"documents ROOM S. V L| -S , ffi \ Wcirlt s ^^« ivu IQRKS PROGRESS ADMIN I STRATI ON 1734 New York Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FEDERAL ART PROJECT AUGUST 1936 9829 INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN *********** BIBLIOGRAPHY of ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EMBROIDERY AND LACE "American Samplers" By Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, 1921 Published by Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. Photographs. Color. "The Development of Embroidery in America" By Candace Wheeler Published by Harper and Brothers, 1931. Photographs. Color "American Lace and Lace Makers" By Emily No yes Vanderpoel Published by Yale University Press, 1924 Photographic illustrations and a few drawings. "Notes on Laces of the American Colonists" By Frances Morris Published for Needle and Bobbin Club oy William Helburn, 1926. Photographs. QUILTS "The Romance of the Patchwork Q,uilt in America" By Carrie A. Hall and Rose G. Kretsinger Published by the Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho. In three parts (lvolume) covering the origin and history of quiltmaking, with photographic reproduc¬ tions of jatches; quilts of colorial ancestry and of modern design; and the art of quilting and quilt¬ ing design. Very few dates and attributions. -2- 9829 QUILTS (Cont'd) "A Book of Hand Woven Coverlets" By Eliza Calvert Hall Published by Little Brown and Company, 1912 Photographs. Color. "Old Patchwork Quilts and The Women Who hade Them" By Ruth Finley Published by J. B. Lippincott, 1929 Photographs and colored frontispiece. "Old Bashioned Quilts" By Oarlie Sexton, 1928 YiTheaton, Illinois Booklet, Photographs. "Quilts, Their Story and How to Make Them" By Marie D. Webster Published by Doubleday, Page end Company, 1915 Colored and black and white illustrations. TEXTILES "Homespun Han.dicrafts" By Ella Sha mon Bowles Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931 Small and some full page photographic illustrations. Includes baskets, spinning or wool wheels, weaving, knitting, oldtime dressmaking, samplers, embroidery, old quilts, rug making, netting lace, and lace. "Early American Textiles" By Francis Little. The Century Company, 1931 Photographs. Many from Whitfield State Historical Museum at Guilford, Connecticut, and Topsfield Historical Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Essex Institute, Salem. Sections of homespuns, linens, towels, coach lace, coverlets, samplers. RUC-S "The Hooked Rug" By William Winthrop Kent Published by Load, Mead and Company, Hew York, 1930 Photographs. "Collecting Hooked Rugs" By Elizabeth Waugh and Edith Foley Published by The Century Company, Hew York, 1927 Photographs. RUGS (cont'd) "European and American Carpets and Rue;311 By Cornelia Bat em,an Faraday Chapters VIII and IX Published by The Dean Hicks Company Decorative Arts Press, 1939. Photographs, ink sketches and colored photographs. WALLPAPERS AMD PALL PAINTINGS "Early American Wall Paintings, 1710-1350" By Edward B. Allen Published by Yale University Press Hew Haven, Connecticut, 1926 Illustrated by black and white photographs. "Historic Wallpapers", Chapter XI By Fancy McClelland Published bjr J. B. Lippincott Philadelphia, 1924. "Old Time Wallpapers" By Kate Sanborn Published bjr the Literary Collector Press Few York, 1905; Illustrated by black and white and colored plates. COSTUME "Home Life in Colonial Days" By Alice Morse Earle Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894 Photographs and line drawings. "Two Centuries of Costume in America" 2 volumes. By Alice Morse Eafle Published by the Macmillan Company, Few York, 1903 Photographs, ink sketches and reproductions of paintings. "The Quaker, A Study in Costume" By Amelia Mott Gunmere Published by Ferris and Leach, Philadelphia, 1901 Illustrated by reproductions from old engravings, silhouettes, and pen and ink sketches. "The Costumes of the Mistresses of the White House as Shown in the United States Rational Museum" By Rose Couverneur Hoes, Washington, D. C., 1931 Photographs. 9829 -4- C0STUM3 (cont'd) "Historic Dress in America" 2 volumes By Elizabeth. McGlellan Published by George W. Jacobs and Company, 1904 Volume I - 1607-1800, Volume II - 1800-1870 Illustrations in color, pen and ink and half-tone, together with reproductions from photographs of rare portraits. "Dolls" By Esther Singleton Published by Pay son and Clarke, Ltd., left York, 1927 Colored frontispiece, black and white photographs. "Dolls and Puppets" By Max von Boehn, translated by Josephine Mcholl Published bjr George Harrap and Company, Ltd., 1932 Illustrated with colored and black and white photographs. "Early American Costume" By Edward Warwick and Henry Pitz Published by The Century Company, New York, 1929 Photographs and line drawings. "Uniform of the Army of the United States 1774-1907" 2 volumes. Colored Plates. Polio authorized by the Secretary of War and prepared and published by the Quarter¬ master General. No date - no pla.ce. Old Numbers of the Magazines: "Godey's Lady Book" "Peterson's Magazine" "Harper's Bazaar" "Valentine's Manual of ) "Old Series 1841-1870" Old New York" ) "New Series 1916-1920" "Harper's Monthly Magazine" illustrated. "Once A Week," colored illustrations "Prank Leslie's Lady's Journal" -6- 9829 GLASS (cont'd) "Cambridge Glass" 1818-1885 By Laura Woodside Watkins Published "by Marshall Jones Company, Boston Photographs. "Sandwich Glass" By Lenore Wheeler Williams Published by The Park City Engraving Company, 1922 Bridgeport, Connecticut Illustrated - a book for collectors. POTTERY AM) PORCELAIN "Anglo-American Pottery Old English China with American Views" By Edwin Atlee Barber Press of the Clay Worker, Indianapolis, 1899. "Lead Glazed Pottery" By Edwin Atlee Barber Published by Doubleday, Page and Company New York, 1907 Illustrated by black and white photographs. "Marks of American Potters" By Edwin Atlee Barber Published by Patterson and White Philadelphia, 1904 Illustrated by photographs and marks of potters. "The Potters'- and Porcelain of the United States" By Edwin Atlee Barber Published by George P. Putnam's Sons Illustrated by black and white drawings and photographs, 1909. "Tulip Wane of the Pennsylvania Germans" By Edwin Atlee Barber Published by The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia, 1903 Illustrated by photographs, line drawings and colored photographs. "The Swiss Influence on the Earls'- Pennsylvania Slip Decorated Majolica" By John M. Clarke Printed by J. B. Lyon Company Albany, 1908. Photographs. 9829 GLASS "American Glassware" 3y Edwin A. Barber Published at West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1900 Photographs and ink: sketches. "The Romance of Old Sandwich Glass, with a Dictionary of Old Sandwich Patterns" By Frank W. Chipman Published by Sandwich Publishing Company, Inc., 1932 Photographs. "Stiegel Glass" By Frederick William Hunter Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914 Photographs. Color. "Early American Glass" By Rhea Mansfield Knittle. The Century Publishing Company, 1927- Black and white illustrations; photographs. "Early American Pressed Glass" By Ruth Webb Lee Published by the author, 1931 and 1933 Profusely illustrated by black and white photographs and line drawings. "Loan Exhibition of Early American Pottery and Early American Glass" By George S. McKearin Published by George S, McKearin, 1931 Photographs. "American Glass" By Mary Harrod Northend Published by Doda, Mead and Company, 1926 Photographs. "Early American Bottles and Flasks" By Stephen Van Rensselaer • Published by Transcript Printing Company, 1926 Peterborough, New Hampshire Photographs POTTERY AND PORCELAIN (cont'd) "China Collecting in America" By Alice Morse Earle; Empire State Book Company, 1924 Illustrated with black and white sketches. "Early American Eolk Pottery" (including Bennington Pottery) limited edition. By Albert Hastings Pitkin Hartford, Connecticut, 1918. Illustrations. "Shenandoah Pottery" By A. H. Rice and John Baer Stoudt Printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., Strasburg, Virginia, 1929 Photographs. Color. "An Early West Virginia Pottery" By Walter Hough, 1901. Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum. Photographs. Pictures of pipe molds, buttons and butoon molds, stamps for ware, and other tools of toe potter, plus a few pictures of early ware. "The Potter and Potteries of Bennington" By John Spargo Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926 Photographs. Color. "Early American Pottery and China" By John Spe-go Published by The Century Company, New York and London, 1926. Photographs. SILVER "Early New York Silver" By C. Louise Avery. An exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art December 8, 1931 - January 31, 1932 Beautiful photographs. "Early American Silver" By C. Louise Avery. Published by The Century Company, 1930 Photographs. Beautiful pieces selected for illustration: coffee pots, chocolate pots, bowls. A few black and white drawings. 9829 SILVER (cont'd) "American Silver of the XVII and XVIII Centuries" By Louise Avery Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920 Photographs. "Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers" By Francis Hill Bigelow Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1917 Photographs. "Old Plate: Ecclesiastical, Decorative and Domestic" By J. H. Buck. The Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1888 Photographs and ink drawings. "Jeremiah Duramer, Colonial Craftsmen and Merchant" 1645-1718 By Hermann Frederick Clarke and Henry Wilder Poote Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1935 Photographs. "John Coney, Silversmith 1655-1722" By Hermann Frederick Clarke Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Photographs "Early Silver of Connecticut and Its Makers" By George Munson Curtis; published by International Silver Company, 1913 Photographs and line drawings. Several pages of silver spoons. Gives a list of Early Connecticut Silversmiths. "Colonial Silverware of the 17th and 18th Centuries" By H, W. Slwell Published by George H. Polley and Company, Boston Photographs. "Catalogue of an Exhibition of Silver used in New York, New Jersey and the South" By R. T. Haines Halsey Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911 Illustrated. "The Old Silver of American Churches" By E. Alfred Jones Privately printed for the National Society of Colonial Dames of America at the Arden Press, 1912. Letchworth, England. Photographs -9- 9829 SILVER (cont1 a) "Old Silver of Europe and America from Early Times to the 19th Century" By E. Alfred Jones, with 96 plates, Philadelphia Published by J. B. Lippincott, 1928. Photographs. "Old Silver and Sheffield Plate" By Howard Pitcher Okie Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1928. Photographs. Contains the most complete list of American Silversmiths and their marks. "Maryland Silversmiths" 1715-1830 By J. Kali Pleasants and Howard Sill Published \ the Lord Baltimore Press Baltimore, Maryland, 1930. Photographs. "American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" Exhibited at and published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911. Photographs. "American Silver. The Work of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths" Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, June to November, Boston, 1906. Photographs. FURNITURE "Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe" By Charles 0. Cornelius Published for Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1922 By Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York Photographs and line drawings. "Early American Furniture" By Charles 0. Cornelius Published by The Century Company, New York and London, 1926. Photographs. "A Loan Exhibition of New York State Furniture" By Joseph Downs and Ruth Ralston Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1934 Photographs. "The Architecture, Furniture and Interiors of Maryland and Virginia during the Eighteenth Century" Compiled and photographed by Newton W. Elwell Published by George H. Polley and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897. Photographs. gUBMUgE (cont'd) "Colonial Furniture arid Interiors" By Newton IT. Elwell Published by C-eorge H. Polley and Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1896. Photographs. "The Hartford Chest" B3' Henry Wood Ervings Published for the Tercentenary Commission by the Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934 Illustrate? a. Booklet. "Handbook of the American Wing" By R.T.H. Halsey and Charles 0. Cornelius Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New Edition. Photographs. "American Furniture and Decoration, Colonial and Federal" By Edward Stratton Holloway Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928 Philadelphia. Illustrated by black and white photographs and line drawings. "Blue Book Philadelphia Furniture" William Penn to George Washington, 1682-1807 By William MacPherson Hornor, Jr. Philadelphia, 1935. Photographs. "The Pine Furniture of Early New England" By Russell Hawes Kettell Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, 1929. Photographs and line drawings "The Hadley Chest" By Clair Franklin Luther Published by The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1935. Photographs "Colonial Furniture in America" 2 volumes By Luke Vincent Lockwood Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York Third Edition, 1926. Piiotographs. 8060 "NPA Form 3 OA. (Copy in triplicate) -10- Federal Ref. No. (Leave blank) DATA REPORT SHEET INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN CLASSIFICATION NO. DATE DIRECTOR'S APPROVAL OBJECT OR BUILDING (Name and use) Period or date How verified Historical style. How verified Original owner How verified Designed "by How verified Made by How verified Made where How verified DESCRIPTION: Materials, media, color, finish Present condition Measurements (Specify whether exact) If building, give number of rooms LOCATION of object or building: Present owner . Address _ Catalog No. Accession No. Exact location If illustrated or photographed elsewhere give complete bibliographic information. In case of photograph, give location of negative when known. REMARKS: Use back of sheet. Give history of object or building and note important details not shown on drawing. Assigned to (Artist or photographer) 8060 ( Suggested form for ) ( use of local Director.) PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEEKLY REPORT SHEET INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHER'S N0._ DATE, N MAE_ ADDRESS Number of negatives Number of duplicates Serial Nos. include, from to Negative material on hand -11- 9829 FURNITUHE (cont'd) "Colonial Furniture of New England" By Irving Whitall Lyon Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891 New Edition, 1924. Photographs. "Hitchcock Chairs" By Mabel Roberts Moore Published for the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut by the Yale University Press, 1933. Photographs. Booklet. "Furniture Treasury" 3 volumes By Wallace Nutting Published by Old America Company, Fraraingharn, Massachusetts, 1928. Photographs and drawings. "The Clock Book" By Wallace Nutting Published by the Old America Company Framingham, Massachusetts, 1924. Photographs. "Furniture of the Pilgrim Century" By Wallace Nutting Published by Old America Company Framingham, Massachuse11 s, 19 24 Illustrated profusely by photographs and line drawings. "A Windsor Handbook" By Wallace Nutting, Published by Wallace Nutting Incorporated. Saugus, Massachusetts, 1917. Photographs. "Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture" Osburn and Csburn - Bruce Publishing Company, 1934 Contains photographs and measured drawings of Early American Furniture. "Philadelphia Chippendale Furniture 1750-1780" Published by the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1931. photographs. "The Architecture, Interiors and Furniture of the American Colonies during the Eighteenth Century" Selected by Henry Polley Published by George H. Polley Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1914. Photographs. "Colonial Interiors" Second Series By Edith Tunis Sale Published by William Helburn, 1930 Photographs. -12- 9829 FURNITURE (cont'd) "Examplar of Antique Furniture Design" By Verna Cook Salomonsky, 1931 Published by Grand .Rapids Periodical Publishing Company Contains measured drawings in addition to photographs of furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Essex Institue. "Furniture of Our Forefathers" 2 volumes By Esther Singleton, Published by Doubleday, page and Company, 1901 Photographs and line drawings. "Old Colonial Architecture and Furniture" By Frank E. Wallis Published by G. H. Polley and Company, 1887 Photographs. "A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker" By his great grandson, John Ware Willard, Printed and bound by E. 0. Cockayne, Boston, 1911 Photographs. Color. "Southern Antiques" By Paul Burrowes Published by Garrett and. Massey Richmond, Virginia, 1931 Photographs. WROUGHT IRON "The Octagon Library of Early American Architecture" Charleston, South Carolina Volume I Pi-ess of the American Institute of Architects, Incorporated., New York, 1927. Photographs. "Gatev/ays and. Doorways of Charleston, South Carolina in the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries" By Elizabeth Gibbon Curtis Published by the Architectural Book Publishing Company, Incorporated., New York, 1926. "Metal Crafts in Architecture" By Gerald E. Geerlings Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 Photographs. -13- 9829 WROUGHT IRON (cont'd) "Wrought Iron in Architecture" By Gerald K. Geerlings Published bjr Charles Scribner1 s Sons New York and London, 1929 Profusely illustrated by photographs. "The Bible in Iron or The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans" By Henry Mercer, 1914 Published by the Bucks County Historical Society Doylestown, Pennsylvania, illustrated by photographs of stove plates. "The Decorated Stove Plate of the Pennsylvania Germans" By Henry Mercer Published by the Bucks County Historical Society Printed by McGinty's Job Press, Doylestown, 1899 Photographs. "The Dating of Old Houses" By Henry C. Mercer Prom the proceedings of the Bucks County Historical Society. Reprinted from Old-Time New England, 1924 Illustrated by small half-tone photographs of iron hinges, screws, latches and door panels. "Furniture of the Pilgrim Century" By Wallace Nutting Revised Edition - 1924 Published by Old America Company, Pramingham, Massachusetts. Illustrations of Iron Work. "Early American Wrought Iron" 3 volumes By Albert H. Sonn Published by Charles Scribner1s Sons, 1928 Illustrated by photographic reproductions of pencil drawings. "Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia." By Philip B. Wallace, measured drawings by William Allen Dunn Published by Architectural Book Publishing Company New York, 1930. Illustrated by black and white photographs and measured drawings. No text. "In and Out of the Old Missions" By George Wharton James Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1927 Photographs. -14- WROUGHI IHON (cont'd) "The Wrought Iron Railings of Loviovoc Carre, New Orleans By Mrs. Philip Werlein, N.P.1T.D. Illustrated. "New Orleans, Its Old Houses, Shops, and Public Building By Nath. C. Curtis, Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1933 Illustrations. LIGHTING PIXTURBS "Period Lighting Fixtures" Chapters XI - XII By Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., 1928 Photographs. "Colonial Lighting" By Arthur H. Hayward Published by Little Brown and Company Bostom, 1927. Photographs. "Light and Pire Making" By Henry Mercer Printed by Mac Calla and Company, Incorporated Philadelphia, 1893 Booklet, Illustrated by small half-tone photographs PEWTER "Rhode Island Pewterers and Their Work" By Charles A Calder Providence, Rhode Island Published by E. A. Johnson and Company, 1924 Photographs. "American Pewter" By John Barrett Kerfoot - Boston and New York Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924 photographs. "Some Notes on American Pewterers" By Louis C-uerinoau Myers Garden City, New York Published by Country Life Press, 1926 Photographs. -15- 9829 GENERAL "American Folk Art - the Art of the Common Man 1750-1900" By Holger Cabi.ll Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932 Illustrated by black and white photographs. "The Wood-Carver of Salem, Samuel Mclntire, His Life and Works" By Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley Published by Little Brown and Company, 1916 Photographs. "Handbook Concord Antiquarian Society" By Hazel E. Cummin Published by the Concord Antiquarian Society Concord, 1932. Illustrated. "Handbook of the Pennsylvania German Galleries in the American Wing" By Joseph Downs Published by Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1934 Photographs. "The House of the Miller at MillbacL, the Architecture, Ants and Crafts of the Pennsylvania Germans" By Joseph Downs Published by the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1929 Illustrated. "Early American Craftsmen" By Walter A. Dyer Published by The Century Company, 1915 Photographs. "The Practical Book of Early American Arts and Crafts" By Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbott McClure Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1916 Illustrated by photographs and line drawings. "Practical Book of American Antiques" By Harold Eberlein and Abbott McClure Published by J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia, 1927 Colored frontispiece, illustrated by photographs and lino drawings. "Early Homes of Ohio" By I. T. Frary Published by Garrett and Massey, 1936 Richmond, Virginia. Photographs. -15- 9829 GENERAL ( co lit1 d) "The Pageant of America" 15 volumes Published by the Yale University Press, 1925 Edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel Illustrated. Color. "Homes of Cur Ancestors" By R. T. H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company at the Country Life Press, Garden City, Long Island, 1925. "Three Mclntire Rooms from Peabody, Massachusetts" By Edwin J. Hipkiss Published by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, 1931. Photographs. "The Survival of the Mediaeval Art of Illuminative Writing among Pennsylvania Germans" By Henry Mercer, an illustrated booklet published by the Bucks County Historical Society, 1897. Doylestown, Pa. "The American Wing" Published, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1933, Photographs. Booklet. "The American High Chest" Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1930. Photographs. Booklet. "The Bells of Paul and Joseph W. Revere" By Arthur Howard Nichols, M. D. Reprint from the Essex Institute Salem, Massachusetts Boston, 1911. Photographs. "We Visit Old Inns" By Mary Harrod Northend published by Small, Maynard. and Cook, 1925 Photographs. "Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings" By Mary Harrod Northend Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1912 Photographs. "Old Houses in the South County of Rhode Island" Compiled by the National Society of Colonial Dames Providence, 1932. Printed for the Society by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. Photographs. Showing a good many fireplaces and corner cupboards. 9829 -17- GENERAL (cont'd) "Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture and Glass" At the American Galleries, 1929, for the National Council of Girl Scouts Printed by The Lent and Graff Company Half-tone Plates by the Chatham Photo-Engraving Company. "Pennsylvania German Society" Volume XLI Published by Society, 1933 By Norristown Herald, Norristown, Pennsylvania Including Colonial Architecture of the Pennsylvania Germans by G. Edwin Brumbaugh. Photographs. "Mount Pleasant Pairmount Park Philadelphia" Built by John Macpherson, 1761 Published by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 1927. Photographs and measured drawings. "Hunting Indians in a Taxicab" By Kate Sanbopn Published for Richard G. Badger By the Gorham Press, Boston, 1911. Illustrated. "Social Life Under the Georges, 1714-1776" By Esther Singleton, New York, 1902 Published by B. Appleton and Company. Photographs. "Samuel Mclntire Carver, and the Sandersons - Early Salem Cabinet Makers" By Mabel Swan Published by the Essex Institute Salem, Massachusetts, 1934 Photographs. "Brownstone Fronts and Saratoga Trunks" By Henry Collins Brown Published by E. P. Button and Company, New York, 1934 Illustrated by old prints and photographs o o o 0 o o o