Record #:

27612

Author(s):

Rauschenberg, Bradford L.

Abstract:

In the collection of the South Carolina Library in Columbia, South Carolina, is an armchair made for the Royal Governor’s ceremonial use in the first State House. The chair survived a disastrous fire and is a rare example of an unrepresented period of Charleston’s chair-making. Some of the chair’s emblems are often seen on furniture from the Albermarle region of North Carolina.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 6 Issue 2, November 1980, p1-32, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Chairs; Furniture, Early American

Record #:

27613

Author(s):

Wright, R. Lewis

Abstract:

In the early 1800s, Thomas Johnson and his family established a chairmaking business in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Known as Johnson chairs, this group of ladderback chairs became prevalent throughout southeastern Virginia and upper North Carolina. The chairs represent the largest surviving group of its kind due to certain enduring features of construction.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 6 Issue 2, November 1980, p33-48, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Chairs; Furniture, Early American

Record #:

27614

Author(s):

White, Raymond D.

Abstract:

Marine art has been a constant thread in the pattern of American life since explorations to the New World. Among the first marine art produced in America are engravings by a European named Theodore de Bry. De Bry engraved many of John White’s drawings during attempts to colonize in Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 6 Issue 2, November 1980, p49-65, il, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Engraving; Art--North Carolina