Illustrated homes: a series of papers describing real houses and real people (1875)
Gardner, Eugene Clarence, 1836-1915 · Boston, J. R. Osgood and company · leaf 167
The destruction of a sin-gle fruit-tree or the covering up of a squash-vine would have been a serious matter. Sincewe have been given the whole surface of theearth to flatten ourselves upon, its impossibleto account for the propensity for cHmbingstairs. It may have been inherited from ourremote… … ELEVATED LODGINGS. coming the ups and downs in our habitationswould perform a large share of the agriculturallabor necessary to feed the world. My favor-ite hobby in the way of labor-saving invention ILLUSTRATED HOMES, 169 is a sort of double-acting basket-elevator, bywhich the last man down shall…
Architecture, Domestic
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