HAA 0900 - West Overton - Art History - Greensburg Campus

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Central Pennsylvania Redware Pottery, 1780-1904 by Lasansky, Jeannette
Publication Date: 1979
"An oral traditions project."
Includes bibliographies and index.
The History of Furniture
ISBN: 0688030831
Publication Date: 1976
Paint, Pattern, and People by Wendy A. Cooper; Lisa Minardi
ISBN: 9780912724744
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Paint, Pattern, and People explores the fascinating and diverse furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania through the people who made, owned, inherited, and collected it.
Classical Splendor by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley; Peggy A. Olley; Jeffrey A. Cohen (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780300221718
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), best known for originating the plans for the United States Capitol. The furniture was made in Philadelphia for one of the city's finest houses--the home of William and Mary Wilcocks Waln, which Latrobe also designed.
Paint on Wood : Decorated American Furniture Since the 17th Century by Herman, Lloyd E.
Publication Date: 1977
American Furniture, 1650-1840 by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
ISBN: 9780876332962
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
The creation of an American furniture style at a crossroads of transatlantic trade & American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the first publication dedicated to one of the finest collections of its type in the country.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Helpful for finding background information on an artifact or item.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Find books outside of Pitt's Library System. The information in WorldCat will be helpful when you have a book Interlibrary Loaned (ILL).
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
21 primary source collections are cross-searchable, including NCCO, ECCO, 19th century British and U.S. newspapers, the Economist, Daily Mail, Illustrated London, Financial Times and the (London) Times archives.

You can find advertisements and costs of items in their time.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
When complete this collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources the collection represents all age groups, ethnicities, regions and the famous and the not so famous.
Everyday Life and Women in America c. 1800-1920 This link opens in a new window
Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 showcases unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Each volume offers abstracts and citations for some 8,000 articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
National Watch and Clock Museum
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Lancaster County Mennonite Historical Society
Use their online catalog to determine if there are books about certain subjects. For example, type Redware Pottery to view books written about this subject. From there, you can copy the title into PittCat to see if we have them in our collection.
Determine Inflation
You can see what an item cost in today's dollars to determine who may have own that item.

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