Home Life In Colonial Days Illustrated by Photographs,Gathered by the Author, Of Real Things, Works andHappenings of Olden Times By Alice Morse Earle, 1899 470 pages, indexed, illustrated, searchable Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to view, Autoboot menu for easy access “The illustrations for this book are in every case from real articles and scenes, usually from those still in existence — rare relics of past days. The pictures are the symbols of years of careful search, patient in- vestigation, and constant watchfulness. Many a curious article as nameless and incomprehensible as the totem of an extinct Indian tribe has been studied, com- pared, inquired and written about, and finally triumphantly named and placed in the list of obsolete domestic appurtenances. From the lofts of woodsheds, under attic eaves, in dairy cellars, out of old trunks and sea- chests from mouldering warehouses, have strangely shaped bits and combinations of wood, stuff, and metal been rescued and recognized.” Contents: I. Homes of the Colonists ..... 1 II The light of Other Days . . . .32 III. The Kitchen Fireside 52 IV. The Serving of Meals 76 V. Food from Forest and Sea .... 108 VI. Indian Corn 126 VII. Meat and Drink 142 VIII. Flax Culture and Spinning . . . .166 IX. Wool Culture and Spinning, with a Postscript on Cotton 187 X. Hand- Weaving . . . . . .212 XI. Girls' Occupations ...... 252 XII. Dress of the Colonists 281 XIII. Jack-knife Industries ..... 300 XIV. Travel, Transportation, and Taverns . . .325 XV. Sunday in the Colonies ..... 364 XVI. Colonial Neighborliness . . . . .388 XVII. Old Time Flower Gardens . . . .421 List of Illustrations Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636 , Frontispiece Log Cabin ........ 4 Suydam House, Bushwick, Ixing Island, 1 700 ... 7 Sabin Hall, Virginia 13 Slave Quarters, Upper Brandon . . . . 14 Fire-buckecs . . . . . . .16 Fireman's Certificate, 1800 ...... 17 First Fire Engine in Brooklyn, 1785 .... 18 White-EUery House, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1707 . to Soardman-Hill House, North Saugus, Massachusetts, 1620 21 Birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adams . . iz Rerce Garrison House ...... z6 Knocker from John Hancock House . . . z8 Knocker from Winslow House, Marshfield. Massachusetts . 19 King-Hooper House, Danvers, Massachusetts ... 30 Can die- dipping ........ 36 Candle-moulds . . . . . . . .37 Hanging Candle-box . . . . . . 38 Silver Snuffers and Tray ...... 43 Betty-lamps ........ 44 Bull's-eye Lamp ....... 45 Old Pewter Lamps 46 xii List of Illustrations Old Glass Lamps ....... 47 Tinder-box 48 Under-wheel, Flint, and Tinder 49 Fireplace of Slave-kitchen 54 Iron Potato-boiler 57 Old Tin Ware 58 Iron Skillet, Rabbit- broiler, and Brazier .... 59 Toasting-forks ........ 60 Waffle-irons 61 Old Gridirons 61 Plate-warmer 63 Bake-kettle, Clock-jack, Duich-oven, and Dye-cub 64 Roasting-kicchcns . . . . . . .66 Smoking- tongs ....69 Warming-pan . . . . .71 Kitchen fireplace of Whitticr's Home .... 74 Harvard Standing Salt . . . . . . 78 Wooden Trenchers, Spoons, Noggin, Caster, and Dishes . 82 Wooden Tankard 83 Carved Wooden Tankard 84 The porringers that in a row Hung high and made a glittering show '* . . .86 Pewter Spoon and Spoon-mould ..... 8S Types of Spoons . . . . ... 89 Dutch Silver Tankard . . . , , . .91 Colonial Glass Bottles 93 Old Spanish and English Glasses, Iron Loggerheads, and Wooden Toddy-sticks ...... 94 List of Illustrations xiii Pip Blackjacks 95 Silver-mounted Cocoanut Drinking-cup .... 97 Winthrop Jug . . . . ... 98 Georgius Rex Jug ....... 99 Maple-sugar Cup . . . . , , .114 John Winthrop's Mill 133 Old-time Corn-sheller . . . , .140 Making Thanksgiving Fies . . . . . .146 Upright Churns .....,., 149 Revolving Chum . . . . . . .150 Cheese -basket. Cheese-ladder, Cheese-press . . .151 Sausage-gun 154 Sugar-cutters . . . . . . . . 56 Spice- mortars and Spice-mill 157 Old Cider-mill i6i Flax-brake . . . . . . .170 Swinging-block and Swinging-knives . . . .171 Flax, Flax-basket 173 Clock-reel 174 Flax-spinning . . . . . . . . 1 S6 Carding Wool ........ 195 Wool -spinning . . , . . , .197 Triple Reel 199 "Niddy-noddy, two heads and one body " . . . zoi Wool-cards ......... 204 Swifts . . . , . . . .zi; Skame . . . . .217 Sley 120 xiv List of Illustrations Loom -temples . . . , . . .22} Loom- shuttles . . . . , . . . 22j Tape-loom . , . . . . ,226 Silk Braid- loom ....... 226 Quilling- wheels . . . . . . .229 Loom-baskei and Bobbins 233 Garier-loom 236 Weaving Rag Carpet ....... 238 Hand Stamps for Calico Printing ..... 240 Orange Peel, Blazing Star, Chariot Wheels and Church Windows, Bachelor's Fancy ..... 143 Hand-woven Bed Coverlet 245 Making Soap ........ 1^4 Goose Basket 258 Knitted Bags 264 Fleet wood- Quincy Sampler ...... 266 Embroidered Coat of Arms ...... 266 Colonial Embroidery, Old South Church, Boston . . 268 Net Footing and Lace ....... 270 Collar Caps, Laces, and " Modesty-piece " . . . 271 Cut-paper Picture ....... 279 Eighteenth-century Slays ...... 286 Child's Suit worn in 1784 288 Calash, 1780 289 Pumpkin Hood, 180Q . . . . . .291 Colonial Pattens . . . 29S Eighteenth -century Spectacles ..... 298 Birch Splint Broom . . . . . 304 List of Illustrations xv Barlow Jack-knives ....... 307 Old Gourd Dishes .... 309 Goose-yoke and Pig-yoke ...... 310 Mayflower Scythe- Pitchfork, Scythe, Flail and Swingle, and Bill-hook . . . . . 313 Old-time Axes and Riven Laths ..... 314 Indian Knot-bowls and Mortar ..... 319 A Gundalow at the Landing . . . . .328 Wire Ferry on the Connecticut ..... 330 Conestoga Wagon ..,,.,. 340 American Stage-wagon, 1795 343 Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts .... 345 Old Pigskin and Deerskin Travelling- trunks . , . 347 Old-time Bandboxes 348 Wolfe Tavern, Newburyport, Massachusetts . . ,350 Old-time Rocky Mountain Mail-coach , . . .352 Brother Jonathan's Chaise 351 Campbell Coach ....... 354 Dutch Sleigh in New York 355 Tap-room and Bar, Wayside Inn 358 Swing-sign from Grosvenor Inn, Pomfret, Connecticut . 358 Sign-board, John Nash's Tavern, Amherst, Massachusetts . 360 The "Old Ship," Hingham, Massachusetts, 1680 . . 365 The Old South Church, Boston 366 Rocky Hill Meeting-house, Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1785 370 Plan for Seating the Meeting-house . . . 371 Foot-stove 375 Bass-viol, Psalm-book, and Itch-pipe .... 377 xvi List of Illustrations Pages of Old Psalm-book printed in Boston, 1690 . . 378 Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburgh, Virginia . .381 Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, Virginia , . . 383 Dutch Reformed Church, Bushwick, Long Island . . 386 Starting to break out the Roads . . . . .412 A Chobobbin 416 Crown Imperial . . . . . . , 425 Flower Garden, Mount Vernon ..... 432 Abigail Adams' Garden, Quincy-, Massachusetts . 43 5 Old Garden, Ellenville, New York . . . .440 Old Well-sweep 444 Praxinella ........ 449 Ambrosia ........ 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