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And finally, a pair of pictures of a cabinet. I'm going to presume Grandpa made it. He lists the location as "Front & State Street". I'll let others detail that intersection.This looks like the cabinet is sitting just outside a warehouse or garage. Maybe Grandpa ordered this from somewhere.
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This is a dumb-waiter. (They were built into a kitchen wall, and things you wanted to keep cool, you put in and let it down into the basement by way of pulleys.) There was a local man who went into the business of building them around 1910 or so(I don't know his name) and I think maybe he wanted some "publicity photos" taken and Grandpa was the only person he knew with a good camera. That's a guess. It wasn't a relative. I know where Front & State is, our Historical Society is there now. But I don't know which of the 4 corners this guy was on. One was a flour mill, so probably not there. And the house the Society now owns isn't big enough to support a business like this. That leaves 2 corners.
Lots of people had dumb-waiters, before refrigerators.
Janet
i wonder if this was for 234, or if the builder just had Grandpa take a photo of his fine craftsmanship. i can't think of anywhere in 234 where a dumbwaiter would have been put.
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