topic:"Artisans." found 8 records - Research Collections

Bending is not breaking : adaptation and persistence among 19th century Lancaster artisans

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Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Date of Publication: c1990.

Call Number: 331.794 W776

Responsibility: Thomas R. Winpenny.

ISBN: 9780819178756 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780819178763 (paper : alk. paper)

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Place of Publication: Lanham

Publisher: University Press of America,

Date of Publication: c1990.

Physical Description: xviii, 116 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Chapter: Thriving activity in a growing urban center, Lancaster's 18th century craft tradition ///The Lancaster artisan in 1819, the spectre of depression beyond the golden age /// Lancaster artisans in an industrializing society,1850 /// Changing work techniques as a key to persistence /// Cultural factors as a key to persistence /// The artisan in 1880 , adapting and surviving in a maturing industrial society

Summary: Examines how the industrial revolution affected the lives and work of artisans in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The author seeks to correct the historical assumption that the rise of the factory system brought nothing but misery and hardship by showing how Lancaster weathered the challenge successfully.

Subjects: Artisans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Working classes - History; Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 331.794 W776

The craftsmen of decorated dower chests, tall case clocks and fancy woven coverlets of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Rohland, Gretchen Krause.

Date of Publication: 2010.; Â©2010

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 19, # 4

Responsibility: Gretchen Drause Rohland.

Author: Rohland, Gretchen Krause.

Place of Publication: [Place of publication not identified]; Lebanon, PA

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society,; Printed by Donald Blyler Offset.

Date of Publication: 2010.; Â©2010

Physical Description: 56 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm

Notes: Cover title.; "Volume 19, number 4."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56).

Contents: Dower chest decorations -- Tall case clock masters -- Coverlet weavers.

Subjects: German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Biography.; Artisans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Biography.; Handicraft - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County; Artisans.; German Americans.; Handicraft.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Biography.; Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Biography.; History.

Additional Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 19, # 4

Cultural factors in the persistence of hand technology in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v.50

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Physical Description: 218-228 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania History, v.50, (July 1983).

Subjects: Artisans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v.50

Early American craftsmen

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Author: Dyer, Walter Alden,

Date of Publication: 1915.

Call Number: 700 D996

Responsibility: by Walter A. Dyer ... being a series of sketches of the lives of the more important personalities in the early development of the industrial arts in America, together with sundry facts and photographs of interest and value to the collector of Americana.

Author: Dyer, Walter Alden,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: The Century Company,

Date of Publication: 1915.

Physical Description: xv, 387 p. incl. plates, ports. front. 22 cm.

Notes: Head and tail pieces.; Reprinted in part from various periodicals.; Bibliography: p. 381-382.

Subjects: Decorative arts - United States; Collectors and collecting.; Artisans - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 700 D996

Fifty-Fifth annual session : most excellent assembly

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Corporate Author: Artisans Order of Mutual Protection.

Date of Publication: 1927.

Call Number: 609.6 A791 1927

Corporate Author: Artisans Order of Mutual Protection.

Place of Publication: [S. l

Publisher: s. n .] ,

Date of Publication: 1927.

Physical Description: Unpaged : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Library has: 55th (January 12, 1927) held in Lancaster.

Contents: Artisans Order of Mutual Protection (history) by Allen P. Cox -- Conestoga (Assembly), No. 23 -- Lancaster Assembly, No. 27 -- Columbia Assembly, No.20 -- Harrisburg Assembly, No. 25 -- Continental Assembly, No.24 (York), -- Early Lancaster by H. M. J. Klein -- The Pines.

Subjects: Artisans Order of Mutual Protection.; Clubs - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 609.6 A791 1927

History of my own times or, the life and adventures of William Otto, Sen

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Author: Otter, William,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 927 O89; 929 O89

Responsibility: edited by Richard B. Stott

ISBN: 0801426677

Author: Otter, William,

Place of Publication: Ithaca, NY

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: xiv, 230 p. ill. 23 cm.

Summary: "This edition of Otter's autobiography is a welcome addition to the scant volume of literature dealing with the rural laboring men of the early national period. Otter's autobiography also offers an interesting commentary on the nature of nineteenth century American character, highlighting its admirable as well as its contemptible qualities. For these reasons, and many others, this work deserves recognition and further discussion by scholars and students of American history alike." [from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biographies] "William Otter's History of My Own Time is a riveting, disturbing window into the world of rural artisans in the early republic. Paul Stott's thorough, thoughtful, and sometimes brilliant editing and commentary greatly enhance the text. Local historians, students, and academics will love it and hate it all at once, while the old families of Frederick County will either cringe to find their ancestors in league with Otter or sigh with relief at their absence from the History." [from the Maryland Historical Magazine] "Otter's life story opens doors into our understanding of northern Jacksonian, including their acceptance of Indian removal, and their lack of concern over slavery. This is a disturbing but significant publication." [from the Journal of the Early Republic]

Subjects: Otter, William, - 1787-1856.; Artisans - United States; United States - Social life and customs - 1783-1865.

Additional Author: Stott, Richard Briggs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 927 O89; 929 O89

A new nation of goods : the material culture of early America

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Author: Jaffee, David.

Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 974 J23

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Responsibility: David Jaffee.

ISBN: 9780812242577 (hardcover : acidfree paper); 0812242572 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 9780812222005 (pbk.); 0812222008 (pbk.)

Author: Jaffee, David.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Physical Description: xv, 400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Series: Early American studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-377) and index.

Contents: Painters and patrons -- The village enlightenment -- Cosmopolitan communities -- Itinerants and inventors -- A tale of two chairmaking towns -- Provincial portraits -- Daguerreotypes : the industrial image.

Summary: In the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed furniture and daguerreotype portraits, come into being? This work highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States, chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing, to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. As a whole, the book proposes an innovative analysis of early nineteenth century industrialization and the development of a middle class consumer culture. It relies on many of the objects beloved by decorative arts scholars and collectors to evoke the vitality of village craft production and culture in the decades after the War of Independence. It grounds its broad narrative of cultural change in case studies of artisans, consumers, and specific artifacts. Each chapter opens with an "object lesson" and weaves an object-based analysis together with the richness of individual lives. The path that such craftspeople and consumers took was not inevitable; on the contrary, as the author, a historian demonstrates, it was strewn with alternative outcomes, such as decentralized production with specialized makers. The book offers a collective biography of the post-Revolutionary generation, gathering together the case studies of producers and consumers who embraced these changes, those who opposed them, or, most significantly, those who fashioned the myriad small changes that coalesced into a new Victorian cultural order that none of them had envisioned or entirely appreciated.

Subjects: Material culture - Connecticut River Valley; Artisans - Connecticut River Valley; Villages - Connecticut River Valley; Social change - Connecticut River Valley; Community life - Connecticut River Valley; Industrialization - Connecticut River Valley; Middle class - Connecticut River Valley; Consumption (Economics) - Connecticut River Valley; Connecticut River Valley - Social life and customs - 19th century.; Connecticut River Valley - Social conditions - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974 J23

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The nineteenth century Lancaster artisan as businessman : the view from R.G. Dun and Company

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Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Date of Publication: 1993.

distinguished artisans and their products—for the care taken to produce hand-made objects in which irregular lines are prized for their irregularity. There is a love of what is perceived to be a dedication to excellence that existed prior to the advent of "machine-made" and all the other dreadful trappings of

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Responsibility: by Thomas K. Winpenny, Ph.D.

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: [86]-95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 95, no. 3

Subjects: R.G. Dun & Company.; Artisans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 3 (1993), p. 86-95Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95

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