| Author | Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942.
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| Title | The homes of our ancestors as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York : from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old world a style of their own; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms / By R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower; illustrated with many ... plates.
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| Published | Garden City, L.I. : Printed by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., at the Country Life Press, 1935.
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| Description | xxvi, 302 p., [164] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., map, plan, facsims. ; 26 cm.
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| General Note | Includes index.
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| Subjects | Architecture, Colonial.
Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
Art objects -- United States.
Furniture -- United States.
Interior decoration.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.
United States -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, (1600-1775)
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| Other Authors | Tower, Elizabeth.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: N 611 A6 H3 1935
mq29973: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 22860] |
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