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The Royal Connection
Art Collections, artistic, China, commemoration, Features, floristry, Herend Porcelain, Judy Gonyeau, Louis XV, Manufacture de Vincennes, Porcelain, Queen Elizabeth, royal art, Royal Collection Trust, Sèvres, tableware, Wedgwood

By Judy Gonyeau When Queen Elizabeth was preparing to celebrate her 90th birthday, a beautiful set of china was commissioned by the Royal Collection Trust, which is dedicated to preserving ...
What is China?
Bone, bone china, Casting, Ceramics, China, clay, Decal, Engraving, Features, feldspar, Ivory, Ivory China, kaolin, Molding, Porcelain, quartz

Ceramics, in its broadest term, defines the art of making any object from clay by baking it. Just as the term "vehicle" can mean car, airplane, or spaceship, the term ...
The Well-Dressed Window: Curtains at Winterthur
bed hangings, Curtains, Decorations, decorative, du Pont, Features, Henry Francis du Pont, upholstery, window dressing, windows, Winterthur

"I feel very strongly that the curtains, bed hangings, etc. will make all the difference in the house. If you knew the many hours I spent trying to get just ...
History and Care: The Importance of Provenance and Condition in Today's Quilt Market
album quilts, Brenda Hornsby Heindl, Care, Condition, Emily Quail Moon, Features, History, Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mary Seeds Moon, patterns, Provenance, Quilts, sawtooth-diamond pattern

By Brenda Hornsby Heindl On the night my grandmother passed away, I learned that she had been trying to finish a quilt for me which she started when I was ...
Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and Home
Art Museum, Clothing, Colonial Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Curator, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, exhibit, Features, Historic, Home, Kim Ivey, Printed Fashions, Textiles

by Kim Ivey Senior curator of textiles and historic interiors Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Exhibit Introduction The exhibition Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and Home at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts ...
Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style
Daniel Finamore, Exhibition, Features, George Schwartz, Glamour, ocean liners, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, RMS Britannia, Speed, steamboat, Steamship, Style, Transatlantic

by Daniel Finamore and George Schwartz In July 1840, RMS Britannia departed Liverpool for the voyage that would initiate transatlantic steamship service on a regular schedule. On arrival in Boston, ...
Selling the Dream: The History of the Travel Poster
Advertising, Airplane, Art, artists, Brochures, Exotic, Features, Fliers, investment, Jessie Gillan, poster, Poster Art, Print Ads, RoGallery.com, Ship, Stylized, Trains, Travel, Travel Companies, Travel Poster, Zeppelin

by Jessie Gillan Creative Director at RoGallery.com Poster art has always been an influential form of advertising in addition to an art form in its own right. Powerful images and ...
It's a Plane, It's a Train, It's TAT!
Airplane, aviator, bi-wing plane, Bill Thornbrook, Business travelers, Calbraith Perry Rodgers, cross-country, Features, flight, Kitty Hawk, long-distance, Plane, TAT, Train, transcontinental, traveler, Vacationers, Wright Brothers

by Bill Thornbrook Business travelers and vacationers today can expect a transcontinental flight from Boston or New York to Los Angeles or San Francisco to be more or less routine ...
In the Beginning: 19th Century World’s Fairs
Baccarat, Crystal Palace, fabrics, Fairs, Features, Firearms, furniture, Glass, Great Exhibition, hydraulic presses, Industry, ironwork, Maxine Carter-Lome, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Napoleon III, Paris, perfumes, pianos, Porcelain, Pottery, steam hammers, Universelle, Victorian, World’s Fairs

By Maxine Carter-Lome When the gates to the Crystal Palace opened on May 1, 1851 to welcome guests to the Great Exhibition, they opened the door to the future. Thirty-two ...
Let’s Go To The Fair!
Agricultural Society, Bill Thornbrook, carnivals, Cattle Show, Celebrations, community, craft fairs, Essex County Agricultural Society, Exhibition, Fair, fall foliage, Features, festivals, gala, ice carnivals, New England, party, Strawberry Day, summer fests, Topsfield Fair, World’s Columbian Exposition

By Bill Thornbrook It seems people can find almost any excuse to throw a party. And a party is even more fun when the whole community is invited. That’s the ...
The Big E: The Creation of a New England Tradition
Boy Scouts, Brooks Bank Note Company, David Cecchi, Eastern States Exposition, Expo, Features, Girl Scouts, Horace A. Moses, Junior Achievement, New England agriculture, Russell Massachusetts, Springfield Board of Trade, Strathmore Paper Company, The Big E, The Dairy Show, the fair, Woronoco Massachusetts

by David Cecchi No matter what you call it – The Big E, Expo, the fair – the Eastern States Exposition has been a New England tradition for the past ...
What A Wonderful World: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
Batman, Boy Scout Pavilion, Boy Scout Service Corps, Donald-Brian Johnson, Features, Flintstones, Flushing Meadows Park, Michelangelo, New York City, New York Worlds Fair, official Fair Guidebook, The Riddler, World Fair

By Donald-Brian Johnson Abe Lincoln was there. So were the “Flintstones.” Michelangelo’s Pieta paid an exclusive visit. The enormous inhabitants of Sinclair’s “Dinoland” bid folks a toothy welcome. And, it’s ...