Early American Wrought Iron
Author: Albert H. Sonn
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 772
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Albert H. Sonn
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 772
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry J. Kauffman
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The crafts of the blacksmith, whitesmith, tinsmith, farrier, cutler, locksmith, gunsmith and others.
Author: Don Plummer
Publisher: Skipjack Press, Inc.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781879535169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Colonial Wrought Iron is a photographic survey of early wrought iron work in America with 506 photographs from the Sorber Collection. The colonial period in America was centered around the blacksmith who was the maker and creator of these items. The informational text explains the characteristics and the conditions of the period in which the iron was forged. Colonial Wrought Iron is an invaluable resource tool for the blacksmith involved making reproduction hardware and related items, as well as an inspiration for merging form and function. In this book you will find the commonplace and the ornate but they all reflect the hand of fine craftsmanship. The work displayed in Colonial Wrought Iron is from the collection of Jim Sorber. Jim, now in his eighties, has been an avid collector for 70 years. This collection is a result of a life steeped in an enduring appreciation for the skills of his ancestors. Even as a child he was interested in their hand tools and the wonderful things they made. That interest soon grew into a passion. A unique aspect of Jims collection is that it reflects a certain ethnic influence. Much of his collecting has been done near his home in the counties of Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery and Schuylkill. This area has been settled by German immigrants since the mid-to-late 17th century. Jims collection, many pieces of which are signed and dated, reflects an iron chronicle of the Pennsylvania Dutch migration westward from the Philadelphia area.
Author: Robert B. Gordon
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2001-09-28
Total Pages: 1086
ISBN-13: 9780801868160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the 18th century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals. In this work, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the 20th century.
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486463036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This delightful evocation of simpler times and the tools that built America has always held a special place in the hearts of lovers of Americana and Yankee ingenuity. Now available in a handsome hardcover gift edition, this engaging, informative book features 184 of the author's inimitable drawings.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in its sixth year, Early Homes is a biannual special edition that focuses on the period 1690—1850 and it's revivals, including Colonial and Neoclassical design. Each issue contains lavish photos and plenty of product sources.
Author: Outlet
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 1988-12
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780517229019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Appiah
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 2008-05-20
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 0553905090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861), Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901), and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912). Whether read as records of African-American history, autobiography, or literature, these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage, intellect, and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellion—and whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah, who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, this edition of Early African-American Classics remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared.