Worldly goods
by Lindsey, Jack L., Jack L. Lindsey, Richard S. Dunn
American ArtColonial ArtExhibitionsArt, AmericanPennsylvania
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"The more than five hundred objects featured in this catalogue - including furniture, silver and other metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, Native American artifacts, paintings, works on paper, and manuscripts - bear ample witness to the styles and aesthetics of early Pennsylvania and illustrate the rapid advances that took place in the colony during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, not only in the arts but also in commerce, technology, scientific inquiry, and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Themes & subjects
American ArtColonial ArtExhibitionsArt, AmericanPennsylvaniaDelaware River Valley (N.Y.-De
Setting
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)Pennsylvania
About the author
Richard S. Dunn
9 August 1928 – 24 January 2022
**Richard Slator Dunn** (1928-) Richard S. Dunn retired in 1996 and was elected Professor Emeritus of History of the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Slator Dunn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1928. His father, William P. Dunn was himself a Professor of English of the University of Minnesota. Richard graduated from Harvard College with his Bachelor of Art in 1950, and took his Masters of Art (1952) and Philosophical Doctorate in History (1955) at Princeton University, where he also started his teaching career in 1954. >"*Belatedly and almost accidentally I became interested in the history of slavery ... Eventually I drifted into American colonial history because I lik…
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