Dixie Clockmakers

Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1455603600

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Dixie Clockmakers by James Gibbs Pdf

The magnificent artistry and craftmanship of eighteenth and nineteenth century clockmakers in the South has been recorded in this lavishly illustrated volume. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, the 192-page volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world's finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some 60 photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers, the volume also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.

Author : James W. Gibbs
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 088289059X

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Dixie Clockmakers by James W. Gibbs Pdf

The magnificent artistry and craftmanship of eighteenth and nineteenth century clockmakers in the South has been recorded in this lavishly illustrated volume. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, the 192-page volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world's finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some 60 photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers, the volume also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.

Author : Mark M. Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807864579

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Mastered by the Clock by Mark M. Smith Pdf

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.

Author : Walt H. Sirene
Publisher : Walt H. Sirene
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Backcountry Tall Clock by Walt H. Sirene Pdf

This free download is a fascinating and wide ranging study that offers many insights into American Tall Case Clock making in the Backcountry of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in the late 18th Century. This story informs those wanting to know more about antique tall case clocks (also known as longcase clocks, Grandfather clocks, floor clocks); Backcountry Early American furniture; how time was determined; culture and commerce; whether as a student, educator, casual collector or curious clock owner. Photographs in the body and addendum add value for inquisitive researchers. Each page - Splendid photographs and illustrations enhanced by brief narratives in laymen terms provide fascinating information about a group of five known tall clocks that were made in the Virginia Backcountry. The clocks genealogy is traced back to: Rome and Greece for the furniture case; Galileo for the pendulum; and England for the painted dial. Tap or click on a Hyperlink to go to online videos and references for further understanding about the Backcountry artisans and settlers, clock making, period furniture, painted dials, how a clock and pendulum works, clock setup and trouble shooting. Note: Not all Operating Systems recognize hyperlinks after Google processing deactivates them. In that case, search terms are provided for internet search. Enjoy the story! Recommended video links - Palladio, Chippendale, Galileo, How the escapement works, Four parts of a clock, and "The Clock that Changed the World."

Author : Andrew Fede
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820351124

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Homicide Justified by Andrew Fede Pdf

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.

Author : Elizabeth A. Davison
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780759119550

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The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820 by Elizabeth A. Davison Pdf

A full-color catalog and in-depth examination of the distinctive furniture made by pro-British carpenter and joiner John Shearer, one of the most accomplished furniture makers of the post-Revolutionary period. This publication is co-sponsored by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem, the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.

Author : Walt H. Sirene
Publisher : Walt H. Sirene
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Goldsmith Chandlee, Sundial Maker -- Setting Time 1790 by Walt H. Sirene Pdf

This standalone document is taken from the author’s comprehensive horological study, American Backcountry Tall Clock; it is a collection of "time setting" information and addendum's in one document. Photographs and charts along with explanatory notes tell about one aspect of a brilliant craftsman’s work while living in the backcountry of early America. Read on to learn about Noon Marks, Sundials, and how they were used to set time before smart phones, dial phone time service, and bells pealing the hour from church and town hall belfries. Chandlee’s customers will surprise you, including an important Founding Father, Chief Justice John Marshall. The focus is determining the correct time. This at a period when only a few owned clocks. It was before the advent of time zones, and when people were likely buying their first timepiece. This ePublication entertains and informs through pictures, graphics and hyperlinks to enhance understanding and learning; supplemented with the spare use of words. Hyperlinks lead to educational and enjoyable information on the internet. Researchers will profit from photographs and unique documents.

Author : Kenneth L. Ames,Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher : Winterthur Museum
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : IND:39000005012070

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Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America, 1650-1920 by Kenneth L. Ames,Gerald W. R. Ward Pdf

This bibliography of the study of household furnishings used in the United States from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century contains twenty-one sections. Each section begins with an essay that outlines the development of scholarship in the files and points toward new directions for research with annotated entries on the most significant works. Three chapters present the basic reference tools and surveys of art and architecture. These are followed by chapters devoted to such topics as furniture; metals, including silver and gold, pewter, and Britannia metal; ceramics and glass; textiles; timepieces; household activities and systems; and craftsmen and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America. Includes an author/title index.

Author : Donald L. Ehresmann
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015029718825

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Applied and Decorative Arts by Donald L. Ehresmann Pdf

This reference work covers general works, ornament, folk art, arms and armour, ceramics, clocks and automata, costumes, enamels, furniture, glass, leather, metalwork, musical instruments, textiles, dolls and more. Essentially a new work rather than a revision, this annotated bibliography on the history of applied and decorative arts includes over 3000 descriptive entries on books written in western European languages. More than 1000 of these entries are new to the second edition, and approximately half are titles published since 1977. The remainder represent a significant expansion in breadth and depth of the bibliography, with the addition of nearly 500 titles of exhibition and museum catalogues and price guides.

Author : James W. Gibbs
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : IND:39000005523290

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Pennsylvania Clocks and Watches by James W. Gibbs Pdf

A history of timepieces made in Pennsylvania from William Penn's time to the present, this book is more than a compendium of clock and watchmakers and their work. With abundant illustrations and lore from historians in every part of the state, it recreates a time when clock and watchmaking was not a mere occupation: it was truly a craft. The author attributes this characteristic to the Keystone State's unusually varied population, and explores the various "old world" influences affecting the design and style of timepieces. The story of clock and watchmaking from colonial Philadelphia to Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle is a major chapter in the history of industry, trade, tastemaking, and craftsmanship. Clocks of finely carved wood decorated the homes of prosperous early settlers, and golden watchcases adorned their persons; meanwhile, clocks on Independence Hall and other public buildings measured the hours for the general citizenry. As time passed, more utilitarian clocks graced schools and factories, while Hamilton watches kept the trains running on time. Resisting the temptation to lower standards for the sake of mass production, Pennsylvania clock and watchmakers gained fame for their high-quality craftsmanship. The making of clocks and watches is detailed by Dr. Gibbs from its beginning in the southeastern counties of William Penn Country, through the Pennsylvania Dutch Country and the center of the Commonwealth, and on to the state's northern and western frontiers. The craftsmen are presented in historical context, with emphasis on their social and educational backgrounds and the effect of these on their timepieces. Separate sections focus on illustrious clockmakers such as the Ellicott and Solliday families, Jacob Detweiler Custer, and the master of horology and astronomy, Dr. David Rittenhouse. Pennsylvania Clocks and Watches is an indispensable handbook for the experienced collector and a stimulating guide for the beginner. It is also a valuable reference for students of industrial and social history, design, and folkways.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3126 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022597087

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Th Goodrich,Debra Goodrich
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0811704874

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The Day Dixie Died by Th Goodrich,Debra Goodrich Pdf

As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the South mourned. It was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil--reconstruction. The authors trace that period that pervaded through 1866. 30 photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X002262893

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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210120528

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Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : UOM:49015000594904

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Genealogical & Local History Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

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