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By: Carolyn L. White, University of Nevada, Reno
Price: $51.95
Publisher: AltaMira Press: Sep 2005
Seller ID: 105898
ISBN: 0759105898
Condition: 160 pages, Over 100 illustrations and tables., paperback, AltaMira Press
Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators, registrars, historians, archaeologists, or collectors identify this class of objects from colonial and early republican America. Carolyn L. White helps the reader understand and interpret these artifacts, discussing their source, manufacture, materials, function, and value in early American life. Sh... View more info
By: Chris Enss
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Falcon: 09/01/2005
Seller ID: 735648
ISBN: 0-7627-3564-3
Condition: 224 pages, 7 1/2 x 9 1/4, paperback, Falcon
Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women who were forging new homes for themselves in the West. Full hoopskirts were of little use in a soddy on the prairie, and chaps and spurs were a vital part of the cowboy's equipment.In this book, author Chris Enss examines the fashion that shaped the frontier. Short essays; brief clips from letters, magazines, and other period sou... View more info
By: Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, and Madelyn Shaw
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press: 2007
Seller ID: 725898
ISBN: 0896725898
Condition: 320 pages, 100 b/w photos, & illus., 12 color photos, cloth, Texas Tech University Press
At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs rapidly built a silk industry with levels of production once unimaginable.American Silk, 1830-1930 traces the evolution of the American silk industry through three compelling and very different case studies: the Nonotuck Silk Company of Northampton, Massachusetts; the Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook, Maine; and the Mallinson Silk Company of New York and Pennsylvania. The mills specialized in different prod... View more info
By: Merideth Wright
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Dover Publications:
Seller ID: 273202
ISBN: 0486273202
Condition: 128 pages, 8 1/4 x 11 1/4, paperback, Dover Publications
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Price: $28.00
Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc: 2005
Seller ID: S3318
ISBN: 788433180
Condition: 220 pages, 8.5x11, 2005, 8?x11, paper, 220 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc
220 pages, 8.5x11, 2005, 8?x11, paper, 220 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc View more info