| 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, N.Y.: Printed by Doubleday,Doran, & Co., 1934.
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| Description | xxvi, 302 p., col. front., illus., plates (part col.), ports. maps, facsims 26 cm.
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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, ca. 1600-1775.
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| Other Authors | Tower, Elizabeth. joint author.
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| | WRHS Research Library: N 611 A6 H3
mq117546: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 65825] |
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