Nesmith Library

Colonial living, written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Colonial living

written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis

Describes the industries, schools, society, culture, and growth of the coastal settlements during the colonial period

SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: The Beachheads -- St. Augustine -- Roanoke -- Jamestown -- Plymouth -- New Amsterdam -- Massachusetts Bay -- Maryland -- New Sweden -- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- I. NEW ENGLAND -- House building -- Wells -- Furniture -- Food -- Cooking -- Eating and drinking -- Heat and light -- Home crafts -- Cloth -- Wool production -- Wool-spinning -- Flax production -- Flax-spinning -- Weaving -- Clothing -- Towns and discipline -- Trades and crafts -- Travel and mail -- Education -- II. NEW NETHERLAND -- Hat-making -- Houses -- Inside the houses -- Cooking and eating -- Grain -- Milling -- New Amsterdam -- People and clothes -- III. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES -- Tobacco -- Land and bondage -- Small planters -- Cottages -- Ways and means -- The big plantation -- The manor house -- Bricks -- Furniture -- Cooking -- Food -- Lumber and sawmills -- Plantation people -- Clothes -- Learning -- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- I. PENNSYLVANIA -- Philadelphia -- German settlers -- German houses -- The Scotch-Irish -- Log forts and cabins -- Customs and trade -- Clothes -- People -- "Shootin' Arns" and game -- II. THE COASTAL COLONIES -- Agriculture -- Wood and wooden implements -- Farm animals -- Pork -- Barns and houses -- Interiors -- Plantations -- Industries (iron; charcoal; tanbark and leather; Glass; Paper) -- Clocks -- Vehicles and roads -- Bridges and ferries -- The Post and the news -- Inns -- River boats -- Ships -- Rope -- Trade and money -- Silverware -- Towns -- Buildings -- Rooms -- Furniture -- Tools -- Heat and light -- Food, eating, and cookery -- Men's clothes -- Women's clothes -- Youth -- Diversions -- Inns -- Churches -- Prison -- Sickness and medicine -- Learning

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