The hide seat chair in the other corner is a variation of the frontier ladder back chair using a piece of hide with the hair on rather than rawhide strips. The settee is a reproduction of a vernacular pine settee made in Texas in the 1860s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The formal corner of the room is designated by two woven rawhide seat chairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The folding chair is typical of the type brought West by the pioneers who traveled in wagons. Light weight, portable and inexpensive, they were the equivalent of our modern camp chairs. The seat has been replaced with canvas, but was probably carpet or needlepoint originally. Although the chair appears to be made from walnut it is really painted in wood grain to simulate walnut.

 

 

 

The stereo cards are as follows:

Donnybrook Fair

Love is the best Physician, published by Gebhardt, Rottmann, & Co., London, England

MOUNT VERNON Washington's Residence, American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858

Palais Impe'rial De Versilles, Galerie des batailles

English Cottage Flowers

Niagara Suspension Bridge and Falls in distance, American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858

Philadelphia from the "La Piere House", American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858

The Bride Niagara Falls (Winter), American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858

Wedding by A. Silvester