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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Weiser, Frederick S.//Sullivan, Mary Hammond |
| Title, Analytic | Decorated Furniture of the Schwaben Creek Valley |
| Title, Monographic | Ebbes fer alle--ebber ebbes fer dich: Essays in Memoriam, Albert Franklin Buffington |
| Date of Publication | 1980 |
| Location in Work | 331-394 |
| Abstract | Pennsylvania Germans in the last decades of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century demonstrated great fondness for furniture made of soft woods and covered with paint. The paint was sometimes a simple, one-color covering and protection of the woods, chiefly yellow pine and poplar. The wood surface was then altered in various ways, including designs worked into the surface with various tools, painting with two or more colors, overpainting with designs of various types such as flowers, stars, animals, persons, etc., or the name of an owner and a date, rarely also a place. This essay is about such furniture which comes from one small area of the Pennsylvania German countryside, the Schwaben Creek valley of Schuylkill and Northumberland counties. It is chiefly a study of two groups of decorated furniture from that area, but it is also a contribution to the analysis of the tastes in furniture of the Pennsylvania Dutch and to the study of their folk art and the origin and development of its motifs. |
| Call Number | MKI/SHS GR 110 .P4 A372 v.14 |
| MKI Terms | Folk art/ Crafts/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Pennsylvania/ Antiques |