Book Description
Presents the techniques associated with building a house in colonial times.
Author : C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Building, Wooden
ISBN : 9780762774647
Presents the techniques associated with building a house in colonial times.
Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486425603
Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Morrison
Publisher :
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 1999-07-20
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780801862281
Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.
Author : C. Keith Wilbur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0762799870
Explores the tools and technology that the American colonists use to build homes that could stand the test of time.
Author : Patrice Sherman
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1612280226
If you grew up in colonial America, making your bed would mean more than just tucking in the sheets and pulling up the spread. You'd have to gather hay to stuff a straw-tick mattress and pluck a goose for a cozy down quilt. Colonial kids whittled pegs, spun thread, churned butter, and even cooked up their own soap in big iron kettles. Between chores, they learned the alphabet from hornbooks they wore around their necks. Yet no matter how hard they worked, they still had time for a game of blindman's bluff or king of the hill. How did they do all this? Maybe they took a tip from the mysterious Poor Richard, who said, "Have you something to do tomorrow? Do it today." Meet Hopewell of Bayberry Cove and many other children of the American colonies. (And find out who Poor Richard really was!)
Author : Laura Sullivan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502604841
The crafts of colonial woodworkers could be found nearly everywhere, from homes and businesses to ships and battlefields. Learn about the tools and training of these busy craftsmen.
Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1788543491
A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices – wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley – and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.
Author : Carol Sue Humphrey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : History
ISBN :
This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time. Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, readers get the largely untold story of the American Revolution: the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles. This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.