The practical book of early American arts and crafts . h- and early nine-teenth-century artisans. The collector finds before him a field that has notbeen depleted by diligent search as have some others,and the field is co-extensive with all the older settledparts of the country. The increasing interest inAmericana has added materially to the scope andvolume of the collections in our different museums, andeven such cities as Milwaukee—^where there is a par-ticularly excellent collection—^far removed from thehabitat of the early colonists, have creditable showingsof the products of eighteenth-ce
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . h- and early nine-teenth-century artisans. The collector finds before him a field that has notbeen depleted by diligent search as have some others,and the field is co-extensive with all the older settledparts of the country. The increasing interest inAmericana has added materially to the scope andvolume of the collections in our different museums, andeven such cities as Milwaukee—^where there is a par-ticularly excellent collection—^far removed from thehabitat of the early colonists, have creditable showingsof the products of eighteenth-century American crafts-manship. All of these collections are worthy of closestudy and have stimulated an intelligent and wide-spread interest. Many of the smaller objects, which itis possible to turn up with a little search, are still assuitable for household employment as they ever wereand thus possess a genuine decorative value quite apartfrom their role as curiosities of a bygone generation. The study of the early ironwork, in particular, has a. - « !-i|SS*r^
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