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Furnishing utopia : a furnishing plan for the Oneida community mansion house
Because so many of the Mansion House's original furnishings were disbursed, an appropriate furnishing plan can only be determined through the use of historic literary and pictorial sources. These sources include published descriptions of the house and its rooms, written by both Community members and 19th century visitors to the Mansion House. Community inventories are a second group of sources which provide a wealth of information. Community photographs amd newspaper illustrations printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly in 1870 on the Oneida Community have also been consulted. The final sources used in writing this thesis were sketches in the Oneida Community Mansion House's collection drawn by Milford Newhouse. Newhouse was a Community member who drew a number of comical illustrations during the 1850s and 1860s. Many of these sketches include rooms examined in this thesis.
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/332881275#Topic/religious_communities
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/332881275#Topic/museum_techniques
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062549
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/332881275#Topic/house_furnishings
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- "Because so many of the Mansion House's original furnishings were disbursed, an appropriate furnishing plan can only be determined through the use of historic literary and pictorial sources. These sources include published descriptions of the house and its rooms, written by both Community members and 19th century visitors to the Mansion House. Community inventories are a second group of sources which provide a wealth of information. Community photographs amd newspaper illustrations printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly in 1870 on the Oneida Community have also been consulted. The final sources used in writing this thesis were sketches in the Oneida Community Mansion House's collection drawn by Milford Newhouse. Newhouse was a Community member who drew a number of comical illustrations during the 1850s and 1860s. Many of these sketches include rooms examined in this thesis."@en
- "The thesis Furnishing Utopia is a furnishing plan for the Oneida Community Mansion House in Oneida, New York. The Oneida Community was one of the most successful and long lived of the planned religious utopian communities dotting the United States during the 19th century. The Mansion House was the group's home from 1862-1881 and is today a museum. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first outlines the unique and controversial history of the Oneida Community, vital for understanding the workings and furnishings of the home. The second focuses on the motivation behind the Community's choice of furnishings for the Mansion House. The Community's religious practices, access to goods, economic concerns, and desire to create an outward appearance of normality within their public spaces were all factors which motivated the group's choice of furnishings for the home. The final chapter analyzes the six spaces to be restored by the museum using the furnishing plan. The physical appearance of each room is explained and an outline of indiviual interpretive themes for each room is discussed."@en
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