Picture the Past: Life in Colonial America, Historical Coloring Book (Picture the Past Historical Coloring Books) - Softcover

Copeland, Peter F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486852261 ISBN 13: 9780486852263

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2023

Synopsis

Take a journey back in time and learn all about American life during the pre-Revolutionary era. This fascinating book illustrates how settlers of colonial America persevered to establish a lasting foothold in the New World. The 44 detailed drawings begin in the early seventeenth century with the arrival of Europeans on the shores of the Atlantic and conclude with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Images also depict how the colonists lived, dressed, and traveled, as well as renderings of famous colonists and adventurers, Native American inhabitants, and the beginning of the slave trade. Each image is accompanied by a fact-filled descriptive caption and can be colored with pencils, pens, or crayons. Both educational and entertaining, this unique coloring book is sure to appeal to teachers, students, and history buffs ages 9 and up.

About this title

About the Author

Peter F. Copeland was a freelance illustrator best known for a historical series of Dover coloring books. He passed away in December 2007 at his home in Virginia. Mr. Copeland wrote and illustrated books for Dover and others from 1974 to until 2006, and most of his books are still in print.  Mr. Copeland was a merchant marine during World War II, serving on a tanker hauling aviation fuel to the Pacific. He then spent two years in the Army Transportation Corps, where he became proficient as an artist while drawing military vehicles, aircraft, and ships, which led to a freelance career as an illustrator and author of historical books and magazine articles. In the 1950s, Mr. Copeland worked at the Smithsonian as chief of the illustration department for the old Museum of History and Technology exhibitions, where he also worked as a writer and historical researcher on exhibitions dealing with the history of military aviation and ballooning. Mr. Copeland joined the Company of Military Historians in 1959 and was elected a fellow in 1964. He received its Distinguished Service Award in 2001 and 2007.
He was a volunteer civilian combat artist in Vietnam in 1967, and contributed more than 40 paintings to the Army War Art Collection. Copeland left the Smithsonian in 1973 and became a full-time freelancer. In 1977 he worked as a consultant on a nautical archeological project in the Bahamas and West Indies. He was part of a project to combine photography with underwater drawing of an 18th-century shipwreck, drawing with grease pencils on plexiglass while diving the wreck. He later created detailed watercolors of the ship.

From the Back Cover

History comes alive in the Picture the Past(TM) coloring book series!
Take a journey back in time and learn about American life during the pre-Revolutionary era. This fascinating book illustrates how settlers of colonial America persevered to establish a lasting foothold in the New World.

• Forty-four detailed drawings begin with Europeans arriving on Atlantic shores in the early seventeenth century and end with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
• Each image is accompanied by a fact-filled descriptive caption.
• Add color to the striking scenes with pencils, pens, or crayons.
• A valuable resource for parents, teachers, librarians, and history buffs ages 9 and up.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486852261
• ISBN 13: 9780486852263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48