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Subject(s)

• Women—Southern States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Women—Southern States—Social conditions—19th century [Browse]
• Women consumers—Southern States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Material culture—Southern States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Material culture in art [Browse]

Publisher

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [Browse]

Notes

"This publication based on papers delivered at the fifth David B. Warren Symposium, "Creators and Consumers: Women and Material Culture and Visual Art in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest," presented by Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on October 23-24, 2015."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

Contents

• Foreword / Bonnie A. Campbell
• Carving out creative enterprise as a woman in Texas, 1836-1900 / Paula Marks
• A luxury purchase in troublesome times : Harriet Flower Mathews's antebellum parlor / Mel Buchanan
• The material culture of freedom : African American women and the southern free Black home after the Civil War / Whitney Nell Stewart
• Mary Bella Prague Brice : "woman of marked literary and artistic attainments" in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Katie Burlison
• Quilts, the democratic art in three nineteenth-century examples from Texas and the Lower South / Katherine J. Adams
• Women's experiences of making and wearing sunbonnets in nineteenth-century Texas / Rebecca Jumper Matheson
• "Weaving beautiful garlands of immortelles" : Mattanna Fairchild and decorative memorial works / Lauren Clark
• Contributors
• Photograph credits.

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ISBN

• 9780890901892 (pbk.)
• 0890901899 (pbk.)

LCCN

2016010716

OCLC

949828021

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