Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 196
as receptacles forthe skeins of wool from which the handy house-wife fashioned the family wearing apparel. Such chests were an intimate part of the homelife in those early times, and viewing their quaint-ness it is not hard to picture the scenes of whichthey were a part, when the house mother, in…
Architecture, Colonial · Furniture
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