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Figure 1  American furniture and decorative arts installation, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909. (Courtesy, Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Figure 2  Parlor from Marmion (Prince George County, Virginia) installed in the American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, photograph ca. 1925. (Courtesy, Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Figure 3  Gallery 283, Philadelphia Museum
of Art, 1934. (Courtesy, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Figure 4  High Street, Sesquicentennial of Independence, Philadelphia, 1926. (Courtesy, Library Company of Philadelphia.)
Figure 5  Chippendale Room, Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition, American Art Association Galleries, New York, 1929. (Courtesy, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.; photo, Lawrence X. Champeau.)
Figure 6  Plan for reinstallation of the drawing room for the Samuel Powell House (ca. 1768–1772), Philadelphia, ca. 1927. (Courtesy, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Figure 7  American furniture and decorative
arts installation, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909. (Courtesy, Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Figure 8  “The New England Kitchen in the
Old Log Cabin,” Philadelphia Centennial, 1876. (Courtesy, Winterthur Museum.) This image appeared in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
on June 10, 1876.
Figure 9  American decorative arts installation, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1928. (Courtesy, Yale University Art Gallery.)
Figure 10  American decorative arts gallery,
Art Institute of Chicago, 2002. (Courtesy, Art Institute of Chicago.)
Figure 11  American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ca. 1999. (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum.)
Figure 12  View of “An American Vision:
Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum,” National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
May 5–October 6, 2002. (Courtesy, Winterthur Museum and the National Gallery of Art.)
Figure 13  American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ca. 1976. (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum.)
Figure 14  Albert Sack, The Fine Points of
Furniture, Early American: Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), p. 185. (Courtesy, Israel Sack, Inc. and Crown Publishers, Inc.)
Figure 15  Sideboard, American, ca. 1853. Walnut with tulip poplar and white pine; marble. H. 106", W. 69", D. 28". (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; museum purchase with funds provided by Anaruth and Aron S. Gordon.)
Figure 16  Furniture installation from “Mining the Museum,” Maryland Historical Society,
April 1992–February 1993. (Courtesy, Maryland Historical Society.)
Figure 17  Armchair attributed to Charles-
Honore Lannuier, New York, ca. 1812. Mahogany and rosewood; brass inlay. H. 35". (Courtesy, Christie’s.)
Figure 18  Armchair, possibly by John Hemings, Monticello joinery, Albemarle County, Virginia, 1790–1815. Cherry; original under-upholstery and leather cover. H. 34‡÷•", W. 23⁄÷¢", D. 19⁄÷¢". (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)
Figure 19  “Reinventing the Past,” American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2001. (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)
Figure 20  “Classical Chaos,” American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2001. (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)
Figure 21  “Sign Language,” American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2001. (Courtesy, Milwaukee
Art Museum; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)
Figure 22  “Of the Maker, By the Maker, and For the Maker,” American collections gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2001. (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)
Figure 23  High chest of drawers, Colchester, Connecticut, ca. 1785. Cherry with white pine. H. 82⁄÷™", W. 41‹÷¢", D. 21⁄÷™". (Chipstone
Foundation; photo, Sumpter Priddy, III.)
Figure 24  High chest of drawers, Boston or Salem, Massachusetts, 1755–1775. Mahogany
with white pine. H. 85 1/2", W. 40 1/2", D. 20 3/4". (Courtesy, Milwaukee Art Museum.)