Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Theses, 1953-Present
WINTERTHUR PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN CULTURE THESIS LIST
- denotes E. McClung Fleming Thesis Prize Winner
- denotes honorable mention
(1996 – Present)
Contents
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- 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. 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. Drawing for an audience of one: art in Muriel Draper's archives. 2020.
- Arthur, Catherine Rogers. 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. 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. "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. 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. 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]
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- 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. 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. "Headin' upta camp": defining the vernacular architecture and historical significance of Maine camps. 2022.
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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. 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.
- 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). 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.
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- 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. "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]
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- 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.
- 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.
- Hobbs, Matthew Wallace. Complex networks in Colonial Northeastern North Carolina. 1999.
- Hoberg, Perry F. Washington Allston: biography of an aesthetic experience. 1965.
- Hofer, Margaret K. The Tory joiner of Middleborough, Massachusetts: Simon Doggett and his community, 1762-1792. 1991.
- Honda, Margaret Miya. Found technology: the art fabrication business of Jack Brown. 1991.
- Hooper, Rosalie K. Out of the shade: uncovering the manufacture and use of umbrellas and parasols, 1830-1850. 2016.
- Hosley, William Newell. Architecture and society of the urban frontier: Windsor, Vermont, 1798-1820. 1981.
- Houghton, Janet R. Household furnishing in southern Vermont, 1780-1800. 1975.
- Hummel, Charles F. The influence of English design books upon the Philadelphia cabinetmaker, 1760-1780. 1955.
- Humphrey, Elizabeth. Moorish in the midwest: the Alhambra's influence on nineteenth-century American architecture. 2019.
- Hunt, Katherine A. Beauty that endures: Egyptian revival in the 1920s. 2003.
- Hunt, Katherine Conover. The White House furnishings of the Madison Administration, 1809-1817. 1971.
- Hunter, Dard, Jr. David Evans, cabinetmaker: his life and work. 1954.
- Hunter, Dard, Jr. A directory of the cabinetmakers and allied trades in Philadelphia to 1820. 1954.
- Hurst, Neal Thomas. "For the heat is beyond your conception": men's summer dress in the American south during the long eighteenth-century. 2015.
- Hyder, Darrell. Fine printing in Philadelphia, 1780-1820. 1961.
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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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