0:00 Introduction: 0:07 H Vanhorn Carpenter & Joiner; baby needs cradle, dead a coffin & life needs chests/chairs/desks; 1:09 Alexander Spotswood's VA small part of early America 1:51 Mexican desk/bookcase cf Boston high chest 2:04 Blue Ridge/Appalachians barrier to expansion & provided defence via Shenandoah 4:18 1681 Charles II grants PA to Wm Penn; 4:43 PA crucible thru geography & religious tolerance 5:10 1761 map of diversity of religion: PA settled via grants: later led to migration 6:40 into Shenandoah 6:55 Gt Wagon Rd to Augusta GA, 9:00 multiple cultures together 10:06 Quakers in N Shenandoah Germans/Lutherans in mid & Scots-Irish Presbyterians in S 10:28 1649 Fairfax Grant by Charles II set up Quakers in N 10:58 by early 1730s e.g. Hopewell Friends’ Meeting House 11:35 Quakers English Scots-Irish Welsh w regional furniture traditions 11:48 Luptons moved to Shenandoah to 1700 acres, grist & sawmills; David Lupton (1757-1822) Frederick Cty, VA built $5k house; high chest, corner cupboard, desk/bookcase 13:08 see American Furniture 1997 13:30 also Nick Powers on Quaker furniture makers MESDA jnl 13:42 1795 Lupton High Chest cf 1765-75 Philadelphia Rococo High Chest; Lupton’s Neo-classical adaptation of earlier Rococo form 15:05 Lupton desk/bookcase, see Gusler 1997 16:38 Lupton close-ups 17:02 confluence of Potomac/Shenandoah 17:32 sophisticated mahogany sideboard, Winchester, Frederick Cty VA; 17:58 moving up the Valley, German-speaking families from PA Lutherans who would fight (Quakers wouldn’t) from 1740s 19:08 Fort Egypt in Page Cty VA 19:17 cf Quaker 1740s Ross’s Spring w Fort Egypt 1758 19:42 Mahatango Valley Farm 20:19 Chest, Shenandoah Cty 20:58 Fraktur, J Strickler 1794 cf 21:14 to Hanging Cupboard/Clock by J Spitler, Page Cty VA 21:30 more Spitler work 21:34 Chests & Schrank 1779 w sulphur inlay 22:12 Shenandoah sulphur inlay blanket chest cf 1777 Fraktur decorated w hearts/tulips/urns 22:34 Käge 1788 Chest cf Siron 1793 chest 23:14 Scots-Irish (Ulster Protestants) 23:47 map of Beverley Manor/Irish Track 24:08 J Lewis of Ulster cleaved landlord’s skull in twain 24:56 Irish unkindly described by Chas Wood Mason 25:48 furniture simple solid & conservative; 26:14 Augusta Stone Church 1747 26:25 Jos Ray - PA, Wagon Rd by 1759 in Augusta Cty 27:02 Dressing table Augusta Cty, Ray for Lewis; 27:24 Jos Ray & J Price, Augusta Cty, High Chests 1765 & 1775-95 & Longcase Clocks 27:55 Longcase clocks by Wm Huston (PA then Augusta via Wagon Road) 1775-95 Augusta case by Ray; 28:12 son Jas clockmaker 28:42 Wagon Rd connects to Cumberland Rd/Cumberland Gap 29:18 Chest on chest Ray-Price shop & corner cupboard Moses Crawford 1790-1810 in Knox Cty East TN 29:50 Tracey Parks article re Moses Crawford; 30:12 High chest on frame Thos Pierce, Guilford Cty NC 1785-95 cf one by Virgil Eachus Chester Cty PA 1789 30:47 D Osborne Guilford Cty NC ; 31:18 Frakturs from PA/NC/SC by Ehre Vater Artist 31:35 Painted blanket chests Lebanon Cty PA, Alamance Cty NC, Wythe Cty VA, and Walton Cty GA, 31:47 Blanket chest, Christian Seltzer, Lebanon Cty PA 1796 cf J Huddle, Wythe Cty VA 1825-30 ; 32:19 Convergences of traditions Chest of drawers, Moses Pyle, Chester Cty PA 1746 line & berry cf Jos Wells Alamance Cty NC, sulphur inlay for German client 32:53 Germanic Chair w Cherokee woven seat Walton Cty GA 1790-1820; 33:23 cf Cherokee basket 33:30 Diamond Hill, Jos Vann House, Murray Cty GA Cherokee & Moravian 33:53 Punched tin decoration food safes 34:24 food safe at Colonial Williamsburg w linen 34:36 punched tin safe Green Cty TN 34:51 another with lights inside cf 35:23 example from Wythe Cty VA 35:31 cf Rockbridge Cty VA see Kurt C Russ and Jeffrey S Evans ISBN 9780984462421 35:53 Corner Cupboard Hugh McAdams Washington Cty TN 1808 cf another Sullivan Cty TN 1800-08 & desk/bookcase Wm Campbell Madison Cty KY 1800-10 exuberant inlay 36:14 Amber Clawson article; 36:26 Desk Hugh McAdams Washington Cty TN 1808 cf Wm McClure Green Cty TN 1803-12 36:39 Trans-Appalachian West into Ohio River Valley 37:02 1810 Mason Cty KY Census in Lewisburg. Gerrard Calvert J Foxworthy & P Tuttle. 37:30 Calvert Chest of drawers Mason Cty 1795-1800 cf sugar desk 1800-15 37:47 more than 100 chests 38:31 Calvert/Foxworthy/Tuttle start in Prince Wm Cty, Chesapeake Bay VA, move to Maizeville/Lewisburg. Ohio River joins Mississippi 39:15 Calvert Chest of drawers Mason Cty speaks to New Orleans Armoire 1800-20 Pied de biche foot goes upstream while Anglo-American inlay goes downstream creating new styles 40:31 Backcountry furniture not backwards 40:48 Wm Challen chairs Lexington KY 1825-35 & 1809 advertisement. Think about 41:38 VA SC PA WV on own terms of people/places they came from 42:22 Q&A topics include sulphur inlay, punch-tin, Jeff Evans on vernacular chairs, fluted qtr columns in NW England (Quaker link?), repetition of motifs & possibly artists within Frakturs and painted chests; any link between Dutch painted furniture and US painted?