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New England Colleges in Paint and Print: Celebrating the Works of Esteria Butler

A City on the Blade of a Knife

Color-lithograph print showing Shaker men and Shaker women dressed in traditional Shaker costume dancing in the middle of a Shaker meeting house on a wooden floor. Bonnets, hats, and coats are hung up on the wall behind the dancing members. In the foreground, visitors can be seen in nineteenth century dress watching the ritual.

Through the Eyes of the World’s People: The Materiality of Visiting Early Shaker Villages

A silverware advertisement in black and white greyscale, accented by red and pink. On one side, there is silverware with a delicate floral pattern. On the other, there is a seated model dressed in a fashionable evening ensemble

Selling Silver: Advertisements for Oneida Community Plate 1930-46

Family record showing historical scenes, a text block, and figure portraits.

A Familiar Landscape: a Surrogate for Ancestry and Genealogical Legacy?

Paper with an image of a brick stepped pyramid containing 9 individual platforms each with a male figure. Each step is an allegory for a stage of life, the male figure on each step becomes progressively older moving from left to right. The pyramid starts on the left with a lush tree and a baby, on the right is an old man greeted by an angel in his coffin.

Ye Steps of Old Age: New Research, and New Beginnings

Glass flask covered with orange paper featuring a print of George Washington, the title “Washington,” and a poem in French.

Collecting a Liquid Library

Introduction to Material Life Papers

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

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