| Old-Fashioned Farm Life Coloring Book: Nineteenth-Century Activities on the Firestone Farm at Greenfield Village Contributor(s): Smith, A. G. (Author), Cousins, Peter H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486261484 ISBN-13: 9780486261485 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1990 Annotation: Forty-three accurately rendered illustrations depict detailed scenes of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, "harvesting" and "sugaring off" maple syrup); plowing, planting, other activities. Fact-filled captions. Published in association with Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Crafts & Hobbies | Papercrafts |
| Dewey: NA |
| Series: Dover History Coloring Book |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6.54" W x 11" (0.39 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Life on a farm before the advent of tractors relied on horse-drawn equipment and the skills and labor of many people, as the detailed drawings in this fascinating book reveal. Accurately rendered by A. G. Smith, 43 ready-to-color illustrations depict a wide variety of farm activities in mid-nineteenth-century America. Based on scenes re-created on the Firestone Farm at historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, the drawings include authentically detailed views of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, gathering pumpkins, harvesting and sugaring off maple syrup), as well as plowing, planting, caring for livestock, splitting firewood, raising a barn, and many other activities. Peter H. Cousins, Curator of Agriculture at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, has written an informative introduction and provided fact-filled captions for this entertaining and educational view of life in bygone rural America. |