Visualizing 19th-Century New York Digital Publication

From the fine furnishings of Broadway’s French- and German-born cabinetmakers to the mass-produced goods of working-class, immigrant-run establishments on the Lower East Side, then called Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), the parlor furniture trade played an important role in mid-nineteenth-century New York. This rosewood center table and side chair illustrate the Victorian predilection for combining European historical styles, with its Jacobean-style turnings and lion’s-paw feet.

— Martina D’Amato