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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.

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LIBRA E162 .E18 1898
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1898 Earle
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
Contributor:
Thayer, Lee, 1874-1973, binding designer.
American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
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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