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Price: $28.00
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press: 1987, 2000
Seller ID: 496328
ISBN: 0870496328
Condition: 296 pages, Illustrations, paperback / softcover, University of Tennessee Press
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"A pioneering account of mid-Atlantic folk architecture and of the nineteenth-century transformation of traditional agricul... View more info
By: Alex W. Bealer
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Dover Publications:
Seller ID: 437531
ISBN: 0486437531
Condition: 224 pages, 6 x 9, paperback, Dover Publications
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 delicate tools as calipers, bevels, and lathes employed by the cabinetmaker and furnituremaker are characterized and portray... View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: AltaMira Press: February 1987
Seller ID: 989293
ISBN: 0-7619-8929-3
Condition: 168 pages, paperback, AltaMira Press
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: Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley
Price: $27.95
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press: 2005
Seller ID: 333316
ISBN: 1572333316
Condition: 152 pages, paperback / softcover, University of Tennessee Press
152 pages, paperback / softcover, University of Tennessee Press View more info
