Old-Fashioned Farm Life Coloring Book - (Dover History Coloring Book) by A G Smith & Peter H Cousins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Forty-three accurately rendered illustrations depict preparation of foods, churning butter, shearing sheep, mowing hay, plowing, planting, other farm activities. Fact-filled captions. Published in association with Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Life on a farm before the advent of tractors relied on horse-drawn equipment and the skills and labor of many people, as the detailed drawings in this fascinating book reveal. Accurately rendered by A. G. Smith, 43 ready-to-color illustrations depict a wide variety of farm activities in mid-nineteenth-century America.<br>Based on scenes re-created on the Firestone Farm at historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, the drawings include authentically detailed views of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, gathering pumpkins, harvesting and sugaring off maple syrup), as well as plowing, planting, caring for livestock, splitting firewood, raising a barn, and many other activities.<br>Peter H. Cousins, Curator of Agriculture at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, has written an informative introduction and provided fact-filled captions for this entertaining and educational view of life in bygone rural America.
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