American Decades
Art Pottery in the New Century
"Rookwood Is the Best Gift"
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By: Rookwood Pottery Company
Date: 1906
Source: "Rookwood Is the Best Gift." In Emergence of Advertising in America: J. Walter Thompson House Ads, Duke University Digital Scriptorium. Available online at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/ea... ; website home page: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html (accessed February 14, 2003).
About the Artist: The Rookwood Pottery Company (1880–1967) was established by Maria Longworth Nichols in Cincinnati, Ohio, and would become the leader in the American art pottery movement before a decline in quality and subsequent bankruptcy in 1941.
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1900's Fashion Primary Sources
- Louis Sullivan, Architect
- "Up-to-Date Bathing Requisites"
- Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Tiffany Glass
- Clothing the American Woman
- Middle-class Housework
- Art Pottery in the New Century
- The Gibson Girl
- Photographs of Poor Miners
- "Twenty-sixth Anniversary of the Standard Underwear of the World"
- "Houses Unique in Interest"
- Changes in Textiles and Advertising
- "San Francisco Graft Trial, 1907–1908"
- Sears Modern Homes Catalogues
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
