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ACCESSORIES
Antimacassar;
Bells; ....Casting;
Handbells; Religious; Used on Vehicles;
Boudoir;
Boxes; .....Russian
Lacquer; Staffordshire; Snuff (Patch and Powder); Toby Match; Wooden; Writing;
Cages; ....Bird
& Cricket;
Calendars;
Cards, Calling; ...Customs
& Manners & Trays; 19th Century;
Cards, Playing; (See also CARDS);
Cases; .....Card;
Match;
Chocolate Pots;
Cruets;--incl. ...Present
Cups; Spout Cups;
Cuspidors;
Curling Irons; ....Goffering
& Calamistrating Is Enough to Curl Your Hair;
Demi-Tasse;
Decanters;
Decoys;
Epergnes;
Inkwells;--incl. ....Ink Bottles;
Inkstands; Silver Inkstands;
Knife Rests;
Match and Matchholders; ....Wall-Mounted;
Mirrors;--incl. ....American
Mirrors & Frames; Early American Looking
Glasses; History of Looking Glass;
Mustache Cups;
Mustard Pots;
Napkin Rings;--incl. .....History
Of;
Paperweights;--incl.
.....American Glass; Glass Paperweights; Lore, Facts, &
Advice; Millefiori;
Perfume Bottles;
Picture Frames; ....History
Of;
Pitchers; ......also Collectible Cow Creamers;
Pot Lids; .....Picture
Pot Lids; Staffordshire;
Potpourri;
Salts; ....Cellar
& Shakers; Dishes & Containers; History Of; Open Salts;
Samovars;--incl. ...18th Century
Russian;
Sea Shells;
Shaving Mugs;--incl. ....Barbershop
Antiques; History Of;
Smoking Accessories;--incl. ...Pipes;
Pocket Matchsafes;
Snuff;--incl. ....Bottles
of China; Boxes & Bottles;
Steins;--incl. .....German;
Regimental;
Stereoscopes;
Tea;--incl. ...Caddies;
Drinking and Artifacts; History of Teapots; Teapots
& Tea;
Teapots & Coffee Pots; Tea & Trivia;
Social History;
Toby Mugs;
Toothpick Holders;
Trays;--incl. ....Lacquer;
Tole;
Trivets;
Trunks;
Tureen; .....The
Georgetown Tureen;
Writing Instruments;
ANTIQUES
Collecting Antiques;
Explore with The Questers;
Glossary of Antique Terms;
Grandma's What-Not Shelf;
Hints: Find Real Antiques;
Incorrigible Collector;
Origin of Antique Rocks;
Potpourri;
Russian Antiques;
Superlatives in Artistry;
Trade Tokens;
Picker Checks;
What is a Treasure?;
APOTHECARIES
Drug Container: B.C.-C.D.;
Medical;--Beware, the Cure May Kill
You; A look at the History of Patent Medicines in America;
The Quest for a Miracle Cure;
Snake Oil, Hustlers, Shakers and Lilly;
Early Pharmaceuticals & Patent
Medicines; Civil War Pharmaceuticals;
A Most Splendid Cure;
Medicine in Colonial Days;
Patent Medicines;
Scales;
Victorian Medicines;
ARCHITECTURE
Barns;--incl. ...Barns
of Yesterday; Early American Barns; Old Barns;
Bridges;--incl. ....Covered;
Madison County; Sheltered Crossings;
Colonial;--incl. ...American Domestic
1607-1815; French Architecture &
Tomas Jefferson; Williamsburg;
General; ....Doors;
PA Dutch; Periods-1840-1860 and 1885-1915;
Researching Old Houses; Restoring Old Houses; Wooden
House;
Lighthouses;
Log Cabins;
Schools-The One room School
Victorian;--incl. ...The
American Farmhouse;
Windmills;--incl. ...Cape
cod; Weights;
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Baskets;--incl. ...American;
History Of; PA German;
Calligraphy;
Chalk ware;--incl. ...American;
Painted Images and Papier Mache;
Color-Dyes and Paints;
Coverlets;--incl. ...Hand-woven;
Needlework in Old Quilts & Coverlets;
Crewel;
Decoupage;
Decorations-1800-1860;
Dummy Boards;
Egg Decorating;-incl. ...Ukrainian Easter Eggs;
Embroidery; ...Chinese;
Paper;
Floral Arranging; ...Art
Of; Early American; History Of; Preserving Flowers;
Tussie-Mussies;
Folk Art-American;
Fractur;
General; ...Beginning of
Handicrafts; Embroidery; Lace; World of Fabric;
Lacquer-Oriental;
Macramé;
Needlepoint;-incl.
...Development; History Of;
Needlework; ...Creative American
Women; Early American; History Of;
Tribute of Women of 1776; Victorian;
Painting on Glass;
Papier Mache;
Pennsylvania;
Dutch-Unique Folk Art;
Primitive Painting;-incl ...American;
Illinois Folk Artists;
Quilts;-incl. ...Chester County
PA Quilts; History Of; History of Patchwork;
Tools;
Rosemaling;
Samplers; Historic Samplers
....Old and New;
Scrimshaw;
Shakers, Arts of
Silhouettes;
Stenciling;
Theorems;
Wax;-incl. ...Fruit and Flowers;
Portrait Waxes;
Weathervanes;
Woodcarvings;
ART DECO--Reflections On
ASTROLOGY-What Is It?
BIOGRAPHY
Adam, Robert;
Adams, John;
Ambler, Mary;
Appleseed, Johnny;
Audubon, John James;
Bardens, Jessie E.;
Bartram, John;
Bates, Katherine Lee & America the Beautiful;
Bedford, Jr., Gunning;
Bell, Alexander Graham;
Berger, Otto;
Bierstadt, Albert;
Blackhawk, Chief;
Bly, Nellie;
Boehm, Edward Marshall;
Bond, Carrie Jacobs;
Bond, Shadrach;
Burgess, Thorton;
Cassal, Harley Abraham;
Catlin, George;
Clay, Cassius Marcellus;
Copley, John Singleton;
Coquillard, Frances Comparet;
Crandall, Charles M.
Darragh, Lydia;
Daugherty, J. Denny;
Dill, Minerva;
Dix, Dorthea Lynde;
Drake, Francis Marion;
Earl, Ralph;
Ellsworth, James William;
Estes; The Migration of the Estes Family;
Faberge, Peter Carl;
Fairfax, Thomas 6th Lord;
Field, Erastus Salisbury;
Fortuny, Mariano;
Foster, Stephen;
Franklin, Issac;
Girard, Stephen;
Godey;
Greenway; Kate Greenway Collectable;
Gutmann, Bessie Pease
Hale, Sara Josepha (Godey's Lady Editor);
Hand, Edward E.;
Hershey, Milton;
Hibel, Edna (Artist);
Hind, William George Richardson;
Homer, Winslow;
Hoover, Herbert Clark;
Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue;
Hubbell, Frederick Marion;
Hummel, Berta;
Jenkins, Elizabeth Crocker;
Jerome, Chauncey;
Ladew, Harvey S.;
Lincoln, Abraham;
Locke, Joseph (Artist);
Logan, James;
Ludington, Sybil (Female "Paul Revere");
Lundy, Benjamin;
Madison, Dolly;
Mattison, Richard V. & Ambler;
McCoy, Christiana Polk;
Moore, Clement Clarke & The Night Before Christmas
Moses, "Grandma";
Mount, William Sidney;
Newman, Yolande (Past National Quester President);
Nutting, Wallace;
Parrish, Maxfield;
Pioneers in Petticoats (42 pgs.);
Peale, Charles Wilison;
Peale, The Family;
Peale, Rembrandt;
Penn, Letitia;
Pettingell, Alfred;
Petticoat Patriots
(23 pgs.);
Potter, Beatrix;
Prang, Louis;
Presidents Wives, A Brief History;
Pusey, Caleb;
Remington, Frederic;
Revere, Paul;
Rittenhouse, David;
Rockwell, Norman;
Rogers, John (Sculptor);
Ross, Betsy;
Russell, Charles Marion;
Scott, Wilson Alexander;
Shelley, Kate;
Slocum, Frances;
Smith, Jessie Wilcox;
Spratling, William Philip;
Stiegel, William Henry;
Still, Dr. James;
Tiffany, Louis Comfort;
Twelvetrees, Charles
Van Doren, Abram W.;
Wagner, William J.;
Washington, George;
Wayne, "Mad" Anthony;
Wedgwood, Josiah;
Wood, Grant;
Wright, Frank Lloyd;
BOOKS
Almanacs;
Autographs;
Book Collecting;
History of Children's Literature; Clement
Clarke Moore & "The Night Before Christmas";
Godey's Lady Book;
Heisey Glass, The Early Years;
Kells, Book of';
Illuminated;
Illustrators;
Miniature;
School Books--incl. ....The
McGuffy Reader; Fun with Dick and Jane;
Reprint of Books on Michigan
Women Writers in Early America;
CARDS
Christmas Cards;...Origin of
American Christmas Cards
Greeting Cards;
Playing Cards;
Postcards;
.... Wish You Were Here, The History of Postcards;
Valentines;
CERAMICS
American Pottery; ...American Indian;
Aspects Of; Before and After the American Revolution
of the 19th Century (63
pgs.); Central New York; Davenport; Dedham;
Deldare; Early American;
Illinois 19th Century; Indiana; Midwest;
Midwest Crocks & Jugs; New
Jersey; 19th Century-Eastern Region; Old
Sleepy Eye; Pauline;
Pennsbury; Pennsylvania; Peoria; Redware;
Redwing; Stangl; Tulip Ware;
Belleek; ....American
and Lenox with Marks;
Bennington;
Bisque;
Blue and White;
Capo-Di-Monte;
Chelsea;
Christmas Plates-Danish;
Cobalt-Cobalt Coloring on Plates;
Collector's Plates--incl. ...Antique;
Calendar Plates;
Chester County;
Composite (Leeds, Mocha, Spatter, Gaudy Dutch);
Connecticut Potters;
Crocks;
Delft;
English Pottery--incl. ...18th
Century; 19th Century; Kauffmann Collection
(Soft Paste); Klews Brothers;
European--incl. ....Austrian;
18th Century German Porcelain;
Haviland-General;
Haviland-Limoges; Haviland-Wedding Band; R.S.
Prussia; Silesia;
Figurines; ....Boehm's
Birds; Chimney Ornaments; Cybis; General;
Hummels; Lladro; Nodders;
Parian; Porcelain; Royal Doulton; Zodiac
Series;
Flow Blue;
Frankoma Pottery;
French Porcelain; ....Sarreguemines;
Sevres;
Gaudy Dutch;
Indian;--incl. ....Ancient;
Contemporary; Pueblo;
Ironstone--incl.
....Mason;
Lenox;
Lithophanes;
Lowestoft;
Lustre;
Majolica;
Medalta;
Meissen; ...Dresden;
Mexican;
Minton;
Moss Rose;
Ohio Pottery; ....Early
& Late; 19th Century; Roseville;
Old China; ....History Of;
Oriental;--incl. ....Canton;
Celadon, China Trade; Chinese Export in
America; Flying Phoenix;
Geisha Girl; Japanese; Japanese Arita; Japanese
Imari; Japanese Nippon;
Japanese Karashishi; Japanese Ming Blue &
White; Japanese
Porcelain; Japanese Rose Medallion;
Painting On China;
...Berger, Otto; Ed. Lycett;
Parian;
Pat-Sur-Pate;
Pickard;
Porcelain;--incl. ....English-also
18th Century; Fakes & Reproductions &
Collectibles; History Of;
Underglaze Transfers;
Presidential China-(57 pgs.);
Quimper;
Railway China;
Redware;
Rockingham Ware;
Rookwood;
Royal Bayreuth;
Royal Copenhagen;
Royal Doulton;
R.S. Germany & R.S. Prussia;
Saltglaze;
Spatterware;
Spode;
Staffordshire;--incl.
....American Historic Scenes; Animals; Chimney
Ornaments; Cottage
Figures; Dogs; Figures; Hen on a Nest;
Philadelphia/Blue; Plates &
Pitchers; Trinket & Match Boxes-Toby;
Stoneware
Tiles;--incl. ....Mosaics;
Tin-glaze;
Torquay;
Tucker; ....Philadelphia
Tucker Porcelain;
Van Briggle;
Vickers;
Victorian China;
Wedgwood; ....Basalt &
Jasper;
Willow Pattern
Worcester;
COSTUME
Accessories;
Aprons;
Buttons; ....Antique;
Storybooks;
Buttonhooks;
Canes;
Children's Costumes & Jewelry;
Colonial;
Costumes;--incl. ....From
Head to Toe; History Of (79 pgs.); History of
European Costumes; 1776;
Clothing;--incl.
....Women's Fashions; American Victorian; Early American;
1774-1783; 1850-1865;
1900-1930;
Corsets;--incl. ....Girdles;
Past & Present;
Fans;--incl. ....History
Of; Romance Of;
Fashion Plates;
Hair;--incl. ....Ornaments;
Wigs;
Handkerchief;--incl. ....Printed/
20th Century
Hats;
Hatpins;--incl. ....Holders;
Male ....Development
Of; Hats & Hat Making; Levi Strauss Pants; Men &
Boys Ware;
Netsuke;
Personal Grooming;--incl.
....Cosmetics; Curling Irons; History of
Hairdressing; History of
Perfume; Old-Fashioned Beauty Aids;
Petticoats & Undergarments;
Purses; ....Beaded Bags;
Shawls;--incl.
....Mandarin Squares; Paisley;
Shoes;
Spectacles;
Umbrellas and Parasols;
CULINARY ARTS
Bread; ....Pre-Historic
& Ancient; Baking Equipment;
Butter Molds and Prints;
Coffee Grinders;
Cookbooks;
Cookie Cutters;
Herbs;--incl. ....History
Of; IL's Most Common; Lore Of; Old Remedies,
Cures, and Herbs; Usage;
Ingredients--incl. ....Beach
Plum; Beer; Candy; Chocolate; Cranberries;
Eighteenth Century;
Honey; Nineteenth Century; Old-Fashioned;
Pennsylvania Dutch;
Popcorn; Potato Starch; Preservation; Seventeenth
Century; Wine;
Kitchen Equipment--incl.
....Colonial; Egg Beater & Cream Whipper; 18th
Century PA; Fireplace &
Equipment; General; Graniteware;
Metal;(--incl.; Iron);
Nutcrackers-Wooden; Utensils;(--incl.;Antique;
Baking; Primitive;);
1750-1850; Victorian; The Mason Jar;
Molds-incl.
....Chocolate; Ice Cream; Intaglio Carved;
Stoves;
Treen;
DOCUMENTS
Maps;--incl. ....Collecting;
Map Makers;
Paper;--incl. ....History
Of; Preservation Of; Use;
FINE ARTS
American Art and
Artists--incl. ....Luminism in
Paintings; 19th Century;
American Art & Artists of the West--incl. ...Federic
Remington & Charles Russell
Colonial Art and Artists--incl. ....Colonial
American; 18th Century; Portraits
of George Washington;
Portraiture in America;
Miscellaneous; ....Florentine
Mosaic; How to Trace a Painting; The Madonna
and Child; Restoring Old
Paintings; Women Artists Before 1900;
Miniatures;--incl. ....Portraits
in Ivory;
Sculpture-John Rogers Statuary;
FIREPLACES
Early American;
Franklin Stove
Furnishings;
Hearthstone and Flames;
FLOOR COVERINGS
Hooked Rugs;--incl. ....Evolution
Of;
Oriental;--incl. ....Caucasian;
Chinese; History Of; Prayer Rugs;
Specialized;
Rag Rugs-Braided;
Rugs;--incl. ....Colonial
Floor Coverings; Indian-Navajo;
FURNISHINGS
Colonial Era;
Coromandel Lacquer Screens;
Description of 18 Century Furnishings in Colonial Homes;
Hangings & Wall Coverings;
Living Room, The History of
Keeping Room
Oriental Influence;
Southern Interiors;
Table Appointments Before 1900;
Victorian;
Walls;--incl. ....Early
American Wallpaper; History of Wallpaper; Wall
Decoration Through the Ages;
Why Wallpaper?
Window Decoration of the 18th Century;
FURNITURE
American;
Amana Furniture;
Beds; ....Early
American; History Of;
Cabinet Makers-Early American;
Chairs;--incl. ....Hitchcock;
19Century; Ornamented 1700-1890; Painted;
Queen Anne; Rocking;
Shaker; Ware Chairs/NJ; Windsor Chairs;
Chests ....Highboy;
History Of; Lowboy; PA Dutch Dower;
Children's Furniture;
Cradles;
Cupboards;
Desks;
Fakes-Detecting;
General; ....Evolution of
Design; Study from 1600-1900 (64 pgs.);
Papier Mache;
Periods; ....Belter;
Centennial; Chippendale; Colonial; Country; Duncan
Phyfe; English Period; Federal;
French; Georgian; Happlewhite; Italian;
Miscellaneous--Period from 1700-1900,
and 12th-18th Century;
Mission;
Nineteenth Century (51 pgs.);
Oak;
Pennsylvania; ....Philadelphia;
Chester County;
Plantation
Queen Anne; ....English
& American;
Shaker;
Sheraton;
Southern; ....Early East
TN; Natchez;
Victorian; ....American;
Bedroom; Eastlake; General;
Windsor; ....American;
Restoring and Refinishing;
Stoves; ....German in
Early America;
Tables;
Wicker;
GEMS AND JEWELRY
Amber;
Art Deco;
Cameos;
Diamonds;
Fundamentals;--incl. ....Antique
Jewelry;
History of Charm Bracelets; Simply
Charming! History of Charm Bracelets
History of Gems and Jewelry;
Hair Jewelry;
Indian; ....Navajo;
Silver & Turquoise;
Ivory;
Jade;
Jet;
Rings;
Victorian Jewelry;
GLASS
Akro Agate
Amberino;
American;--incl.
....Brilliant Cut; Campaign; Commemorative;
Corning-Steuben; Early;
First Industry; History Of; 19th Century; Old
Maryland; Philadelphia;
Pressed Glass Tableware;
Art Glass;--incl. ....Glass
Flowers; 19th Century Baskets; Victorian;
Baccarat; ....Paperweights;
Beads-Indian Glass Trade Beads;
Bi-Colored;
Blown; ....Amelung;
End of the Day;
Bohemian (40 pgs.);
Bottles;--incl. ....Avon;
Collecting Of; Mining in Old West; Nursing; Old
American;
Bristol;
Cameo; ....Of
Children; Mary Gregory;
Carnival;
Cobalt;
Corning Museum;
Containers;--incl. ....Animal
Dishes; Candy Containers; Candy Jars;
Cranberry and Ruby;
Custard;
Cut Glass;--incl. ....American
Brilliant; Detecting Imitations; Diamonds;
Fundamentals; History Of;
Identification Of; Victorian;
Depression;
Dorflinger;
Fenton;
Flint;
Fundamentals;--incl. ....Artisans
Of; Characteristics and Care; Collecting
Antique; Fakes & Reproductions; History of Glassmaking; Making Of;
Goblets; ....Pressed
Flint;
Greentown; ....Caramel
Slag, Chocolate;
Heisey; ....Animals;
Imperial (Candlewick Crystal);
Insulators;
Iridescent;
Iowa;--incl. ....City
Companies;
Jars;--incl. ....Ball;
Candy; Canning; Fruit; Hazel Atlas;
Lalique;
Lead Crystal;
Mary Gregory;
Minerva;
New Jersey;
Opalescent;
Opaque; incl. ....Milk
White;
Pattern;--incl. ....Actress;
American; Bellflower; Cannonball; Colorado &
Lacy Medallion; Daisy &
Button; Diamond Medallion; Findlay Pattern;
Glass and Champaigns;
Hobnail; Pressed; Rare Pattern; Red Block;
Westward-Ho;
Peachblow;
Pennsylvania;
Phoenix;
Pressed;
Sandwich;--incl. ....Deming Jarves;
Satin;
Stained;
Steuben;
Stiegel;
Threaded;
Tiffany;--incl. ....Favrile; Work Of;
Tumbler;
Venetian;
Victorian;--incl. ....Glass Slippers;
Waterford;
Wavecrest, Kelva, & Nakara;
Wine;
Wistarburg;
HERALDRY
Marks;
Story of a Herald;
Understanding Heraldry;
HERITAGE
Cemeteries; ....Belmont
County, OH; Congressional Cemetery; Tombstones; Montgomery Cemetery
Foreign Countries; ....Egypt;
Gardens;--incl. ....Colonial; History
Of;
Genealogy;--incl. ....Ancestral
Anecdotes; Family Tree;
Geographical-Listed by State;
Alaska; Seward's
Folly
Arizona;
History of Sedona & Tuzigoot; Zoar Society;
California; Balboa
Park, San Diego; Gold Rush; Landmarks; Los
Angeles;
Lou Henry Hoover & The House on San Juan Hill; Missions;
Colorado; Bent's
Fort; Ghost Towns; Montclair & Its Baron;
Georgia; Carving on
Stone Mountain; Victorian Parlor;
Illinois; Chicago;
Hofmann
Tower of Lyons; Macomb; World's Columbian Exposition; Chicago's
Roaring
Twenties
Indiana; Calumet;
White Water Valley;
Iowa; Dallas
Center; Story of Pella & Delft;
Maryland;
Chesapeake Bay; Log Mill House; Montgomery Co. My
Lady's
Manor; Old Letters and a Church;
Massachusetts; Bass
River; Cape Cod; Mayflower Compact & Fate Of
Passengers; Old King's Highway;
Michigan; Ann
Arbor; Belle Isle; Bicentennial Project; Centennial Farms;
Historic; Isabella County;
Mississippi;
River Boats;
Missouri; Arrow Rock;
New Hampshire; Piscatoqua;
New Jersey;
Birth of the State; Burlington; Col. J. Ellis House; Egg
Harbor;
Greenwich; Moorestown; Ocean City; Quaker Maids; They
Lived Off The
Land; Slavery & Underground Railroad; South Jersey;
New York; Kirkland;
Westmoreland Ironworks;
Ohio; First
Presbyterian Church, St. Clairsville; Western Preserve;
Oklahoma;
Peace Pipes, Lariats, and Oil;
Pennsylvania; Borough
of Yeadon; Chester County; Ephrata, The Cloister
Of;
Germantown; Gwynedd; Indiana County Inventors; Jenkintown;
Montgomery
County; Norristown; Perkiomen; Philadelphia Adelphia
Hotel;
Philadelphia Elfreth's Alley; Philadelphia Letter of 1811; Old
Philadelphia; Philadelphia Penn's Green Countrie Towne; Philadelphia
Society
Hill; Young Philadelphia; Plymouth Meeting; Round Meadow
Run;
Shakertown; Spring Mountain; Valley Forge U.M. Church;
Whitemarsh
Township; Whitpain Township; Yardley;
South
Carolina; Charleston; Low Country;
South Dakota;
Birth of a State;
Texas; Palm Valley Lutheran Church;
Virginia; Abemarle
Co. & Rockbridge Co.; Fairfax County; Onancock,
Hopkins
Store; Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax; Williamsburg;
Washington;
Columbia River;
West
Virginia; Harper's Ferry; Independence
Hall; Wheeling;
Wisconsin;
Cooksville; Janesville & Rock County;
West; ....Picture Stories;
Of The Journey West; Tour Of;
Houses A-L; ....Gamble
Mansion; Havilah Babcock Mansion; Francois Baby
House; Cliveden-The Chew Hous;
Elfreth's Alley; Home of Thomas
Fairfax; Homesteads;
Junel Mansion; Lemon Hill; Lincoln's America;
Lombardy Hall; Littlecote; Lou
Henry Hoover & The House on San Juan Hill;
Houses M-P; ....Mont
Clare; Norris Hall; Oak Hill Cottage; Old
Pennsylvania; Osgood-Yardley
House; Pennsylvania Farmhouse; Penn,
William: House of; Pink
Villa; Henry L. Pittock Mansion; Pusey,
Caleb: House Of;
Houses Q-Z; ....Restoration
in IA, IL, SD, and Canada; Sixteen Hundred
Pennsylvania Ave.; Terrance
Hill; David Whitney House; Whitney
Mansion; Woodlawn; Wyck,
Germantown, PA;
Inns & Taverns; Old
Country Inns; Around Philadelphia; Georgetown Tureen;
Jefferson Hotel; Milton
Inn; Weldon Hotel; Wm. Penn Inn; Wayside
Stations;
Merchandising; ....Advertiques;
Advertising-History Of; Advertising Tin;
Campbell Kids; Chewing Gum
& Advertising; Country General Store;
Hopkins & Brothers; Larkin
Co.; Printed Advertising;
Mills; ....History of
Grist Mills;
Mines; ....Coal;
Silver;
Museums; ....Alfred
Duane Pell Collection (Porcelain); Enchanted Hill-San
Simeon; Independence
Hall; J. Paul Getty; Winterthur; A walk around the
Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Names; ....Origin
of Surnames; What's in a Name;
Opera Houses;
Organizations;
....Masonic Order in America;
Parks; ....Lake McBride
State Park;
Patriotic Symbols; ....American
Flag; Eagle; Liberty Bell;
People; ....Ephrata
Cloister; Indians, Kachinas; Indians, Sauks; Mennonites;
Moravians; Negroes in NJ;
Oneida Community; Pennsylvania Dutch;
Quakers in and Around
Philadelphia; Shakers;
Preservation; ....National
Preservation Project; National Trust; Our Heritage;
Professions; ....Dental
Lore; Dr. in Colonial America;
Questers; ....Jug Inspired
Founder; Your life, Mrs. Newman;
Restoration;
....Historical Places in America; This Old
House;
Roads & Trails; ....Appalachian
Trail; Butterfield Trail; Old Kentucky
Roads; Roads of Early
Philadelphia;
Schools; ....In Early
Wisconsin; Lil' Red School House; Schoolmasters;
1776; ....Literature
Of; Philadelphia Craftsmen;
Slavery; ....Underground
Railroad-IL; Underground Railroad-IA;
Underground Railroad-MI;
Trees; ....Penn. Trees;
Tombstones;
Villages; ....Chester
Springs, PA; General; Henry Ford & Greenfield; Old
Deerfield, MA; Old
Sturbridge; Salem, NC; Sturbridge, MA;
Wars; ....Cherry Valley
Massacre; Civil (Judith Anne Foster); Revolutionary;
Secret of Purple Heart;
Water;--incl.; Water-Potable;
Waterways; ....Ginger
Creek, IL; Perkiomen Creed & Valley, PA; Rivers &
Roads of Philadelphia; The
Penny Pack, PA; Towpath, OH; Wissahickon
Valley, PA;
Women; ....Adams, Fuller,
Stowe, Cassatt, Willard, Lyons, Royall in
American Revolution;
Washington, Madison, Adams; Who Came Before;
Zoos; ....Fairmont Park;
Ivory;
Lighting;
....Candles; Brass Candlesticks; Candlesticks; Christmas
Program;
Charm of Candlelight; Candle
Making; Candle Molds;
Devices;--incl. ....American;
Ancient Oil; Cast & Wrought Iron; Gas in
Colonial America;
Kerosene; Oil Lamps; Wabash Light in IN;
Fairy Lamps;
General; ....Ages of
Light; American; Colonial; Colonial-1700-1781;
Development Of Early Lighting;
18th Century; From Fire to Kerosene;
Period in New York State;
Primitive;
Miniature Lamps;
HOLIDAYS
St. Valentine's Day; History
& Traditions;
MARKS
China; ....Haviland;
Nippon;
Emblems and Symbols;
Firemarks;
Hallmarks; ....Silver;
MEMORABILIA
African American Memorabilia;
Carousel;
Colonial; ....Life in Old
Philadelphia; 16th Century Homemaking;
Circus & Fairs; ....Centennial
Expo. 1876; General; Portland, OR 1905;
Ringling, Roberts, Orton; San
Francisco-Early;
Customs; ....Amusements;
Courtship; Etiquette 18th & 19th Century;
Folklore; Girls; Manners
in the 19th Century; Mineral Springs; New
England; New Year;
Fire;
Flood;--incl.
....Johnstown;
Funeral Customs; ....Attire;
Old Cemeteries; Rites and Customs;
General; ....Everyday
Things in America; Frontier Relics; Saga of Soap;
Ice Cream Parlors;
Peddlers;
Political;--incl. ....Buttons
& Gadgets;
Room; ....Dining;
Keeping;
Thanksgiving;
Theaters; ....Colonial in
Philadelphia; General; Old, in Philadelphia;
Victorian; ....General;
Paper Collections; Women;
METALS
Brass;
....Memorial; Monumental; Rubbings;
Bronze;
Copper & Brass;
Copper;
Enamels; ....Cloisonné; Battersea;
Introduction to Japanese;
Gold;
Hinges;
Horse Brasses;
Iron;
Locks & Keys-History of;
Pewter;--incl. ....American; British;
18th Century; History Of; Tankards;
Tin; ....Advertising;
American Portraits; Antique; Books; Collecting; Doll
House; Furniture;
Inventions;
MUSIC
American Music; Civil War; Colonial;
Early American; 1600-1900; PA
Work Songs; Songs of the 18th
Century;
Folk;
Instruments;
....Accordion; Bagpipe; Dulcimer; Handbells; Harmonica;
Keyboard; Violin;
Music Boxes;--incl. ....Disc;
Phonograph-History Of;
Sheet;
Sound; ....Development Of;
NUMISMATICS
Coins;
....Early American Coinage; Fractional
Currency of the U.S.; Money
of Yesteryear; Science of
Coins;
Coin Collecting;
Odd and Curious Money;
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daguerreotypes; ....Cases;
1839-1860 and Ambrotypes and Tintypes;
Early;
History;
Magic Lantern;
Stereograph;
PRINTS
Currier & Ives;
Engraving;
Flower & Bird Prints;
Godey;
Japanese;
Old Prints & Lithographs;
Printing;
What is a Print;
RELIGION
Bibles; ....Occupations
of Biblical Times; Old; Plants of;
Christmas; ....Angels;
Bells; Candles; Carols; Cookies & Baking; Customs
& Traditions in Colonial Times,
in Early Philadelphia, or in Williamsburg;
Foreign Countries;--incl. ....England;
Germany;
New World;
Ornaments; ....Antique;
Glass Lights; Tree;
Pennsylvania Dutch;
....Putz;
Scandinavian;
Symbols;
Santa Claus;
Tree; ....History
Of;
Victorian;
Churches; ....Colonial; Great
Grandmother's; Pine Street, Philadelphia;
Quaker Meeting House; St.
James, MD; Valley Forge U.M. Church;
Easter; ....Customs;
Rabbit;
Epiphany;
Hebrew; ....Hanukkah;
Miscellaneous; ....Buddhism;
Mennonites and Songs of Everlasting Joy;
Shakers;
Symbols; ....Crosses;
Icons; Santos of New Mexico;
SEWING & ACCESSORIES
Accessories; ....Chester
Co. PA Sewing; Grandma's Sewing Basket;
Machines;
Pins & Cushions; ....Pin
Cushion Dolls;
Sewing Birds;
Spool Cabinets;
Thimbles; Thimbles;
SILVER
American
Chinese
Coin; ....Silver Spoons;
English;--incl. ....Old
Flat; ....Forks
General;--incl. ....Collecting
& Care;
Indian; ....Jewelry;
Ornamental; Trade;
Mexican;
Sheffield;--incl. ....Marks
1732-1838; Old;
Silverplate;
Silversmiths;--incl. ....Connecticut;
Delaware; Hester Bateman; Paul
Revere; Pennsylvania;
Philadelphia; Sybil Luddington;
Spoons;--incl. ....American
Silver 1775-1840; Apostle; Denmark's Xmas;
Monkey; Souvenir; U.S.
President's;
TEXTILES
Dyeing;
Fabric Production;
General; ....Chinese;
Colonial; PA German Flax; Shaker; Weaving;
Lace; ....Bobbin; History
Of; Quaker;
Rug Hooking;
Historic Samplers
Spinning; ....Colonial;
History Of;
Tapestries; ....Bayeux;
Weaving;
TIMEPIECES
Clocks; ....American
1710-1850; American 1650-1900; Arthur, James;
Calendar; General; New
Jersey; Pennsylvania Case; PA General; PA
Terry; English;
Sundials; Watches & Fobs; Cases; Enameled;
TOOLS
Barn;
Blacksmiths;
General;
Hardware for Home;
Iron;
TOYS
American;
Antique;
Banks;
Dishes; ....Early American
Pressed Glass; Individual Patterns; Kewpie;
Phoenix Bird;
Dolls;--incl. ....American;
Apple; Association; Bisque; Bye-Lo; Character
of 15 Famous Women;
Collecting; Costumes; Fashion 14th-20th
Century; In Five Categories
(Snowbabies; Kachina, Apple Head, Folk,
Paper); Juneau;
Kachinas; Kewpies & Bye-Lo; Lenci Doll (The); Legends & Customs;
Paper; Philadelphia;
Rag; Schoenhut; The Lenci Doll;
Games; ....History Of;
Quester Crossword Puzzle; Living Past (Variety);
General; ....Boys; History
of American Toys; Collecting; Miniatures;
Outdoor;
Marbles;
Sleds;
Teddy Bears;
TRANSPORTATION
Aviation; ....Lighter Than air
Device; Women In;
Automobile;
Bicycle;
Canals, Union;
China Trade;
Covered Wagon;
Early American;
Figureheads;
Ships; ....Great Lakes;
Ocean Liners; Old; Steam;
Stagecoaches;
WEAPONS
Arms; ....French During American
Revolution;
Guns; ....Antique American;
WOOD
General; ....Early American;
Types of Wood;
Identifying American Antique Wood;
Lumbering;
Woodware;--incl. ....Mauchline.
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Updated - 09 June, 2008