biography
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| lived:
| (1861–1941)
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| biography:
| Congregational minister, antiquarian, photographer, and writer, born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, USA. Poor health led him to give up the ministry (1904), and to support himself he began to sell his atmospheric photographs of rural New England. By 1912 he was collecting genuine period furniture to place in four old houses he was restoring and, seeing a demand, he began (1917) to manufacture reproductions of mainly American colonial furniture. He became the spokesman for the colonial revival movement among collectors and home furnishers, but his reputation remained somewhat compromised by his willingness to make reproductions. He wrote and provided photographs for a number of books, including Furniture Treasury (3 vols, 1928–33), which remains a useful survey of American furniture. |
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