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.
Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 to about 1927. The company sold school supplies, books, and school furniture.
Framed hand colored map of the United States published in John Hayward’s Gazetteer of the United States of America in 1853. States from the eastern portion of the United States, an overly large Minnesota, and western territories are delineated prior to the Gadsden Purchase (1854) but after the Mexican-American War (1848) as seen in the border for New Mexico and Arizona. Large western areas are labeled Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, California, New Mexico, Texas, and an area listed with Indian tribal nations and a more general Indian Territory. The map mentions several Indian tribes, and migration routes such as John C. Fremont's route, the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Spanish Mission Road. Mormon Settlements in Utah and John Bropy Rancho are also noted.
John Hayward (1781-1862) was a publisher of several “Gazetteers” of the New England region and the United States, travel guides and 2 books on religion: Religious Creeds of the United States and of the British Providences (1837) and Book of Religions (1842). He was born and worked in Boston as well as in Hartford, Connecticut and was active circa 1828-1860.
