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... adorned with the best that the world could offer . The colo- nial mayors of Philadelphia , like those of London , were taken as a rule from the mercantile class . The population of Pennsylvania increased from 50,000 in 1730 to more than ...
... adorned with the best that the world could offer . The colo- nial mayors of Philadelphia , like those of London , were taken as a rule from the mercantile class . The population of Pennsylvania increased from 50,000 in 1730 to more than ...
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... adorn- ment or architectural taste . One traveler speaks of the small plantation houses in Maryland as " very bad , and ill contrived , there furniture mean , their cooks and housewifery worse if possible , and another says that an ...
... adorn- ment or architectural taste . One traveler speaks of the small plantation houses in Maryland as " very bad , and ill contrived , there furniture mean , their cooks and housewifery worse if possible , and another says that an ...
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... adorn- ing mantels , and firebacks imported from Eng- land were widely introduced . Among the Pennsyl- vania Germans wood stoves were generally used , but soft coal brought as ballast from Newcastle , THE HALL AT CARTER'S GROVE ...
... adorn- ing mantels , and firebacks imported from Eng- land were widely introduced . Among the Pennsyl- vania Germans wood stoves were generally used , but soft coal brought as ballast from Newcastle , THE HALL AT CARTER'S GROVE ...
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... adorned with paintings . The floors were usually bare or cov- ered with matting ; rugs were used chiefly at the bedside , but carpets were rare . Philadelphia , which was famous for the uniform- ity of its architecture , must have ...
... adorned with paintings . The floors were usually bare or cov- ered with matting ; rugs were used chiefly at the bedside , but carpets were rare . Philadelphia , which was famous for the uniform- ity of its architecture , must have ...
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... adorned with silver , china , and glassware ; and walls were hung with expensive papers and decorated with paint- ings and engravings all brought from abroad . A house thus equipped was not unlikely to contain a mahogany dining table ...
... adorned with silver , china , and glassware ; and walls were hung with expensive papers and decorated with paint- ings and engravings all brought from abroad . A house thus equipped was not unlikely to contain a mahogany dining table ...
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