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Out of the attic: inventing antiques in twentieth-century New England
2009, University of Massachusetts Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Inventing antiques
1. Priceless and price : the antiquing of New England
2. The Jewish dealer : antiques, acculturation, and aesthetics
3. Jessie Barker Gardner and George Gardner : making a collection permanent
4. Highboys and high culture : adopting an American aesthetic in Deerfield, Massachusetts
5. Exhibiting the ordinary : history making at the Smithsonian
Epilogue. The end of the antique?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Amherst [Mass.]
Series
Public history in historical perspective
Genre
Case studies
Other Titles
Inventing antiques in twentieth-century New England

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
745.10974
Library of Congress
NK1133.28 .G74 2009, NK1133.28.G74 2009

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Pagination
xii, 265 p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23218528M
ISBN 13
9781558497108, 9781558497092
LCCN
2009017760
OCLC/WorldCat
286423228
Library Thing
9088686

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