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Article: Edna Greenwood and everyday life in early New England.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Although she is scarcely remembered today, Edna Greenwood (1888-1972) was a pioneer in the study of American material culture. At a remarkably early date she collected objects in an effort to understand their original purposes and the people who had made and used them. Her presentation of more than two thousand colonial New England objects to the Smithsonian Institution in 1949 became the cornerstone of an unprecedented exhibit of American material culture. At a time when other museums focused on the purely artistic or historical aspects of early American objects, the Smithsonian display introduced the notion of creating a context illustrating their original uses and ...
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