America's arts and skills
By: by the editors of Life. With an introd. by Charles F. Montgomery.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Decorative arts -- United States; United States -- Civilization
Description: Developed from a series of articles in "Life magazine" this is a pictorial history of the beautiful and useful things America has fashioned through three and a half centuries from the simple sturdy products of the first colonists and the work of the Revolutionary craftsmen to today's streamlined functionalism as seen in automobiles, paints and electronics. Folio volume.
Notes: "Appeared in Life at intervals of approximately six weeks from April 18, 1955 to May 21, 1956."