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Author: DAR Museum (Denton, Tex.)
Publisher: University Press of America
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The DAR Museum collection.
Author: DAR Museum (Denton, Tex.)
Publisher: University Press of America
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The DAR Museum collection.
Author: William L. Bird, Jr.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616892757
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day, many of which have never been on display. Donated to the museum by generations of souvenir collectors, these ordinary objects of extraordinary circumstance all have amazing tales to tell about their roles in American history. Souvenir Nation presents fifty of the museum's most eccentric items. Objects include a chunk broken off Plymouth Rock; a lock of Andrew Jackson's hair; a dish towel used as the flag of truce to end the Civil War; the microphones used by FDR for his Fireside Chats; and the chairs that seated Nixon and Kennedy in their 1960 television debate.
Author: Judith A. Tyner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351897853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. Descriptions of these samplers stated that they were designed to teach needlework and geography. The focus of this book is not on stitches and techniques used in 'drafting' the maps, but rather why they were developed, how they diffused from the British Isles to the United States, and why they were made for such a brief time. The events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries stimulated an explosion of interest in geography. The American and French Revolutions, the wars between France and England, the War of 1812, Captain Cook's voyages, and the explorations of Lewis and Clark made the study of places exciting and important. Geography was the first science taught to girls in school. This period also coincided with major changes in educational theories and practices, especially for girls, and this book uses needlework maps and globes to chart a broader discussion of women's geographic education. In this light, map samplers and embroidered globes represent a transition in women's education from 'accomplishments' in the eighteenth century to challenging geographic education and conventional map drawing in schools and academies of the second half of the nineteenth century. There has been little serious study of these maps by cartographers and, moreover, historians of cartography have largely neglected the role of women in mapping. Children's maps have not been studied, although they might have much to offer about geographical teaching and perceptions of a period, and map samplers have been dismissed because they are the work of schoolgirls. Needlework historians, likewise, have not done in depth studies of map samplers until recently. Stitching the World is an interdisciplinary work drawing on cartography, needlework, and material culture. This book for the first time provides a critical analysis of these artefacts, showing that they offer significant insights into both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century geographic thought and cartography in the USA and the UK and into the development of female education.
Author: Carrie Rebora Barratt
Publisher:
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Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Author: Wees, Beth Carver
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394913
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Luke Beckerdite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874518511
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The articles in this volume were presented at "A Region of Regions: Cultural Diversity and the Furniture Trade in the Early South" -- a symposium co-sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation and the Williamsburg Institute in November 1997.
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ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher: MFA Publications
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds.
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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