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Author(s) -
Baumgarten Linda
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.78
Subject(s) - adornment , clothing , colonialism , art history , art , white (mutation) , history , visual arts , archaeology , aesthetics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680‐1820 by Carolyn L. White. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2005. 160 pp. Linda Baumgarten is Curator of Textiles and Costumes at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where she has worked since 1978. She is the author of What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America (Yale University Press, 2002) and (with John Watson) Costume Close‐Up: Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750–1790 (Quite Specific Media Group, 2000).