1. Previously published information on Rohlfs includes: Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972), pp. 28–31; Wendy Kaplan, “The Art that is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1987); Coy Ludwig, The Arts and Crafts Movement in New York State: 1890–1920s (Hamilton, N.Y.: Gallery Association of New York State, 1983). See also Michael L. James, “The Philosophy of Charles Rohlfs: An Introduction,” Arts and Crafts Quarterly 1, no. 3 (April 1987): 14–18; Michael L. James, “Charles Rohlfs and the ‘Dignity of Labor,’” in The Substance of Style: New Perspectives on the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, forthcoming).

2. James attained access to the collection of Rosamond Rohlfs Zetterholm, Charles Rohlfs’s granddaughter, which contains archival papers and photographs. This collection was James’s primary source.