Chapters: EARLY STARTS (the first attempts at organized education) // NINETEENTH CENTURY IDEALISM (the effort to design and build the perfect school) // THE AMISH ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE // THE TEACHER // SCHOOL BOOK // TEACHING APPARATUS // DESKS AND CHAIRS // RULES AND REGULATIONS
The story of how these important early products were made and used, ranging from the simple tin pot to an elaborate brass chandelier; covering items used in the kitchen, living room, and bedroom; sconces, lanterns, trays, candle molds, candlesticks, and andirons, ladles, bed warmers, and a multitude of other objects. Illustrated with scores of photos. [from the publisher]
Vol. 1--American Axe--American Pewter Molds--Antiques in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Architecture--Art of Blacksmithing--Aunt Lydia--Bells and Bell Towers--Benjamin Harbeson, Coppersmith--Benjamin Harbeson and the Golden Teakettle--Bread and Ovens--Britannia--Butter Molds--Buying Pewter--Cast Steel--Casting Pewter Spoons--Church Architecture in Lancaster County--Church Pewter--Collectible Axes--Colonial Craftsmen--Cooking up a Storm--Coppersmithing in America--Coppersmithing in early America--Decorated Chests in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country--Domestic Architecture in Lancaster County--Early American Brass and Copper--Early American Brass Andirons--Early American Fireplaces--Early Gunmaking--Folk Art in Metals--Folk Art in Metals-a Deliberate Art--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Handcrafts in Lancaster County-Buildings and Books--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Guns and Axes--Handmade Conestoga Wagon--Hattie Brunner--Himmelreich Collection--Historic American Bells--Historic House Hardware--How to identify the Pennsylvania Rifle--Hunting for Hatchets--In search of Folk Art--Jacob Dickert, Rifle Maker--Kentucky Rifle--Kentucky Rifle: Scuttlebutt--Literature on Log Architecture--Locksmiths and Locks--Moravian Architecture in Bethlehem--Names behind Pennsylvania's Important Pewter Heritage--Notes for Collectors of Early American Copper--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania Folk Art--Pennsylvania-German Schranks--Pennsylvania Pewterers--Peter Getz of Lancaster--Peter Gonter, Lancaster Gunsmith--Pewter--Pewter Spoon Molds--Pewter Spoons--Philadelphia Butter--Punched Tinware--Queen Anne Pewter Teapots--Rarity Counts in Copper--Remarks on Iron Collecting--Riddle of Two Front Doors-Rifles in Berks County--Silversmithing--Simon Pennock, Pewter Maker--Some Notes on Axes--Stills in Early Pennsylvania--Summerhouse--Sycamores in Dutchland--Teatime--Things have changed--Tinsmith--Unique Dutch Barn--Village Blacksmith--Warming Pans: Early Bedwarmers--Where do Antiques come from?
Vol.2: American Copper Teakettle--American Fowling Piece--American Pewter of the Eighteenth Century--American Pewter: Queen Anne Style--Amish Way of Life--Andirons--Andirons--Antiques in Lancaster County--Art of Early American Blacksmiths--Blacksmith's Art--Butterprint in Early America--Cast-Iron Stoves of Pennsylvania--Casting a Pewter Spoon--Charm of Cast Iron--Church Pewter--Collecting Antique Iron Objects--Copper--Coppersmithing in 18th Century America--Dowsers and Spring Houses--Early American Metalwork--Early Pewter was produced by Molds--18th-Century Iron Furnaces--Fireplace Accessories--German Chevron Doors in Lancaster County--Herr House: A Gem of Domestic Architecture--Kauffman Treasures in unique N.H. Show--Lancaster County Amish--Letter to Henry--Making Objects of Copper in 18th-Century Pennsylvania--Making of a Museum--Mennonites: Religious Exiles, Fine Needleworkers--Metals: The Craftsmen--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania-German Schrank--Pickers and Pewter--Products of the Brass Founder: Molds for Casting Objects of Pewter--Schranks and Schrank Hunting--Silver in the New World--Silver Teapots & Coffeepots--Tinware--Training the Apprentice Coppersmith--Why Antique Copper?--Henry J. Kauffman: Collector, Author, and Craftsman.
The history of northeastern Pennsylvania : the last 100 years : proceedings of the eighth annual Conference on the History of Northeastern Pennsylvania