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A slant-front desk with an open lid and chest of drawers beneath on five round feet.

Three Hundred Years of Secrets

Unfinished Business: Signature Quilts and their Creative Process

A chandelier seen from below. The branches form a star-like pattern. Behind, beige and coffee colored floral plasterwork can be seen against the blue of the ceiling.

Saccharine Survivors: William Parker’s Assembly Room Chandeliers

Two men, one white wearing classical-style robes and one black wearing a strongly patterned coat, stand in a forest. There is dense vegetation all around them. The black man hands a hat with feathers to the other.

Creating the First Duke of Richmond . . . with Mezzotint

An almond shaped brooch with an image of a woman laying a wreath on two doves. Above the woman, a floating banner says “To Friendship.” The brooch has bands of white and blue enamel framing the image.

An Early American Friendship Brooch

Elliptical table with text about philosophical teachings surrounded by symbolic imagery.

What a Project: Summarizing the World’s Knowledge

A white and blue opalescent glass curtain pin in the shape of a six-petaled flower is laid on a gray quilted mat.

Theories to Suit Facts: The Research Process of Material Culture

The right shoe of a pair of green ladies’ half boots, rising to the ankle with green shoe laces up the inside of the shoe. Black leather shoe toe and heel.

Stepping Out: A Pair of 1820’s Ladies’ Half Boots

A black and white photograph of a large group of men wearing hunting gear posed behind the prostrate bodies of four tigers and a bear lying on a bed of plant debris.

Catch a Tiger by the Tail

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