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==A==

* Ahara, Kimberley A. Marie Zimmermann : master of a dozen crafts. 2006.
* Ahlborn, Richard E. Spanish colonial woodcarving in New Mexico, 1598-1848. 1958.
* Alevizatos, Alexandra A. "Procured of the best and most fashionable materials": the furniture and furnishings of the Lloyd family, 1750-1850. 1999.
* Alexander, Eleanor. A uniquely American watering hole: the drugstore fountain at the turn of the century. 1986.
* Alexander, S. Tiernan. It stains the tablecloth : the persistence and evolution of manchamanteles. 2014.
* Ames, Alexander Lawrence. Heavenly handwriting, teutonic type : faith and script in German Pennsylvania, ca. 1683-1855.  2014. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Anderson, Erin Lorraine. [https://udspace.udel.edu/items/8078f38e-0e94-46b5-973e-5ad8d3e67de5 Nature on display: the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1855-1900.] 2020.
* Anderson, Hilary. Earning a living in eighteenth century Boston: silversmith Zachariah Brigden. 1996.
* Anderson-Lawrence, Jennifer. The Colonial Revival at Cliveden. 1991.
* Andreadis, Timothy. Parke Edwards and Bryn Athyn Cathedral (1913-1929): a case study of Monel metalwork in machine-age America. 2012.
* Appleby, Mary E. The Gorham Company's Martele line of silver: an analysis of the consumer and commercial strategy of the company. 1998.
* Armandroff, Olivia. [https://udspace.udel.edu/items/b6b289eb-92ac-4389-a03b-25ec3c271599 Drawing for an audience of one: art in Muriel Draper's archives.] 2020. 
* Arthur, Catherine Rogers. [http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/27269 Potthast Bros., Inc.:  Baltimore furniture craftsmen, 1892-1975.] 1999.
* Asbury, Rachel. Tin can tell-all : a history of the tomato canning industry in Virginia's Bedford and Botetourt Counties. 2018.
* Avery, Kayle. [https://udspace.udel.edu/items/07161500-fdc1-4b6d-bff7-e6a647cb2233 History as database: bioshock and the new design source.] 2021.
* Ayres, William S. "A poor sort of heaven, a good sort of earth": the Rose Valley arts and crafts experiment, 1901-1910. 1982.

==B==

* Bach, Emily. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/32048 "Compelled to pad and wad": spinal curvatures and dress in nineteenth-century America.] 2022. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Bacon, John  Mark. Delaware Valley slatback chairs: a formal and analytical survey. 1991.
* Baerman, Brooke. "New order from your hand, new lustre from your eye": the art, craft, and science of the Philadelphia shellwork grottos. 2019
* Bahnemann, Greta L. George Maher's Rockledge: a study in architecture, patronage, and consumption. 1994.
* Baker, Gary Everett. The flint glass industry in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1829-1865. 1986.
* Barnes, Jairus B. Brownwood, a federal house in the Western Reserve. 1969.
* Barquist, David Lawrence. The meaning of taste for wealthy Philadelphians, 1750-1800. 1991.
* Barrett, Justina C. William Penn's chair and George Washington's hair : the political and commercial meanings of objects at the Philadelphia Great Central Fair, 1864.  2005
* Beasley, Ellen. Samuel Williamson, Philadelphia silversmith, 1794-1813. 1964.
* Beckham, Kathryn A. "The Gate City": artistry and identity in an American historical. 2006.
* Beels, Jessica  H. "I hate pretty work":  Madeline Yale Wynne and the American craft revival. 1995.
* Bell, Nicholas Robin. Small Consolations: Miniature Architecture of Memory in Contemporary American Art. 2008.
* Belolan, Nicole. "The blood of murdered time": Berlin wool work in America, 1840-1865. 2009.
* Bennett, Justyce. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30357 Crucian confusion: memory-making on the island of St. Croix.] 2021. 
* Bensch, Christopher Lynn. Cincinnati's Centennial Exposition and the Circus.  1981.
* Berg, Ariel. Perceiving and resisting: the negotiations of art and photography at the Tanforan Assembly Center. 2012. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Berlekamp, Linda Baumgarten. The Textile Trade in Boston, 1650-1700.   1976.
* Bernabo, Russell Paul. Henry Francis du Pont's interior design aesthetic and Winterthur's Flock Room.   1989.
* Berndt, Sarah. "When science strikes the kitchen, it strikes home" : the influence of Sarah Tyson Rorer in the progressive era kitchen, 1880-1915.   2017.
* Bertrand, Rebecca J. Myth and memory: the legacy of the John Hancock house.    2010.
* Bizier, Karen. Silver or scarcity: the material culture of early nineteenth century Fairfax County, Virginia.   1989.
* Blackmore, Lydia. Objects for president! Campaign material culture and populist politics, 1828-1848.  2013.
* Boettcher, Hannah. Mary Custis Lee unpacks the Washington relics : a revolutionary inheritance in museums, 1901-1918. 2016.
* Bogansky, Amy E. The devil's servants: satire in Colonial America and the visual language of conflict.  2006. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Bonanno, Katie Lynn. Ecology in print : publishing Picturesque California, 1887-1976. 2016. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Borchert, Carol E. [SEE: Cadou, Carol Borchert.]
* Borkan, Christine Edwards. Ohio choices: wall stenciling in the Western Reserve before 1860. 1990.
* Brandt, Tova Karissa. The sheet music collection of Eliza Ridgely, 1808-1867. 2001. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Brandt, Trevor Carl. Perplexion and pleasure : the Geistlicher Irrgarten broadsides in the German-American printshop, home, and mind. 2017. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Bray, Derin Tyler. Urban Craft in Rural Massachusetts: The Weymouth Cabinetmaking Shop of Abiel White, 1790-1851. 2006.
* Bresnan, Lauren L. The Beekman's of New York: material possession and social progression. 1996.
* Briceno, Noel Fahden. The Chinoiserie Revival in Early Twentieth-Century American Interiors. 2008.
* Brincat, Lauren Holly. John Bowne's Flushing : material life on a Dutch frontier, 1645-1700. 2014.
* Brocklebank, Lynn A. Wilmington, Delaware Tall Case Clocks, 1740-1840. 1991.
* Brooks, Bradley C. The Social Functions of Alcohol in Eighteenth Century Maryland. 1987.
* Brouwer, Louisa Elena. "At the plume of feathers": Susanna Passavant and the jewelry trade of eighteenth-century London and abroad.    2011.
* Brown, Margaret A. Ambition in brick: the William Brown House, 1758-1785. 1984.
* Brown, Michael Kevin. Duncan Phyfe. 1978.
* Brown, Robert Frank. Front Street, New Castle, Delaware, Architecture & Building Practices, 1687-1859. 1961.
* Brownell, Charles E. In the American Style of Italian: The E. C. Hitchfield Villa. 1970.
* Brucken, Carolyn E. Victorian privacy: an analysis of bedrooms in American middle-class homes from 1850-1860. 1991.
* Brunk, Andrew J. "To Fix the Taste of Our Country Properly":  the French style in Philadelphia Interiors, 1788-1800. 2000.
* Buchanan, Melissa D. "Fairy habitations of the mimic city":  Sacred Victorian Cottages at Chester Heights Camp Meeting. 2005.
* Buchbinder, Alison H. "Through the Looking Glass": Magical and Misused Objects in Nineteenth Century Children's Literature. 2008.
* Budzyn, Kate Burnett. Fleshlings: lost bodystockings at the birth of twentieth-century dress. 2019. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Buggeln, Gretchen T. [SEE: Townsend, Gretchen C.]
* Burch, Abby. "By His Account Rendered": The Business of Cabinetmaking in York County, Maine, 1815-1840. 2008.
* Burton, Benet. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29523 Insidiously sophisticated: from blackface to blackfishing.] 2021.
* Busch, Jason T. "Such a paradise can be made on earth": furniture patronage and consumption in antebellum Natchez, Mississippi, 1828-1863. 1998.
* Butler, Joseph Thomas. Wheatland, 1848-1868: the home of James Buchanan. 1957.
* Butler, Patrick Henry. On the memorial art of tidewater Virginia, 1650-1775. 1969.
* Butler, William J. H. Another city upon a hill: Litchfield, Connecticut and the Colonial Revival. 1983.
* Byrd, Dana Ellen. The paradox of good intentions: John Needles, cabinetmaker in antebellum Baltimore. 2005. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

==C==

* Cadou, Carol Borchert. The inventory of Lucretia Constance Radcliffe: the material world of elites in federal period Charleston. 1996. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Caldwell, Desiree. Germanic influences on Philadelphia early Georgian seating furniture. 1985.
* Calvert, Karin Lee Fishbeck. The perception of childhood in America, 1670-1870. 1979.
* Candeto, Candice Roland. The shop of Robert Stewart : work and wealth in the antebellum Natchez furniture trade. 2018.
* Cantor, Jay E. The public architecture of James Renwick, Jr. 1967.
* Caputo, Cara. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29526 Private estates for the public: the management and interpretation of American country houses as public-facing properties.] 2021.
* Carlisle, Nancy Camilla. A reflection of the times: the looking glass in the eighteenth century America. 1983.
* Carr, Dennis Andrew. Optical machines, prints and gentility in early America. 1999.
* Carson, Barbara L. [SEE: Gilbert, Barbara F.]
* Carson, Cary. Settlement patterns and vernacular architecture in seventeenth century Tidewater, Virginia. 1969.
* Carter, Sarah A. Reflecting self-image : "Girlhood" interiors 1875-1910. 2004.
* Cassidy, Anne Ricard. Furniture in upstate New York, 1760-1840: the Glen-Saunders collection. 1981.
* Castrodale, Anne. Daniel Trotter, Philadelphia cabinetmaker. 1962.
* Catalano, Kathleen Matilda. Cabinet making in Philadelphia, 1820-1840. 1972.
* Caton, Mary Anne. "Proof of good intention": modernization at James T. Mullin and Sons, Wilmington, Delaware, 1900-1930. 1993.
* Cayford, Jane Louise. The Sullivan-Door House in Providence, Rhode Island. 1961.
* Chase, Juliet B. Keeping up appearances: furnishings of American embassies in Europe. 1996.
* Cheek, Mary M. The cooperative venture of the Union Glass Works, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1826-1842. 1995.
* Clark, Raymond  B., Jr. Jonathan Gostelowe (1744-1795): Philadelphia cabinetmaker. 1956.
* Cline, Emily C. Fashioning Quaker identity: nineteenth-century women's clothing in the Friends' Historical Association collection. 2005.
* Clowes, Jody Elizabeth. An inquisition of deposition: late eighteenth century ceramics from two Wilmington, Delaware archaeological sites. 1988.
* Clunie, Margaret  Burke. Salem federal furniture, vols. 1-2. 1976.
* Coffey, Rachel. Negotiating tradition and technology: Benziger Brother's trade catalogues of church goods, 1879-1937. 2001.
* Cohen, Kenneth. Billiards in American culture, 1660-1860. 2002.
* Cogswell, Elizabeth Wayland Agee. The Henry Lippitt House: a document of life and taste in mid-Victorian America. 1981.
* Cole, Maureen O'Brien. James Akin, engraver and social critic. 1967.
* Cole, Wilford P. Henry Hawkins, engraver. 1966.
* Colman, Benjamin. Recalling the past: memories and antiquarian objects in the former Plymouth colony, 1692-1824. 2012.
* Combs, Amber Auld. Henry Chapman Mercer and the furniture of Fonthill. 1998.
* Connolly, Marguerite Alexandra. Dressing for the occasion: the differentiation of women's costume in America, 1770-1910. 1988.
* Conradsen, David H. Ease and economy: the Hancocks and the development of spring-seat upholstery in America. 1998.
* Cooke, Edward Strong, Jr. The selective taste: furniture in Stratford, Connecticut, 1740-1800. 1979.
* Cooney, Alice Knotts Bossert. Ornamental painting in Boston, 1790-1830. 1978.
* Cooper, Wendy A. The furniture and furnishings of John Brown, merchant of Providence, 1736-1803. 1971.
* Corrigan, Karina. Edith Blake Brown and the rise of professional interior design. 2001.
* Cottrell, Robert Curtice. Town planning in New Castle, Delaware, 1797-1838. 1981.
* Coutin, Talia S. Victor/Victoria : bicycles, advertising, and the limits of heteronormativity : Will H. Bradley's graphic designs for Overman Wheel Co. 2016.
* Cox, Jonathan P. Woodworkers in Allentown, Salisbury Township, and Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, 1753-1805: a study of community and craft. 1982.
* Cox, Ruth Yvonne. Textiles used in Philadelphia, 1760-1775. 1960.
* Creer, Doris Jean. Thomas Birch: a study of the condition of painting and the artist's position in federal America. 1958.
* Croft, Catherine F. A. British architectural criticism of the 1930s: reactions to modernism. 1991.
* Cross, Jody E. "That which she calls her own": gender and material culture in early Philadelphia wills. 2001.
* Curtis, Philip H. Tucker porcelain, 1826-1838. 1972.
* Cyr, Catherine. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/32039 "Headin' upta camp": defining the vernacular architecture and historical significance of Maine camps.] 2022. 

==D==

* Dangremond, David W. The Highlands: the country seat of Anthony Morris. 1981.
* Dann, Catharine Christie. "Governments, individuals and old houses": the slate roof house of Philadelphia. 2000.
* Davis, Emily Elizabeth. The pottery notebook of Maude Robinson: a woman's contribution to art pottery manufacture, 1903-1909. 2008.
* Davis, John D. The evolution of the early American silver spoon, ca. 1650-ca.1850. 1962.
* Davis, Kathryn Jo. Warne and Letts stoneware: a case study in ceramic interpretation. 1988.
* Degn, Amber Elizabeth. "Houses from the Reservoirs of Memory": G. Edward Brumbaugh and the restoration of early Pennsylvania architecture. 2000. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Deitz, Lois A. John Fanning Watson: looking ahead with a backwards glance. 2004.
* Delaney, Amy Marks. [SEE: Marks, Amy Elizabeth]
* Delisle, Steve. Read my gorget: transformations in the utility of gorgets in North America from insignia of rank to symbols of diplomacy and presentation objects and the enigma of the "Otsiquette Gorget". 2008. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
* Delphia, Rachel E. Design to enable the body: Thomas Lamb's wedge-lock handle, 1941-1962. 2005.
* Demer, John H. Jedediah North's tinner's tool business. 1973.
* Denbar, Cheryl Irene. Affectionate remembrances: Abby Rockefeller, Lucy Truman Aldrich, and the case for cooperative collecting.   2001.
* Denker, Ellen Paul. "Forever getting up something new": the Kirkpatrick's pottery at Anna, Illinois, 1859-1896. 1978.
* Dennis, Gail Lorene. American factory-made  parlor suites. 1982.
* DeNood, Lavinia. The Thomas Kennedy House near Paris, Kentucky: analysis, context, and restoration. 1984.
* Dependahl, Deborah Louise. John Fanning Watson, historian, 1779-1860. 1971.
* DeSilva, Ronald Anthony. William James Bennett: painter and engraver. 1970.
* Deutsch, Alexandra. George Christian Gebelein: the craft and business of a "modern Paul Revere". 1995.
* Dickinson, Alice Webb. Silver bought and sold: A.B. Griswold & Co. and the legacy of northeastern silver in New Orleans. 2012.
* Dickinson, Cynthia S. Creating a world of books, friends, and flowers: gift books in America, 1825-1860. 1995.
* Dietz, Ulysses Grant. The decorative lighting devices of Dietz and Company of New York, 1840-1975. 1980.
* Disviscour, Jeannine A. Treen in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1683-1787: a contextual analysis. 1991.
* Donaghy, Elisabeth. Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, unsuccessful civil and natural historian in revolutionary America. 1970.
* Donnis, Erica H. The conception of a country residence: Shelburne House, 1887-1900. 1998.
* Dorsey, Samantha Hall. "For Neatness, True Fitting, Shape and Fashion": the craft and consumption of stays in eighteenth century America. 2008.
* Doud, Richard Keith. John Hesselius: his life and work. 1963.
* Douglas, Diane Miriam. A semiotic approach to meaning in historical archaeology: examining ceramics from a Wilmington, Delaware site. 1982.
* Duffy, Rebecca. The Age of aquaria : the aquarium pursuit and personal fish-keeping, 1850-1920. 2018. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

==E==

* Ebel, Sarah C. Selling and stereoscopy: reading "A Visit to Sears, Roebuck & Co." 2007.
* Edmonson, Patricia K. The tension between art and industry: the Art-in-Trades Club of New York, 1906-1935. 2008.
* Ehninger, Jillian. "With the richest ornaments just imported from France": ornamental hardware on Boston, New York and Philadelphia furniture, 1880-1840. 1993.
*Eisenbarth, Erin E. Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing. 2002. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
*Eldredge, Jessica June. "In themselves a textile museum": the formation of the textile collection of the H.F. du Pont Winterthur Museum. 1999.
*Ellesin, Dorothy Elaine. Woodlawn Plantation. 1968.
*Elliott, Mary Jane. Lexington, Kentucky, 1792-1820: the Athens of the West. 1973.
*Elterich, Allison Wehr. "For private Families, put up in the compleatest manner, with ample directions": domestic medicine chests. 2000.
*Emery, Caitlin M. Colonial lineage and cultural fusion: family identity and progressive design in the Kingscote dining room. 2009.
* Engimann, Melissa E. Putting historic preservation into practice: the friends of the Caleb Pusey House, Inc. and the twentieth-century restoration of a seventeenth-century Pennsylvania home. 2006.
* Erbes, Scott Steven. The ready-cut dream: the mail order house catalogs of the Aladdin Company, 1906- 1990. 1990.
* Erby, Adam Thomas. Contract and lawsuits: building Wakefield Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana 1834-1837. 2013.
* Ermenec, Christine. Farmers and aesthetes: a social history of the Cornish Art Colony and its relationship with the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, 1885-1930. 1981.
* Ernay, Renee Lynn. The Revere Furnace, 1787-1800. 1989.
* Eskridge, Caryne A. "Deep investigations of science and exquisite refinements of taste": The objects and institutional furniture of early historical societies and repositories in eastern Massachusetts. 2013.
* Ettema, Michael John. Technological innovation and design economics in American furniture manufacture of the nineteenth century. 1981.
* Evans, Nancy Goyne. [SEE: Goyne, Nancy Ann]

==F==

*Failey, Dean Frederick. Elias Pelletreau, Long Island silversmith. 1971.

*Fairbanks, Jonathan. John Notman, church architect. 1961.

*Fales, Martha Gandy. [SEE: Gandy, Martha Lou]

*Falk, Cynthia G. Evidence of ethnicity and status in the architectural landscape of eighteenth century Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 1996. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Fanelli, Doris Devine. The building and furniture trades in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1750-1800. 1979.

*Fayen, Sarah N. Tilt-top tables: commodities in eighteenth-century America. 2002. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Federhen, Deborah Anne. Paul Revere, silversmith: a study of his shop operation and his objects. 1988.

*Fedoryk, Peter. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29525 Ulmiform-ed: an ecocritical experiment in the material culture of American elm.] 2021.

*Fennimore, Donald L. Elegant patterns of uncommon good taste: domestic silver by Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner. 1971.

*Findlen, Suzanne Rae. Taste and choice in early Portsmouth, N.H. as seen through ceramic archaeological evidence, 1700-1860. 2001.

*Finkel, Susan Ruth. Victorian photography and carte de visite albums, 1860-1880. 1984.

*Fitzgerald, Katharine Frances. Times of the trade: marine chronomater use in nineteenth-century America. 2019.

*Fitzgerald, Michelle. Confiscating the castle : the construction of loyalist identity in Governor Robert Eden's Annapolis house. 2017. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Fitzpatrick, Margaret Mary. Forty Acres, a New England homestead and its owners, 1752-1814. 1976.

*Fletcher, Laurel. Nostalgia and Pragmatism: Dioramas of the Montana Historical Society. 2008.

*Ford-Dirks, Grace. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33212 "A free woman... carved from life": uncovering the embodied lived, networks, and identities in the Bust of Nora August.] 2023.

*Forman, Benno M. The seventeenth century case furniture of Essex County, Massachusetts and its makers. 1968.

*Fowble, Eleanore McSherry. A century of the nude in American art, 1750-1850. 1967.

*Frang, Joanna F. Image and object 19th century American collections of East Indian paintings on mica. 2003. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Freece, Hannah. The gift of a museum to a museum: Elizabeth Day McCormack's textile collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2011.

*Freeman, John Crosby. Forgotten rebel: Gustav Stickley. 1964.

*Friedman, Maxine Carol. Home, home, sweet, sweet home: the trade cards of the New Home Sewing Machine Company. 1984.

*Frydman, Tess. America's bloody history: menstruation management in the mid-nineteenth century. 2018. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Fu, Kelly (Keming). [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31543 From "made in China" to "making in China": the hidden ecologies of an eighteenth-century Chinese export shrine-desk.] 2022. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize] 

*Fuchs, Ronald W. "A Venice glass of sack": elite dining in seventeenth century Virginia. 1996.

==G==

*Gadsden, Eleanore Parker. From traditional cabinetmaking to entrepreneurial production: David Evans (1748-1819). 2000.

*Gallagher, Jennie N. The work of little hands : handicraft instruction books in the collection of the Winterthur Library. 2005.

*Gandy, Martha Lou. Joseph Richardson, Quaker silversmith. 1954.

*Garcia, Rebecca J. Pigments and pianos: painter and varnisher Lyman White. 2007.

*Garfinkel, Susan Laura. Discipline, discourse and deviation: the material life of Philadelphia Quakers. 1986.

*Garrett, Elizabeth W. Entertainment of the most beautiful kind: the house of William and Harriet Aiken. 2005.

*Garrett, Wendell Douglas. The Newport Rhode Island interior, 1780-1800. 1957.

*Garrison, Nancy Lee. The transformation of a country house: the Grange Estate, 1700-1850. 1989.

*Garvin, James L. Bradbury Johnson, builder-architect. 1969.

*Gevalt, Emelie L. Revisiting Taunton: Robert Crosman, Esther Stevens Brazer, and the changing interpretations of Taunton chests. 2017.

*Gibson, Gayle. The early career of William C. Pahlmann, 1936-1942. 1990.

*Gibson, Heather. Embroidered history and familiar patterns: textiles as expressions of Hmong and Mennonite lives. 2006.

*Gilbert, Barbara L. American crewel-work, 1700-1850. 1965.

*Gilbert-Merrill, Jena R. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31529 "The possibilities of a box": Louise Brigham's Box Furniture and the making of democratic craft and design.] 2022. 

*Gilborn, Craig A. The literary work of the Reverend Samuel Davies. 1961.

*Giles, Leah. Entertaining a new republic: music and the women of Washington, 1800-1825. 2011. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Gilruth, Mary Marjorie. The importation of English earthenware into Philadelphia, 1770-1800. 1964.

*Giordano, Megan M. Artistry and industry in cast iron:  Batsto Furnace, 1766-1840. 2005. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Giuriceo, Judy M. "This city by the sea": recreation and re-creation at South Beach, Staten Island, 1886-1898. 1994.

*Gleason, Jude C. A house in a most singular style: John Penn's The Solitude. 2002.

*Gleason, Tara Louise. From goldsmith to merchant: the craft and commerce of Benjamin Greene. 1996.

*Glesmann, Amanda J. Sentimental journey: envisioning the American past in George Henry Boughton's Pilgrims going to church. 2002.

*Gobrecht, Larry E. Edward Nathaniel Parker Wills: in search of the suburban ideal. 1980.

*Goodman, Rhonda Christina. Denmark Vesey and the slave insurrection trial narratives: the African-American social landscape of antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. 2000.

*Goodyear, Frank H., Jr. The life and art of Thomas Doughty. 1969.

*Gordon, Carol Emily. The Skidmore House: an aspect of the Greek Revival in New York. 1978.

*Gossen, Anne. Layers of meaning in a Kwakiuth potlatch figure. 2003. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Goyne, Nancy Ann. Furniture craftsmen in Philadelphia, 1760-1780. 1963.

*Granston, David W., III. A story of sunshine and shadow: Elizabeth Colt and the crafting of the Colt legacy in Hartford / by David W. Granston, III. 2016.

*Gray, Thomas Alexander. Graylyn, a Norman Revival estate in North Carolina. 1974.

*Greene, Leslie A. Irving A. Lyon, 1840-1896: founder of American furniture history. 1981.

*Greenlaw, Barry Arthur. Michele Felice Corne. 1958.

*Gregory, Stacia G. The elements of consumption: tea and table wares in Baltimore County, Maryland before and after the Revolution. 1987.

*Greif, Carrie Leigh. Unity by design : midcentury modernism at Winterthur. 2019.

*Griffin, Amy H. George Clarke and the furnishing of Hyde Hall, 1806-1835. 2016. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Groff, John Marshall. Green country towns: the development of Philadelphia's Main Line, 1870-1915. 1981.

*Gross, Katherine Wood. The source of furniture sold in Savannah, 1789-1815. 1967.

*Gruber, Anna. The archaeology of Mr. Jefferson's slaves. 1990.

*Guest, Raechel A. Victorian scrapbooks and the American middle class. 1996.

*Guillen, Nalleli. For the tourists' gaze and imagination: images of San Antonio's late nineteenth-century market culture. 2011.

*Guffin, Robert A. "The satisfaction of arriving to a good market": Richard Vaux and the eighteenth century world of trade. 1991.

*Guston, Judith Marla. The almanacs of Michael Gratz: time, community and Jewish identity in eighteenth century Philadelphia. 1999. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

==H==

*Haas, Katherine H. The fabric of religion: vestments and devotional Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. 2004.

*Hack, Sheryl N. Collective identity and sacred space: a study of seven Zen communities in northern California. 1989.

*Halbert, Philippe Langellier Bellevue. Power houses: furnishing authority in New France. 2014. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Haley, Jill. "I can live no longer here": Elizabeth Wirt's decision to buy a new house. 1995.

*Hall, Elton Wayland. Sailmaking in Connecticut prior to 1860. 1968.

*Hammell, Peter Herbert. Images of the American Indian reflected in prints, 1830-1860. 1978.

*Hammell, Rebecca Jordan. To educate and amuse: paper dolls and toys, 1640-1900. 1988.

*Hammond, Jennifer Jo. "Novelty in entertaining...easily and artistically arranged": middle-class women and themed parties in America, 1880-1915. 1997. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Hand, Lindsley E. William C. Hunneman (1769-1856): Boston coppersmith, brass founder, and entrepreneur. 1998.

*Hansen, Heather Nicole. The quest for quercitron: revealing the story of a forgotten dye. 2011.

*Hanson, Frederick Banfield. The interior architecture and household furnishings of Bergen County, New Jersey. 1959.

*Hardwick, M. Jeff. Homesteads and bungalows, African American architecture in Langston, Oklahoma. 1994.

*Harrison, Stephen G. Furniture trade in New Orleans, 1840-1880: the largest assortment constantly on hand. 1997.

*Hawes, Douglas F. Earthenware production in the rural north, 1830-1860: an account book study. 1995.

*Hawkins, Harriette Claire. Icons in the wilderness: the Anglican churches of rural South Carolina. 1983.

*Hawley, Henry Houston. Charles Buschor, designer and manufacturer of furniture and interior decoration. 1960.

*Hayden, Philip A. The cow and the calf: evolution of farmhouses in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, 1720-1820. 1992.

*Hayward, Mary Ellen. The Elliots of Philadelphia: emphasis on the looking glass trade, 1755-1810. 1971.

*Heckscher, Morrison H. The organization and practice of Philadelphia cabinetmaking establishments, 1790-1920. 1964.

*Heindl, Brenda Hornsby. Pottery and piety: a reassessment of the potters and pottery of Moravian Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1743-1768. 2010.

*Hendrick, Robert E. P. John Gaines II and John Gaines I, "turners", of Ipswich, Massachusetts. 1964.

*Hern, Mary Ellen Wisniewski. Pic-nic. 1987.

*Herrick, Pamela. Reconstructing the social and architectural landscape of Southwark, Philadelphia, 1795-1800. 1991.

*Herrin, Dean Andrew. From cabin to camp: southern mountaineers and the coal town of Stonega, Virginia. 1984.

*Herron, Kristin Stacy. Destined to be forgotten: souvenirs of American worlds' fairs, 1853-1883. 1993.

*Hewitt, Ann Carlton. “Windows of Momus”: the anatomical tableset. 2023.

*Hickman, Sylvia. A “splendid spectacle of history and beauty”: Winterthur as a twentieth-century theatrical space. 2023.

*Higgins, Lily. "A new and stranger sight": allegory, emblems, and interactive images in a seventeenth century Puritan toy book. 2015.

*Hill, John Henry. The furniture craftsmen in Baltimore, 1783-1823. 1967.

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*Hoberg, Perry F. Washington Allston: biography of an aesthetic experience. 1965.

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*Isaac, Amanda C. An unlimited fancy: Ann Flower's sketchbook, 1753-1765. 2004. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]
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==K==

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==L==

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*Lovell, Margaretta Markle. Boston blockfront furniture. 1975.

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*Luporini, Nadine Charlotte. Lansdowne: a cultural document of its time. 1967.

*Lynn, Catherine M. Shirley Plantation, a history. 1967.

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*Mackiewicz, Susan. Woodworking traditions in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1750. 1981.

*Main, Kari. "Pursuing the things of this world": Mormon resistance and assimilation as seen in the furniture of the Brigham City Cooperative (1874-1888). 1997. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Mallach, Stanley. Gothic furniture designs by Alexander Jackson Davis. 1966.

*Mallin, Elisabeth. Germantown clocks, 1725-1800 : a tall-case study in construction. 2015.

*Malone, Christopher James. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29226 "(An) establishment of order and prosperity: Moravian material culture through the eyes of outsiders.] 2021. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

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*McClure, Jean Bruce. The American-China trade in Chinese export porcelain. 1957.

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*McFadden, Michelle. Early nineteenth century British carpet patterns. 1993.

*McGehee, Mildred Blewett. Levi Weeks, early nineteenth century architect. 1975.

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*McIntyre, W. John. Chairs and chairmaking in Upper Canada. 1975.

*McKee, John Carpenter. Bass Otis and his critics during his early career in Philadelphia. 1995.

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*McPherson, Tommy Arthur. An analysis of the Emery shop attributions. 1999.

*McQuade, Caitlin. The depiction of social space in "Childish thoughts": material cultural analysis of a painting. 1991.

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*Menz, Katherine Boyd. Wicker in the American home. 1976.

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*Miller, J. Jefferson, II. Baltimore's Washington Monument. 1962.

*Milley, John C. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842: Pennsylvania portraitist. 1960.

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*Miner, Frances Ann. Landscape in eighteenth century America and its European sources. 1959.

*Mitchell, Holly Bentley. "Power of thirds": the material lives of widows, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1816-1826. 1991.

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*Molumby, Katharine Hall. "Aunt Wyck Jane": the material life of Jane Reuben Haines. 2000.

*Monfredo, Rachel Jean. American finger rings representing bonds of friendship. 1990.

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==N==

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*Nelson, Christina Hine. A selected catalogue of the Liverpool historical creamwares and pearlwares in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 1974.

*Nelson, Donna-Belle. The Greek Revival architecture of James C. Bucklin. 1969.

*Nelson, Kirk Joseph. Progress under pressure : the mechanization of the American flint glass industry. 1988.

*Nessel, Gail Emily. The Goodale Family: seven generations of continuity and change in Marlborough, Massachusetts. 1985.

*Nichols, Sarah C. Gillow and Company of Lancaster, England: an eighteenth-century business history. 1982.

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==O==

*Ochoa, Sonia Alicia. "A passion for pictures": the art collection of Austin and Susan Dickinson assembled between 1856-1913. 2000.

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*Oedel, William Townsend. The American sketchbook of Benjamin West. 1973.

*Oliveri, Gregory William. Building a baroque Catholicism: the Philadelphia churches of Edward Forrest Durang. 1999.

*Osaki, Amy Boyce. The needle's web: sewing in one nineteenth century early American home. 1988.

*Owens, Jennifer Elizabeth. A framework for the ephemeral: dialect of performance in the Revolutionary War novels of William Gilmore Simms. 2000.

==P==

*Packer, Nancy Elizabeth. Importation of English furniture into Virginia, 1750-1800. 1989.

*Palmer, Arlene Mary. The Wistarburg glassworks of colonial New Jersey. 1973.

*Palms, Elizabeth. "Comfort arts" and the material world of the pre-Pullman railroad passenger car. 2020.

*Parks, Sarah Ballou. Britian, Brazil and the trade in printed cottons, 1827-1841. 2010. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Parsons, Karen. Making meaning, making butter: the material world of Chester County farm women, 1750-1800. 1993.

*Pascali, Lara. Baby books and childhood narratives: writing the self through material culture. 2007.

*Paschetto, John Joseph. Craft and comment: a proposed model for artifact study. 1988.

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*Peirce, Donald C. Mitchell and Remmelsberg: Cincinnati furniture makers, 1847-1881. 1976.

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*Perry, Jennifer A. "Milk for babes and meat for men": the children's books of the American Sunday School Union. 1995.

*Peyronnin, Addie. "To beautify this house": Rodman Wanamaker's sacramental silver commissions. 2012.

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==Q==

*Quimby, Ian M. G. Apprenticeship in colonial America. 1963.

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==R==

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==S==

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*Schaaf, Ann-Marie Tyler. Representing the city in 1800: William Birch's "Views of Philadelphia." 1991.

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*Simo, Laura. Constructing Savannah's Cityscape, 1837-1854. 2008.

*Simon, Amy. "She is so neat and fits so well": garment construction and the millinery business of Eliza Oliver Dodds, 1821-1822. 1993.

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*Smith, Malcolm S. Alexander Anderson and American wood engraving. 1973.

*Smith, Stuart B. The Walnut Street Theatre. 1960.

*Snyder, Ellen Marie. Victory over nature: the elevation and domestication of Victorian cast iron seating furniture. 1984.

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*Snyder, John J., Jr. Chippendale furniture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1760-1810. 1976.

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*Swisher, Kate Crafting Americans: Immigrants and textile crafts at the Hull House Labor Museum, 1900-1935. 2013. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Symonds, Susan Clover. Portraits of Andrew Jackson: 1815-1845. 1968.

==T==

*Talbot, Melinda Grace. "Dreadful fashionable": the work of Mary Ann Warriner, Rhode Island milliner, 1835-1841. 1999. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

*Talbott, Page. The furniture industry in Boston, 1810-1835. 1974.

*Tapper, Sarah. Maple over mahogany: Nicholas Biddle's taste in Empire furniture, 1820-1844. 2001.

*Taylor, Mary Jane. "Every necessary home comfort": social class and material life in Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1865-1880. 1997.

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*Thurlow, Matthew A. Thomas Constantine : Cabinetmaker and mahogany merchant in early nineteenth-century New York. 2004.

*Tigerman, Bobbye. "I am not a decorator": Florence Knoll, the Knoll Planning Unit, and the making of the modern office. 2005.

*Townsend, Gretchen C. Working chairs for working people: a history of the nineteenth century office chair. 1987.

*Trent, Robert E. The joiners and joinery of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1730. 1974.

*Twiss-Garrity, Beth Ann. Getting the comfortable fit: house forms and furnishings in rural Delaware, 1780-1820. 1983.

==U==

==V==

==W==

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* Walikainen, Laura. The three architectures of "Geraldine's scrapbook of dresses". 2007.

* Walton, Elizabeth B. "Mill Place": on the Willamette. 1965.

* Wands, Scott Lannon. William G. Beesley (1797-1842): Windsor chairmaker, colourman, and decorative painter of Salem, New Jersey. 2003.

* Ward, Alexandra. Boxing Venus : cowrie shell snuff boxes in the British Empire, 1680-1800. 2017.

* Warren, David B. Quaker oligarchy on the Brandywine. 1965.

* Watson, Margaret Hambley. The Graham Affair: the role of artifacts in the definition of culture: Monterey, California, 1840. 1993.

* Waxman, Lorraine. French influence on American decorative arts. 1958.

* Webster, Richard J. Stephen D. Button: Italianate stylist. 1963.

* Weekley, Carolyn Jeannette. John Wollaston, portrait painter: his career in Virginia, 1754-1758. 1976.

* Weil, Martin Eli. Interior architectural details in eighteenth century architectural books and Philadelphia country houses. 1967.

* Welling, Ann Lorraine. Rose Hill, Greek Revival farm mansion: a study of the forces that shaped it. 1963.

* West, Eliza. "Milled fit for trowsers" : toward a fuller['s] understanding of cloth finishing in the mid-Atlantic from 1790 to 1830. 2019. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

* Wetzel, Kristine Lynn. Susan Jane Gaston Donaldson and the pedal harp in the early Republic. 2003. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

* Whalen, Catherine L. The consummation of Empire: the Vansyckel family bedchamber suite. 1998. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

* White, Ashli C. Negotiated landscapes: culture and material life in late eighteenth century Berkeley Parish, Virginia. 1997. [Honorable mention, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

* Whitted, Emily. [https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/28315 Made in Germantown: production, wear, and repair of American frame-knit stockings 1683-1830.] 2020. [Winner, E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize]

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* Woodman, Sarah Suzanne. The fabric of their lives. 2003.

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* Wright, Natalie Elizabeth. Museums of the present day: contemporary abandoned spaces. 2015.

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==Y==

==Z==

* Zaiden, Emily N. Spanish dream castles: defining an architectural style for Los Angeles in the Depression Era. 2002.

* Zea, Philip Martin. The fruits of oligarchy: patronage and joinery in western Massachusetts. 1984.

* Zeno, Aline H. The furniture craftsmen of Richmond, Virginia, 1780-1820. 1987.

* Zimmerman, Philip D. The artifact as historical source material: a comparative study of Philadelphia chairs. 1980.


Note: E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize and Honorable Mention (1996-Present)