Making the Case for Sweet's: The architect's view

I've had a recurring interest in Sweet's. I've recently discovered that the old volumes of Architectural Record are up on Archive.org. Before the Architectural Record Co. released Sweet's they published a series of articles about the problems of catalogues. Here's the architect's view from February 1905 (Volume 17):

Check Architectural Record for February 1905 (Volume 17). Volume 18 contains some interesting information, perhaps to prepare for the introduction of Sweet's:








http://www.archive.org/details/architecturalrec17newyuoft