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Preface: On Studying the Things They Left Behind xiii Thomas J. Schlereth PART I: STATEMENT OF HISTORY 1 Material Culture Studies in America, 1876-1976 1 Thomas J. Schlereth PART II: STATEMENTS OF THEORY 2 American Studies: Words or Things? 79 John A. Kouwenhoven 3 The Challenge of the Artifact 93 William B. Hesseltine 4 Manuscripts and Manufacts 101 Wilcomb E. Washburn 5 The Use of Objects in Historical Research 106 John T. Schlebecker 6 Culture, History, and Artifact 114 Steven M. Beckow 7 Folk Art 124 Henry Glassie PART III: STATEMENTS OF METHOD 8 The Connoisseurship of Artifacts 143 Charles F. Montgomery 9 The Six Requirements for Design 153 David Pye 10 Artifact Study: A Proposed Model 162 E. McClung Fleming 11 Axioms for Reading the Landscape: Some Guides to the American Scene 174 Peirce F. Lewis 12 Pop Pedagogy: Looking at the Coke Bottle 183 Craig Gilborn PART IV: STATEMENTS OF PRACTICE 13 Death's Head, Cherub, Urn and Willow 195 James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen 14 Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America 206 Kenneth L. Ames 15 The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century 222 Ruth Schwartz Cowan 16 Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective 237 Fred Kniffen and Henry Glassie 17 The Service Station in America: The Evolution of a Vernacular Form 251 Bruce A. Lohof 18 An Indiana Subsistence Craftsman 259 Willard B. Moore 19 Monuments and Myths: Three American Arches 269 Joseph F. Trimmer 20 Chicago through a Camera Lens: An Essay on Photography as History 278 Glen E. Holt 21 Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915 289 Lizabeth A. Cohen 22 Immaterial Material Culture: The Implications of Experimental Research for Folklife Museums 306 Jay A. Anderson 23 In Praise of Archaeology: Le Projet du Garbage 316 William L. Rathje 24 Tin* Can Archaeology 325 Robert Ascher PART V: STATEMENT OF THE FIELD 25 Material Culture Studies in America: A Selective Bibliographical Essay 341 Thomas J. Schlereth Notes 355 Index 409