Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Monroe Fabian
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic, with more than 250 illustrations, this book is a visual feast of decorated chests. It is the preeminent encyclopedia of Pennsylvania German blanket chests. New color photography has been added for some of the original chests, and recent scholarship has produced some new information, attributions and other information.
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 1421421380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pennsylvania German Studies -- PART 1 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY -- 1. The Old World Background -- 2. To the New World: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Communities and Identities: Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- PART 2 CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- 4. The Pennsylvania German Language -- 5. Language Use among Anabaptist Groups -- 6. Religion -- 7. The Amish -- 8. Literature -- 9. Agriculture and Industries -- 10. Architecture and Cultural Landscapes -- 11. Furniture and Decorative Arts -- 12. Fraktur and Visual Culture -- 13. Textiles -- 14. Food and Cooking -- 15. Medicine -- 16. Folklore and Folklife -- 17. Education -- 18. Heritage and Tourism -- 19. Popular Culture and Media -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Color plates follow page
Author: Monroe H. Fabian
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most engaging of such objects is the chest, about which this book is concerned. An ancient style of furniture, at once for sitting and for storage, the chest became the repository of an individual's goods: his (or her) clothes, linens, treasures. When in the eighteenth-century the Germans came in droves to America--to Pennsylvania--they brought the chest and the nascent individualism it represented with them. The majority of these pieces were either finished or simply painted, but the minority of inlaid or paint-decorated chests are the classic pieces of Pennsylvania-German decorative art to this day. -- Pg. 14.
Author: Alan Bridgewater
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780811725590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features traditional country boxes and chests which represent pieces created and used in American homes before the age of mass production. It shows how to reproduce these historical boxes and chests for the home. They include a New England knife tray, a painted Pennsylvania German dowry chest, a New England candle box and pipe box, a pencil box, a six-board chest, a cottage writing box and a carved pine chest.
Author: Donald A. Shelley
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome vols. include the museum's Annual report.
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published:
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780271047430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries? Numerous forces create a group's identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and the shaping pressure of religious beliefs, but to understand the process better, we must look to clues from material culture. Cynthia Falk explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural artifacts of early Pennsylvania German immigrants and their descendants. Such material culture has been the basis of stereotyping Pennsylvania Germans almost since their arrival. Falk warns us against the typical scholarly overemphasis on Pennsylvania Germans' assimilation into an English way of life. Rather, she demonstrates that more than anything, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation influenced the character of the material culture of Pennsylvania Germans. Her work also shows how early Pennsylvania Germans defined their own identities.
Author: Richard L. T. Orth
Publisher: Masthof Press
Published: 2019-10-14
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1601266448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere and abroad, no other Pennsylvania Dutch motifs have come to be prized more than those created by John Bieber (1763-1825) of Oley Township, Berks County. Without a doubt, the hallmark of a Bieber dower chest (hope chest) is its huge, bulbous, flat hearts diligently laid out with compass. The heart motif was the most reoccurring symbol among 18th-century immigrant artisans. This book celebrates the craftsmanship and history of these Americana pieces of furniture. Color pictures capture the beauty of these various works of art and are a step to cataloging them before they are lost to time. (164pp. color illus. Masthof Press, 2019.)
Author: Jan Stievermann
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0271063009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
