American Barns and Covered Bridges

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  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • File Size : 42,7 Mb
  • Release : 01 January 2002
  • ISBN : 9780486425610
  • Page : 114 pages
  • Rating : 4/5 (21 users)

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This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.

American Barns and Covered Bridges

American Barns and Covered Bridges
Author: Eric Sloane
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Category: Art

This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to

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America s Covered Bridges

America s Covered Bridges
Author: Terry E. Miller,Ronald G. Knapp
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Category: Art

As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain. In America's Covered Bridges, authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell

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The Covered Bridges of Ashtabula County Ohio

The Covered Bridges of Ashtabula County Ohio
Author: Carl E. Feather
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Category: Art

When its first covered bridge was constructed on the Ashtabula-Trumbull Turnpike in 1832, Ashtabula County was closer to frontier than a "new Connecticut." Its rutted roads promised adventure and suggested prosperity

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Covered Bridges

Covered Bridges
Author: Joseph D Conwill
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Category: Art

Covered Bridges are historic pieces of American and Canadian rural history, gracing the countryside from Oregon to Tennessee and from California to New Brunswick and across Canada. In this lavishly

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Covered Bridges of New York State

Covered Bridges of New York State
Author: Rick L. Berfield
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Category: Art

More than just relics of a bygone era, covered bridges enjoy a cherished place in the public imagination and a distinctive niche in northeastern America's regional lore and architectural history.

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Covered Bridges of the Northeast

Covered Bridges of the Northeast
Author: Richard Sanders Allen
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Category: Art

A richly detailed account of bridge builders, the tools they used, and their finished masterpieces, this profusely illustrated work describes foot bridges, latticework and double-decked structures, drawbridges, and more. Filled

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The New World Dutch Barn

The New World Dutch Barn
Author: John Fitchen
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Category: Art

This architectural study updates John Fitchen's original with extensive new material. Added to Fitchen's descriptions of barn types, framing style and exterior appearance is research information that relates to the

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Eric Sloane s America

Eric Sloane s America
Author: Michael Wigley,Mimi Sloane
File Size : 52,7 Mb
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Eric Sloane's evocative oils of America's landscape and material culture shimmer with immense historical and nostalgic appeal. This original hardcover collection gathers nearly a hundred of his finest paintings, with

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The American Chestnut

The American Chestnut
Author: Donald Edward Davis
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Category: Art

Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural distribution of the American chestnut extended across more

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The Cracker Barrel

The Cracker Barrel
Author: Eric Sloane
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Category: Art

With words both wise and droll — along with his inimitable line drawings — Sloane re-creates the flavor of the country store in all its delightful moods: as a meetinghouse, a public

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An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges

An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges
Author: David McFetrich
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Category: Art

Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction

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Eric Sloane s America

Eric Sloane s America
Author: Eric Sloane
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Category: Art

A compilation of earlier works including: Barns and covered bridges, Vanishing landscape, America yesterday.

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Indiana Folklore

Indiana Folklore
Author: Linda Dégh
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Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.

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Technology in Early America

Technology in Early America
Author: Brooke Hindle
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Category: Art

This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of

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Early American Technology

Early American Technology
Author: Judith A. McGaw
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This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household

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