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"Her Correspondence Is Dangerous": Women In The Fashion Trades Negotiating The Opportunities And Challenges Of Doing Business In The Chesapeake, 1766-75, Kaylan Michelle Stevenson Jan 2013

"Her Correspondence Is Dangerous": Women In The Fashion Trades Negotiating The Opportunities And Challenges Of Doing Business In The Chesapeake, 1766-75, Kaylan Michelle Stevenson

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"By Measures Taken Of Men": Clothing The Classes In William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner Jan 2011

"By Measures Taken Of Men": Clothing The Classes In William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner

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The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern Jan 2005

The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern

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From the 1730s through the 1770s Shadwell was home to Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children, over sixty slaves owned by them, and numerous hired workers. Archaeological and documentary evidence reveals much about Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home. Shadwell was a well-appointed gentry house at the center of a highly structured plantation landscape during a period of Piedmont settlement that scholars have traditionally classified as frontier. Yet the Jeffersons accommodated in their house, landscape, material goods, and behaviors the most up-to-date expectations of Virginia's elite tidewater culture. The material remnants of Shadwell raise questions about the character of this frontier …


Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski Jan 2001

Fashion's Foes: Dress Reform From 1850-1900, Elizabeth A. Komski

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Plaids And Broadswords Of The Altamaha, Robert K. Weber Jan 1998

Plaids And Broadswords Of The Altamaha, Robert K. Weber

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African-American Influence On The Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe: Evidence From Nineteenth Century Probate Inventories And Population Census Records Of York County, Virginia And Worcester County, Maryland, Albert James M. Mamary Jan 1994

African-American Influence On The Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe: Evidence From Nineteenth Century Probate Inventories And Population Census Records Of York County, Virginia And Worcester County, Maryland, Albert James M. Mamary

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Cabinetmakers And Related Tradesmen In Norfolk, Virginia: 1770-1820, Ronald Leroy Hurst Jan 1989

Cabinetmakers And Related Tradesmen In Norfolk, Virginia: 1770-1820, Ronald Leroy Hurst

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The Fate Of The Cabinetmaking Trade In Williamsburg, Virginia In The Post-Revolutionary Period, Linda A. Hildreth Jan 1988

The Fate Of The Cabinetmaking Trade In Williamsburg, Virginia In The Post-Revolutionary Period, Linda A. Hildreth

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Millinery And Milliners In Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780, Patricia Ann Hurdle Jan 1970

Millinery And Milliners In Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780, Patricia Ann Hurdle

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The Wearing Apparel Of The Women Of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1700-1775, Nancy Lou Oberseider Jan 1966

The Wearing Apparel Of The Women Of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1700-1775, Nancy Lou Oberseider

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Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn Jan 1965

Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.