A box generally contained space for paper ... National Museum of American History The thick mahogany travel desk that resides in the museum's collections is just the type to stand up to such ...

To address this issue, I crafted an elegant solution: a mahogany wood cable management ... I designed this box to keep cords ...

Jefferson designed the desk while a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, and had it built by a Philadelphia cabinetmaker. The "writing box," as he later called it, is of mahogany ...