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A four story, brown brick warehouse with large windows. Outside the building are signs advertising the Museum of London Docklands.

George Hibbert: Collector, Philanthropist … Slaveowner

A white modern house with gray trim surrounded by grass and trees.

Coming Home to Modern

A close up photograph of knit fabric with two inverse hearts visible in the patterning.

Knitting in Nottingham: Hands-on Experience with Historic Knitting Frames

Figure 1. Painting of emperor on back of rearing white horse.

Southern Trip Discoveries: An Addendum to a Past Post- Moravians Were Copyists Far and Wide

A poster with a white background reading, “KEEPING/ PRINT/ ALIVE.” The words “KEEPING” and “PRINT” are justified to the poster margins and are in printed in red ink. The “I” in “PRINT” is shown as an upside-down exclamation mark. Below the word “PRINT” is a red bar with five white stylized human skills. A thin blue line strikes through these skulls. Below this bar, the word “ALIVE,” also justified to the margins appears in blue letters with some red trim around it. Another red bar with 6 white skills and a thin blue line striking through it appears below “ALIVE.” Below this, in the lower left third of this poster is a blue circle with the words “HATCH/ SHOW/ PRINT/ NASHVILLE/ TENNESSEE” printed inside of it. A slightly larger blue circle frames this internal blue circle with the print. To the right of this circle are the words “SINCE/ 1879” with a left-pointing arrow separating the “SINCE” AND “1897.” (This arrow is pointing to the circle advertising Hatch Show Print to the left). Two parallel blue lines run across the bottom of the page forming a border of sorts, the upper of the two being thinner. Below these lines in tiny, tiny print is a line of copyright text.

“Preservation Through Production”: Lessons from Hatch Show Print and Dickinson Saltworks

Fig. 1. Façade of building in combination of log cabin architecture with Swiss chalet influences.

Stieglitz and Vanderbilt: A Tale of Two Alfreds in the Adirondacks

Figure 3. Painting of black horse facing left with river and mountain range in background.

At Belle Meade: A Plantation’s Foyer Serves as an Illustrated Catalog

Opulently decorated room with three chairs, fireplace, mirror, and chandelier.

“An Entirely New Note in Art”: Room Portraits in the Early-Twentieth Century

Two black servants carry a white woman in a hammock through a jungle. Two additional black servants carry baskets of fruit behind.

Laboring for Paradise

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