WINTERTHUR PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN CULTURE THESIS LIST:
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Ahara, Kimberley A.
Marie Zimmerman : master of a dozen crafts. 2006.
Ahlborn, Richard E.
Spanish colonial woodcarving in New Mexico, 1598-1848. 1958.
Alevizatos, Alexandra A.
"Procured of the best and most fashionable materials": the furniture and furnishings of the Lloyd family, 1750-1850. 1999.
Alexander, Eleanor.
A uniquely American watering hole: the drugstore fountain at the turn of the century. 1986.
Anderson, Hilary.
Earning a living in eighteenth century Boston: silversmith Zachariah Brigden. 1996.
Anderson-Lawrence, Jennifer.
The Colonial Revival at Cliveden. 1991.
Appleby, Mary E.
The Gorham Company's Martele line of silver: an analysis of the consumer and commercial strategy of the company. 1998.
Arthur, Catherine Rogers.
Potthast Bros., Inc.: Baltimore furniture craftsmen, 1892-1975. 1999.
Ayres, William S.
"A poor sort of heaven, a good sort of earth": the Rose Valley arts and crafts experiment, 1901-1910. 1982.
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Bacon, John Mark.
Delaware Valley slatback chairs: a formal and analytical survey. 1991.
Bahnemann, Greta L.
George Maher's Rockledge: a study in architecture, patronage, and consumption. 1994.
Baker, Gary Everett.
The flint glass industry in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1829-1865. 1986.
Barnes, Jairus B.
Brownwood, a federal house in the Western Reserve. 1969.
Barquist, David Lawrence.
The meaning of taste for wealthy Philadelphians, 1750-1800. 1991.
Barrett, Justina C.
William Penn's chair and George Washington's hair : the political and commercial meanings of objects at the Philadelphia Great Central Fair, 1864. 2005
Beasley, Ellen.
Samuel Williamson, Philadelphia silversmith, 1794-1813. 1964.
Beckham, Kathryn A.
"The Gate City" : artistry and identity in an American historical pageant. 2006.
Beels, Jessica H.
"I hate pretty work": Madeline Yale Wynne and the American craft revival. 1995.
Bensch, Christopher Lynn.
Cincinnati's centennial exposition and the circus. 1981.
Berlekamp, Linda Baumgarten.
The textile trade in Boston, 1650-1700. 1976.
Bernabo, Russell Paul
Henry Francis du Pont's interior design aesthetic and Winterthur's Flock Room. 1989.
Bizier, Karen.
Silver or scarcity: the material culture of early nineteenth century Fairfax County, Virginia. 1989.
Bogansky, Amy E.
The devil's servants : satire in colonial America and the visual language of conflict. 2006.
Borchert, Carole E.
The inventory of Lucretia Constance Radcliffe: the material world of elites in federal period Charleston. 1996.
Borkan, Christine Edwards.
Ohio choices: wall stenciling in the Western Reserve before 1860. 1990.
Brandt, Tova Karissa.
The sheet music collection of Eliza Ridgely, 1808-1867. 2001.
Bresnan, Lauren L.
The Beekman's of New York: material possession and social progression. 1996.
Bray, Derin T.
Urban craft in rural Massachusetts : the Weymouth cabinetmaking shop of Abiel White. 2006.
Brocklebank, Lynn A.
Wilmington, Delaware tall case clocks, 1740-1840. 1991.
Brooks, Bradley C.
The social functions of alcohol in eighteenth century Maryland. 1987.
Brown, Margaret A.
Ambition in brick: the William Brown House, 1758-1785. 1984.
Brown, Michael Kevin.
Duncan Phyfe. 1978.
Brown, Robert Frank.
Front Street, New Castle, Delaware, architecture & building practices, 1687-1859. 1961.
Brownell, Charles E.
In the American style of Italian: the E. C. Hitchfield villa. 1970.
Brucken, Carolyn E.
Victorian privacy: an analysis of bedrooms in American middle-class homes from 1850-1860. 1991.
Brunk, Andrew J.
"To fix the taste of our country properly": the French style in Philadelphia interiors, 1788-1800. 2000.
Buchanan, Melissa D.
"Fairy habitations of the mimic city" : sacred Victorian cottages at Chester Heights camp meeting. 2005.
Buggeln, Gretchen T
See Townsend, Gretchen C.
Busch, Jason T.
"Such a paradise can be made on earth": furniture patronage and consumption in antebellum Natchez, Mississippi, 1828-1863. 1998.
Butler, Joseph Thomas.
Wheatland, 1848-1868: the home of James Buchanan. 1957.
Butler, Patrick Henry.
On the memorial art of tidewater Virginia, 1650-1775. 1969.
Butler, William J. H.
Another city upon a hill: Litchfield, Connecticut and the Colonial Revival. 1983.
Byrd, Dana Ellen.
The paradox of good intentions : John Needles, cabinetmaker in antebellum Baltimore. 2005.
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Caldwell, Desiree.
Germanic influences on Philadelphia early Georgian seating furniture. 1985.
Calvert, Karin Lee Fishbeck.
The perception of childhood in America, 1670-1870. 1979.
Cantor, Jay E.
The public architecture of James Renwick, Jr. 1967.
Carlisle, Nancy Camilla.
A reflection of the times: the looking glass in the eighteenth century America. 1983.
Carr, Dennis Andrew.
Optical machines, prints and gentility in early America. 1999.
Carson, Barbara L.
See Gilbert, Barbara F.
Carson, Cary.
Settlement patterns and vernacular architecture in seventeenth century Tidewater, Virginia. 1969.
Carter, Sarah A.
Reflecting self-image : "Girlhood" interiors 1875-1910. 2004.
Cassidy, Anne Ricard.
Furniture in upstate New York, 1760-1840: the Glen-Saunders collection. 1981.
Castrodale, Anne.
Daniel Trotter, Philadelphia cabinetmaker. 1962.
Catalano, Kathleen Matilda.
Cabinet making in Philadelphia, 1820-1840. 1972.
Caton, Mary Anne.
"Proof of good intention": modernization at James T. Mullin and Sons, Wilmington, Delaware, 1900-1930. 1993.
Cayford, Jane Louise.
The Sullivan-Door House in Providence, Rhode Island. 1961.
Chase, Juliet B.
Keeping up appearances: furnishings of American embassies in Europe. 1996.
Cheek, Mary M.
The cooperative venture of the Union Glass Works, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1826-1842. 1995.
Clark, Raymond B., Jr.
Jonathan Gostelowe (1744-1795): Philadelphia cabinetmaker. 1956.
Cline, Emily C.
Fashioning Quaker identity : nineteenth-century women's clothing in the Friends' Historical Association collection. 2005.
Clowes, Jody Elizabeth.
An inquisition of deposition: late eighteenth century ceramics from two Wilmington, Delaware archaeological sites. 1988.
Clunie, Margaret Burke.
Salem federal furniture, vols. 1-2. 1976.
Coffey, Rachel.
Negotiating tradition and technology: Benziger Brother's trade catalogues of church goods, 1879-1937. 2001.
Cohen, Kenneth.
Billiards in American culture, 1660-1860. 2002.
Cogswell, Elizabeth Wayland Agee.
The Henry Lippitt House: a document of life and taste in mid-Victorian America. 1981.
Cole, Maureen O'Brien.
James Akin, engraver and social critic. 1967.
Cole, Wilford P.
Henry Hawkins, engraver. 1966.
Combs, Amber Auld.
Henry Chapman Mercer and the furniture of Fonthill. 1998.
Connolly, Marguerite Alexandra.
Dressing for the occasion: the differentiation of women's costume in America, 1770-1910. 1988.
Conradsen, David H.
Ease and economy: the Hancocks and the development of spring-seat upholstery in America. 1998.
Cooke, Edward Strong, Jr.
The selective taste: furniture in Stratford, Connecticut, 1740-1800. 1979.
Cooney, Alice Knotts Bossert.
Ornamental painting in Boston, 1790-1830. 1978.
Cooper, Wendy A.
The furniture and furnishings of John Brown, merchant of Providence, 1736-1803. 1971.
Corrigan, Karina.
Edith Blake Brown and the rise of professional interior design. 2001.
Cottrell, Robert Curtice.
Town planning in New Castle, Delaware, 1797-1838. 1981.
Cox, Jonathan P.
Woodworkers in Allentown, Salisbury Township, and Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, 1753-1805: a study of community and craft. 1982.
Cox, Ruth Yvonne.
Textiles used in Philadelphia, 1760-1775. 1960.
Creer, Doris Jean.
Thomas Birch: a study of the condition of painting and the artist's position in federal America. 1958.
Croft, Catherine F. A.
British architectural criticism of the 1930s: reactions to modernism. 1991.
Cross, Jody E.
"That which she calls her own": gender and material culture in early Philadelphia wills. 2001.
Curtis, Philip H.
Tucker porcelain, 1826-1838. 1972.
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Dangremond, David W.
The Highlands: the country seat of Anthony Morris. 1981.
Dann, Catherine Christie.
'Governments, individuals and old houses': the slate roof house of Philadelphia. 2000.
Davis, John D.
The evolution of the early American silver spoon, ca. 1650-ca.1850. 1962.
Davis, Kathryn Jo.
Warne and Letts stoneware: a case study in ceramic interpretation. 1988.
Degn, Amber Elizabeth.
"Houses from the Reservoirs of Memory": G. Edward Brumbaugh and the restoration of early Pennsylvania architecture. 2000.
Deitz, Lois A.
John Fanning Watson : looking ahead with a backwards glance. 2004.
Delphia, Rachel E.
Design to enable the body : Thomas Lamb's wedge-lock handle, 1941-1962. 2005.
Demer, John H.
Jedediah North's tinner's tool business. 1973.
Denbar, Cheryl Irene.
Affectionate remembrances: Abby Rockefeller, Lucy Truman Aldrich, and the case for cooperative collecting. 2001.
Denker, Ellen Paul.
"Forever getting up something new": the Kirkpatrick's pottery at Anna, Illinois, 1859-1896. 1978.
Dennis, Gail Lorene.
American factory-made parlor suites. 1982.
DeNood, Lavinia.
The Thomas Kennedy House near Paris, Kentucky, analysis, context, and restoration. 1984.
Dependahl, Deborah Louise.
John Fanning Watson, historian, 1779-1860. 1971.
DeSilva, Ronald Anthony.
William James Bennett: painter and engraver. 1970.
Deutsch, Alexandra.
George Christian Gebelein: the craft and business of a "modern Paul Revere".
1995.
Dickinson, Cynthia S.
Creating a world of books, friends, and flowers: gift books in America, 1825-1860. 1995.
Dietz, Ulysses Grant.
The decorative lighting devices of Dietz and Company of New York, 1840-1975. 1980.
Disviscour, Jeannine A.
Treen in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1683-1787: a contextual analysis. 1991.
Donaghy, Elisabeth.
Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, unsuccessful civil and natural historian in revolutionary America. 1970.
Donnis, Erica H.
The conception of a country residence: Shelburne House, 1887-1900. 1998.
Doud, Richard Keith.
John Hesselius: his life and work. 1963.
Douglas, Diane Miriam.
A semiotic approach to meaning in historical archaeology: examining ceramics from a Wilmington, Delaware site. 1982.
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Ebel, Sarah C.
Selling and stereoscopy: reading “A Visit to Sears,
Roebuck & Co.” 2007.
Ehninger, Jillian.
"With the richest ornaments just imported from France": ornamental hardware on Boston, New York and Philadelphia furniture, 1880-1840. 1993.
Eisenbarth, Erin E.
Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing. 2002.
Eldredge, Jessica June.
"In themselves a textile museum": the formation of the textile collection of the
H. F. du Pont Winterthur Museum. 1999.
Ellesin, Dorothy Elaine.
Woodlawn Plantation. 1968.
Elliott, Mary Jane.
Lexington, Kentucky, 1792-1820: the Athens of the West. 1973.
Elterich, Allison Wehr.
'For private Families, put up in the compleatest manner, with ample directions': domestic medicine chests. 2000.
Engimann, Melissa E.
Putting historic preservation into practice : the friends of the Caleb Pusey House, Inc. and the 20th-century restoration of a 17th-century Pennsylvania home. 2006.
Erbes, Scott Steven.
The ready-cut dream: the mail order house catalogs of the Aladdin Company, 1906- 1990. 1990.
Ermenec, Christine.
Farmers and aesthetes: a social history of the Cornish Art Colony and its relationship with the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, 1885-1930. 1981.
Ernay, Renee Lynn.
The Revere Furnace, 1787-1800. 1989.
Ettema, Michael John.
Technological innovation and design economics in American furniture manufacture of the nineteenth century. 1981.
Evans, Nancy Goyne.
See Goyne, Nancy Ann.
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Failey, Dean Frederick.
Elias Pelletreau, Long Island silversmith. 1971.
Fairbanks, Jonathan.
John Notman, church architect. 1961.
Fales, Martha Gandy.
See Gandy, Martha F.
Falk, Cynthia G.
Evidence of ethnicity and status in the architectural landscape of eighteenth century Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 1996.
Fanelli, Doris Devine.
The building and furniture trades in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1750-1800. 1979.
Fayen, Sarah N.
Tilt-top tables: commodities in eighteenth-century America. 2002.
Federhen, Deborah Anne.
Paul Revere, silversmith: a study of his shop operation and his objects. 1988.
Fennimore, Donald L.
Elegant patterns of uncommon good taste: domestic silver by Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner. 1971.
Findlen, Suzanne Rae.
Taste and choice in early Portsmouth, N.H. as seen through ceramic archaeological evidence, 1700-1860. 2001.
Finkel, Susan Ruth.
Victorian photography and carte de visite albums, 1860-1880. 1984.
Fitzpatrick, Margaret Mary.
Forty Acres, a New England homestead and its owners, 1752-1814. 1976.
Forman, Benno M.
The seventeenth century case furniture of Essex County, Massachusetts and its makers. 1968.
Fowble, Eleanore McSherry.
A century of the nude in American art, 1750-1850. 1967.
Frang, Joanna F.
Image and object 19th century American collections of East Indian paintings on mica. 2003.
Freeman, John Crosby.
Forgotten rebel : Gustav Stickley. 1964.
Friedman, Maxine Carol.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home: the trade cards of the New Home Sewing Machine Company. 1984.
Fuchs, Ronald W.
"A Venice glass of sack": elite dining in seventeenth century Virginia. 1996.
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Gadsden, Eleanore Parker.
From traditional cabinetmaking to entrepreneurial production: David Evans (1748-1819). 2000.
Gallagher, Jennie N.
The work of little hands : handicraft instruction books in the collection of the Winterthur Library. 2005.
Gandy, Martha Lou.
Joseph Richardson, Quaker silversmith. 1954.
Garcia, Rebecca J.
Pigments and pianos : painter and
varnisher Lyman White. 2007.
Garfinkel, Susan Laura.
Discipline, discourse and deviation: the material life of Philadelphia Quakers. 1986.
Garrett, Elizabeth W.
Entertainment of the most beautiful kind : the house of William and Harriet Aiken.
2005.
Garrett, Wendell Douglas.
The Newport Rhode Island interior, 1780-1800. 1957.
Garrison, Nancy Lee.
The transformation of a country house: the Grange Estate, 1700-1850. 1989.
Garvin, James L.
Bradbury Johnson, builder-architect. 1969.
Gibson, Gayle.
The early career of William C. Pahlmann, 1936-1942. 1990.
Gibson, Heather.
Embroidered history and familiar patterns : textiles as expressions of Hmong and Mennonite lives. 2006.
Gilbert, Barbara L.
American crewel-work, 1700-1850. 1965.
Gilborn, Craig A.
The literary work of the Reverend Samuel Davies. 1961.
Gilruth, Mary Marjorie.
The importation of English earthenware into Philadelphia, 1770-1800. 1964.
Giordano, Megan M.
Artistry and industry in Cast Iron: Batso, France, 1766-1840. 2005.
Giuriceo, Judy M.
"This city by the sea": recreation and re-creation at South Beach, Staten Island, 1886-1898. 1994.
Gleason, Jude C.
A house in a most singular style: John Penn's The Solitude. 2002.
Gleason, Tara Louise.
From goldsmith to merchant: the craft and commerce of Benjamin Greene. 1996.
Glesmann, Amanda J.
Sentimental journey: envisioning the American past in George Henry Boughton's Pilgrims going to church. 2002.
Gobrecht, Larry E.
Edward Nathaniel Parker Wills: in search of the suburban ideal. 1980.
Goodman, Rhonda Christina.
Denmark Vesey and the slave insurrection trial narratives: the African-American social landscape of antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. 2000.