Papers derived from a conference held July 11-12, 1987.
Collection
Glee Krueger Collection
Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--united states--history, conference proceedings, textile fabrics--united states--history, weavers--united states
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Peter Benes, Jane Montague Benes
Volume/Number/Issue
Vol. 12 (1987)
Publisher
Boston University
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States of America
Continent
North America
Date Published
1989
Call No.
F1.D82
Notes
Length: 184
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Introduction: unlocking the semantic and quantitative doors / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Matching inventory terms and period furnishings / Robert F. Trent -- The meaning of absence: household inventories in Surry County, Virginia, 1690-1715 / Anna L. Hawley -- Using tax lists to detect biases in probate inventories / Kevin M. Sweeney -- Literacy and reading in eighteenth-century Westborough, Massachusetts / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- Dress in seventeenth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts: an inventory-based reconstruction / Patricia Trautman -- Women's property and family continuity in eighteenth-century Connecticut / Barbara McLean Ward -- Rhode Island handloom weavers: a probate perspective / Gail Fowler Mohanty -- First-period architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: the evidence of probate inventories / Richard M. Candee -- Delaware's orphans court valuations and the reconstitution of historic landscapes, 1785-1830 / Bernard L. Herman -- Sleeping arrangements in early Massachusetts: the Newbury household of Henry Lunt, hatter / Peter Benes -- The distribution of consumer goods in colonial New England: a subregional approach / Gloria L. Main.
