Photographs of more than two hundred representative pieces of furniture are supplemented by historical information, data on their measurements and styles and an annotated list of cabinetmakers

Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880

David B. Warren

Lonn Taylor

Arts & Photography

University of Texas Press

The very flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the National Anthem of the United States is on display at the Smithsonian Institution. This book recounts the story of the star Spangled Banner and describes the restoration project in place to ensure its preservation.

The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Abrams

New Mexican Furniture, 1600-1940: The Origins, Survival, and Revival of Furniture Making in the Hispanic Southwest

Sumptuously illustrated, this is the most complete book on Spanish Colonial and revival-period furniture in New Mexico.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dessa Bokides

Crafts & Hobbies

Museum of New Mexico Pr

Now, many of them, and dozens more of her stellar images - from every corner the state - are now available in Texas, a limited edition, highest-quality, 256-page, hardcover coffee-table book, with a foreword by Librarian of Congress James Billington. This new book also includes expansive introductory text written by renowned Texas historian and raconteur Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis, host of The Rambling Boy: Stories About Texas weekly radio series. As Taylor's introduction notes, "it is almost impossible to generalize about Texas. The red clay and Piney Woods of East Texas might well be in Alabama; the high desert of the Big Bend is indistinguishable from Chihuahua. The Spanish moss and oak trees of the Coastal Bend, to which my grandmother Taylor's family immigrated in the 1820s, could be in the Mississippi Delta they left behind. My cousins there have little in common with the Spanish-speaking vaqueros of the Brush Country farther south, or with the hardscrabble German farmers of the Hill Country, or the drought-ridden ranchers of West Texas, who included my mother's people. Geographers distinguish eighteen physical regions of Texas." Carol M. Highsmith's historic visual documentation of Texas presents emphatically memorable images of these distinctive regions, as well as many other aspects of the dynamic, multicultural state. Her images in this important new keepsake volume represent the very best images from her extraordinary exploration of Texas for the Library of Congress, the first of its kind since Dorothea Lange and other documentary photographers took to the dusty roads of America during the Great Depression more than 75 years ago. Dallas "philanthropreneur" Lyda Hill, who designated this spectacular new book, Texas, as "a masterpiece and a treasure", underwrote Highsmith's explorations of colossal Texas.

Texas

Chelsea

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