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Title American home life, 1880-1930 : a social history of spaces and services / edited by Jessica H. Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth.

Imprint Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1994, c1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Cornish  304.2309 Am35h 1994    ---  Lib Use Only
Description ix, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents American homes and American scholars / Thomas J. Schlereth -- Modern look of the early twentieth-century house : a mirror of changing lifestyles / Candace M. Volz -- Decline of the memory palace : the parlor after 1890 / Katherine C. Grier -- Children in the house, 1890 to 1930 / Karin Calvert -- Home libraries : special spaces, reading places / Linda M. Kruger -- History of American beds and bedrooms, 1890-1930 / Elizabeth Collins Cromley -- "Family that plays together stays together" : family pastimes and indoor amusements, 1890-1930 / Donna R. Braden -- Parlor piety : the home as sacred space in Protestant America / Colleen McDannell -- Gardens of change / Patricia M. Tice -- Coal stoves and clean sinks : housework between 1890 and 1930 / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Conduits and conduct : home utilities in Victorian America, 1876-1915 / Thomas J. Schlereth -- Modernizing domestic service / Daniel E. Sutherland.
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
Dwellings -- United States -- History.
Vernacular architecture -- United States -- History.
Added Author Foy, Jessica H., 1960-
Schlereth, Thomas J.
ISBN 087049855X (pbk.)

 
    
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