This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and exchanging food and services. Probing behind the many myths that have grown up about this era, Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England. "Nylander . . . invites her readers to enjoy her copious knowledge of the interiors and domestic management of late-18th-century New England homes. The imaginatively illustrated [book] is dedicated to the notion that the details of everyday life form the core of human experience."―Martha Saxton, The New York Times Book Review A fact-filled, copiously illustrated, revealing survey of Yankee life and households in an earlier time, . . . informative and valuable for its many glimpses of American interiors."―Kirkus Reviews "A delightfully intimate portrayal of New England home life. . . . Enlivened by 162 period illustrations, [Nylander’s] survey affords a rare glimpse of middle- and upper-class housework, clothing, kitchens, diet, socializing and much else."―Publishers Weekly A century-long portrait of day-to-day activities in a New England home. . . . Nylander’s nitty-gritty approach is absorbing. . . . Photographs from various historical societies along with period sketches and paintings add pizzazz and authenticity."―Booklist "A visual and narrative feast."―Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania

Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860

History

Nylander, Jane C.

Americas

Yale University Press

How Can An Appropriate Fabric be selected to reupholster a family heirloom chair, make new draperies for a 100-year-old house or restore the furnishings of an entire house to their original appearance? Revised and expanded, Fabrics for Historic Buildings explains how to choose, buy and install the correct fabrics for historic interiors. Included is a unique catalog of more than 600 fabric types and patterns and a new chapter on 20th-century fabrics. "Gives practical, step-by-step advice on selecting and ordering appropriate fabrics for restoration projects." Interior Design "This book offers practical advice for anyone decorating a historic or an old home who wants to recreate a period look and is confused when it comes to selecting appropriate fabrics for the curtains and upholstery." Country Home

Fabrics for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Fabrics. Revised Edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Preservation Pr

A thorough catalog of wallpaper designs and fabric types and patterns from 1700 to 1900 This new hardcover edition is a unique single-source presentation of the successful Fabrics for Historic Buildings and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings. Featuring the entire content of both comprehensive, visually stunning books, Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings offers: * More than 1,000 authentically reproduced wallpaper designs, along with extraordinarily useful advice for answering the centuries-old question: "What shall we do with our walls?" * Reliable, expert advice for choosing, buying, and installing the appropriate fabrics for historic interiors, complete with more than 600 fabric types and patterns and new information on twentieth-century fabrics Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings is an essential volume for everyone involved in restoring or researching American houses built between 1700 and 1900.

Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings

Nylander, Richard C.

wiley

The story of life in New England from before the American Revolution to the twentieth century. Windows on the Past will take you on a tour of four centuries of home building, with fascinating interiors and furnishings; family ties to a wide variety of homes; advances in cooking, heating, plumbing, and lighting; the evolution of dining rituals; and classic landscapes, flower and kitchen gardens, and working farms. The book has been updated with new, richly illustrated chapters on the changing roles of servants in running the New England household and on the Historic New England Stewardship Program, which protects more than seventy-five privately owned historic properties. Through these windows on the past, discover Historic New England. Lavishly illustrated with 275 color and historic black-and-white photographs.

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes

Historic New England

Created in association with the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, an evocative portrait of four hundred years of New England life explores the development of the region's domestic architecture, landscape architecture, and decorative arts, from colonial times to the 1940s. 12,500 first printing.

Arts & Photography

Viera

History & Criticism

Bulfinch

The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788–1940

Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story and amplified both the distinctive regional and the broader national cultures. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, The Best Ever! offers never-before-seen pictures of actual parades, including floats and banners that have mostly disappeared and ranging from the Federal Ship carried in the 1788 Ratification parade at New Haven, Connecticut, to 1940 when the parade tradition largely halted at the onset of WWII. Copublished with Old Sturbridge Village.

Bauhan Publishing

Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition.\nThe Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story and amplified both the distinctive regional and the broader national cultures. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, The Best Ever! offers never-before-seen pictures of actual parades, including floats and banners that have mostly disappeared and ranging from the Federal Ship carried in the 1788 Ratification parade at New Haven, Connecticut, to 1940 when the parade tradition largely halted at the onset of WWII. Copublished with Old Sturbridge Village.\nFrom the Back Cover\nEveryone loves a parade! 
Filled with drawings, daguerreotypes, historical photographs, and detailed description, The Best Ever! brings to life the creativity and impact of New England parades, while expanding popular understanding of many similar events today. 
Parade days give communities an opportunity to reveal themselves, showing both local residents and out-of-town visitors what is valued and who is respected while giving participants and attendees an opportunity to see and be seen. Parade planners draw upon personal experience, fond memories, cherished symbols, and favorite stories to create floats illustrating memorable scenes from history, honoring civic leaders and military heroes, mourning fallen soldiers or dignitaries, advocating change, inspiring reform, influencing consumer behavior, or celebrating innovation and progress. Specific holidays such as Independence Day, Patriot's Day, Bunker Hill Day, Armistice Day, and Old Home Day provide additional inspiration for red, white, and blue celebration. Of particular interest is the section on the uniquely New England tradition of "Antiques and Horribles." 
The Best Ever! explores common themes in parades, including honor, civic and ethnic identity, fraternity, progress in public works, advocacy of political candidates or favorite causes, memorialization of wartime bravery or cherished virtues, and just plain fun! Each is seen in an exciting public moment, leaving memories of reassuring symbols, influencing action, and raising questions. At the same time they show how ideas have been shaped over time and changed by circumstance, even as perceptions of the past are still evolving and questioned in the present.

Fabrics for historic buildings

Architecture

Preservation Press

Fabrics for historic buildings: A guide to selecting reproduction fabrics

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Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860

Fabrics for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Fabrics. Revised Edition

Fabrics and Wallpapers for Historic Buildings

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes

The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788–1940

The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788–1940

Fabrics for historic buildings

Fabrics for historic buildings

Fabrics for historic buildings: A guide to selecting reproduction fabrics