1908 Koken Barber's Supply Catalog on CD - Barber Chairs, Poles, more

Description

1908 Koken
Barber's Supply Co.
Manufacturers
St. Louis, USA
The Koken name started in 1874  with Ernest Koken selling custom-decorated china shaving mugs.  In the late  19th century, Koken began selling chairs to barbers as a sideline.
Ernest and  partner Louis Boppert began making tonsorial chairs and in 1881 the company  received a patent for the first Koken chair that reclined for shaving.  The  first hydraulic-lift chair was patented in 1892.
When Ernest died in 1907 his son,  Walter, eventually took over.  The company continued to refine it's top of  the line chairs, adding patents for improvements and creating some of the most  magnificent marvels of comfort and engineering imaginable.
This catalog  is one of a few that survived that period.  These pages include some of the  most valuable and classic fixtures of the barber trade.
This catalog contains thousands  of items and hundreds of pictures with prices and descriptions of each.
Items include all kinds of  chairs.  Not just Barbers' Chairs, there are Beauty Parlor chairs, Hair  Bobbin Chairs, Wire and Chiropodists' chairs.
These were the days of the  corner Barber shop where you relaxed, read a magazine while you waited, then  stepped up onto that wonderful plush leather, chrome and porcelain throne, to be  pampered for a brief time.
You could even smoke if you  wanted, there were ash trays built into the arm rests.
Even if you  were lucky enough to own this valuable resource guide, this is an opportunity to  continue use of the information to document your collection and yet, not risk  damage to your original version.
This CD includes Two Hundred(200) pages of American History.
All these pages are scanned   into .pdf files for viewing and/or printing from Windows or Macintosh systems.   A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is included on every CD.
Unlike expensive "Reprints", this Compact disk contains high resolution scanned images which faithfully depict the pages of the Original.