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Creating a dignified past : museums and the colonial revival

Title
Creating a dignified past : museums and the colonial revival / Geoffrey L. Rossano, editor.
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : Historic Cherry Hill ; Lanham, Md. : AASLH Library, ©1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Rossano, Geoffrey Louis.
  • Historic Cherry Hill (Museum : Albany, N.Y.)
Description
129 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1918
  • Interior decoration > United States > History > 19th century
  • Decoration and ornament > United States > Victorian style
  • Colonial revival (Art) > United States
  • Art and society > United States
  • Historical museums > United States
  • Décoration intérieure > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
  • Décoration et ornement > États-Unis > Style victorien
  • Néo-colonial (Art) > États-Unis
  • Art et société > États-Unis
  • Histoire > Musées > États-Unis
  • Art and society
  • Civilization
  • Colonial revival (Art)
  • Decoration and ornament > Victorian style
  • Historical museums
  • Interior decoration
  • United States > Civilization > 1865-1918
  • États-Unis > Civilisation > 1865-1918
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Papers from a symposium sponsored by Historic Cherry Hill, Albany, N.Y., Oct. 24-25, 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Geoffrey Rossano -- Looking Backward to the Future: The Colonial Revival and American Culture / Harvey Green -- Cherry Hill: The Evolution of a Colonial Revival Home, 1882-1955 / Jacqueline Calder -- A New Look at Colonial Williamsburg / Betty Crowe Leviner -- Pennypacker Mills: A Nineteenth-Century Historian's Vision of the Past / Margaretta Sander -- The Colonial Revival: New Words for an Old Book / Ellen M. Rosenthal -- The Wadsworth-Longfellow House: From History Maker to Myth Maker / Elizabeth J. Miller -- Tea in Yorktown Parlor: Wallace Nutting's Legacy at the Joseph Webb House / Douglas Kendall -- Museums and the Colonial Revival: A Roundtable Discussion -- Contributors -- Suggested Readings -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0802600344
  • 9780802600349
LCCN
89049042
OCLC
  • ocm20828142
  • 20828142
  • SCSB-1910697
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library