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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 62

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The nursing-chair, as in the margin,is, from its low seat, already eagerlyoccupied by the first comer. Therockers, being sawed across the grain,have a tendency to crack or break shortoff; but by lowering the back part of … the seat, an inch or two, and makingthe back more upright, lengthening therocker behind, and, prolonging the side- pieces of the bottom, halting them withthe back-pieces, until they fit into theback-tips of the rockers, a much strongerand easier chair is produced. There yet remains the Yankee…

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