Books written by Irwin Richman

The Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Peter Seibert , director of the Heritage Center Museum , and his staff have helped in collecting many of the illustrations I have used . My thanks go to Wendell Zercher , Kimberly A. Fortney , Sandra Lane , and Sheila Rohrer , all of ...
The Catskills in Vintage Postcards

My colleagues and the staff at Penn State - Harrisburg have , as always , been very supportive . Bill Mahar , my school director , has always done his extraordinary best on my behalf , as has Howard Sachs , our associate dean for ...
The Photography of Henry K. Landis: Pennsylvania and New York, 1886-1955

The professional staff at the Landis Valley Museum has been especially supportive, beginning with Director James Lewars. Bruce Bomberger, Nicole Wagner, and Jennifer Royer have curatorial responsibility for the Landis Valley ...
Borscht Belt Bungalows: Memoirs Of Catskill Summers

Staff endured campers. Central to the camp was the "head counselor," or "camp director," who was usually a New York City school teacher or — more rarely — a suburban school teacher. The head counselor was paid a salary and provided with ...
Heritage Gardens, Heirloom Seeds: Melded Cultures with a Pennsylvania German Accent

This book is sure to delight historians, traditionalists, green thumbs, and horticulturists alike.
The Graphic Flower: Ray Flowers and Roses in American Art and Culture

Both high culture and pop culture embrace floral imagery; think of Annie Liebovitz's famous nude photograph of Bette Midler blanketed in long-stemmed American Beauties on the cover of Rolling Stone, or zombies featured in a Wars of the ...
The Graphic Vegetable: Food and Art from America's Soil

"Still lifes, photographs, amusing antique postcards, seed packet art--all sorts of vegetable illustrations have been created to arouse physical and aesthetic appetites, and they are displayed here together with interesting botanical and ...
Yesterday's Farm Tools and Equipment

This book extends the reach of the museum's collections to interested people worldwide.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Postcards: Featuring the Collection of the Landis Valley Museum

The history of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is visually presented through the words of a venerable historian and striking images compiled from old photographs, advertising pieces, and postcards that relate the cultural diversity apparent ...
Seed Art: The Package Made Me Buy It

Artwork created to sell flower and vegetable seeds to the public is bright, eye-catching, and tempting. It reflects the fantasy that any novice gardener can grow beautiful plants just by buying the seeds. This is not a new phenomenon.
German Architecture in America: Folk House, Your House, Bauhaus, and More

In this book, a fascinating text is peppered with over 300 historical and contemporary photographs that illustrate powerful as well as quaint German-style buildings throughout America.
Sullivan County: Borscht Belt

Here are the large towns of Liberty, Monticello, and Ellenville and the small towns of Woodbourne, Hasbrouck, South Fallsburg, Livingston Manor, Fallsburg, Loch Sheldrake, Greenfield Park, Mountaindale, Accord, Ulster Heights, Kiamesha Lake ...
The Catskills in Vintage Postcards

This fascinating new history of the Catskills of New York showcases more than two hundred of the best, most evocative vintage postcards available.
Catskill Hotels

Catskill Hotels, with a collection of some two hundred images, tells the story of this world, which began with America's first resort hotel, the Catskill Mountain House, continued with places such as the world-famous Grossinger's, and can ...