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Explore Americas best-loved no work days through 380 beautiful and
fun postcard images from the early 20th century. They portray
specific animals, children, flowers, and symbols that have come to
identify each holiday, and some pretty weird events as well.
Fascinating histories of each holiday are included, and what
diverse backgrounds they have! For an appreciation of the weirdness
of holiday recognitions, think of the images of a kid in a diaper
kicking out an old bearded man, turkeys dancing, chickens nodding
to rabbits, and strange men dropping down chimneys to make children
happy. The weird is integral to American holidays. All who
celebrate them as well as artists, decorators, and postcard
collectors will enjoy this book for the graphic styles it contains.
Historians will marvel at the reasons these holidays are celebrated
today.
Hundreds of old farm tools and equipment are shown to be echoes of
America's past, as farming remains vital to the economy today.
Major chapters cover old haying, grains, tobacco, orchards,
poultry, dairy, horses and mules in farm practices. Over 600
vintage and modern photos display the amazing variety of gadgets
once necessary for farming. These objects are preserved in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the Landis Valley Museum, where they
help to interpret American farm life of the 18th, 19th, and 20th
centuries. This book extends the reach of the museum's collections
to interested people worldwide.
Artwork created to sell flower and vegetable seeds to the public is
bright, eye-catching, and tempting. It reflects the fantasy that
any novice gardener can grow beautiful plants just by buying the
seeds. This is not a new phenomenon. Over 475 boldly colorful
flower and vegetable seed artwork, catalog, packet, and publication
illustrations are arranged here chronologically (l1869 to 1997) and
alphabetically (acroclinium to zinnia) for easy reference in this
fun visual delight. Many images are from the vast and superb
collection of the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
where the author was Director of the Heirloom Seed Project. See
unusual plant varieties from both small independent and large seed
producers, like the W. Atlee Burpee Company. A mid-20th century
watercolor illustrator's work is featured as an impressive record
of plants grown from seeds; see how many you can recognize.\nThe
stunning images will stimulate artists, gardeners, naturalists, and
interior decorators to find these and additional seed art examples
to add beauty to their lives.
The history of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is visually
presented through the words of a venerable historian and striking
images compiled from old photographs, advertising pieces, and
postcards that relate the cultural diversity apparent today in this
favorite tourist destination. From all over the world, visitors
marvel at the beautiful farms on limestone-based soil that is among
the most productive land anywhere. Early settlers found it a Garden
of Eden, and to this day the land attracts people concerned with
diverse community life and productive industries that support the
growing population. Learn about the area's history and traditions,
and see everyday life conducted by everyday people of a thriving
locale. Religious independence still thrives in the communities of
Amish, Mennonite, Quaker, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish settlers
from Swiss, Scottish, Irish, French Huguenot, German, and Hispanic
origins, and the rural setting complements progressive towns where
the future is part of the past.
"The greatest influences of German architecture on America are
bipolar: Folk Architecture and Modern Academic Architecture. In
between are the lower keyed stories of less dramatic
contributions." From log houses, corner beer halls and restaurants,
and modern theme parks to the Brooklyn bridge and the Seagram
Building in New York, German-inspired architecture covers America
and defines a cultural heritage. In this book, a fascinating text
is peppered with over 300 historical and contemporary photographs
that illustrate powerful as well as quaint German-style buildings
throughout America. From the Hill Country of Texas to the skylines
of the great American cities and famous bridges, everyday places
and American icons alike are described in detail with charming
anecdotes about people and uses that combine to create a culture
that is all-American. This book features so many highly recognized
places that you will wonder why the subject hasn't been presented
before. It is fresh, stimulating, and entertaining; a delight to
architects and all who have never before thought about the great
legacy of German influence in America.
Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at
the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first
holistic look at several of the most vibrant trends in contemporary
horticulture, both in vegetables and flowers. Lavishly illustrated,
it is a how-to manual, a history, and a guide to gardens and
historic landscapes. The basics of heritage garden design from
California to the East Coast are here, with special attention to
the Pennsylvania four-square garden. Plans and suggestions for your
garden are included, and seed-saving techniques are clearly
enumerated. A gallery of heirloom plants and lists of suppliers are
featured. There are travel suggestions for visiting gardens ranging
from Bethabara Park in North Carolina, to The Landis Valley Village
and Farm Museum in Pennsylvania, to the Frontier Culture Museum in
Staunton, Virginia. This book is sure to delight historians,
traditionalists, green thumbs, and horticulturists alike.
There has never been a book like this intertwining the arts and
artifacts of both the traditional and the evolving worlds. The
Pennsylvania Germans are a remarkable people; some are among the
most conservative of Americans, retaining a strong cultural
identity to this day, while others have largely assimilated into
the larger English world. Folk art and quilts are here, but so is
the work of Precisionist painter Charles Demuth and Abstract
Expressionist painter Franz Kline. Objects range from needlework,
pottery, furniture, and glass to paper, paintings, and
metals--including gold and silver! Here is a very personal and
extensive historical text illustrated with the works of
traditionalists, revivalists, and the avant garde displayed in over
350 color photographs. Pennsylvania German Arts has been written to
be both informative and fun to read and is designed to showcase
distinctive works of great beauty.
These 580+ juicy images capture the fact that throughout history,
artists and artisans have depicted vegetables in remarkable ways.
Still lifes, photographs, amusing antique postcards, seed packet
art-all sorts of vegetable illustrations have been created to
arouse physical and aesthetic appetites, and they are displayed
here together with interesting botanical and historical insights.
This wealth of vegetable art includes paintings by American artists
like Lily Martin Spencer, Ernest Lawson, and Charles Demuth;
engravings and lithographs by major printmaking companies like
Louis Prang and Company; botanical illustrations; and commercial
images drawn from vintage catalogs and seed packets. Vegetables are
represented in colorful glory, from the hundreds we appreciate
daily-like tomatoes, potatoes, peas, and carrots-to less-familiar
vegetables like sea kale, cardoon, and walking onions.
America's favorite flora are the homey ray flowers, a tribe
featuring daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias,
coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans, combined with the elegant,
multifaceted rose. Children pick ray flowers for their prepubescent
crush or for their mom; when they get older, they graduate to the
rose, a more sophisticated choice. Both high culture and pop
culture embrace floral imagery; think of Annie Liebovitz's famous
nude photograph of Bette Midler blanketed in long-stemmed American
Beauties on the cover of Rolling Stone, or zombies featured in a
Wars of the Roses comic book. Thousands of postcards and greeting
cards are covered in a sea of roses and ray flowers. Meet Daisy
Mae, see Daisy the dog, and view the presidential Rose Garden, as
well as influential American and European works of art. These
images are combined with the history and romance of our favorite
flowers. A nonallergenic floral extravaganza!
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