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Colonial homes and their furnishings (1912)

Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 156

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e first broughtto this country in 1735, though, owing to theirexpensiveness, they were not used to any extentuntil many years later. The frugal housewife pre-ferred to paint the walls either in soft gray tones,with a mixture of gray clay and water, or withyellow paint, ornamented with a… … Plate XL. — Cupid and Psyche paper, SafFord House.

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