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Furniture of the olden time (1913)

Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 108

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was the difterence in their construction wedo not know.Cupboards weremade, during thelatter part ofthe eighteenthcentury, of ma-hogany and otherwoods, and suchcorner cup-boards, made asa piece of furni-ture and not builtinto the house,were c o m m o nin the SouthernStates, about1800. The cor-ner… … 86 Furniture of the Olden Time large chimney also, by making the sides into smallclosets or cupboards, and occasionally a door withglass panes was set into the chimney above themantel, with shelves behind it to hold glass or china. While the New England inventories speak of cup-boards, the word…

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