Newcomb pottery & crafts
Subtitle: an educational enterprise for women, 1895-1940
By: Jessie Poesch with Sally Main ; marks and dating by Walter Bob.
Contributors: Main, Sally.; Bob, Walter.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Series: A Schiffer book for collectors
Publisher: Schiffer Pub.; Schiffer Publishing; Schiffer Pub Ltd
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Atglen, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780764318474
Subjects: Newcomb College. -- Art Dept; Newcomb pottery; Art pottery, American -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- 20th century; Decorative arts -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century; Pottery -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Women potters -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Other titles: Newcomb pottery and crafts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-[307]) and index.
Table of contents: title: The roots of an enterprise; title: The experiment begins. Formative years, 1894-1902; title: An arts and crafts spirit, 1902-1910; title: A professional plant, 1910-1918. Other crafts expand; title: A change of place. Changes in personnel. Other crafts expand, 1919-1940; title: Marks and makers; title: Basic marks and dating / by Walter Bob; title: The potters and ceramists; title: The craftsmen.