Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home (Illustrated)

Two summers on the island of Spitzbergen taught me, more than all previous experiments, the latent possibilities of a box.

Our camp was located seven hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle in Hammerfest, Norway, 535 miles to the southeast was the nearest point from which supplies could be obtained. Ice and snow cut off the settlement from the outside world for eight months of the year. The provisions and other equipment necessary for the camp of eighty miners and workmen had to be carr…