| Title | The American home : material culture, domestic space, and family life / edited by Eleanor McD. Thompson.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Published | Winterthur, DE : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover, NH : Distributed by University Press of New England, c1998.
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| Description | viii, 323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-912724-49-8 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 978-0-912724-49-2 (cloth) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: "Appearance and effect is everything" : the James River houses of Samuel, Joseph, and George Cabell / Marlene Elizabeth Heck -- Racial equality begins at home : Frederick Douglass's challenge to American domesticity / Sarah Luria -- Manufacturing and marketing the American bungalow : the Aladdin Company, 1906-20 / Scott Erbes -- Household encounters : servants, slaves, and mistresses in early Washington / Barbara G. Carson, Ellen Kirven Donald, Kym S. Rice -- Everyday life on a Berkshire County hill farm : documentation from the 1794-1835 diary of Sarah Snell Bryant of Cummington, Massachusetts / Jane C. Nylander -- The Madisons at Montpelier : a presidential duplex in the Virginia Piedmont / Conover Hunt -- Own your own home : S.E. Gross, the great domestic promoter / Emily Clark -- Standard of living in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake : an archeological perspective / Dennis J. Pogue -- The evolution of the house in early Virginia / Jan K. Gilliam -- "In the middle of this poverty some cups and a teapot" : the furnishing of slave quarters at colonial Williamsburg / Martha B. Katz-Hyman -- "They are very handy" : kitchen furnishings, 1875-1920 / Olive Blair Graffam -- The wealth of a rebellion that was : the material culture and domestic space of Bacon's rebellion in Virginia, 1677 / John H. Sprinkle, Jr. -- Safety and danger in a Puritan home : life in the Hull-Sewall house, 1676-1717 / Marion Nelson Winship -- Race, realism, and the documentation of the rural home during America's Great Depression / James C. Curtis -- Scrapbook houses : a late nineteenth-century children's view of the American home / Rodris Roth.
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| Subjects | Aladdin Company.
Bungalows -- United States.
Prefabricated houses -- United States.
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| Other Authors | Thompson, Eleanor McD.
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| LC Card Number | 98-21941 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: NA 8480 A512 1998
mq242271: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 145295] |
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