Chips from the Workshops of the United Crafts

1901

The United Crafts

Although the text in both this catalog and the earlier Chips from the Workshop of Gustave Stickley are identical, this later version featured a number of different photographs of models that were pasted in. A price list in the version of this catalog at the Winterthur library dated June 1901 is consonant with the evolution of the firm from “The Workshop of Gustave Stickley” to the “United Crafts,” a transition that probably occurred in time for the opening of the Buffalo Exposition on May 1, 1901. Stickley’s only published images of his stand at the fair–from the November 1901 issue of The Craftsman–refer to the company as United Crafts.

By as early as June 10, 1901–demonstrated in an advertisement for Marshall Field & Co.that appeared in The Chicago Tribune–the firm had rebranded themselves and was using the name United Crafts to designate their work.

A price list that accompanied this catalog is dated June 1901.