Picturing old New England : image and memory / edited by William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein ; with contributions by Dona Brown [and others]

When we think of New England, we envision village greens surrounded by neat, white-framed houses; tall elms and church spires; country stores; Yankee farmers; sailing ships; rocky coastlines; brilliant autumn foliage. Despite the fact that there is a New England of cities, factories, and an increasi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Corporate Author: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Other Authors: Truettner, William H., Stein, Roger B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : New Haven : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ; Yale University Press, ℗♭1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Changing New England : 1865-1945 / Dona Brown & Stephen Nissenbaum
  • After the war : constructing a rural past ; Gilded age pilgrims / Roger B. Stein
  • The discreet charm of the colonial / William H. Truettner & Thomas Andrew Denenberg
  • Small town America / William H. Truettner
  • Perils of the sea ; Yankee modernism / Bruce Robertson
  • Artist biographies / Thomas Andrew Denenberg [and others]