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Early American Material Culture: Books Online
Furniture
Early American Material Culture: Books Online : Furniture
Following are lists of books publicly available online on the topics of Early American (pre-1850) architecture, furniture, metalwork, pottery, more.
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Titles are arranged chronologically.
Furniture
The Colonial Furniture of New England (1891)
Lyon, Irving Whitall
Colonial Furniture and Interiors (c 1896)
Elwell, Newton W.
The Furniture of Our Forefathers (1901)
Singleton, Esther
Colonial Furniture in America (1902)
Lockwood, Luke Vincent
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings (1912)
Northend, Mary Harrod
The Practical Book of Period Furniture.... (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson
The Wood-carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire, His Life and Work (1916)
Cousins, Frank
A Windsor Handbook... (1917)
Nutting, Wallace
Furniture of the Olden Time (1920 ed.)
Morse, Frances Clary
The Charm of the Antique (1921)
Shackleton, Robert and Elizabeth
Furniture of the Pilgrim Century... (1921 ed.)
Nutting, Wallace
Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe (1922)
Cornelius, Charles Over
Working Drawings of Colonial Furniture (c1922)
Bryant, Frederick John
English and American Furniture (1929)
Cescinsky, Herbert
Simple Colonial Furniture (1935)
Gottshall, Franklin H.
In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America (1971)
Heckscher, Morrison H.
Baltimore Federal Furniture in The American Wing (1972)
Bordes, Marilynn Johnson
American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Late Colonial Period. Vol. II, The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (1985)
Heckscher, Morrison H.
American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650–1800 (1991)
Kenny, Peter M.
American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament (1992)
Heckscher, Morrison H., and Leslie Greene Bowman
John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker (2005)
Heckscher, Morrison H., with the assistance of Lori Zabar
American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. I, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles (2007)
Safford, Frances Gruber
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