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1956
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It is very possible, because of the lack of photographic evidence, that the earliest colonial homes looked very different than we imagine. Abbott Lowell Cummings ponders some of the difficulties of furnishing historic homes and speculates on the differences we might find if we step back in time to see what these rooms looked like in colonial times.
Article ID 360
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1956.046.163.001
It is very possible, because of the lack of photographic evidence, that the earliest colonial homes looked very different than we imagine. Abbott Lowell Cummings ponders some of the difficulties of furnishing historic homes and speculates on the differences we might find if we step back in time to see what these rooms looked like in colonial times.
Volume 46, Number 163 (Winter, 1956)
Abbott Lowell Cummings (Author)
(1956). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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