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Americans Create a Social Hierarchy

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Glisson, James and Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, eds. Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art (San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2020), 144.

Graves, Nancy Cabot, “Engravings and Embroideries: The Sources of Some Designs in the Fishing Lady Pictures,” Antiques 40, no. 6 (December 1941): 367–69.

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Warwick, Leslie and Peter Warwick, “Winthrop Chandler: The First American Painter of American Landscapes,” Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, 2013, https://www.incollect.com/articles/winthrop-chandler-the-first-american-painter-of-american-landscapes. 

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Climbing the Ladder of Success: Education

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Perlmann, Joel and Robert Margo. Women’s Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 9.

Van Horn, Jennifer, “Samplers, Gentility, and the Middling Sort,” Winterthur Portfolio 40, no. 4 (University of Chicago Press: 2005).  https://doi.org/10.1086/511168

Wells, Emily, “Subversive Samplers: How an Educational Exercise Became a Tool of Feminist Protest,” Nursing Clio, November 12, 2019, https://nursingclio.org/2019/11/12/subversive-samplers-how-an-educational-exercise-became-a-tool-of-feminist-protest/#footnote4.

The Self-Made Man

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A Seat at the Table

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LeFever, Gregory, “Side by Side: Windsor Writing Chairs,” Early American Life, October 2008, 71–81.