I'd like to buy F C Taylor catalogs from 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921.

I'm writing a book about author Sterling North's book "Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era," published in 1963, about his raising a pet raccoon in 1918, which also became a Disney movie in 1969, and a popular Japanese anime in 1977. There's a plot point in the book and anime about a catalog from a St. Louis company. Sterling is trying to make money in order to build his canoe, He plans to trap muskrats to raise the money.

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During the afternoon my elation slowly subsided, and I began oiling my muskrat traps for the season ahead. Rascal was always interested in whatever I was doing. But when he came to sniff and feel the traps, a terrible thought slowed my fingers. Putting my traps aside I opened one of the catalogues sent to trappers by the St. Louis fur buyers. There, in full color, on the very first page was a handsome raccoon, his paw caught in a powerful trap.


I'd like to figure out which catalog this was. I'm assuming F. C. Taylor. I'd like pictures for my book, and I may donate the catalog to the Sterling North Museum in Edgerton, Wisconsin as well.

F. C. Taylor did have ads like this:

FC Taylor 1918 ad raccoon in trap.jpg
Last edited by JohnF; 04/02/23 09:13 AM.