Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley 1987 Henry M. Reed/Don Yoder ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Crafts ~ Cabinetmakers ~ History

Title: Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley

Author: Henry M. Reed / With an essay by Don Yoder and a foreword by Monroe H. Fabian

Description: Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front free endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Slight toning to tops of pages. Thoroughly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. Dust jacket rubbed; faded along spine; small nick on rear panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. 93, [3] pages. 11.25 x 9.5 inches.

A pictorial history, documenting in detail the painted furniture from southeastern Pennsylvania's Mahantongo Valley, associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Henry M. Reed provides a historical perspective to the settlement of the Mahantongo Valley, including a look at past and present cultural and social factors, and describes various pieces, furniture makers and decorators, history of ownership, and the inspiration for various decorative motifs.

Don Yoder's essay gives some background to life in the Mahantongo Valley based on Yoder's fieldwork in the 1940s and an analysis of the account book of cabinetmaker Johannes Haas (1814-1856).

Includes a checklist of all the known pieces of painted Mahantongo Valley furniture with illustrations of these pieces, making this a definitive work on the subject, invaluable to collectors and scholars.


Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: A Center Gallery Publication, Bucknell University
Place: [Lewisburg, Pennsylania]
Year: 1987

ISBN: 0812280857

Keywords: painted country furniture, painted furniture, interior decoration, Pennsylvania Dutch, Mahantongo Creek Valley, Dauphin County, Northumberland County, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,