AFA 22nd Anniversary

2022 Antiques & Fine Art 105 1.  Henry M. Reed, Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1987). 2. The Magazine Antiques 10, no. 6 (December 1926): 426–427. 3.  Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa Minardi, Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850 (Winterthur, 2011), 162–163. 4.  For an image of the signed Mayer chest, see A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America (New York: Skirra Rizzoli, 2014), 240–243. 5.  Mary Hammond Sullivan and Frederick S. Weiser, “Decorated Furniture of the Schwaben Creek Valley,” in Ebbes fer Alle-Ebber, Ebbes fer Dich: Something for Everyone, Something for You , ed. Frederick S. Weiser, Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 14 (Breinigsville, Pa., 1980), 387. 6.  Cooper and Minardi, Paint, Pattern & People , 96; with thanks to Jennifer L. Mass for this information. This article is the sixth in a series featuring the Dietrich American Foundation’s collection, intended as a type of crowd sourcing exercise, where responses and information shared by readers can inform the research. New information will be provided over the course of the series. Contact details are in the author bio below. For information about the Dietrich American Foundation, visit dietrichamericanfoundation.org. Lisa Minardi is the executive director of Historic Trappe and a contributing author to In Pursuit of History: A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts, ed. H. Richard Dietrich III and Deborah M. Rebuck (Yale University Press for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dietrich American Foundation, 2019). Please send comments/ queries to info@historictrappe.org. Fig. 9 : Kitchen cupboard. Northumberland County, Pa., 1820–1840. Yellow poplar, eastern white pine, hard pine, paint. H. 81¼, W. 69⅞, D. 20⅜ inches. The Dietrich American Foundation (8.2.6.1274). Photo by Gavin Ashworth.