The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America (Planning Grant)
FAIN: GM-*1248-80
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Alan Shestack (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)
To support the planning of an exhibition and catalogue of selected American cultural artifacts from 1790-1815. These objects will help provide a basis for understanding the society of the time when furniture-making underwent vast changes.