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Author Baumgarten, Linda.

Title What clothes reveal : the language of clothing in colonial and federal America : the Colonial Williamsburg Collection / by Linda Baumgarten.

Publication Info. Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  391.0097 BAUMGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  391 BAU    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  391.00973 Q BAUMGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  391.00973 BAU    DUE 04-29-24
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  391.00973 Q BAUMGARTEN    Check Shelf
Description xii, 265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-257) and index.
Contents Introduction : collecting costumes at Colonial Williamsburg -- ch. 1. Costume : old and new connoisseurship -- ch. 2. The myths and meanings of clothing -- ch. 3. Homespun and silk : American clothing -- ch. 4. Common dress : clothing for daily life -- ch. 5. Cradle to coffin : life passages reflected in clothing -- ch. 6. Tailoring meaning : alterations in eighteenth-century clothing -- Conclusion : listening to clothes.
Subject Costume -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Added Author Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
ISBN 0879352167 hardcover alkaline paper
0300095805 hardcover alkaline paper
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