Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
The Annual American Catalog
Author: The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909
Author: The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Dictionary Catalogue ...
Author: Illinois State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Monthly Cumulative Book Index
Author: Official Directory
Author: Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The Ahern Home of Texarkana
Author: Doris Douglas DavisPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1648431992
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis’s The Ahern Home of Texarkana offers not only a discussion of the architecture of a Classical Revival dwelling but also provides a closely observed account of the material culture and social structures of a particular time and place in the American South. Built in 1905–1906 by Patrick Ahern, who immigrated to the United States from Dungarvan, Ireland, in 1881, the house at 403 Laurel Street was home to Ahern, his wife Mary, their six children, and a variety of descendants for over a century before its acquisition by the Texarkana Museums System in 2011. Today, the house, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, serves as a writing retreat, music center, and venue for historical presentations and educational activities. Based on archival materials, interviews with members of the family and those who knew them, and other research, Davis’s examination of the home and its inhabitants also includes a discussion of the complex relationship between persons of privilege such as the Aherns and the domestic servants, predominantly African American, whose often-arduous work made possible the smooth functioning of the household within its social context in the Jim Crow South. Describing the “fraught” relationships in the South between Black domestic servants and their white employers, Davis presents evidence of “the inevitable despair wrought by inequality and the tremendous capacity of the human heart to love.” This detailed tour of the home, its construction and furnishings, and the socio-historical context of its day-to-day activities provides readers a window of understanding and appreciation that will inform students and scholars of material culture as well as those interested in historical preservation.