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Text and pictures describe how craftsmen made hats in colonial America.Tags
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An interesting historical perspective on grievances of the American colonists struggling under British tyranny. London hatters were losing business to American hatters and influenced Parliament to pass a law prohibiting the exportation of hats from America to bolster the British hat making industry. It was called the Hat Act.
The book goes into detail about the beaver trade and how politics was driven by business. The final part of the book gives the details and names of the processes involved in creating a Colonial hat.
The book goes into detail about the beaver trade and how politics was driven by business. The final part of the book gives the details and names of the processes involved in creating a Colonial hat.
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Leonard Everett Fisher is a well-known and prolific author and illustrator of children's books. He has also written for adults and created illustrations for magazines. In addition, Fisher was dean of the Whitney School of Art and a visiting professor at a number of schools. Fisher was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York, and started to draw as a show more small child. After graduating from high school, he studied at Brooklyn College and then entered the army where he worked with a mapmaker. He holds a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. from Yale University. The first book that Fisher illustrated was The Exploits of Xenophon, written by Geoffrey Household and published in 1955. Fisher then illustrated and wrote numerous books himself. He is well known for the Colonial Americans series, for the Nineteenth-Century America series for young adults, and for many other nonfiction works. He has written two works for adults-Masterpieces of American Painting (1985) and Remington and Russell (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Hatters
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