Title: Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America
First published: 2003
Description: "This illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting's life and work. Thomas Andrew Denenberg describes Nutting's interrelated endeavors, from his varied writings (including Furniture of the Pilgrim Century and the monumental three-volume Furniture Treasury) to his photography (both amateur and professional), chain of restored museum houses, renowned collection of seventeenth-century furniture, reproduction colonial furniture business, and advertising program.

By charting Nutting's activities, Denenberg creates a picture of an influential cultural critic who deftly combined myth and materialism, contributing significantly to both the growth of consumerism and the development of an antimodern worldview in the twentieth-century United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Photographers, Furniture, Biography, Collectors and collecting, History, Photographers, biography, Furniture, collectors and collecting, United states, history, 20th century, Cabinetmakers
Places: United States
People: Wallace Nutting (1861-1941)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: NK2439.N87 D46 2003