{"product_id":"fashioning-the-new-england-family-9781936520138","title":"Fashioning the New England Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-cherished pieces of clothing that were acquired alongside papers such as letters and diaries. Because of the different storage requirements for textiles and manuscripts, these survivors-many of them hundreds of years old-have largely been divorced from their familial ties. Fashioning the New England Family, an initiative encompassing a fall 2018 exhibition and this companion volume, reconnects the textiles with the associated stories carried in the family papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenerously illustrated with full-color photographs of garments, fabrics, and accessories, including exquisite detail shots, the book creates a lasting overview of the exhibition but also delves into specific topics. The chapters cover a spam of more than three hundred years, tracing the history of New England clothing from the colonial seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary eighteenth century, and into the national nineteenth.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn these pages, readers will find a fragment of \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e passenger Priscilla Mullins Alden's dress; Governor John Leverett's bloodstained buff coat, which saw battle in the English Civil War; and the luxurious Spitalfields green silk damask wedding dress and shoes that Rebecca Tailer Byles wore at her 1747 wedding in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcross these examples and more, the text traces patterns of global production and local consumption and reuse, demonstrating how New Englanders used costume to establish their situation, especially in terms of class and gender, and also to express their political affiliations. Patriots and loyalists-Hancocks, Adamses, Dawses, and Olivers-make many appearances, as they are so well represented in the society's rich holdings. Manuscripts drawn from the collections-receipts, daybooks, account books, diaries-further amplify the historical insights, even at times making it possible to interpret the way in which a specific garment may have embodied one individual's sense of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDistributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11969965\"\u003eKimberly S. Alexander\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Massachusetts Historical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 8.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936520138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936520133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036020\"\u003eUnited States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKimberly S. Alexander, guest curator of the Fashioning the New England Family exhibition, teaches museum studies and material culture at the University of New Hampshire and has held curatorial positions at the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Strawbery Banke. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTreasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era.\u003c\/i\u003e Anne E. Bentley is Curator of Art at the Massachusetts Historical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Massachusetts Historical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44449659683053,"sku":"9781936520138","price":58.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_cdd5a570-79d6-4267-956c-c0ca22695f6c.jpg?v=1700312704","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/fashioning-the-new-england-family-9781936520138","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}