Customs and fashions in Old New England
By: by Alice Morse Earle
Series: Social science reprints
Publisher: Corner House Publishers
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780879280079
Subjects: Social life and customs
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1893.
Table of contents: title: Child life; title: Courtship and marriage customs; title: Domestic service; title: Home interiors; title: Table plenishings; title: Supplies of the larder; title: Old colonial drinks and drinkers; title: Travel, tavern, and turnpike; title: Holidays and festivals; title: Sports and diversions; title: Books and book-makers; title: Artifices of handsomeness; title: Raiment and vesture; title: Doctors and patients; title: Funeral and burial customs.