Historical Perspective: Cataloging’s Early Years

We used 19-by-25-inch pads of tracing tissue for the comprehensive layouts (“comps”). We also used tracing tissue with faint outlines of catalog-spread borders, along with dashed lines of the type border and pagination boxes for our “roughs.” This helped each department allocate space for its products when submitting them, with pasted-on product clips, to our division for layouts.