Charles P. Rogers & Co. is proud to have been in the bed and bedding business for over 156 years serving generations of loyal customers. During that time we’ve seen many competitors and industry partners come and go. To preserve the storied history of our company we have made an effort to purchase and collect as many Charles P. Rogers historical documents as we could locate including catalogs, brochures, product labels, and copies of newspaper and magazine ads that would have otherwise eventually disappeared.

During the process of collecting company information, we also began to amass a large collection of other bed and bedroom-centric materials. We love the bed business and are interested in the historical past of our industry, design trends, and advertising campaigns. We began to aquire antique bed catalogs, mattress advertisements, book covers, images and anything related to beds and mattresses, even if not related directly to our company.

We are in the process of digitizing this large collection and will be hosting this archive of hard to find, unique bed and bedding ephemera. Some of the items are matter of fact, such as design drafts and basic catalogs, while other items are humorous and some border on the seriously bawdy. We are presenting this material within its historical or social context and hope it will be understood as part of the evolution of advertising and promotion within the bedding industry. We will continue to add reference materials as it becomes available. We hope within a short time to be the webs largest repository of historical bedding materials.

 

To browse the archive click on any category below:

 

Bed Catalogs
Bed Drawings and Designs
Bed Themed Postcards (slightly risque!)
Charles P. Rogers Advertising
Famous People in Bed
Mattress Catalogs

Bed Themed Pulp Fiction Covers (caution! bawdy)
Miscellaneous Bed Materials

 

 

 

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