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The French rococo revival along the Mississippi River
In his influential Architecture of Country Houses (1850), Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) noted: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is, at the present ......(Continue Reading) The furniture mounts of P.E. Guerin
Behind a simple facade on Jane Street in New York City is the luxury hardware business of P. E. Guerin, founded in New York in 1864 by Pierre Emmanuel ......(Continue Reading)Victorian campaign furniture - furniture used on military campaigns in the 1800s
In 1837, when George Eden (1784-1849), Lord Auckland, the governor-general of India, and his two sisters took a trip "up the country" from Calcutta, ......(Continue Reading)High-style, mass-produced American furniture
Nineteenth-century furniture and furnishings from Kilian Brothers and M.H. Schrenkeisen are presented. Through economical manufacturing techniques and extensive wholesaling, these two companies were a...(Continue Reading)FURNITURE PATRONAGE in ANTEBELLUM NATCHEZ - Natchez, Misssissippi
In July 1863 Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith of the Union army, then stationed in Natchez, Mississippi, wrote his wife Elizabeth: Natchez is a beautiful ......(Continue Reading)
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