Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 93
a-panned afterthe fashionwhich Hep-p 1 e w h i t emade sopopular, andthe style inwhich thisbedstead isdraped is ex-tremely at-tractive. Itis at IndianHill, theresidence ofthe late Ma-jor Ben Per-ley Poore. The four-p o s t b e d-steads hadsometimes canvas stretched across the frame and laced… … lllus. 47.— Bedstead, 68 Furniture of the Olden Time a bed : It required a mans strength to turn themachine that tightened the ropes, in cording thesebeds when they were put together. Some one wasstationed at each post to keep it upright, while a manwas exhausting his strength and perhaps his…
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