Author: Delaware. Public Archives CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Calendar of Ridgely Family Letters, 1742-1899
Author: Delaware. Public Archives CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 2, 1710-1756
Author: Craig W. HorlePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Old Plantation
Author: Susan P. ShamesPublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 0879352434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A centerpiece of Colonial Williamsburg's folk art collection since the 1930's, The Old Plantation has long intrigued art enthusiasts, historians, and the general public. This eighteenth-century watercolor, which has been widely reproduced in textbooks and scholarly publications, has been a valuable tool for those studying slave life, music, dance, and society, as well as those interested in the genesis of folk art in America. Though extensively analyzed and interpreted, The Old Plantation has remained a mystery. Until Now... This fascinating publication unlocks one of the great mysteries of American decorative arts, revealing not only the career of the painter, but the lives of the unnamed slaves in the images as well.
The Refinement of America
Author: Richard Lyman BushmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
The American Archivist
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."
Clothing through American History
Author: Ann Buermann WassPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313084599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Learn what men, women, and children have worn—and why—in American history, beginning with the classical styles worn in the early American republic through the hoop skirts and ready-made clothes worn before the Civil War. Authors Ann Buermann Wass and Michelle Webb Fandrich provide information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society, daily life, and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women, and children, including American Indians and enslaved people. The authors have painstakingly researched such primary sources as diaries, letters, and wills of the people of the time, in addition to secondary resources. Just a few of the topics include: • The constant problems of getting fabrics, such as wool, or cotton, in the late eighteenth centuries • The types of clothes that slave men, women, and children were allowed to wear • The beginnings of patterns and the mass production of clothing in the mid nineteenth century. The volume features numerous illustrations, helpful timelines, resource guides recommending websites, videos, and print publications, and extensive glossaries.
The Catalogue to the Circulating Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: Genealogies, K-Z. Oversize books. Biographies
Author: New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Author: