The homes of our ancestors : as shown in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic ; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old World a style of their own ; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms. / by R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower ; illustrated with many elegant plates.

Main entry:

Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942.

Title & Author:

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Garden City, L.I. : Printed by Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1925.

Description:

xxvi, 302 pages : mounted color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (part mounted color), portraits, map, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Notes:
The Approach -- The Seventeenth Century House -- The Seventeenth Century Gallery -- The Hampton New Hampshire Room -- The Newington room -- The Portsmouth Rhode Island Room -- The Woodbury Long Island Room -- The Eighteenth Century Gallery -- The Almodington Room -- The Alexandria Ballroom -- The Marmion Room -- The Philadelphia Room -- The Alexandria Alcove -- The Gallery of the Early Republic -- The First Floor Alcove -- The Baltimore Dining-Room -- The Petersburg Room -- The Haverhill Parlor -- The Haverhill Bedroom -- The Charles Allen Munn Room -- Other American Styles and Furnishings.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Colonial United States.
Interior decoration.
Furniture United States.
Art objects United States.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture coloniale États-Unis.
Décoration intérieure.
Objets d'art États-Unis.
Architecture, Colonial
Architecture, Domestic
Art objects
Furniture
Manners and customs
United States Social life and customs To 1775.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes Jusqu'à 1775.
United States

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Tower, Elizabeth.

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Location: Library main 101054
Call No.: 1756; ID:86-B20142
Status: Available

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