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Figure 20: Early mattresses

Mattresses would have been the earliest "furniture" in these cabins.  Probably the first mattresses were made of bagging stuffed with pine straw.  The burlap bag stuffed with pine straw, seen above on the left, was made in 1994 to show how mattresses were commonly made.  (Photo  1994)
burlap bag with pine
              straw

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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2007.