A concise introduction to Ammi Phillips, one of nineteenth-century America's most important folk portrait painters, based on Stacy C. Hollander's article "Revisiting Ammi Phillips" in the February 1994 issue of The Magazine Antiques. The article explains how Phillips's changing style, unsigned works, rural patrons, and scattered historical record made him one of the great attribution stories in American folk art.
A detailed look at whether a blue and white porcelain charger is Chinese or Japanese, using spur marks, glaze, decoration, form, paste, cobalt, and foot rim evidence to explain why the balance of evidence favors a Chinese attribution.
A surviving 1938 Boys' High School yearbook reveals a remarkable cross-section of prewar Atlanta through its students, faculty, advertisements, literary contributions, and personal ephemera. Centered on Edwin Kenny's preserved copy, the volume captures an institution that helped form Atlanta's future physicians, veterans, businessmen, writers, civic leaders, and public servants.
A concise historical overview of the Belleville asbestos shingle cutter, tracing its connection to early twentieth-century asbestos-cement construction technology, the Gundlach patent lineage, and surviving industrial tool examples.
