The concise encyclopedia of American antiques. [electronic resource] . — New York, : Hawthorn Books, [1965]. — 848 p. : illus., facsims., maps, ports. 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

: Furniture, 1640-1840 ; : Victorian furniture ; : Windsor chairs / : Country furniture in New England / : The craftsmanship of the American Shakers / : Looking glasses used in America / : Silver, 1640-1820 / : Pewter / : Wrought iron / : Tin, copper and brass / : Japanned tin-plate / : Period stoves / : China-trade porcelain for the American market / : Pottery and porcelain / : Glass / : Figured bottles and flasks / : Needlework / : Cotton printing / : Quilts and coverlets / : The oriental "carpitt" in colonial America / : Hooked rugs / : Eighteenth-century floorcloths / : Lighting devices / : Candlesticks, sconces, chandeliers / : Antique buttons / : Early tradecards / : Trade catalogues / : Playing cards / : Minor arts : quillwork, treen, chalkware / : Swords ; : Firearms, 1650-1865 / : Clocks and watches / : Early portrait painting / : Painting in the nineteenth century / : Folk painting / : Miniature painting / : Engravings / : Silhouettes / : Lithographs / : Early railroad prints / : Sport in art / : The Old West / : Folk sculpture / : Pennsylvania-German folk art / : Dolls and toy miniatures / : Mechanical toys / : Coins and medals / : Rare books / : Printed maps / : Ship models / : Whaling collections / : Marine paintings and prints / : Stamps / : Theater, circus and ballet / : Wallpapers used in America, 1700-1850 / : Valentines and Christmas cards / : Autographs / : Calligraphy / : Tools of early industries / : Patent office models / : Dime novels / : Arts of the southwest / Marvin D. Schwartz -- Frank O. Spinney -- Edward Deming Andrews -- Martha Gandy Fales -- Kathryn C. Buhler -- Eric de Jonge -- M.W. Thomas, Jr. -- Henry J. Kauffman -- Shirley Spaulding DeVoe -- Josephine H. Peirce -- Alice Winchester -- Gregor Norman-Wilcox -- Carolyn Scoon -- Helen McKearin -- Ruth Bradbury Davidson -- D. Graeme Keith -- Virginia D. Parslow -- Joseph V. McMullan -- Virginia D. Parslow -- Helen Comstock -- G. Malcolm Watkins -- Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. -- Lillian Smith Albert and Jane Ford Adams -- Bella C. Landauer -- Lawrence B. Romaine -- Lawrence Kurzrok -- Edith Gaines -- Harold L. Peterson -- Amos G. Avery -- Helen Comstock -- John I.H. Baur -- Nina Fletcher Little -- Josephine L. Allen -- Elizabeth E. Roth -- M.L. D'Otrange-Mastai -- Frank Weitenkampf -- Rudolph Wunderlich -- Paul Magriel -- Harold McCracken -- Erwin O. Christensen -- Frances Lichten -- Janet Pinney -- Louis H. Hertz -- Sydney P. Noe -- John Cook Wyllie -- Alexander O. Vietor -- Robert H. Burgess -- Edouard A. Stackpole -- Harold S. Sniffen -- Kent B. Stiles and George B. Sloane -- Paul Myers -- Horace L. Hotchkiss, Jr. -- Ruth Webb Lee -- Gordon T. Banks -- Alexander Nesbitt -- Loring McMillen -- Jack E. Brown -- Mary Noel -- E. Boyd.





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Decorative arts--United States.
Art, American.
Antiques--Dictionaries.
Collectors and collecting.
Arts décoratifs--États-Unis.
Art américain.
Antiquités (Objets anciens)--Dictionnaires anglais.

NK805 / .C65 1965

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