Would you believe that a few sheets of Corrulux would give such an amazing amount of day-lighting inside this big Quonset? Even on cloudy days no electric lights need be turned on in this building.
The text is from Day-lighting for Your Corrugated Buildings, by the Corrulux Corporation, (c1950). Click here to read the book online, or download it free from the Internet Archive.
artwork by Joanne Stanbridge 2013
NEATNESS and order in your pantry will depend in great measure upon the way you clear your table. If you look upon your butler’s pantry as a dumping-ground, then dirt and disorder will be inevitable. But, on the contrary, if you consider it a workshop, to be kept shipshape, you will avoid these dangers.
The text is from The Expert Waitress: A Manual for the Pantry, Kitchen, and Dining-room, by Anne Frances Springsteed Cole, (1894). Click here to read the book online, or download it free from the Internet Archive.
artwork by Joanne Stanbridge 2013
It requires very little thought on the part of an intelligent clerk and the expenditure of very little money on the part of the office itself so to equip a desk that the person who finds his left hand engaged in holding the receiver may use his right to pick up the pencil, pad, or directory needed at the moment.
The text is from Office Practice, by Mary F. Cahill, assisted by Agnes C. Ruggeri, 1917. Click here to read the book online, or download it free, from the Internet Archive.
artwork by Joanne Stanbridge 2013
A lounge with a pillow in the corner, easy-chairs, a wire stand in the bay window, containing some geraniums and roses in bloom ; choice pictures, reflecting the ruddy fire-light, and here and there a gracefully carved bracket in black walnut, supporting a vase or tiny statue. Every one admitted that the sitting-room at Home Nook was the cosiest place in the world.
The text is from Home Nook, by Amanda Minnie Douglas, (c1901). Click here to read the book online, or download it free from the Internet Archive.
artwork by Joanne Stanbridge 2013
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