Early American Furniture Makers
Publisher: Gale Group
Published: June 1975
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780810340862
First sentence: FURNITURE history in the United States begins, not with Captain John Smith's company of gentlemen adventurers in Virginia nor with the Hollanders who swapped nineteen dollars worth of beads, hatchets and rum for Manhattan Island, but rather with the austere, nonconforming Englishmen who settled New England.