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Utility Furniture Catalogue issued by the Board of Trade, 1943
The museums' library and archive contains general and specialist publications on the history of the domestic interior which can be accessed by prior arrangment with the Curatorial department. These include trade catalogues from 1760 to the present day, an archive relating to the East London furniture industry, the library collection on furniture formerly at Shoreditch Library, which was passed to the Geffrye in 2001, and collections of household manuals and periodicals.
The museum also retains and collects an extensive resource of representations of domestic interiors; a collection of domestic inventories which include original documents, a number of interior decoration surveys and supporting material such as oral histories. There is also an extensive garden history archive and publications about London almshouses.
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