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house-furnishing

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  • What was more, with neither the cares of a family nor of house-furnishing on her mind, her thoughts never strayed.

    The Way Home 2003

  • The president of the board of lady managers having been elected active chairman of the house-furnishing committee, with power to select her own committee, named Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery and

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • The exhibition of fine locks and of house-furnishing hardware is justly considered as among our triumphs, the Yale, Wheeler-Mallory and Russell &

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

  • That such is not always the case in the real home comes often from the mistakes in the house-furnishing.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • I will write another on the moral and intellectual effects of house-furnishing.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • The silver plating of modern tableware and table cutlery, as beautiful and much less expensive than silver, and the fine finish of the beautiful bronze hardware now used in house-furnishing, are the results of the same process.

    Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

  • A handsome substantial chair, a cabinet for china, pretty china to put in it, some standard books, a set of fine table linen, -- almost anything within the range of dainty house-furnishing shows the good taste of the giver.

    Etiquette Agnes H. Morton

  • Reaffirming the motion already made on February 16, 1903, providing that the furnishing of the building of the board of lady managers be under the supervision of the president of the board, on March 4, 1904, it was moved that Mrs. Daniel Manning be made active chairman of the house-furnishing committee and select her own committee.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • I have written at length in the other chapters of my ideas of house-furnishing, and in this one I want to give you my ideas of garden guilding.

    The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

  • At the same meeting of the board at which the chairman was named, the sum of $20,000 was fixed as the maximum amount that might be expended for house-furnishing purposes by the committee.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

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