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Examples of household taste (1875)

Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 130

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, people contented themselves with cheap lodgings; but as soon asrents began to fall, they moved to as fashionable quarters as the same amount INDUSTRIAL ART. ii5 of rental would procure. Then we hear the cry that the cost of living is stillas great as it ever was, when the truth is that the cost… … Silver Casket, Erhard 6^ Sons, Germany. unknown to cer-tain classeswerebought with ea-gerness whenmoney wasplenty, and whenthalers becamescarce the de-mand, though ina lesser degree,continued. Theresult is readily

Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · Decorative arts

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