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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | NK2003.5 .C74 1989 | Off-site |
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- 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