It's an Old Pennsylvania Custom / Edwin Valentine Mitchell Author of "It's an Old New England Custom".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, 1890-1960.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--Social life and customs.

Pennsylvania.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

[10], 261, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Distribution:

New York : Division of Crown Publishers, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Bonanza Books, Inc., [1947]

Contents:

To Dwell in Caves

To Use Plain and Fancy Speech

To Found Utopias

To Build Conestoga Wagons

To Build Magnificent Barns

To Make "Kentucky" Rifles

To Resort to Arms

To Be Fond of Music

To Have a Tavern in the Town

To Enjoy Shoo-fly Pie

To Believe in Witchcraft

To Observe Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

To Wear Beads and Dress Plainly

To Embellish the Useful

To Look Backward.

Notes:

"This edition published by Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. by arrangement with The Vanguard Press, Inc."--Title-page verso.

"With contemporary illustrations"--Dust jacket.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1088142