Author: Thompson WestcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia
Author: Thompson WestcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Architectural Record
Author: Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1902-1906 ...
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of AlleghanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
900-999, fiction, index
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: R-Z. nos. 4528-6056. 1909
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Jefferson's Daughters
Author: Catherine KerrisonPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1101886269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage
The Philadelphia Country House
Author: Mark E. ReinbergerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats—which balanced English models with developing local taste. Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat, a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses, rural plantations, and farms. The metropolis of Philadelphia was surrounded by a particularly extraordinary collection of country houses and landscapes. Taken together, these estates make up one of the most significant groups of homes in colonial America. In this masterly volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. What do these structures and their gardens say about the taste of the people who conceived and executed them? How did their evolving forms demonstrate the persistence of European templates while embodying the spirit of American adaptation? The Philadelphia Country House explores the myriad ways in which these estates—which were located in the country but responded to the ideas and manners of the city—straddled the cultural divide between urban and rural. Moving from general trends and building principles to architectural interiors and landscape design, Reinberger and McLean take readers on an intimate tour of the fine, fashionable elements found in upstairs parlors and formal gardens. They also reveal the intricate working world of servants, cellars, and kitchen gardens. Highlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.