The 1950s Kitchen
Written by Kathryn Ferry
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $12.95
The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen: labor-saving appliances, bright colors and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home. Formica - a new space-age material - decorated...
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The 1950s Kitchen
Written by Kathryn Ferry
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $9.95
The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen: labor-saving appliances, bright colors and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home. Formica - a new space-age material - decorated...
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The Little Guide to Vintage Shopping
Written by Melody Fortier
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Price: $18.95
A Modern Guide to Vintage
Vintage clothing offers couture quality at a fraction of the price. But how can you spot a Dior original in a rack stuffed with Little Black Dresses? Vintage-clothing dealer Melody Fortier demystifies the entire process so you’ll know just what to look for, what to...
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Confederate Currency
Written by Pierre Fricke
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
With the outbreak of the U. S. Civil War in 1861, the Confederate States of America began issuing its own paper money. Over the years, seven different series of currency were issued. Counterfeiting became a significant problem for the South, as did depreciation and inflation. By the end of the war...
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Confederate Currency
Written by Pierre Fricke
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.95
With the outbreak of the U. S. Civil War in 1861, the Confederate States of America began issuing its own paper money. Over the years, seven different series of currency were issued. Counterfeiting became a significant problem for the South, as did depreciation and inflation. By the end of the war...
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Railway Posters
Written by Lorna Frost
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $12.95
Railway posters have a huge appeal to the modern audience, but just what is it that appeals to us? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the persuasive power of the railway company marketing departments established in the late nineteenth century...
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Railway Posters
Written by Lorna Frost
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Railway posters have a huge appeal to the modern audience, but just what is it that appeals to us? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the persuasive power of the railway company marketing departments established in the late nineteenth century...
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Susie Says
Written by Gina Garan
Text by Justin Vivian Bond
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $19.95
Consummate doll collector and wildly successful author of
This Is Blythe (Chronicle Books, 2000) Gina Garan rediscovers the chic and unsettling allure of doe-eyed “Susie Sad Eyes,” that triste, young, and neglected 70s fashion doll.
Susie Says features over 60 photographs of Susie on an ubër-fashiona- ble American tour in a range...
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Delivering Views
Distant Cultures in Early Postcards
Edited by Christraud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb
Format: Hardcover, 199 pages
On Sale: April 17, 1998
Price: $57.95
The heyday of postcard production was also an era of rapidly expanding European and American control over the rest of the world. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, images of distant peoples from the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia became ubiquitous souvenirs of imperialism.
The six contributors to this abundantly...
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