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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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among whichis the kitchen, apart from the dwelling house, because of thesmell of hot victuals, offensive in hot weather. The Southern inventories show that the Colonial settlersof that part of the country owned a great deal of pewter,brass, and copper of considerable value. Two examples willsuffice. Colonel Stephen Gill, of York County, Va., in 1653, hadin his kitching one copper kettle, one old brass kettle, onebrass pott, three brass candlesticks, one brass skillitt, onesmall brass mortar and pestle, one brass skimmer, one brassspoone, three old iron potts, one small iron pott, three pesites,one ffrying pann, two spitts, two pair of potthangers, threepair potthookes, one iron ladle, one fflesh hooke, three tinncullunders, forty-six pounds of pewter, four old porringers,nineteen pewter spoons, four old pewter tankards, onefflaggon, two salt sellers, six tin candlesticks, two dozen oldtrenchers, and two sifters. Colonel Gill had seven slaves. The Hearth of An Old Rhode Island Kitchen
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With Warming Pan and Bread Shovel Still in Use York City. This house, owned by the Colonial Dames ofNew York, was built by Frederick van Cortlandt in 1748.The heavy oak beams and the fireplace, with its brick oven,are original; but the articles have been collected from varioussources. The dresser on the left came from Perth Amboy.A good clock without a case hangs on the wall, and beneathit is a warming-pan. Next to the lanterns and above thebread-shovel are three waffle-irons. Other utensils are ar-ranged on the chimney-piece, and among them is a powder-horn. Various fire-irons hang above the fireplace, to the leftof which is a pair of bellows. On the extreme right is achurn. A brass kettle and candle-molds stand on the table.The floor is covered with a rag carpet. In the Southern States the kitchen was universally situatedin a separate building some distance from the house, to whichit was often connected by a covered way. The separatekitchen is noticed as early as 1734 by Hugh Jones,

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