Tourists and trade : roadside craftsmen and the highway transforming craft / Bruce A. Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Bruce A., 1952-2025, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vending stands--New York (State)--Upstate New York.

Vending stands.

Handicraft--New York (State)--Upstate New York.

Handicraft.

Roadside marketing--New York (State)--Upstate New York.

Roadside marketing.

New York (State)--Upstate New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 A Short, Pretty Straight Road

Good Roads

2 See-It-Made

Migration South to North

Tin Can Gypsying

3 Sheltered Space

Making Formal the Informal

Arts and Crafts

4 Tap, Tap, Tap

The Anvil Chorus

5 The Business Plan

6 Drivers

Guy Daugherty: The Bloomfield Potter

Art Cole: The Avon Coppersmith

7 Passengers and Passages

Roadside's Costar

"Guest" Stars

Spreading Out, Briefly

Moving On and Out

8 Billboards

Promoting Roadside Craftsmen

The Avon Product Line

Advertising Avon

9 Less Copper, More Shoppe

10 No Shortcuts

Rochester's Arts and Crafts Tradition

Lulu Scott Backus and the Mechanics Institute

The Alfred Connection

Midcentury Rochester Developments

Conclusion

Legs and Legacy

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781438493305

1438493304

OCLC:

1379448264