The book relates, with common sense and humor, instructions given early Americans on proper table manners, conversation and correspondence, dress, behavior in the drawing room and in public places, and it includes a special, more intimate section - "For Womankind"

Don't : A Little Book of Early American Gentility

Sloane, Eric.

Funk & Wagnalls

Delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations takes readers on a voyage of discovery as the versatile author traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England and its effect on Americans from varied backgrounds â€” including a bush pilot in Canada, and a New England sailor. 43 black-and-white illustrations.

Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather

Science & Math

Environment

This beautiful 79 page book, not including 12 full-page color reproductions of paintings by Eric Sloane, is dedicated to Wiley Post who stated "Some day an artist will come along and paint just clouds and sky." Also contains many black and white drawings and half-tones throughout. Before Eric Sloane was a recognized painter, he was a weatherman and he became fascinated by the history of Colonial American farmers who kept detailed records of weather from year to year to help them make the right decisions about planting, harvesting and farm chores. This book "is a combination of meteorology and Americana, two subjects no one is more qualified to portray in both text and illustrations than Mr. Sloane. He writes in particular of American skies, which he firmly believes are different and more majestic than any others the world over. As the foremost painter of clouds and American skies, he is in a position to know. You can almost tell where you are, he says, by looking upward, and in this incomparable book he tells why. And he creates an awareness and understanding of the astounding, ever-changing panorama overhead and its influence on American life."

For Spacious Skies

Arts & Photography

Funk Wagnalls Co

From one of America's favorite folk artists — 74 pen-and-ink sketches created when Sloane traveled the country as a sign painter in the early 20th century. Images include delightful impressions of streams winding through snow-covered landscapes, sturdy stone barns and farmhouses, covered bridges, farming tools, plus commentary on roads traveled and sights seen.

Recollections in black and white

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

T.Y. Crowell

Sloane's love for the American landscape, his respect for craftsmanship, and his desire to preserve the traditions and values of yesterday are reflected in his words and twenty-eight pen-and-ink drawings

Legacy

This compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes, illustrated with the author's own pen, captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were." The author lovingly describes the careers of dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, plumbum-men (plumbers), barber-surgeons, sellmongers, fence-viewers, and other old-time artisans and craftworkers. 96 black-and-white illustrations.

American Yesterday

History

Americas

For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, young Noah Blake's parents gave him a little leatherbound diary in which he recorded the various activities on his father's farm. This reprint of an actual early nineteenth-century book provides today's readers with a delightful rarity — a view of bygone days through the eyes of a young boy. Eric Sloane has taken the notebook with its brief comments and expanded the daily entries with explanatory narrative and 72 of his own remarkable drawings. Verbal and graphic sketches detail the construction of an entire backwoods farm as well as such common tasks as making nails, building a bridge, splitting shingles, spring plowing, and maple-sugaring. The result is "an extraordinary glimpse into everyday Early American rural life . . . [that] will delight readers of all ages." — History in Review.

Diary of an Early American Boy Noah Blake-1805

Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them. Including dozens of pen-and-ink sketches.

A Museum of Early American Tools

This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more. Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful narrative remains a milestone of Americana. 81 black-and-white illustrations.

Our Vanishing Landscape

The Seasons of America Past

A charming book that takes readers through a full year's activities. Sloane's drawings depict cider mills and presses, sleds, pumps, stump-pulling equipment, plows, and other elements of America's rural heritage. A section of old recipes and household hints adds additional color and practical value to this delightful work. 75 black-and-white illustrations.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Wilfred Funk, Inc.

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