New England Furniture at Williamsburg
New England Furniture at Williamsburg

Author: Barry A. Greenlaw

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780879350192

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This catalog illustrates and describes 164 pieces of New England furniture in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, including examples of nearly every type of household furniture made and used during the colonial period.

A New Nation of Goods
A New Nation of Goods

Author: David Jaffee

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0812222008

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A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.

Harbor & Home
Harbor & Home

Author: Brock Jobe

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780912724683

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Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum

Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860
Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860

Author: Rosemary Troy Krill

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0759119465

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Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

A Barn in New England
A Barn in New England

Author: Joseph Monninger

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2001-09

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780811829748

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When this memoirist, his girlfriend, and her son move into a New Hampshire farm that needs love and care, fixing it up becomes an art form.

Inventing New England
Inventing New England

Author: Dona Brown

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 1997-11-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1560987995

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Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.