The American woman's home: or, Principles of domestic science being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes / By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The American woman's home: or, Principles of domestic science being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes / By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author:

Beecher, Catharine Esther 1800-1878. author

Title:

Publisher:

New York J.B. Ford and Company 1869.

Boston H.A. Brown and Company; [etc., et cetera] 1869.

Description:

[4], xii, [13]-500, [12] pages, [1] leaf of plates illus 21 cm

Related Elec. Res.:

Digital bookplate, CHMRB copy 39088001168145: http://www.sil.si.edu/link/?xmBB20

Digital bookplate, SCDIRB copy 39088012118428: http://www.sil.si.edu/link/?wjI4NY

Notes:

"University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge"--Verso of t.p

Added t.p., engraved

Includes index

The final 12 p. are publisher's advertisements

Contents:

Introduction -- The Christian family -- A Christian house -- A healthful home -- Scientific domestic ventilation -- Stoves, furnaces, and chimneys -- Home decoration -- The care of health -- Domestic exercise -- Healthful food -- Healthful drinks -- Cleanliness -- Clothing -- Good cooking -- Early rising -- Domestic manners -- Good temper in the housekeeper -- Habits of system and order -- Giving in charity -- Economy of time and expenses -- Health of mind -- The care of infants -- The management of young children -- Domestic amusements and social duties -- Care of the aged -- The care of servants -- Care of the sick -- Accidents and antidotes -- Sewing, cutting, and mending -- Fires and lights -- The care of rooms -- The care of yards and gardens -- The propagation of plants -- The cultivation of fruit -- The care of domestic animals -- Earth-closets -- Warming and ventilation -- Care of the homeless, the helpless, and the vicious -- The Christian neighborhood -- Appeal to the American women -- Glossary of words and references -- Analytical index

Local Note:

SCDIRB and CHMRB each have one copy.

CHMRB copy has barcode no. 39088001168145.

SCDIRB copy 39088012118428 has the publisher's gilt-stamped and blind-tooled green embossed-cloth binding with polished brown endpapers.

CHMRB copy 39088001168145 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by Stephen H. Van Dyk In honor of Lois and Raymond Chapman on November 16, 2016.

SCDIRB copy 39088012118428 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by Laura H. Peebles in honor of Katherine Peebles on December 23, 2020.

Subject:

Conduct of life

Home economics

Housekeeping -- United States -- 19th century

Women -- United States -- Conduct of life

Women -- United States -- Social life and customs

Household Work.

Économie domestique.

Femmes -- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes.

Travail domestique.

Travail domestique -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle.

home economics

Home economics

Housekeeping

Women -- Social life and customs

United States

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century

Bindings (Binding)

Manuals (Handbooks) -- 19th century -- Women authors

Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century

Wood engravings -- 19th century

Added Author:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896

Welch, Bigelow & Co. printer

Added Title:

American woman's home or domestic science

American woman's home

Principles of domestic science

Added Series:

Gerritsen collection of women's history ; no. 198.4

Catalog Source No.:

(OCoLC)7875017

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