{"product_id":"2073905","title":"Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915: Including an Account of Settlement and Changes in Agricultural Practices","description":"xxxii, 528 pp. 11 x 9. An exhaustive pictorial history of barns in the Genesee Country region, representing over 200 years of barn architecture, with hundreds of illustrations, including contemporary woodcuts, advertisements, and photographs, and with first-hand accounts and diaries of the period. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; Genesee Country Portfolio; The Fertile Land of the Genesee; Log Barns and Cabins; Experiments in Land Speculation; Diary: Anonymous, West Bloomfield, 1814; Diary: Thayer Gauss, Bloomfield, 1826-1858; Steamboats, Roads and the Triumph of Canals; Hewn Timber-Framed English Barns; Diary: Sheffield Peabody, Springwater, 1849-1869; Bank Barns and Other Enlarged Gable-Roofed Barns; Diary: Some Winter Thoughts by L.E., 1859-60; Mills and the Sawn Timber-Framed Barn; Cobblestone Construction; Diary: Philo Hampton's Book, Ossian, 1853-77; Greek, Gothic and Other Decorative Barns; A Crop Sampler; Horticulture; Railroads Change the Genesee Country; Nineteenth Century Agricultural Implement Manufacturing in the Genesee Country; Gambrel-Roofed Barns; Agricultural Information in Almanacs, Periodicals, Manuals, at Colleges and Fairs; Livestock; Diary: Jennie Mather, Livonia, 1867; Barn Arrangements; The Black and White Farm Barn; Changing Sources of Power on the Farm; Truss Framed Barns; Diary: Seneca Owen, Pulteney, 1908-1912; Wells Barns; Modern Materials in Barn Construction; Endnotes; APPENDICES: Notice to New Settlers; Jennings Broadside; Barn Evolution; Photographing Interiors; Bibliography; Index; Addendum.","brand":"James Brunner, Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12595225690182,"sku":"2073905","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2073905.jpg?v=1571421695","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2073905","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}