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| Domestic Life in New England in the Seventeenth Century George Francis Dow Perkins Press/Topsfield, MA, 1925 This book on colonial life was inscribed by FDR “The First Volume for the Cottage by the Val-Kill-Nancy Cook, Marian Dickerman and Eleanor Roosevelt-and Franklin Roosevelt-November 1925.” FDR and the three women shared an interest in the colonial revival. For FDR, this was expressed through architecture; he designed the Stone Cottage in the Dutch Colonial vernacular. The three friends would express their interest in colonial craft through furniture, pewter, and the textile arts. Paper, cloth H 25.5; W 17; D 1.3 cm Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, ELRO 368 |
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