Salt lantern : traces of an American family /

As a child growing up in Pipestone, Minnesota, in the 1930s, William Morgan marveled over his great-grandmother's salt-filled chimney lantern. Full of sea salt and mementos and drawings that commemorated her British home and her journey to America in 1855, this Victorian artifact became the ins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgan, William Towner
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1997.
Colección:American land and life series.
Temas:
Morgan, William Towner > Family.
Holliday family.
Brown family.
Morgan family.
Stanard family.
Halliday (Famille)
Brown (Famille)
Brown family
Holliday family
Morgan family
Morgan, William Towner
Stanard family
Vernacular architecture > Minnesota > Pipestone County.
Architecture vernaculaire > Minnesota > Pipestone (Comté)
HISTORY > State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Families
Vernacular architecture
Pipestone County (Minn.) > Biography.
Goodhue County (Minn.) > Biography.
North Dakota > Biography.
Dakota du Nord > Biographies.
Minnesota > Goodhue County
Minnesota > Pipestone County
North Dakota
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Spaces and Places of My Childhood
  • My Journey to Field Head, England
  • My Journey to Ecclefechan, Scotland
  • The Hallidays' Journey to America
  • My Journey to Checkerberry Village, Vermont
  • The Wisconsin Experience and the Landscape of War
  • The Stannards of Taylors Falls, Minnesota
  • The Hallidays, Hollidays and Browns of Goodhue County, Minnesota
  • The Browns of Pipestone County, Minnesota
  • North Dakota Pioneers: The Hallidays, Hollidays, and Stramblads
  • My Journey to Glencolumbkille, Ireland
  • My Father's Story
  • Conclusion and Family Album
  • Appendix 1. "Weighed in the Balance"
  • Appendix 2. The Architecture of a Craftsman Bungalow
  • Appendix 3. Gen. George J. Stannard, Frogotten Hero of the Civil War
  • Appendix 4. "Fifteen Months on a North Dakota Claim."

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