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American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection
Warren, Brown, Coleman, Neff
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1998 

American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840
Sumpter Priddy
Chipstone Foundation, 2004 

American Folk Art in Ohio Collections
Robert M. Doty
The Akron Art Institute, 1976 

American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone
Jean Lipman
Dover Publications, 1972 

American Folk Painting
Mary Black & Jean Lipman
Bramhall House, 1987 

American Folk Painting
Richard B. Woodward, Assistant Curator
The Virginia Museum, 1977 

American Folk Paintings From the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Beatrix R. Rumford
Little, Brown and Company, 1988

American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts 1660-1830
Jobe, Michie, Stokes, Trent, Vogel, Zimmerman
Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991 

American Painted Tinware: A Guide to its Identification Vol. I-IV
Gina Martin & Lois Tucker
Historical Society of Early American Decoration, 1997-2007 

American Pewter
J.B. Kerfoot
Bonanza Books, originally printed 1924

American Primitive Painting
Jean Lipman
Dover Publishing, 1942, 1969 

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum
Stacy C. Hollander
American Folk Art Museum, 2001 

American Samplers
Ethel Stanwood Bolton & Eva Johnston Coe
Weathervane Books, 1921, 1973 

American Shelf & Wall Clocks: 2^nd Edition Revised & Expanded
Robert W. D. Ball
Schiffer Publishing, 1992, 1999 

American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpture
Frank Maresca & Roger Ricco
Bulfinch Press, 2002 

Ammi Philips Portrait Painter, 1788-1865
Barbara C. & Lawrence B. Holdridge
Clarkson N. Potter, 1969 

Antique Iron
Herbert, Peter, & Nancy Schiffer
Schiffer Publishing, 1979 

The Bible in Iron
Henry C. Mercer
Livingston Publishing Company, 1961 

Birmingham Brass Candlesticks
Jean M. Burks
The University Press of Virginia, 1986 

The Brass Book
Peter, Nancy, & Herbert Schiffer
Schiffer Publishing, 1978 

Bucks County Fraktur
Cory M. Amsler
The Pennsylvania German Society, 2001

A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers
Gail C. Andrews & Donald R. Walters
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978, 1980 

Chester County Clocks and Their Makers
Arthur E. James
Schiffer Publishing, 1947, 1976

Classical Taste in America 1800-1840
Wendy A. Cooper
Abbeville Press Publishers, 1993 

Collecting Antique Pewter
The Pewter Collectors Club of America
Self Published, 2006 

The Collector’s Dictionary of Quilt Names & Patterns
Yvonne M. Khin
Acropolis Books, 1980, 1985 

Coverlets and the Spirit of America
Joseph D. Shein
Schiffer Publishing, 2002 

Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock
Kenneth D. Roberts
Ken Roberts Publishing, 1973

The English Candlestick 1425-1925
Eloy Koldeweij
Christies Books, 2001 

Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana
Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, Ruth Wolfe
Yale University Press, 2006 

Florida Quilts
Charlotte Allen Williams
The University of Florida Press, 1992 

The Flowering of American Folk Art (1776-1876)
Jean Lipman & Alice Winchester
The Viking Press, 1974 

Folk Painters of America
Robert Bishop
Greenwich House, 1979, 1983 

Fraktur: Folk Art & Family
Corinne & Russell Earnest
Schiffer Publishing, 1999 

From the Heart: Folk Art in Canada
William E. Taylor Jr., Director National Museum of Man
McClelland & Stewart, 1983 

A Gallery of American Samplers: The Theodore H. Kapnek Collection
Glee Krueger
E.P. Dutton, 1978 

A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs
Robert Bishop & Patricia Coblentz
E. P. Dutton, 1981 

Guide to American Pewter
Carl Jacobs
The McBride Company, 1957 

Iron at Winterthur
Donald L. Fennimore
University Press of New England, 2004 

Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts
Nina Fletcher Little
E. P. Dutton, 1984 

Made in Pennsylvania: A Folk Art Tradition
Barbara L. Jones
Westmoreland Museum of Art, 2007 

Made in Western Pennsylvania: Early Decorative Art
The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Self Published, 1982, 2001 

A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860
Gloria Seaman Allen
Maryland Historical Society, 2007 

Miniatures: Dictionary & Guide
Daphne Foskett
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1972, 1979, 1987

Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists
Chuck & Jan Rosenak
Abbeville Press, 1990 

North Carolina Quilts
Eanes, Kirkpatrick, McCarter, Newman, Roberson, Sullivan
North Carolina Quilt Project, 1998 

Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks
Ronald F. Michaelis
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 

Ohio is my Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl Embroideries 1800-1850
Sue Studebaker
Ohio University Press, 2002 

101 American Primitive Water Colors and Pastels
Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1966 

Papers for Birth Dayes - Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners: Volume I & II
Russell D. & Corinne P. Earnest
Self Published, 1989, 1997 

Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Henry J. Kauffman
Dover Publications, Revised 1964 (Original 1946) 

The Pennsylvania German Collection
Beatrice B. Garvan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982 

Pennsylvania Folk Art of Samuel L. Plank
James & Vivian Bonson, et al.
Kishacoquillas Valley Historical Society, 1994 

The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia: Volume I & II
Frederick S. Weiser & Howell J. Heaney
The Pennsylvania German Society, 1976

Pewter at the Victorian and Albert Museum
Anthony North
V&A Publications, 1999, 2000 

Pewter at Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Davis
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2003

Pewter in America - It’s Makers & Their Marks: Three Volumes in One
Ledlie Irwin Laughlin
American Legacy Press, 1981 

Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
Alice Ford
Studio Publications, 1949

The Quilt I.D. Book
Judy Rehmel
Prentice Hall Press, 1986 

Rufus Porter Rediscovered
Jean Lipman
Clarkson N. Potter, 1968, 1980 

Rufus Porter Yankee Pioneer
Jean Lipman
Clarkson N. Potter, 1968 

A Sampler of American Folk Art From Pennsylvania Collections
Paul A. Chew
Westmoreland Museum of Art, 1989 

Samplers from A to Z
Pamela A. Parmal
MFA Publications, 2000 

This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836
Mary Jane Lederach Hershey
Good Books, 2003 

Tramp Art: A Folk Art Phenomenon
Helaine Fendelman & Jonathan Taylor
Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1999 

Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Beatrix T. Rumford & Carolyn J. Weekley
Little, Brown and Company, 1989 

Treasures of State
Clement E. Conger, Curator
Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1991 

The Treasury of Decorative Art: Sampler
Susan Mayor & Diana Fowle
Moyer Bell, 1996 

Young America: A Folk-Art History
Jean Lipman, Elizabeth V. Warren, Robert Bishop
Hudson Hills Press, 1986 

“Youth is the Time for Progress” The Importance of American Schoolgirl Art 1780-1860
Olive Blair Graffam
DAR Museum, 1998 

Willard’s Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock 1800-1900
Paul J. Foley
Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002 

Wordly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania 1680-1758
Jack L. Lindsey
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999

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