| Description |
256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings ; 1998 |
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Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 1998.
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| Contents |
Repairs versus deception in Essex County cupboards, 1830-1890 / Richard F. Trent and Peter Follansbee -- Cabinetmaking practices in revolutionary Concord: new evidence / David F. Wood -- Capt. Abraham Knowlton, Joiner, and the seminal woodworkers of Ipswich, Massachusetts / Susan S. Nelson -- William Lloyd and the workmanship of change / Philip Zea -- Amzi Chapin: a New England cabinetmaker singing and working in the south and trans-Appalachian west / David C. Thomas and Peter Benes -- Artisan-entrepreneurs in Worcester County, Massachusetts / David P. Jaffee -- Sterling, Massachusetts: an early-nineteenth-century seat of chairmaking / Frank G. White -- The Briggs family business and furniture: a study of patronage and consumption in antebellum southwestern New Hampshire / Jason T. Busch -- Cheaper by the one-sixth dozen: Vermont's Patterson Chair Company / Kimberly King Zea -- Bottomed out: female chair seaters in nineteenth-century rural New England / Nan Wolverton -- Shaker furniture and Shaker architecture in Enfield, New Hampshire: reconstructing material life in form, time, and place / Robert P. Emlen -- Sewing desks: gender and appearance in Shaker communities and the world / Erin M. Budis -- The south Shaftsbury, Vermont, painted wooden chests / David Krashes -- The furniture of rural New England: a selected bibliography / Gerald W.R. Ward. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-251). |
| Subject |
Furniture making -- New England.
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Furniture workers -- New England.
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Furniture industry and trade -- New England.
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| Added Author |
Benes, Peter.
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Benes, Jane Montague.
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