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- Pottery Shop - The Pottery Shop was designed in 1939 by Edward L. Cutler, an architect who helped Henry Ford create his historic village. Designed as a reproduction rice mill to house 19th-century threshing machinery from a South Carolina plantation, the building was repurposed as the Pottery Shop in 1984. Today, visitors view demonstrations of hand-made pottery including salt-glaze and slip wares.
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Pottery Shop
The Pottery Shop was designed in 1939 by Edward L. Cutler, an architect who helped Henry Ford create his historic village. Designed as a reproduction rice mill to house 19th-century threshing machinery from a South Carolina plantation, the building was repurposed as the Pottery Shop in 1984. Today, visitors view demonstrations of hand-made pottery including salt-glaze and slip wares.
- Trade Card for Abram French & Co. Pottery, circa 1885 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Abram French & Co. Pottery, circa 1885
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Pottery Tongs -
- Collections - Artifact
Pottery Tongs
- Practical Pottery for Craftsmen and Students, 1947 -
- 1947
- Collections - Artifact
Practical Pottery for Craftsmen and Students, 1947
- Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1906 - Maria Longworth Nichols (1849-1932) founded Rookwood Pottery--the pioneering art pottery company in America--in Cincinnati in 1880. She hired talented young women (who would not have had opportunities elsewhere) as well as men to create innovative ceramic wares. Trendsetting imagery and glazes made Rookwood famous and helped establish the look of art pottery.
- 1900-1906
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Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1906
Maria Longworth Nichols (1849-1932) founded Rookwood Pottery--the pioneering art pottery company in America--in Cincinnati in 1880. She hired talented young women (who would not have had opportunities elsewhere) as well as men to create innovative ceramic wares. Trendsetting imagery and glazes made Rookwood famous and helped establish the look of art pottery.
- Pottery Tongs -
- Collections - Artifact
Pottery Tongs
- Glidden Pottery Planter, 1940-1957 -
- 1940-1957
- Collections - Artifact
Glidden Pottery Planter, 1940-1957
- Anna Pottery Pig Flask, circa 1870 -
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
Anna Pottery Pig Flask, circa 1870
- A Woman Paints a Piece of Pottery at the Paul Revere Pottery, 1930-1936 - The Paul Revere Pottery evolved from a settlement house founded in 1899 to help women in Boston's North End immigrant community. Founders Edith Guerrier, a librarian, and Edith Brown, an artist, convinced patron Helen Osborne Storrow to fund the pottery in 1906. The venture proved successful, producing remarkable Arts and Crafts wares through the 1930s.
- 1930-1936
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A Woman Paints a Piece of Pottery at the Paul Revere Pottery, 1930-1936
The Paul Revere Pottery evolved from a settlement house founded in 1899 to help women in Boston's North End immigrant community. Founders Edith Guerrier, a librarian, and Edith Brown, an artist, convinced patron Helen Osborne Storrow to fund the pottery in 1906. The venture proved successful, producing remarkable Arts and Crafts wares through the 1930s.
- Catalog for the Paul Revere Pottery, circa 1930 - The Paul Revere Pottery evolved from a settlement house founded in 1899 to help women in Boston's North End immigrant community. Founders Edith Guerrier, a librarian, and Edith Brown, an artist, convinced patron Helen Osborne Storrow to fund the pottery in 1906. The venture proved successful, producing remarkable Arts and Crafts wares through the 1930s.
- circa 1930
- Collections - Artifact
Catalog for the Paul Revere Pottery, circa 1930
The Paul Revere Pottery evolved from a settlement house founded in 1899 to help women in Boston's North End immigrant community. Founders Edith Guerrier, a librarian, and Edith Brown, an artist, convinced patron Helen Osborne Storrow to fund the pottery in 1906. The venture proved successful, producing remarkable Arts and Crafts wares through the 1930s.