Cable, Mary
American manners and morals A picture history of how we behaved and misbehaved by Mary Cable - New York American Heritage Publishing Company 1969 - 399 pages
Includes Index
A fresh start -- Jamestown: 1612 -- Parlous times -- Albany: 1750 -- The colonial way: a picture portfolio -- Home rule -- Philadelphia: 1798 -- The common manners -- Boston: 1833 -- The young republic: a picture portfolio -- The inner sanctum -- Natchez: 1835 -- Golden moments -- Washington: 1857 -- Victorian vicissitudes: a picture portfolio -- The public sector -- New York: 1868 -- Taboo topics -- Cheyenne: 1873 -- Paradigms of vice and virtue: a picture portfolio -- Rich men's idylls -- Salt Lake City: 1880 -- Poor men's dreams -- New Orleans: 1883 -- A nation of opposites: a picture portfolio -- Daring decades -- Chicago: 1899 -- Toward a new morality -- Lake Forest: 1953 -- A world gone mod: a picture portfolio.
The behavior of Americans from the Jamestown Colony in 1620 to the Americans of today is presented in text and illustrated with paintings, photographs, and drawings.
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U.S. --Social Life & Customs
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American manners and morals A picture history of how we behaved and misbehaved by Mary Cable - New York American Heritage Publishing Company 1969 - 399 pages
Includes Index
A fresh start -- Jamestown: 1612 -- Parlous times -- Albany: 1750 -- The colonial way: a picture portfolio -- Home rule -- Philadelphia: 1798 -- The common manners -- Boston: 1833 -- The young republic: a picture portfolio -- The inner sanctum -- Natchez: 1835 -- Golden moments -- Washington: 1857 -- Victorian vicissitudes: a picture portfolio -- The public sector -- New York: 1868 -- Taboo topics -- Cheyenne: 1873 -- Paradigms of vice and virtue: a picture portfolio -- Rich men's idylls -- Salt Lake City: 1880 -- Poor men's dreams -- New Orleans: 1883 -- A nation of opposites: a picture portfolio -- Daring decades -- Chicago: 1899 -- Toward a new morality -- Lake Forest: 1953 -- A world gone mod: a picture portfolio.
The behavior of Americans from the Jamestown Colony in 1620 to the Americans of today is presented in text and illustrated with paintings, photographs, and drawings.
8281-0023-3
U.S. --Social Life & Customs
917.3 Cab 15