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Series
Publisher
Krause Publications
Language
English
Description
Color photographs illustrate one of the most cherished and popular pottery lines in American history. Includes historical data on the McCoy Company, 1000 color photos of more than 15oo McCoy pieces, 60 pages from McCoy catalogs, up-to-date pricing and descriptions and identification tips.
Author
Series
Refined by love volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from her handsome competitor--but has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--
9) The words and wares of David Drake: revisiting I made this jar and the legacy of Edgefield pottery
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse?making a powerful statement of resistance.0The Words and Wares of David Drake collects multifaceted scholarship about Drake and his craft. Building on...
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