Pills, Petticoats and Plows, the Southern country store / by Thomas D. Clark author of The Rampaging Frontier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005

Contributor:

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retail trade--Southern States.

Retail trade.

Southern States.

Country life--Southern States.

Country life.

Southern States--Social life and customs--1865-.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

359, [1] pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1944]

Contents:

I. The Country Store

II. Behind Battered Faces

III. Stove or Shady Porch

IV. The Walls Grow Long Paper Tails

v. Social correspondents

VI. Ten Gross June Bugs, Assorted

VII. A Little Bit of Santa Claus

VIII. Under the Sign of the Stud Horse

IX. Big Hogs Grew in Iowa

X. Mr. McGuffey at the Crossroads

XI. Admiral Dewey Corsets and Bonton Petticoats

XII. Gentle Jackson in a Devil of a Fix

XIII. The Halt, the Lame and the Bilious

XIV. The Farmer and His Almanac

XV. Death Always Came at Night

XVI. Heavy Goods in the Corner

XVII. Money Catchers

XVIII. An Ought's an Ought.

Notes:

"First edition".

Illustrated lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-352) and index.

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 bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retined.

OCLC:

594588