Regional American Antiques
Research the regional schools, cities, communities, trades, and documentary evidence behind American objects.
New England
Furniture schools, clocks, pewter, glass, maritime material, textiles, painted furniture, and town-level attribution.
Mid-Atlantic
Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania German, urban craft, silver, furniture, and ceramics.
Chesapeake
Maryland and Virginia furniture, silver, ceramics, portraits, plantation and port histories, and documented makers.
Early South
Regional furniture, pottery, textiles, baskets, vernacular craft, urban centers, and the labor histories behind objects.
Appalachia
Furniture, baskets, quilts, tools, pottery, musical instruments, folk art, migration, and community provenance.
Midwest
Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, immigrant craft, farm material, art pottery, industry, advertising, and household goods.
Great Lakes
Shipping, tools, furniture, glass, pottery, fishing, industrial material, immigrant communities, and local makers.
Mississippi Valley
River trade, steamboats, ceramics, furniture, documents, maps, tools, and city connections.
Southwest
Hispano, Indigenous and Anglo material histories, silver, textiles, furniture, pottery, trade, and legal provenance.
California
Mission and rancho material, Gold Rush objects, trade, furniture, advertising, ceramics, and regional attribution.
Pacific Northwest
Maritime, logging, rail, trade, Indigenous material culture, regional makers, and provenance-sensitive collecting.
Hawaiian Material Culture
Kingdom and territorial-period objects, quilts, furniture, documents, trade goods, and export restrictions.
American Urban Centers
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Cincinnati, Chicago, and maker-dense city traditions.
Rural America
Farm tools, household furniture, quilts, baskets, pottery, local advertising, community craft, and estate groups.
Industrial Towns
Factory objects, worker material, company towns, tools, advertising, product samples, and local archives.
River and Canal Towns
Shipping, merchant records, warehouse tools, hotel material, maps, signs, and transportation networks.
Immigrant Craft Traditions
German, Scandinavian, Italian, Eastern European and other craft traditions adapted in American communities.
African American Material Culture
Objects, documents, textiles, art, tools, businesses, schools, churches, and provenance interpreted with historical context.