Mattress Collection

The Movings, 1822. Creator: Louis Leopold Boilly
The Movings, 1822

Poilus making mattresses, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Poilus making mattresses, between c1915 and c1918. French soldiers making mattresses during World War I.

Nudity with man and woman; Intercourse scene, 1572-1602. Creator: Agostino Carracci
Nudity with man and woman; Intercourse scene, 1572-1602

Captain Urquhart experimenting with his Life-Preserving Raft on the Thames, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Captain Urquhart experimenting with his Life-Preserving Raft on the Thames, [in London] 1858. A craft, attracting attention by its singular appearance

Ruins of the Church and the House of General Chassé, 1832, (1833). Creator: Auguste Raffet
Ruins of the Church and the House of General Chasse, 1832, (1833). On the right in the foreground a group of soldiers carrying mattresses

Barrel furniture, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Barrel furniture, 1904

Mattress-making, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mattress-making, 1904

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro... c. 1794)
Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)", Japan, c. 1794

Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro... c. 1794)
Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)", Japan, c. 1794

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees)

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacramento, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacramento, California. The boy has dysentery

Cotton camp near Exeter, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton camp near Exeter, California. The woman is a native of California

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, Northern Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. Northern Florida

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, North Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida

Descending Geese at the Rice Fields (Tanbo no rakugan) and Evening Bell of the Mornin... 19th cent
Descending Geese at the Rice Fields (Tanbo no rakugan) and Evening Bell of the Morning After (Kinuginu no bansho), from the series "Eight Views of Figures Inside and Outside

Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tens of thousands in good times and bad move ceaselessly from place to place in order to eke out a living following the crops of California

Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus... near Tifton, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus which they employ at seasonal peaks

The Crocker Co. Mattress Factory, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
The Crocker Co. Mattress Factory, between c1900 and c1930

Burning the Farm of a Treacherous Burgher, 1901. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville II
Burning the Farm of a Treacherous Burgher, 1901. During Peace talks of February 1901, Kitchner declared he would stop his troops burning farms if Louis Botha instructed the Boers to stop using them

Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century. Artist: Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna
Painting, title unknown, mid 19th century

African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902
African American students in mattress-making class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1902. [Young women learning upholstery and soft furnishing]

Students making and upholstering barrel furniture, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902
Students making and upholstering barrel furniture, 1902. [Young black women learning upholstery and soft furnishing]

Just arrived from Kansas, on highway going to potato... near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939
Just arrived from Kansas. On highway going to potato harvest. Near Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. [Father changing tyre. Mattress tied onto side of truck]

Migratory family, come to Klamath Basin for potato harvest... Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
Migratory family, come to Klamath Basin for potato harvest, moving into tent in the new mobile unit. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Tents are provided. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, US99, between Tulare and Fresno, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Between Tulare and Fresno. Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, on U.S. 99. Started out from Fresno that morning for work cotton chopping

Migratory cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California

Setting up a tent in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Walker Evans
Setting up a tent in the camp for white flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas

The Hydropaths: Third Treatment (plate 3), 1843. Creator: Charles Emile Jacque
The Hydropaths: Third Treatment (plate 3), 1843

Shaker Bed, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Elbert S. Mowery
Shaker Bed, 1935/1942

Futon Cover (Futonji), Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Futon Cover (Futonji), Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century

Futon Cover, Japan. Creator: Unknown
Futon Cover, Japan

The Oiran Hinazuru of Chojiya Standing upon a Pile of Futon, ca. 1794

A Bed Matt or a Door Matt, Cries of London, (c1688?)
A Bed Matt or a Door Matt, (c1688?). A bed and door mat seller, with two different types of mat, attached to a long pole carried on his shoulder. From Cries of London, (c1688?)

Enforcing prohibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 1920s. Law enforcement agents examining at a cache of 191 pint bottles found underneath a sailors mattress on a steamer putting in at Norfolk, Virginia

Saki, the housekeeper sleeps on a mattress with hard pillow under a quilted kimono, c1900, (1921). From Mysterious Japan, by Julian Street. [Doubleday, Page & Company, New York & Toronto, 1921]

The Swan, Goose and Duck, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Swan, Goose and Duck, c1850. The central image is of the three different birds. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

Domestic Fowl, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Domestic Fowl, c1850. The central image shows a cockerel, hens and chicks. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

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