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University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library master's program in American Material Culture, @winterthurmuse, @wpamc1

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2 Sep 2020
Tudor Screams and Baroque Dreams: Building a Royal Legacy at Hampton Court sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Tudor Screams and Baroque Dreams: Building a Royal Legacy at Hampton Court

By Christopher Malone, ’21 Long before the Victorians retrofitted Hampton Court Palace (the palace first began as a manor house in 1086 and was expanded by Thomas Wolsey in 1514 before it was…

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28 Jul 2020
What is British about British Landscapes? sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

What is British about British Landscapes?

By Thomas Busciglio-Ritter, Art History PhD Candidate The landscape surrounding William Beckford’s Lansdown Tower, perched on a hill overlooking the city of Bath, seems almost impossibly English. B…

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21 Jul 2020
Selling Silver: Advertisements for Oneida Community Plate 1930-46 sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Selling Silver: Advertisements for Oneida Community Plate 1930-46

By Kaila Temple, Class of 2021 Looking at an advertisement for Community Plate flatware, you might recognize the pattern.  Maybe it was the set of nice silverware your grandma brought out during th…

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15 Jul 2020
Time Traveling in London sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Time Traveling in London

by Molly Mapstone, Class of 2021 How can we experience time travel through objects? Can objects be used by us today to experience, imagine, and reconstruct a more authentic version of the past?  Af…

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11 Jul 2020
The Expected and Unexpected Successes of I.K. Brunel sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

The Expected and Unexpected Successes of I.K. Brunel

By Peter Fedoryk, Class of 2021 Isambard Kingdom Brunel fundamentally reimagined the breadth and speed of human networks across the world through his life’s work. One of the nineteenth century’s en…

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29 Jun 2020
A Familiar Landscape: a Surrogate for Ancestry and Genealogical Legacy? sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

A Familiar Landscape: a Surrogate for Ancestry and Genealogical Legacy?

By Olivia Armandroff, Class of 2020 Created in 1875, Winslow Homer’s wood engraving, The Family Record, depicts new parents adding their infant’s name to such a record, seated beneath what appears …

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25 Jun 2020
Entering the World of Wedgwood through Interactive Displays sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Entering the World of Wedgwood through Interactive Displays

By Cara Caputo, Class of 2021 Marketed as a “unique, interactive visitor experience celebrating the very best of British craftsmanship,” the World of Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent focuses on the life …

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6 Jun 2020
Ye Steps of Old Age: New Research, and New Beginnings sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Ye Steps of Old Age: New Research, and New Beginnings

By Molly Mapstone, Class of 2021 Leaving a beloved job, your friends, and the city where you spent most of your young adulthood is difficult, no matter how wonderful the opportunities ahead are. In…

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5 Jun 2020
WPAMC Statement on the Murder of George Floyd sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

WPAMC Statement on the Murder of George Floyd

As graduate students in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware, we mourn the recent deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, Ge…

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21 Dec 2019
George Hibbert: Collector, Philanthropist … Slaveowner sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

George Hibbert: Collector, Philanthropist … Slaveowner

By Bethany McGlyn, WPAMC Class of 2020 Prior to our British Design History field study, I wrestled with how best to spend the free day allotted for us in London. I assumed that I would need a break…

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13 Dec 2019
Coming Home to Modern sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Coming Home to Modern

By Joseph Litts, WPAMC Class of 2020 The Gropius house sits unassumingly at the top of a green, woody knoll in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Built in 1938, Walter Gropius designed this home for his famil…

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18 Nov 2019
Anonymity in Metal sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Anonymity in Metal

By Christopher Malone, WPAMC Class of 2021 In early America, tavern and inn signboards were some of the best-known ways in which people read their surroundings beginning in the 17th century. While …

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10 Nov 2019
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Collecting a Liquid Library

By Cara Caputo, WMAPC Class 0f 2021 You might not be surprised to see a book on George Washington sitting on a library shelf, but you’d soon realize that the contents of Esprit de Washington hold l…

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31 Oct 2019
Introduction to Material Life Papers sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Introduction to Material Life Papers

Winterthur Fellows in the Class of 2020 produced these papers in the fall of 2018 during the Introduction to Material Life class taught by Dr. J. Ritchie Garrison. The papers build on work the stud…

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30 Oct 2019
Knitting in Nottingham: Hands-on Experience with Historic Knitting Frames sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Knitting in Nottingham: Hands-on Experience with Historic Knitting Frames

By Emily Whitted, WPAMC Class of 2020 An aspect of my thesis that I’m researching while at Winterthur focuses on a little-understood textile technology: the knitting frame. Also called the stocking…

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25 Oct 2019
Southern Trip Discoveries: An Addendum to a Past Post- Moravians Were Copyists Far and Wide sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

Southern Trip Discoveries: An Addendum to a Past Post- Moravians Were Copyists Far and Wide

By Olivia Armandroff, WPAMC Class of 2020 In a previous post, I explored a collection of drawings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries done by students at Nazareth Hall, a Moravi…

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23 Oct 2019
“Preservation Through Production”: Lessons from Hatch Show Print and Dickinson Saltworks sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…
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17 Oct 2019
Stieglitz and Vanderbilt: A Tale of Two Alfreds in the Adirondacks sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…
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15 Oct 2019
At Belle Meade: A Plantation’s Foyer Serves as an Illustrated Catalog sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…
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7 Oct 2019
“An Entirely New Note in Art”: Room Portraits in the Early-Twentieth Century sites.udel.edu/materialmatte…

“An Entirely New Note in Art”: Room Portraits in the Early-Twentieth Century

By Olivia Armandroff, WPAMC Class of 2020 We commonly think of portraiture as a genre dedicated to human sitters, but the phenomenon of house portraiture has been alive since the mid-sixteenth cent…

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