A. Blue-and-white earthenware Digital
Dates
- Creation: 1785-1880
Conditions Governing Access
The Dickinson Room and many of these objects can be viewed by guided tour Fridays at 2:00 p.m.
Examination of objects in the Houghton Reading Room requires advance notice, and the permission of the curator.
Extent
20 linear feet (68 items)General note
Emily Norcross Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's mother, owned this blue-and-white printed earthenware. She probably acquired it in preparation for her marriage to Edward Dickinson in May 1828. It was most likely within the "crate of crockery" discussed in a letter from Edward to Emily Norcross (1828 March 8) regarding transportation of her belongings from Monson, Massachusetts to Amherst. Dark blue printed tableware graced the sideboard and table in the dining room at the Homestead in Amherst.
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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