Model for a Railroad Sleeping Car
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Wood, metal, textiles, painted canvas
DATES
Patented November 23, 1869
DIMENSIONS
22 1/4 x 30 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. (56.5 x 76.5 x 32.7 cm)
MARKINGS
Seemingly unmarked
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.89
CREDIT LINE
H. Randolph Lever Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Model for railroad sleeping car, open front and sides, three windows in back, the whole on a thick wooden base and covered with a slightly curving wooden roof; interior with two platform beds and three benches. Front: either side, single wooden turned column, attached to roof and base. Rear: cut out of three square windows; above, a narrow white and red geometric scroll pattern wallpaper border. Exterior and windows with applied, narrow, wooden, decorative, wavy beading, attached with small metal pins. Interior of roof with polychrome scroll wallpaper.
Interior: suspended from ceiling with thin metal poles, two horizontal platform beds, one above each other, and each platform bed with conforming, upholstered raised pile wool (?) textile sleeping pad. Beneath: three long benches, two facing each other, the third facing to one open wall; each with conforming upholstered bench pad and back in a raised wool (?) pile textile with glazed cotton backing (?). Benches attached to base with pressed (?) metal gold colored legs. Upholstered textile reversible.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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