Foreword / Sarah Duggan. Gaineswood geography: how commerce routes and climate shaped life on an Alabama plantation / Michael Grauer -- A very valuable man: enslaved builders and the making of Texas / Tara A. Dudley -- Magisterial gaze in slave territory: Henry Cheever Pratt's Coons rancho as plantation painting / Alexis Monroe -- Material culture and the cultural landscape of the Polley Mansion, Whitehall / Melinda Creech -- William J. Frederich's scrapbook: a palimpset of the visual landscape of a Galveston man in the 1880s / Olivia Armandroff -- New Orlean's place in the mahogany trade / Lydia Blackmore -- Gaineswood geography: how commerce routes and climate shaped life on an Alabama plantation / Sarah Duggan.
Summary:
"One of the greatest cultural treasures in the state of Texas, Bayou Bend is renowned for its superb collection of early American and 19th-century Texas decorative arts and paintings. To honor Bayou Bend's founding director emeritus and his passion for American material culture, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, established the David B. Warren Symposium, seven scholars examined how the power of place influenced nd helped define material culture in Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest before 1900 within a national and international context. The resulting papers, extensively illustrated and documented, are published in this volume." -- Provided by publisher
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