America's arts and skills /
Developed from a series of articles in "Life magazine" this is a pictorial history of the beautiful and useful things America has fashioned through three and a half centuries from the simple sturdy products of the first colonists and the work of the Revolutionary craftsmen to today's...
| Uniform Title: | Life (Chicago, Ill.) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Dutton,
1957.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Charles F. Montgomery
- The practical world of the colonists
- The look of liberty in craftsmanship
- The sturdy age of homespun
- The magnificent Greek revival
- The romantic decades
- The fabulous frontier
- The timeless Southwest
- An age of gilded opulence
- Beauty in the tools of today.