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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (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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The old brasses in the Drake collection are among the finest of the sort in the world February, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 63
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The simple and unobtrusive telephone here does away with the old and complex system of tubing for communicating with the kitchen The House Telephone By Henry Putnam LewisPhotographs by T. C. Turner and others -w^c . I I 1 ii -; ■ - y c.rr-y.r:r ~~ ~~ ~ r HE delicately-built mechanism which carriesthe voice half across the continent is alsothe means of keeping the different depart-ments of the household in close touch withone another. So marvelously efficient is itsservice that both these widely dissimilartasks are performed equally well. A certain city home built a generation ago, was thenregarded as especially complete. One of the convenienceswhich so excited the admiration and envy of other home-keepers was a complex and wonderful system of speakingtubes which were intended to be the means of communica-tion between the different rooms. The house containedsome fourteen rooms, and to render the service completeeach room was provided with a tube to every other room,and these imposing

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