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Object Name |
Chair, Side |
Caption |
Wooden side chair |
Description |
Wooden side chair with solid & lyre design back and round leather covered seat. Veneer finish on back. Double rungs. Leather secured with tacks. One of a matched set of chairs. Made by Buckstaff-Edwards Co., Oshkosh, WI. The Buckstaff Company began in 1850 when John Buckstaff moved to Oshkosh from New Brunswick, Canada to found one of the city’s first sawmills. The planks and shingles that came from that helped build the early city, which was in a lumber-funded growth spurt. The John Buckstaff Sawmill was followed by John Buckstaff and Sons Co., Buckstaff Brothers and Chase, Buckstaff-Edwards Company, and Buckstaff Company. Fires slowed expansion. The first major blaze on January 30, 1886 destroyed the new casket factory building begun in 1883. Also lost that day was a significant part of the chair plant, begun in 1882 after an investment by Richard Edwards, half-namesake of the company’s ‘Buckstaff and Edwards’ era. The company rebuilt the lost buildings to be larger, modern, and more fire-resistant. A second blaze on January 15, 1891 destroyed the paint shop and a stock warehouse after an employee attempted to extinguish a match in a metal can of benzene on the factory floor. |
Catalog Number |
1988-1907-005 |
Search Terms |
Chairs Buckstaff & Edwards Co., Oshkosh, WI |
Subjects |
Chairs |