How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 466
Fig. 373.—Window Seat and Book-shelves Combined, Made of Boxes. Fig- 373 shows a Window Seat and Book-shelves Combined,made of boxes. Eight soap-boxes of the same size are requiredfor the shelves, and a packing-box about two feet high, two Furniture Old and New. 449 feetseat. in width, and as long… … Remove the tops and two sides of the soap-boxes, and boreholes with a red-hot poker in one corner of the bottoms of sixof the boxes, and in two of the tops which have been removed,making the holes one inch from either edge (Fig. 374). Inthe other two boxes bore in the same place, but not…