Silver in American life : selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University
1979
739.23 S586 1979
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Title
Silver in American life : selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University
Published
Boston : David R. Godine, publisher, 1979.
Description
xiii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Call Number
739.23 S586 1979
System Control No.
(OCoLC)05202443
Note
A humanistic study of the relationship between silver and American life.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-192) and index.
Contents: Smitten with the silver fever / Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W R Ward -- Six themes in American silver -- Mineral of that excellent nature: qualities of silver as a metal / William A Lanford -- You shall not crucify man on a cross of gold: silver and money in America / John P Burnham -- Most genteel of any in the mechanic way: American silversmith / Barbara McLean Ward -- From the shop to the manufactory silver and industry, 1800-1970 / Stephen K Victor -- Handsome cupboard of plate: role of silver in American life / Gerald W R Ward -- As good as sterling: art in American silver / Martha Gandy Fales -- Silver in American life / Barbara McLean Ward, Gerald W R Ward, and Kevin L Stayton -- Silver: Its Sources And Uses: -- Ores and mining -- Production and refining -- Attributes of the metal -- Many uses of silver: photography, industry, the arts -- Coins And Medals: -- Silver in commerce and trade -- American numismatic art -- Silver commemoratives -- Traditional Craft Practices: -- Tools and shop practices -- Apprenticeship -- Specialization -- Related crafts -- Design sources -- Mass Production And Craft Revival: -- Mechanization -- Industrialization -- Silver-plating -- Arts and crafts revival -- Contemporary artist-craftsmen -- Silver And Society: -- Religious ritual -- Presentations silver -- Domestic display and ceremony -- Silver in everyday life -- Objects of personal adornment -- Gallery Of American Silver: -- Three centuries of form and style -- Seventeenth century -- Baroque -- Queen Anne -- Rococo -- Neoclassical -- Victorian and revival styles.
82.1.705
Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-192) and index.
Contents: Smitten with the silver fever / Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W R Ward -- Six themes in American silver -- Mineral of that excellent nature: qualities of silver as a metal / William A Lanford -- You shall not crucify man on a cross of gold: silver and money in America / John P Burnham -- Most genteel of any in the mechanic way: American silversmith / Barbara McLean Ward -- From the shop to the manufactory silver and industry, 1800-1970 / Stephen K Victor -- Handsome cupboard of plate: role of silver in American life / Gerald W R Ward -- As good as sterling: art in American silver / Martha Gandy Fales -- Silver in American life / Barbara McLean Ward, Gerald W R Ward, and Kevin L Stayton -- Silver: Its Sources And Uses: -- Ores and mining -- Production and refining -- Attributes of the metal -- Many uses of silver: photography, industry, the arts -- Coins And Medals: -- Silver in commerce and trade -- American numismatic art -- Silver commemoratives -- Traditional Craft Practices: -- Tools and shop practices -- Apprenticeship -- Specialization -- Related crafts -- Design sources -- Mass Production And Craft Revival: -- Mechanization -- Industrialization -- Silver-plating -- Arts and crafts revival -- Contemporary artist-craftsmen -- Silver And Society: -- Religious ritual -- Presentations silver -- Domestic display and ceremony -- Silver in everyday life -- Objects of personal adornment -- Gallery Of American Silver: -- Three centuries of form and style -- Seventeenth century -- Baroque -- Queen Anne -- Rococo -- Neoclassical -- Victorian and revival styles.
82.1.705
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