Overviews, chronology of historical events related to holidays and festivals, calendar and geographical listings of observances, bibliography, and contact information and web
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Survey includes homes, barns, out buildings, and commercial properties built here from the county's 17th century beginnings through the 19th century.
Lists 2500 American cabinetmakers from colonial times through the Industrial Revolution era with biographies, dates, and locations.†
Brings some of the tricks of identifying woods and show you how the wood can tell you where and when a piece of furniture was made.
One of the first systematic inventories of vernacular American architecture and defined Raymond's long and successful career.
Presents a full survey of Tidewater Virginia homes constructed between 1640 and 1830.
Barns in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One of the earliest-settled areas in North America
Large sections are devoted to andirons, candlesticks, fireplace accessories, kettles and tobacco boxes. Explains the composition of brass, eighteenth century method of sand casting, and ways to identify old copies and fakes.
Italian-born Bertoia (d.1978) studied at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and went on to set up a studio for sculpture and furniture in Pennsylvania.†
The many practical industries - architecture, stone work, metalsmiths, needlework, ceramics, and pictures - that supported this earliest county in Pennsylvania are documented.
