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1600-1775, Colonial period

Your Travel Guide to Colonial America

Nancy Day

Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in the American colonies, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, and notable personalities.

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The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America

Dale Taylor

This book highlights the three time periods of the Colonial American: Settlement, Organization, Revolu- tion with note to the region discussed.

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Witch Child

Celia Rees

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

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Wigmaker, The

Leonard Everett Fisher

Describes the advent of the wig as a fashion necessity in France and England, illustrates popular styles of eighteenth-century wigs, and explains the colonial wigmaker's technique in construction and

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What People Wore in Colonial America

Allison Stark Draper

Discusses the types of clothing worn by the Puritans, the Quakers, farmers, and Native Americans during colonial times.

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Weavers, The

Leonard Everett Fisher

This book discusses the history of weaving, techni- ques, yarn preparation, the parts of the spinning wheel and loom, pattern designs and the art of the colonial weaver and spinner.

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Uskids History

Howard Egger-Bovet, D. J. Simison

Discusses the reasons Europeans settled in America, the growth of the original colonies, and the reaction to the newcomers of the people already living in the "New World.".

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Spanish and Colonial Sante Fe, The

Views the traditions of early colonial life through contemporary insights into the men, women, and children who carried their dreams of a new life to the New World.

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The Silversmiths

Leonard Everett Fisher

Examines the art of the silversmith in colonial times.

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Shoemaker, The

Leonard Everett Fisher

Surveys the history and technique of shoemaking in colonial America as well as the shoe styles, and tools used, shoemaker, cobbler.

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