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
A picture book with beautiful illustrations accompanying texts on the following subjects: Baron Stiegel, the Ephrata Cloister, the Printer of Germantown, Conquering the forest, Conestoga wagons, etc.
"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]