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Home life in colonial days / written by Alice Morse Earle in the year MDCCCXCVIII ; illustrated by photographs gathered by the author, of real things, works and happenings of olden times.
LIBRA E162 .E18 1898
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Home economics--United States.
- Home economics.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1898.
- Physical Description:
- xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 470 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1898.
- Contents:
- Homes of the colonies
- The light of other days
- The kitchen fireside
- The serving of meals
- Food from forest and sea
- Indian corn
- Meat and drink
- Flax culture and spinning
- Wool culture and spinning, with a postscript on cotton
- Hand-writing
- Girls' occupations
- Dress of the colonists
- Jack-knife industries
- Travel, transportations, and taverns
- Sunday in the colonies
- Colonial neighborliness
- Old-time flower gardens.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Taupe cloth with cross stitch design in green and red. Attributed to Lee Thayer.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource) v. 2, pg. 11
- OCLC:
- 1084287
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