany and had   turned wooden knobs 3 small drawers above and 3 below these bureaus, the   box Sofas and the ¾ french Chairs all veneered Mahogany were the regular   stock  [drawing of a sofa] a plain “box Sofa” so called from the fact that the Spring   seat is upolstered in a wooden box and can be taken out, the also made them   very elaborate with small fronts and lots of Carving"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8b6a2bbd-73e2-4272-a252-0b2243b3d1a7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":2594,"width":1718,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5be6a644-0541-45b4-8bab-ec608525aec7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5be6a644-0541-45b4-8bab-ec608525aec7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2594,"width":1718},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"1864  Ingersoll & Watson  11 Bowery   Degraaf & Taylor  141 Bowery  Fred Krutina  96 Houston St    1880  Kilian Bros  157 West 32nd St  Lann & Saile  30 West 12th St."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5be6a644-0541-45b4-8bab-ec608525aec7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":2533,"width":1738,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cd1a2d1f-b091-4b73-8b61-18a15565688e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cd1a2d1f-b091-4b73-8b61-18a15565688e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2533,"width":1738},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The furniture coverings for this furniture was mostly hair cloth, but   eventually changed off to green “reps”, and the reason why most of the old   Sofas and Chairs of this period are so very narrow in seat is because the   wide hair Cloth was very expensive and the narrow Cloth comparatively   cheap.  38 in Hair Cloth made of horses hair was worth above 3 ½ Dollars a   yard. and 15 inch Cloth about 40 Cents pr yard.  the only remaining furniture   house of the olden times on Chatam Square at present (1908) is   “Cowpertwaite” whis is established over a hundred years in the same place   as seen by the old New York Directory, but they were at that time only   making “Windsor Chairs” with cane seats painted in yellow and other gaudy   Colors with gilt rings on the posts and legs and bunches of flowers and fruit   and backs"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cd1a2d1f-b091-4b73-8b61-18a15565688e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":2560,"width":1711,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/41ce38dd-cd3d-483d-b4e2-86dc9771de93/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/41ce38dd-cd3d-483d-b4e2-86dc9771de93","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2560,"width":1711},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"there were other furniture Concerns on the East Side of the town, like   Degraaf & Taylor on the Bowery, Fred. 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October 1908    Being born in the City of Hamburg in Germany on Sept 8. 1830 – We came   to New York.  June 22 1844 after a passage of 47 days in a small german   sailing vessel - a year later father indentured me to a party of german   Cabinet makers (Krieg & Dohrmann) located at #106 Norfolk Street, near   the present terminal of the Delancy Street bridge - that part of the town was   at that time very different from what it is now, there were but few jews there   then although we had only Cobble stone pavement with brick sidewalks - no   sewers - whale oil street lamps, and had to go to next corner pump for   drinking water, there were nice american familys living there in 2 story and   attic brick houses some of which were quite ornate with carved brown stone   lintels over the windows and and very ornamental front door entrances with   columns on the side with carved caps with fancy circular transom top and   side sashes and they all had gardens in the back yards, some people who   became"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ba7206f5-791d-472f-8f29-c7c0e21ab53e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2615,"width":1738,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20f33aa9-0647-4d1d-b9b2-420163e3a2b2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20f33aa9-0647-4d1d-b9b2-420163e3a2b2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2615,"width":1738},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"became quite prominent in Society lived right near us for instance the family   of the late Frederic Tappan lived in 134 Rivington Street between Norfolk   and Suffolk Street - (crossed out: William Moeller of the Sugar house firm   had a grocery store on our corner) - William Tilden of the varnish firm of   Tilden and Blodgett lived between Norfolk and Essex on #126 Rivington   Street and had their factory at corner of Norfolk Street (crossed out: and the   Bloodgets lived next door;) with the incoming of the large german   Emigration all these people moved away gradually and a Colony of german   mechanics took their place, there were Cabinet makers shops sawmills and   marblemills everywhere these Cabinet makers supplied the furniture stores   with their products as there was no furniture coming from the west as it does   now, but much of it was sent out west - a great deal went South to New   Orleans and also to the west india Islands"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20f33aa9-0647-4d1d-b9b2-420163e3a2b2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2567,"width":1731,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bc31b07e-086c-4b70-9cab-1d68a84de68e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bc31b07e-086c-4b70-9cab-1d68a84de68e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2567,"width":1731},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the work was all done by hand, but the Scroll sawing of course was done at   the nearest saw mill, the Employers (Boss Cabinet makers) having no   machinery at all, the moldings were bought from molding mills and the   turning at the turning mills, the hardware lock, hinges and bolts and ect  was   mostly imported from Germany, the journey men Cabinet Makers had to   suply their own workbenches, and all the tools, they had only wood stoves in   the shops and no steam heating whatever the work at that time was mostly   Mahogany (1845) there was some rosewood coming into fashion then, but   no walnut and very little oak, amongst the prominent Cabinet makers of the   East side was Henry Weil who had a large shop on Essex near Rivington   Street sent most of his goods to New Orleans he died rich leaving a fortune   of about 4 Millions"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bc31b07e-086c-4b70-9cab-1d68a84de68e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2560,"width":1738,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09df9c89-1c41-474d-aafc-d9a1b29b7a0e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09df9c89-1c41-474d-aafc-d9a1b29b7a0e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2560,"width":1738},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"he made and shipped those ugly heavy mahogany veneered high post   Bedsteads of which you find so many in the south, also large mahogany   wardrobes, dressing bureaus and other large case work, Geo Ebbinghausen   had a shop on Attorney Street, he done a considerable business for a time his   work was rather better then Weils, but he finally failed dying poor -   Attorney Street which is 12 blocks east of the Bowery and runs parallel with   it was quite a centre for the small Cabinet makers then, Wenzels saw mill   was located there and the Cabinet Makers seemed to cluster around it, there   are none there now it is all built up with 6 Story tenements all filled with   jews no Christian could live there anymore but in the time from about 1840   to 1865 a great deal of furniture"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/09df9c89-1c41-474d-aafc-d9a1b29b7a0e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2560,"width":1738,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c62d171-4fa2-49d7-8963-facb6baac194/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c62d171-4fa2-49d7-8963-facb6baac194","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2560,"width":1738},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"was made there which is now sold for antique to such as don’t know any   better; the small shops that employed say from 2 to 6 men generally made a   speciality of one piece only, some made those veneered box Sofas [drawing   of a sofa] and sold them to the Dealers in the rough frames, others made   french Bedsteads only [drawing of detail] others made bureaus but would   not make the glass frames for them which was a branch for it self, some   would make high bookcases with secretary draps, there were no low   bookcases made at all that time, others made those Lyre cardtables only   [drawing of a lyre card table] some would make those heavy centre tables of   which you see in the antique stores now [drawing of a heavy center table]   with drop leafes a great many shops made what was then called “three   quarter french Chairs” [drawing of a chair] they were all the style at that   time, the “full french Chair” which was about the same but had a round back   [drawing of a chair back labeled “section”] and being more expensive"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3c62d171-4fa2-49d7-8963-facb6baac194/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2547,"width":1718,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5f90242-7960-4e76-beb3-36cf513b9231/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5f90242-7960-4e76-beb3-36cf513b9231","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2547,"width":1718},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"going out of style this is about 1855, then they began to make what was   called the “sweep back” Chair about the shape of [drawing of a chair] this   rough Sketch with various changes from the plain smooth frames with more   or less carved ornaments added to it — in 1853 I left my old Employers in   Norfolk Street and after working for several other shops on Broadway got a   job with Chas A. Baudouine at the corner of Broadway and Anthony   (Worth) Street with whom I stayed about 2 years Baudouine’s was at this   time the leading Cabinet Maker of New York. he employed about 70   Cabinet makers, including upholsterers carvers and varnishers nearly 200   hands all told, he was a self made man beginning in a small shop in Pearl   Street on a Capital of 300 Dollars which he got from his wife who had a   small Millinary shop on Pearl Street, when he retired he lived"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e5f90242-7960-4e76-beb3-36cf513b9231/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2588,"width":1738,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58300b7e-0821-4c6f-aa96-b9ba917e570f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58300b7e-0821-4c6f-aa96-b9ba917e570f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2588,"width":1738},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"1846 John H. Belter        Cabinet maker 372 Broadway  1855 Alexander Roux. Cabt Maker        479 Broadway  1855 Charles A. Baudouine furniture (Baudouine)     355 Broadway      (pronounced as Bodine)  in 1846  351 Broadway  in 1848  351    “  1855   Belter Broadway 547  Belter Chair [drawing of a chair]  Roux Chair [drawing of a chair]    Miss Ann Postly – miliner Pearl Street      near Broadway    Wm Hibbard president Bowery fire Insurance  Hobe & Son tables 484 Broadway 1855"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58300b7e-0821-4c6f-aa96-b9ba917e570f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2567,"width":1725,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/73ee6cc3-c96e-44d3-9159-d38baa24f6ac/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/73ee6cc3-c96e-44d3-9159-d38baa24f6ac","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2567,"width":1725},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5e734a16-8f7e-4060-832e-1af30f78df11/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in about 1860 or so  on 5th Avenue S.W. corner of 56th Street, and drove a 4 in hand Coach, when   he died he left a fortune of between 4 and 5 Millions the “Baudouine   building” corner 28th Street and Broadway belongs to his Estate - the work   produzed in his shop consisted mostly of the gaudy over ornate carved   rosewood furniture although some oak and some mahogany was used,   Baudouine was of french decend born in this City and spoke french fluently,   he was a tall Gentleman looking like an Army officer - he went to france   every year and imported a great deal of french furniture and upholstery   coverings, french locks and other hardware used in his shop, among the   other furniture which he made were those gaudy heavily carved rosewood   parlour suits with round perforated backs generally known a “Belter   furniture” from the original inventor of them who had his shop near by.    John H. Belter who had a patent on the round hollow backs"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/73ee6cc3-c96e-44d3-9159-d38baa24f6ac/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3a199266-7dd4-471f-80b2-6d16665e3e46/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}