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Material Culture and Architecture

 

Ball, Donald B., “Notes on the Use of Tubmills in Southern Appalachia,” Material Culture, 40 (Fall 2008), 1–20.

Cooper, Patricia Irvin, and Mark Reinberger, “Notes from Georgia: Log Chimneys, Cantilevers, and False Plates,” Material Culture, 40 (Fall 2008), 21–43. Heavily illustrated.

Davidson, James M., and Robert C. Mainfort Jr., “Two Late Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries in Northwest Arkansas: A Study in Contrasts,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 414–28.

Hiller, Nancy, “The Hoosier Cabinet and the American Housewife,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (March 2009), 1–30.

Howe, Dennis E., “An Archaeological Survey of the Whiteport Cement Works,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 33 (no. 1, 2007), 5–26.

Lubin, David M., “Masks, Mutilation, and Modernity: Anna Coleman Ladd and the First World War,” Archives of American Art Journal, 47 (Fall 2008), 4–15. Heavily illustrated.

Ogata, Amy F., “Building Imagination in Postwar American Children’s Rooms,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 16 (Fall–Winter 2008–2009), 126–42.

Seifried, Chad, and Donna Pastore, “This Stadium Looks and Tastes Just Like the Others: Cookie-Cutter–Era Sports Facilities from 1953–1991,” Sport History Review, 40 (May 2009), 30–56.

Van Cleave, Kendra, “Fashioning the College Woman: Dress, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College in the 1920s,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 4–15.

Wright, Mark, “H. H. Richardson’s House for Reverend Browne, Rediscovered,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 68 (March 2009), 74–99. Heavily illustrated.

Wunsch, Aaron, “Emporia of Eternity: ‘Rural’ Cemeteries and Urban Goods in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Nineteenth Century, 28 (Fall 2008), 14–23.

 

Grimes, Sharon E., “Women in the Studios of Men: Gender, Architectural Practice, and the Careers of Sophia Hayden Bennett and Marion Mahony Griffin, 1870–1960” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3324165.

 

Brandt, Beverly K., The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts–Era Boston. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xxxii, 391 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-55849-677-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Hiller, Nancy R., The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 144 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-253-31424-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Marty, Myron A., Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin and Beyond. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x, 306 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-87590-396-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Miles, Lisa A., Resurrecting Allegheny City: The Land, Structures, and People of Pittsburgh’s North Side. (Pittsburgh: Miles, 2007. xxviii, 275 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-9798236-0-2.)

Morgan, Keith N., ed., Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. xx, 665 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2709-1.)

Olmert, Michael, Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xviii, 286 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4791-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Shanken, Andrew M., 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5365-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5366-9.)

 

Parham, Claire Puccia, The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 353 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0913-1.)

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