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Culture & comfort : parlor making and middle-class identity, 1850-1930 / Katherine C. Grier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grier, Katherine C., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--United States.
- Material culture.
- Middle class.
- History.
- Upholstery.
- Living rooms.
- United States.
- Living rooms--United States--History.
- Upholstery--United States--History.
- Middle class--United States--History.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
- United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Culture and comfort
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Tracing the fortunes of the parlor from its early incarnations in "palace" hotels and steamships through its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century to its metamorphosis into the modern living room, Katherine C. Grier shows how the parlor's appointments reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class.
- Notes:
- Revised and slightly condensed version of Culture & comfort. Rochester, N.Y. : Strong Museum, c1988.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1560987154
- 1560987162
- OCLC:
- 35638755
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