Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production
This publication is a collection of papers presented at the Dublin Seminar of New England Folklife conference in June of 1998.
The following is a list of the title and author of each paper: Repairs versus Deception in Essex County Cupboards, 1830 – 1890 by Robert F. Trent and Peter Follansbee, Cabinetmaking Practices in Revolutionary Concord: New Evidence by David F. Wood, Capt. Abraham Knowlton, Joiner, and the Seminal Woodworkers of Ipswich, Massachusetts by Susan S. Nelson, William Lloyd and the Workmanship of Change by Philip Zea, Amzi Chapin: A New England Cabinetmaker Singing and Working in the South and Trans-Appalachian West by David C. Thomas and Peter Benes, Artisan-Entrepreneurs in Worcester County, Massachusetts by David P. Jaffe, Sterling, Massachusetts: An Early Nineteenth-Century Seat of Chairmaking by Frank G. White, The Briggs Family Business and Furniture: A Study of Patronage and Consumption in Antebellum Southwestern New Hampshire by Jason T. Busch, Cheaper by the One-sixth Dozen: Vermont’s Patterson Chair Company by Kimberly King Zea, Bottomed Out: Female Chair Seaters in Nineteenth-Century Rural New England by Nan Wolverton, Shaker Furniture and Shaker Architecture in Enfield, New Hampshire: Reconstructing Material Life in Form, Time, and Place by Robert P. Emlen, Sewing Desks: Gender and Appearance in Shaker Communities and the World by Erin M. Budis, The South Shaftsbury, Vermont, Painted Wooden Chests by David Krashes.