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Price: $28.00
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press: 1987, 2000
Seller ID: 496328
About AuthorBernard L. Herman teaches at the University of Delaware, where is a professor of art history and senior research fellow at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design. Among his many publications are Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (co-author with Gabrielle M. Lanier) and Historical Architectural and the Study of American Culture (co-editor with Lu Ann De Cunzo).Reviews&#... View more info
By: Alex W. Bealer
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Dover Publications:
Seller ID: 437531
Great appeal for woodworkers at all levels of expertiseOver 200 drawings and photographs of early hand toolsMust reading for lovers of antique tools and enthusiasts of AmericanaThis is the fascinating story of early American woodworking, as told by a master craftsman. Author Alex Bealer enthusiastically describes and clearly illustrates a wide array of implements used by frontiersmen, among them various kinds of axes, saws, planes, hammers, and the adze. Such... View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: AltaMira Press: February 1987
Seller ID: 989293
This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles.Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series. View more info
By: Historic American Buildings Survey National Park Service
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: CD4274
The Historic American Buildings Survey aims at the creation of a permanent graphic record of the existing architectural remains of early dwellers in this country. The historical value of such a record is self-evident, the urgent need for it at the present time scarcely less so. For aside from the constant toll of fire and decay, the constant environmental changes of our rapidly developing civilization swiftly and inevitably wipe out the records of our past. Throughout... View more info
By: Marilyn W. Klein, David P. Fogle; illustrated by Wolcott B. Etienne.
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Starrhill Press: c1986
Seller ID: 515183
Titles in this Starrhill Press series are compact guides to various aspects of American arts, letters, culture, and history. Each thin but information-packed book is carefully researched and written, with line drawings, photographs, and an index. View more info
By: Sally McMurry
Price: $24.95
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press:
Seller ID: 49953X
An era of great agricultural expansion in America, the nineteenth century witnessed the development of capitalist method, technological innovation, scientific experimentation, and the reorganization of social and family life-changes that were reflected in, and even accelerated by, striking transformations in the vernacular landscape. In this fascinating interdisciplinary study, Sally McMurry examines one arena of domestic change-the design of northern rural farmhouses-as... View more info
