What Transferware Can Tell Us: A Case Study Utilizing an At-Risk U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Collection from the Veterans Curation Program
Author(s): Kelly B Brown; Alison Shepherd; Megan B Schwalenberg; Chaundria Wynn; Nancy B McKenzie
Year: 2018
Summary
The study of transferwares from historic sites in the United States can provide a window into the lives of the people who used these materials. However, there are many existing collections containing transferware that remain underutilized. Since 2009, the Veterans Curation Program has rehabilitated 231 at-risk collections, rendering them accessible for research and educational purposes. The Tombigbee Historic Townsites Project is one such collection. Completed in 1983, this project aimed to salvage data from three of the earliest towns situated along the Tombigbee River in the eastern region of Clay County, Mississippi. This paper will provide an overview of the research and educational opportunities that can be derived from the analysis of transferware in previously excavated collections. The re-evaluation of transferwares from this collection has the potential to expand and/or change our knowledge of frontier river life in Mississippi, and provide new avenues to educate the public.
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What Transferware Can Tell Us: A Case Study Utilizing an At-Risk U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Collection from the Veterans Curation Program. Kelly B Brown, Alison Shepherd, Megan B Schwalenberg, Chaundria Wynn, Nancy B McKenzie. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441182)
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Keywords
General
Collections
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Education
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Transferware
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th - 21st century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 790