'American Kasten' Children

'American Kasten' ChildrenThe Dutch Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey 1650 1800. By Peter M. Kenny, Frances G. Safford, and Gilbert T. Vincent This volume is published in conjunction with a 1991 exhibition of the same name. It focuses on the American incarnation of large cupboards called kasten, examples of a furniture form recognized since the beginning of the twentieth century as quintessentially Dutch in inspiration. Beginning in 1909, The Metropolitan Museum of

Durand was a central figure

the Catskill Mountain House stood atop the Catskill high peaks as a symbol of the Gilded Age

From photos of the enslaved on plantations and African American soldiers and camp workers in the Union Army to Juneteenth celebrations

They did not lose their faith in a sovereign God

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Reframing the historical landscape of the region

for ninety years before 1776

and locking doors established the setting fundamental to the emergence of attitudes concerning individual personal privacy and popularized perceptions fundamental to contemporary lifestyles

The editor and introducer

In this book

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” weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen