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Bucket Town :woodenware & wooden toys of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635-1945 /Derin T. Bray.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-307971

Description

xv, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Details

Descriptive Terms

Treenware History
Coopers and cooperage History
Wooden toys History
Pails History
Americana History
Folk art History
Americana.
Coopers and cooperage.
Folk art.
Manners and customs.
Pails.
Treenware.
Wooden toys.
Social life and customs

Originator

Bray, Derin.

Contents

Hingham woodenware : widely used and favorably known -- Hingham toys : little things for small folks -- Hersey Farm : the first family of toymakers -- Catalogue -- Appendix A: History of a bucket -- Appendix B: William Blake Luce photographs -- Appendix C: Hingham coopers and related craftsmen -- Appendix D: Hingham toymakers and toy merchants.

Description

xv, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes

"Issued in connection with an exhibition held in 2014 at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historic New England Book Prize Honor Book, 2015.

ISBN

9780615975375 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0615975372 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

Call Number

Coll. TT200.B73 2014
Stacks TT200.B73 2014
Book Prize TT200.B73 2014

Material Type

Exhibitions.

Places

Massachusetts Hingham
Hingham (Mass.)
Massachusetts

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