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Modern Art Hese: By the time the pmodern art hesey :hed its proposed settlement numbers e reduced to 99 - five people had died
two babies had been born, "hese early settlers, forerunners of the mists who were to form the independent ited States 150 years later, are generally >wn as the Pilgrim Fathers, a term first d in 1799. They settled the first perman-colony of Europeans in New England,the Mayflower Compact by which they erned themselves was to become famous.
In England Francis Frith opened the largest of hese picture factories in I860, on his return from Egypt. t his Reigate factory he had a stock of more than a nillion prints. Similar publishing companies were estab-ished in Scotland by George Washington Wilson and fames Valentine. Contact prints on gold-toned albumen saper were made in vast quantities: over a thousand 8 x 24-inch sheets of paper were sensitized in every working day.
Windsors were so extensively made that by 1765 craftsmen like Andrew Gautier of New York were advertising as Windsor chairmakers. By 1800 practically every good-sized community Torn Maine to Virginia had at least one "Windsor Zhair Manufactory." As a result the design of :hese chairs took on special regional character-sties that are recognizable today as workman-ihip of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York >r New England craftsmen. |
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