Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-565) and index.
Summary
Fashion has always been a cultivating force. And during the 19th century-a time of great change-fashion was a powerful component in the development of American society. Through dress, average individuals could step beyond class divisions and venture into the world of the elite and privileged. Beginning in 1840, with the advent of the daguerreotype, that moment could be captured for a lifetime.In Dressed for the Photographer, Joan Severa gives a visual analysis of the dress of middle-class Americans from the mid-to-late 19th century. Using images and writings, she shows how even economically disadvantaged Americans could wear styles within a year or so of current fashion. This desire for fashion equality demonstrates that the possession of culture was more important than wealth or position in the community. [from Barnes and Noble]
Rural Pennsylvania clothing : being a study of the wearing apparel of the German and English inhabitants both men and women, who resided in southeastern Pennsylvania in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century : also including sewing instructions and patterns which are profusely illustrated!
Instructions to the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary from the United States of America, to the French Republic, their letters of credence and full powers, and the dispatches received from them relative to their mission
The envoys were Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry.
Signed: Timothy Pickering, secretary of state. Department of State, Philadelphia, July 15, 1797.
Printer's monogram device on title page.
Includes the president's message of April 3, 1798, transmitting the documents to Congress.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 460 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Features of Mr. Jay's treaty. to which is annexed a view of the commerce of the United States, as it stands at present, and as it is fixed by Mr. Jay's treaty. Philadelphia: printed by Land & Ustick, for Mathew Carey, 1795. -- Report of the Commmittee of the House of Representatives of the United States appointed to prepare and report articles of impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States.... Printed by John Fenno, Place and date not specified -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic. 18 January,1799, published by order of the House of Representatives -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State....Philadelphia: Printed by John Ward Fenno. 1700.--.Report of the Committee, to whom was referred, so much of the President's speech, as relates to a revision and amended of the judiciary system.1 May 1800, published by order of the House of Representatives.-- A narrative of the suppression by Col. Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams, late President of the United States, written by John Wood....New York: printed by Denniston and Cheetham, 1802.
