Nearly 100 objects are displayed in the exhibit, "From the Laboratory to the Parlor: Scientific Instruments in Philadelphia, 1750-1875".
The New Yorker, June 26 , 1954P. 18 A woman about to celebrate her golden-wedding anniversary, got out all her gold belongings with the idea of polishing them and making a little display in the parlor.
By Jane Shellbase and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, June 26 , 1954P. 18 A woman about to celebrate her golden-wedding anniversary, got out all her gold belongings with the idea of polishing them and making a little display in the parlor.
Bound in cloth, embellished with gold leaf and silver stamping, stylishly illustrated in Victorian, Art Nouveau or poster modes depending on which was the current fashion, they were effective marketing tools, whether the books were displayed in parlors to lend an air of culture, or were actually read.
Those were accomplishments a young lady could display in her own parlor.
They included an elegant duchess, upright in a bath, while her lover hid in the deep water; or a piano in the parlor opening its lid to display a nest of handbags.
Original leather spine is a display of great craftsmanship, no doubt the result of idle hours spent in the parlor in want of a suitor.
No one was in the parlor at the time, and no one in the house was hurt, though some of the Dickinson family furniture and belongings on display there, including a sofa and a teapot, may have been harmed.
In the parlor, two Christmas stockings hang from the mantelpiece.
The three women convened in the parlor, where Tobias had fallen asleep on a pillow.
