Sitting Room

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SITTING ROOM (FAMILY ROOM)

1. Above the fireplace -- Ansel B. Cook's picture as a young man; note that the Second Empire French frame matches that of Helen Cook, his first wife, but, as he was living at the time, the sheaves of wheat along the side point upward; both pictures, probably taken at an earlier date, were reframed after his wife's death in 1881

2. Horsehair sofa (early gift to Historical Society)

3. Photo pillow (unusual type for that era)

4. Friendship quilt; in one block, a row of ants march to a flower

5. Renaissance Revival chairs, side table

6. 1880 Estey (mfg.) organ, made in Brattleboro, Vermont

7. Picture of Mr. Mrs. Cook (1876) above organ

8. Turn-of-the-century pitchers on organ have scenes of Diamond Lake and Long Grove

9. Ornate kerosene banquet lamp by organ

10. Picture of A. B. Cook's father

11. Wall telephone like early ones first installed in village in 1896

12. Mechanical Organette; played by using perforated paper sheets

13. Limoges china on center table

14. Stereopticon and slides

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