Crafts & Hobbies - General & Miscellaneous, North American People, U.S. People & Places - Miscellaneous
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Overview
An entertaining look at the many craftspeople of colonial America. After a discussion of apprenticeship during colonial times, the author explains various craftspeople and their crafts: woodworkers, builders, leatherworkers, printers, and more.Describes the training and work of such craftspeople as carpenters, masons, silversmiths, wigmakers, and leatherworkers living in the American colonies.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 5 Up-Report writers will welcome these informative and readable titles. Craftspeople describes woodworkers, metalworkers, builders, papermakers, printers, leatherworkers, milliners, wigmakers, and the apprentice system of training. Home Life covers clothing, food, work, school, homes, amusements, and communications. Warner includes a final chapter that suggests several ``living history'' museums to visit and urges readers to locate others. Both volumes have extensive bibliographies (juvenile and adult titles are cited), glossaries, indexes, and black-and-white reproductions of period drawings and prints. While not replacing Edwin Tunis's Colonial Living and Colonial Craftsmen (both Crowell, 1976) or Leonard Everett Fisher's ``Colonial Americans'' series (Watts, o.p.), these two books will provide additional sources for researchers.-Elaine Fort Weischedel, Turner Free Library, Randolph, MABook Details
Published
December 1, 1993
Publisher
Scholastic Library Publishing
Pages
112
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780531125366