Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 339
connection between rocking chairs and cradles is suggestive of theorigin of the rocking chair. An Englishman of our acquaintance statedthat his mother bounced back and forth as she fondled him in a chair withoutrockers, whose posts were worn in a rounded form as a consequence. Rockersseem to have… … lid -^ I.A. ,« r A PANELED Cradle of Beech. It is in the Branford, Connecticut,Public Library. The cradle belongs to the Plant family, from the MillPlain District of the town. It has been traced back to Jonathan Barker,born 1705. The sides are not quite vertical, and the head, in this form, isnot…
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