Book Description
Using mainly original sources (US Census, tax lists, advertisements, family records, etc.) this volume details the clock- and watchmakers in the Province of and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania between 1660 and 1900.
Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Using mainly original sources (US Census, tax lists, advertisements, family records, etc.) this volume details the clock- and watchmakers in the Province of and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania between 1660 and 1900.
Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842027403
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.
Author : Irwin Richman
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. Folk art and quilts are here, but so is the work of Precisionist painter Charles Demuth and Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline. Objects range from needlework, pottery, furniture, and glass to paper, paintings, and metals--including gold and silver! The extensive historical text is illustrated with over 350 color photographs to showcase works of great beauty.
Author : Sally Ann McMurry
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0271021071
Rural Pennsylvania's landscapes are evocative, richly textured testimonies to the lives and skills of generations of builders&—architects as well as local builders and craft workers. Farmhouses and barns, silos and fences, even field patterns attest to how residents over the years have had a sense of place that was not only functional but also comfortable and aesthetically appropriate for the time. From Sugar Camps to Star Barns tells the story of one such place, a landscape that evolved in southwestern Pennsylvania's Somerset County. Sally McMurry traces the rural life and landscape of Somerset County as it evolved from the earliest settlement days. Eighteenth-century residents were a forest people, living on sparsely built farmsteads and making free use of the heavily forested landscape. The makeshift sugar camp typified their hardscrabble lives. In the nineteenth century, the people of this area turned to farming. Prompted by the ''market revolution'' that had come to Somerset County, they pursued a highly varied agriculture, combining a subsistence base with robust production of commodities shipped to distant cities. Their landscape reflected this combination of the local and the cosmopolitan&—a combination that reached its full expression in the distinctive two-story banked farmhouse with double-decker porch, flanked by a substantial Pennsylvania barn. The twentieth century brought a more industrialized agriculture to Somerset County. But the shift to profit-and-loss farming also meant the accentuation of landscape elements specific to market products. The magnificent ''star barns'' of this era overshadowed the houses, and ancillary structures, such as ''peepy houses'' and silos, spoke to the pressures of efficiency and mass production. The subsequent rise of coal mining helped to stimulate this trend, both by supplying local markets and by creating an incentive for farmers to visually distinguish their landscapes from those of the coal-patch towns. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, maps, drawings, and diagrams, From Sugar Camps to Star Barns demonstrates how much we can learn about the economy and culture of a particular place simply by being attentive to the built landscape.
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Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : American literature
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Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773486300
Author : Anne Sharp Wells
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : United States
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Publisher :
Page : 2348 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN :
A world list of books in the English language.
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Clocks and watches
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Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 1678 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : American literature
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