Founded in 1856, the Toby Furniture Company became a leader in handmade furniture production by the last decade of the nineteenth century. General manager George Clingman hired Joseph Twyman, an Englishman, in 1896. Twyman had been a designer for William Morris and worked extensively in the Arts & Crafts style. By 1902 the company, working with Twyman, had established a "William Morris Room" or line of Arts & Crafts goods that included new Toby designs for furniture and accessories as well as textiles and wallpapers by Morris. In the next year, 1903, Toby introduced a line of Mission furniture as well. In 1903 Twyman founded The William Morris Society in Chicago. Ed.

This is a photocopy of an undated Tobey Furniture Co. catalog.