"Pennsylvania medical men of the American Revolution and era" : a history of the Revolution and era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-302] and index.
Summary
The essays cover folk religion, folk medicine, sectarian costume, traditional cookery, and the folklife of the Pennsylvania Dutch, specifically Harvest Home, witch tales, Fraktur, and sauerkraut for New Year.
This book studies the writings of Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index.
Summary
"They wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality , they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley .... Susan Sabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." [from the dust cover]
Reprint. Originally published: The model architect. Philadelphia : E.S. Jones, 1852.
Summary
The 60 villas, cottages, schools, churches and mansions are pictured in charming lithographs, as well as scaled floor plans and elevations. Each design is accompanied by details of the arches, windows, ornaments, and joints characteristic of Sloan's modified Gothic, Grecian, Tudor, Italian, Norman and even Oriental facades. Specifications, tables and cost estimates give an accurate idea of building conditions in pre-Civil War America. Sloan's discourses cover the history of the various classic and medieval schools or architecture, plus contemporary knowledge of timber, masonry, carpentry, joinings, ventilation and gardening among other subjects. Everywhere Sloan communicates his belief in the future of an American style suited to the unique American landscape. [from the publisher]
Life of George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States: Prepared and published in Sepember, 1844, by the Democratic Committee of Publication, John K. Kane, et al
"In the 1960s, the National Archives staff culled out selected 'settled accounts' that had genealogical value from the pension payments (these are records not found in the pension application files). This massive volume reflects payments made by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh pension offices to veterans (chiefly of the Revolution but also of the War of 1812 and wars in Florida and Mexico), their widows, or their surviving children. The record abstracts include such information as dates of death, remarriages of widows, identities of survivors, and the places and length of residence."--Cover.
