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Harper's Weekly Details

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Top Row

Left:
The Endicott Chair

Center:
Linen Production

Right:
Cradle

Top row of the "New England Kitchen" from "Harper's Weekly," July 17, 1876.

". . . the flavor of antiquity is about as strong as we can expect to find it in this new country."



Left top:
Candle Mold
Lace Pillow

Left middle:
Saddle (on top of "settle" where woman sits knitting)
Settle
Woman Knitting

Center:
Gun and Powder Horn
Hearth

Right:
High Chest

 

 

Center row of the "New England Kitchen" from "Harper's Weekly," July 17, 1876.

". . . fair Yankee matrons and maidens do the honors of the establishment."



Left:
Clock
Spinning Wheel

Center:
Jerusha

Right:
Dressing Case
Desk

 

Bottom row of the "New England Kitchen" from "Harper's Weekly," July 17, 1876.

"It only needs a piece of the armor worn by the brave Captain of Plymouth to make the relics complete."

     

 

   

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