I know Southern resources...not so much NY. However, Cooperstown,
Winterthur, the Met and the Cooper Hewitt have some of the best
decorative arts libraries and resources in the country...it'd be worth
checking with them.
Further South:
There's a chair museum in Waterford, Virginia, a Quaker village that had
many craftsmen producing the chairs on display. I dont know further
facts about their chairmakers, but it might be worth contacting the
Waterford Foundation for more information.
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem has much
information on southern craftspeople.
And the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of Folk Art in Williamsburg, VA
has a good library and good resources to check. They have the depiction
of the first banjo in this country, shown in a painting of African
American group dancing.
Each of these organizations is expanding its knowledge base as far as
African American history (thus trades people) goes.
Camille Agricola Bowman
Easement Technical Advisor
Tidewater Region Preservation Office
Department of Historic Resources
14415 Old Courthouse Way
Newport News, Virginia 23608
Tel: 757-503-1549 (NOTE: New Number)
Fax: 757-886-2808
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F-O-R,
A few years back I took a sackback Windsor chair making class with Mike
Dunbar at the Windsor Institute in New Hampshire. We've stayed in touch,
and recently he got onto the topic of African-American Windsor chair
makers, a topic which morphed into African-American chair makers in
general. He just asked me if I knew of any who operated out of New York
and surrounds. I know of one in south Jersey, but wondered if any of you
BP seat warmers know if any made chairs where you are?
Thanks,
VI
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