The homes of our ancestors as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York
Subtitle: from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old world a style of their own; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms.
By: By R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower; illustrated with many ... plates.
Contributors: Tower, Elizabeth, joint author.
Edition: De luxe ed.
Publisher: Printed by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., at the Country Life Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Garden City, L.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing; Architecture, Domestic -- United States; Architecture, Colonial; Interior decoration; Furniture -- United States; Art objects -- United States; United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775