The homes of our ancestors: as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old World a style of their own; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms
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Printed by Doubleday, Page, and company
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1925
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English
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Architecture, Colonial
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic -- United States
Art objects
Art objects -- United States
Furniture
Furniture -- United States
Interior decoration
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). -- American Wing
Social life and customs
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic -- United States
Art objects
Art objects -- United States
Furniture
Furniture -- United States
Interior decoration
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). -- American Wing
Social life and customs
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
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