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Newcomb pottery & crafts : an educational enterprise for women, 1895-1940 / Jessie Poesch with Sally Main ; marks and dating by Walter Bob.

Title
Newcomb pottery & crafts : an educational enterprise for women, 1895-1940 / Jessie Poesch with Sally Main ; marks and dating by Walter Bob.
Author
Poesch, Jessie J.
Publication
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Main, Sally.
  • Bob, Walter.
Description
320 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.
Series Statement
A Schiffer book for collectors
Uniform Title
Schiffer book for collectors
Alternative Title
Newcomb pottery and crafts
Subject
  • Newcomb College. Art Department
  • Newcomb pottery
  • Art pottery, American > New Orleans > 20th century
  • Decorative arts > New Orleans > History > 20th century
  • Pottery > Study and teaching (Higher) > New Orleans
  • Women potters > New Orleans
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-[307]) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The roots of an enterprise -- The experiment begins. Formative years, 1894-1902 -- An arts and crafts spirit, 1902-1910 -- A professional plant, 1910-1918. Other crafts expand -- A change of place. Changes in personnel. Other crafts expand, 1919-1940 -- Marks and makers -- Basic marks and dating / by Walter Bob -- The potters and ceramists -- The craftsmen.
ISBN
0764318470 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2003008382
OCLC
52057958
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library