Title Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America : vernacular design and social change / Sally McMurry.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Based on the author's thesis--Cornell University.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index.
Contents	Introduction --The Progressive Agriculturist's Vernacular -- The Shape of Cooperation: The Farmstead as Workplace, 1830-1855 --The Spheres Diverge: Work on the Progressive Farmstead, 1855-1885 -- City Parlor, Country Sitting Room -- Supervision to Self-Culture: Children's Spaces on the Progressive Farmstead -- From Production to Consumption: Progressive Farmhouse Design at the Turn of the Century.
Summary	A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Farmhouses -- United States.
	Farmhouses.
	United States.
	Vernacular architecture -- United States.
	Vernacular architecture.
	Architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Architecture.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Architecture and society -- United States.
	Architecture and society.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: McMurry, Sally Ann, 1954- Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 (DLC) 87024787
ISBN	9780195364514 (electronic book)
	0195364511 (electronic book)
	9780195044751 (Cloth)
	0195044754 (Cloth)
	1280523352
	9781280523359
	0195044754 (Cloth)

Title Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America : vernacular design and social change / Sally McMurry.

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