About this collection
The American Encaustic Tiling Company was established in Zanesville, Ohio in 1875. By the 1930s, the company was one of the largest tile manufacturers in the world. The company manufactured art tile, plain and ornamental wall tile, and floor tile.
The Ceramic Mosaic Tile catalog was published in the early twentieth century to showcase and promote American Encaustic Tiling Company floor tile. 71 color plates depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.
The Artistic Tiles catalog features decorated tile, printed tiles, mantel facing tiles, art tiles, and embossed tiles.
For more information, view the catalog records for Ceramic Mosaic Tile and Artistic tiles.
Copyright
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Additional research information
The catalog is housed in Special Collections and Archives at James Branch Cabell Library and is part of the Charles E. Brownell Collection.
Credits
VCU Libraries digitized this collection in 2015 and 2022. In 2015, Digital Specialist Drew Rollo supervised student employees, digitization, and quality control. Student employees Shannon Roulett and Sutisha Simluang assisted with digitization. In 2022, Digital Specialist Katie Condon provided digitization and quality control for an addition to this collection. Metadata Librarian Mary Anne Dyer created the metadata for this digital collection, with updates made by Digital Initiatives Librarian Irina Rogova.
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Artistic tiles
American Encaustic Tiling Co.
A manufacturer's catalog consisting of 89 unnumbered leaves of photographs and illustrations of embossed art tiles, some displayed as surrounding a mantle and some displayed on their own. Details for the tiles are given including size of tiles and assigned numbers, presumably corresponding to their manufacturing number. Included is a drawing of "a modern bathroom," as well as "profiles, of a few of our base, cap, cove, bead, and door trim tiles."
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Ceramic mosaic tile : mounted on paper
American Encaustic Tiling Co.
A manufacturer's catalog consisting of seventy-one color plates which depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.