1950's "modern" living room setting. Sleek fireplace, Danish modern furniture, chairs, tables and angled seating arrangement. Floor to ceiling draps on a curved window area, with inset lighting on a curved ceiling. Floor is very large tile squares.
Notes on back of picture: John F. Keever, Muncie, Indiana, June1958. 4999 July Donley Dec.The front of the picture has "Illustrated by C.W. Ackerman of Cincinnati" at the bottom of the photograph.
In rebuilding the Bertolet log cabin on the Boone Homestead near Reading, Pennsylvania, the massive size of the throat and chimney are very evident. Many similar appendages built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have a similar form and size. Photo courtesy Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.