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Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
26 through 28 June 1998

CONTENTS

Introduction
Robert F. Trent

SECTION I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Repairs versus Deception in Essex County Cupboards, 1830–1890
Robert F. Trent and Peter Follansbee

SECTION II. ACCOMMODATION, ADAPTATION, AND MIGRATION

Cabinetmaking Practices in Revolutionary Concord: New Evidence
David F. Wood

Capt. Abraham Knowlton, Joiner, and the Seminal Woodworkers of Ipswich, Massachusetts
Susan S. Nelson

William Lloyd and the Workmanship of Change
Philip Zea

Amzi Chapin: A New England Cabinetmaker Singing and Working in the South and Trans-Appalachian West
David C. Thomas and Peter Benes

SECTION III. SEEKING THE MARKETPLACE

Artisan-Entrepreneurs in Worcester County, Massachusetts
David P. Jaffee

Sterling, Massachusetts: An Early-Nineteenth-Century Seat of Chairmaking
Frank G. White

The Briggs Family Business and Furniture: A Study of Patronage and Consumption in Antebellum Southwestern New Hampshire
Jason T. Busch

Cheaper by the One-sixth Dozen: Vermont’s Patterson Chair Company
Kimberly King Zea

SECTION IV. OUTWORK

Bottomed Out: Female Chair Seaters in Nineteenth-Century Rural New England
Nan Wolverton

SECTION V. SHAKER FURNITURE

Shaker Furniture and Shaker Architecture in Enfield, New Hampshire: Reconstructing Material Life in Form, Time, and Place
Robert P. Emlen

Sewing Desks: Gender and Appearance in Shaker Communities and the World
Erin M. Budis

SECTION VI. NOTES ON ATTRIBUTIONS

The South Shaftsbury, Vermont, Painted Wooden Chests
David Krashes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Furniture of Rural New England: A Seleced Bibliography
Gerald W. R. Ward

NOTES

Conference Program, 26 through 28 June 1998
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors