The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public
"This collection of thirty-four full-page drawings expresses with great sincerity the vitality and spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch people. Each drawing gives the reader a fascinating insight into a custom or tradition that has been handed down for generations and each is accompanied by a pleasantly descriptive text as well as by a series of vignettes which present further details concerning farm implements, household furnishings, clothes, food, handicrafts, and amusements." [dust jacket]
