FOR TESS

 

Can't get this one to rotate *sigh*.  These are the work of Helen Gibson Branson, my grandmother.  I think in a previous post I show them, only not sideways ...

 

 

 

The glass lampshade came to me from my grandmother Johnnie Lee Duran Blanton via my mother Wauna Lee Blanton Branson.  It's mounted on a heavy vintage lamp base that I bought in Victor, Colorado at an antique shop there.  The lamp is standing on top of a 'Domino Table', also from my grandmother via my mother.  Mom says it belonged to HER grandmother Blanton.  The quilt was made by Johnnie Lee.  The dresser came from the Hotel here in Fessenden and is dated circa 1920, maybe a little earlier.

 

Here's one of the metal bedsteads; it's in the morning room of my house right now.  The style is quite similar to a brass one that I'm in the process of restoring (off with the paint!).

 

The story that goes with this dresser is that when my grandmother needed storage space but had little floor-space, she cut the legs off of this dresser as well as another one which she had gotten from her mother (said to have come to Kansas in a covered wagon) and stacked this one on top of the other.  The older part needs restoring.