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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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material, sounds inthe telling much better than it feels in the testing, and whilesatisfactory for a few nights of camp life, is seldom desir-able for a good long vacation camp. Comfortable campbeds that are raised above the damp ground in times of stormare well worth the extra expense in the end. After choosing the tents and the cots, each boy secured theextra furnishings from the home supply; the mothers decid-ing upon the amount of necessary bedding, etc., and aftereach had selected a supply of dishes the plates, cups, saucers,etc. (all being in the light, durable agate ware), each sup-plied his share toward the pots, pans and kettles for campcookery. This supply included one big iron frying pan forcooking generous supplies of the fresh fish caught by thecampers, one small frying pan for the ham, bacon and po-tatoes, an agate pot large enough for rabbit and chickenstews, and three agate pans for vegetables. A steamer wasselected to fit closely within the top of the stewing pot, and
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A Wall Tent Set Up In the Woods July, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 253

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