Fire on the hearth : the evolution and romance of the heating-stove : with 145 illustrations from photographs and drawings showing an amazing variety of heating devices : also entertaining anecdotes, excerpts from old diaries and other papers, alluring advertisements and interesting bits of information pertaining to their manufacture and uses / by Josephine H. Peirce ; introduction by Robert W.G. Vail.

Main entry:

Peirce, Josephine H. (Josephine Halvorson), 1888-1977.

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Description:

xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index.

Summary:

"With 145 illustrations from old photographs and drawings showing an amazing variety of heating devices ; also entertaining anecdotes, excerpts from old diaries and other papers, alluring advertisements and interesting bits of information pertaining to their manufacture and uses".

Subject:

Stoves History.
Stoves.

Form/genre:

History.

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Location: Library main 244466
Call No.: TH7435 .P4 1951
Status: Available

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