See more objects with the color lightslategrey silver or see all the colors for this object.

Object Timeline

1993

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2024

  • You found it!

Drawing, The National Supply Company

This is a Drawing. It was firm: Henry Dreyfuss Associates. We acquired it in 1993. Its medium is graphite, color pencil on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This is one of a group of drawings proposed for acquisition that document work by the Dreyfuss firm during the postwar years, for clients including Royal Typewriter (1944–45), New York Central Railroad (mid-1940s), RCA (1946–55), National Supply Co. (1949–58), and Cities Service (1951–62).
A number of the finished drawings correspond to prototypes or other documentation held in Cooper-Hewitt’s Dreyfuss archives, including those for RCA radio/phonograph and television consoles, and two beautiful drawings for Bell Telephone Laboratories of public phone booths.

It is credited Gift of John Bruce.

Its dimensions are

(irregular): 35.7 × 61.7 cm (14 1/16 × 24 5/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, The National Supply Company; Firm: Henry Dreyfuss Associates (United States); graphite, color pencil on tracing paper; (irregular): 35.7 × 61.7 cm (14 1/16 × 24 5/16 in.); Gift of John Bruce; 1993-65-45

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

For higher resolution or commercial use contact ArtResource.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18646557/ |title=Drawing, The National Supply Company |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=25 April 2024 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>