The art of decorating dry goods windows and interiors

by L. Frank Baum

• A
• Allegorical Design, [139]
• Arrangement of Goods, [23]
• Arch, Construction, [41]
  • of Handkerchiefs, [81]
  • Odd Fellows, [233]
  • Street Fair, [163]
• Art Goods Display, [276]
• Artistic Drapings, [48]
• Astronomical Display, [101]
• Autumn Leaves, [151]
• B
• Backgrounds, Material for, [26]
  • Standard, [36]
  • Stock, [35]
  • Open, [39]
  • to Prepare, [35]
• Barrel-Hoop Fixtures, [42]
• Bicycle Float, [171]
• Blankets, [151]
• Blanket Displays, [286]
• Box Models, [152]
• Box Pleating, [35]
• Boxing a Window, [10]
• Brooklyn Bridge, [238]
• Brushes for Card Writing, [55]
• Business Windows, [146]
• Butterfly, Mechanical, [110]
• C
• Care of Wax Figures, [145]
• Cardboard, [55]
• Card Writing, [53]
• Cause of Frosted Windows, [11]
• Cheesecloth, Use of, [26]
• Chiffon, [148]
• Christmas Displays, [144]
  • Eve, [209]
  • Mantel, [198]
  • Tree, [135]
• Clearing Sales, [146]
• Cleopatra’s Barge, [170]
• Clever Illusions, [84]
• Clock Motors, [87]
• Color Charts, [24]
  • Harmony, [22]
• Coloring Electric Lamps, [113]
• Combination Drapery, [29]
• Compound Colors, to Make, [54]
• Contra-revolving Pillows, [88]
• Cornucopia, [221]
• Corset Displays, [237], [272]
  • Fixtures, [43]
• Cozy Corner, [220]
• Costume Displays, [311]
• Cotton Goods Display, [285]
• Crepe Paper Backgrounds, [150]
• Cylinder, Revolving, [103]
• D
• Department Managers, [147]
• Detail in Decorating, [14]
• Doll Displays, [200]
• Draping, Combination, [30]
  • Dress Goods, [44]
  • Fleur-de-lis, [51]
  • How to Make, [28]
  • Plain, [29]
  • Stands for, [44]
• Dress Goods Displays, [301]
  • Standards, [44]
• E
• Easter Bouquets, [152]
  • Crosses, [185]
  • Displays, [179]
  • Eggs, [185]
  • Emblems, [142], [181]
  • Lilies, [179]
  • Lilies, Mechanical, [186]
  • Rabbits and Chicks, [185]
• Edges, Puffed, [33]
• Egg, Mechanical, [111]
• Electric Arcs and Incandescents, [119]
  • Automatic Switch, [126]
  • Batteries, [116]
  • Christmas Tree, [135]
  • Commutator, [123]
  • Connections, [121]
  • Emblems, [141]
  • Fans, [13]
  • Feeders, [120]
  • Fountain, [128]
  • Flasher, [124]
  • Flags, [127]
  • Fuse, [120]
  • Hitches, [121]
  • Hub Switch, [125]
  • Letters for Signs, [123]
  • Mechanism, [128]
  • Measures, [116]
  • Motors, [85]
  • Resistance, [115]
  • Revolving Effects, [125]
  • Supplies, [118]
  • Tools, [118]
  • Transformers, [120]
  • Voltage, [122]
  • Wiring, [118]
• Electricity in Windows, [113]
• Embroidery Displays, [257], [275]
• Emblems, [141]
• Eruption of Vesuvius, [97]
• Eye for Colors, An, [25]
• F
• Fancy Linens, [276]
• Fan, the Mechanical, [109]
• Festoon Drapery, [29]
• Fireplaces, [151]
• Fixtures, [39]
  • for Corsets, [43]
  • homemade, [40]
• Flannel Display, [304]
• Fleur-de-lis Drapery, [51]
• Floats, [166]
• Flags, [186]
• Floor of Window, to Build, [10]
• Floral Flags, [186]
• Folding Star, Mechanical, [91]
• Fireproof Decorations, [27]
• Fountain, Electric, [128]
  • of Chiffon, [237]
• Fourth of July Displays, [186]
• Framed Forms, [149]
• Framework, to Build, [16]
• Frosted Windows, to Prevent, [11]
• Fur Display, [316]
• G
• Gilding, How to Make, [148]
• Gingham Displays, [300]
• Glass Shelves, to Make, [44]
• Glove Display, [271]
• Gondola, Mechanical, [105]
• Grotto for Santa Claus, [211]
• H
• Half-revealing Bust Stands, [95]
• Handkerchief Displays, [241]
  • Drapings, [72]
  • Racks, [151]
  • to Fold, [72]
• Harmony of Colors, [22]
• Hints and Suggestions, [148]
• Holly, to Trim with, [151]
• Hosiery Displays, [242]
• House of Linens, [150]
• How to Fold Handkerchiefs, [72]
• Human Forms, Use of, [149]
• I
• Icicles, Artificial, [150]
• Illuminations, [148]
• Illusion Windows, [82]
  • Backgrounds, [152]
• Illuminated Electric Fountain, [129]
  • Scenic Background, [129]
  • Octopus, [131]
• Infants’ Wear Displays, [268]
• Instructions in Electricity, [115]
• Interior Arches, [215]
  • Cornucopias, [221]
  • Decorations, [213]
  • Displays, [214]
  • Easter Decorations, [224]
  • Pyramid, [233]
• J
• Jacket Displays, [310]–315
• January Sales, [146]
• July 4th Displays, [186]
• K
• Kaleidoscope, [150]
• Knit Underwear Display, [284]
• %center%L
• Laces, [256]
• Lace Curtains, [258]
• Lattice Work, [39]
• Ledge Displays, [225]
• Letters, Electric, [123]
• Lettering Types, Antique, [62]
  • Block, [61]
  • DeVinne, [57]
  • Egyptian, [59]
  • Figures, [63]
  • Indexes, [64]
  • Initials, [64]
  • Medieval, [62]
  • Modern Roman, [59]
  • Old English, [61]
  • Rapid, [58]
  • Script, [60]
  • Unique, [60]
• Lighting the Window, [112]
• Linen Decorations, [52]
  • Displays, [259]
  • Drapings, [72]
• Lining Displays, [298]
• Lining Show Cards, [54]
• Live Canary Birds, [149]
• M
• Material for Backgrounds, [26]
• Mechanical Butterfly, [109]
  • Displays, [87]
  • Egg, [111]
  • Fan, [108]
  • Panels, [105]
  • Skirt Holder, [91]
  • Ships, [90]
  • Windmill, [91]
• Memorial Day Displays, [186]
• Millinery Arch, [237]
  • Displays, [289]
• Mixing Colors, [54]
• Monograms, [148]
• Moon Effect, [98]
• Moonlight, [137]
• Motors, [85]
  • Speed Reducer for, [86]
• Muslin Underwear Displays, [279]
• N
• Notion Displays, [238]–244
• O
• Octopus, Illuminated, [131]
• Old Oaken Bucket, [152]
• Odd Fellows’ Arch, [233]
• Open Backgrounds, [37]
• Open Window Trimming, [16]
• Onyx Standards, [43]
• Oriental Display, [233]
• Original Street Fair Booths, [170]
• Ornamental Show Cards, [65]
• Outfit Displays, [151]
• P
• Palm Stands, [43]
• Panoramas, [113]–149
• Parade Floats, [174]
• Patriotic Displays, [152]
• Paints for Show Cards, [54]
• Perpetual Motion, [104]
• Pedestals, [42]
• Pen Writing,
• Photographing Windows, [144]
• Planning a Window, [27]
• Pleating, Methods of, [34]
• Post Shelves, [149]
• Potential Force, [115]
• Prisms, Use of, [148]
• Prismatic Display, [152]
• Practical Trims, [240]
• Puffing, Method of, [31]
  • for Headings, [31]
  • Shogran, [32]
• R
• Rainbow, [151]
• Revolving Busts, [95]
  • Cylinder, [103]
  • Stands, [87]
  • Star, [88]
  • Wheel, [94]
• Ribbon Decorations, [149]
  • Displays, [248]
  • Flags, [186]
  • Star, [235]
• Robing Windows, [15]
• Room for the Trimmer, [15]
• Rug Display, [235]–317
• Ruling Show Cards, [54]
• S
• Sand Motors, [86]
• Santa Claus Cave, [213]
  • Grotto, [211]
• Seasons, Float, [168]
• Side Hoops, [149]
• Sign Shop for Stores, [68]
• Sign Marking Outfit, [70]
• Silk Displays, [305]
  • Stands, [44]
• Shirt Waists Displays, [310]
  • to Prepare, [150]
• Show Case Displays, [231]
• Shelving of Glass, [44]
• Sewing Silk Display, [243]
• Screen for Windows, [16]
• Shogran Puffing, [32]
• Shamrocks, to Make, [150]
• Skirt Displays, [236]
  • Stand, [44]
  • Sale, [89]
• Simplicity in Decorating, [14]
• Single Pleating, [34]
• Smocking, [33]
• Snow Storms, [151]
• Spool Cotton Displays, [242]
• Standards, Onyx, [43]
• Standard Framework, [17]
  • Backgrounds, [36]
• Stands for Dress Goods, [44]
• Star, Mechanical, [88]
• Stone Fronts, to Plan, [9]
• Straw Hat Machine, [195]
• Study in Astronomy, [100]
• St. Valentine’s Day, [177]
• Stencils, Use of, [70]
• Spacing Show Cards, [56]
• Speech Makers, [63]
• Speed Reducers, [94]
• Street Fairs, Advantages, [156]
  • Amusements, [160]
  • Details, [160]
  • Object of, [154]
  • Organizing, [157]
  • Success of, [156]
  • Time to Hold, [157]
  • What it is, [152]
• Suspended Stands 149
  • Poles, [152]
• Sunbursts, to Make, [53]
• T
• Table for Card Writing, [53]
• Thanksgiving Displays, [196]
• The Coming Year, Decorations, [222]
• Thistle Flowers of Linens, [52]
• Three Displays at Once, [85]
• Tools to work with, [16]
• Toy Displays, [205]
• Trimming Displays, [235]–247
• Trolley Car, Decorations, [236]
• Trunks and Travelers’ Goods, [319]
• Turkey Made of Linens, [197]
• U
• Umbrellas, [149]
• Umbrella Displays, [266]
• Underwear Displays, [280]
• Upholstery Backgrounds, [28]
• Use of Brushes, [55]
• V
• Valentine’s Day Displays, [177]
• Vanishing Lady, The, [83]
• Volcano Effects, [177]
• W
• Waists, [283]
• Wash Day, [149]
• Wash Goods Displays, [299]
• Washing Windows, Method of, [11]
• Wall Paper for Backgrounds, [151]
• Waterfall, to Make, [152]
• Water Motors, [86]
• Wax Figures, Care of, [145]
• What to Display, [15]
• Windows, to Plan, [27]
  • to Upholster, [28]
• Window Cards, [56]
• Wind Power, [104]
• Windmill, with Electric Effect, [132]
• Winter Scene, [150]
• Words of Advice, [145]
• Workmanship, [14]
• Work Room for Card Writers, [53]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Page	Changed from	Changed to
[33]	form of planting radiating in all directions	form of pleating radiating in all directions
[37]	trips will make a good frame. Any style	strips will make a good frame. Any style
[41]	not obtainable, don’t entertain a	not obtainable, don’t entertain a trimmer
[93]	Then build upright (C, figs. 2 and 2)	Then build upright (C, figs. 2 and 3)
[104]	to be separated by angles of 15 degrees, as	to be separated by angles of 45 degrees, as
[145]	place is thus covered, so that your total exposure	plate is thus covered, so that your total exposure

1. Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.