LibGuides: Material Culture: Sample Object Studies (Journals)

OBJECT STUDIES IN MATERIAL CULTURE (JOURNAL)

The list below identifies selected object study articles published in the journal Material Culture (formerly titled Pioneer America).

"Cajun Cock Pits" by Jon Griffin Donlon (1993) v25n2pp. 25-36
"The Cajun Dance Hall" by Malcolm L. Comeaux (2000) v32n1 pp. 37-56
"Camping, Climbing, and Consumption: The Bean Boot, 1912-1945" by Emma Newcombe (2016) v48n1 pp. 10-27
"The Construction of an Elite Identity: A Landscape History of Dartmouth Hall" by Charles H. Wade (2017) v49n2 pp. 24-49
"The Duclos-Pashia House: Survival of Creole Building Traditions into the Twentieth Century" by C. Ray Brassieur (1990) v22n2 pp. 15-25
"An Early Hay Press and Barn on the Ohio River" by Warren E. Roberts (1993) v25n1 pp. 29-36
"The Enduring Finnish Sauna in Hamlin County, South Dakota" by Linnea C. Sando (2014) v46n2 pp. 1-20
"The Forgotten New England Coconut Dipper in the 19th-Century American Landscape" by Kathleen E. Kennedy (2019) v51n2 pp. 1-17
"A Forgotten Quarantine Landscape: The Staten Island Marine Hospital Quarantine 1799-1858" by Amanda Weber (2019) v51n2 pp. 18-41
"The Galena Market House" by Theodore Hild (2000) v32n3 pp. 1-26
"Gargoyles, Kisses and Clowns: A Study of Carnivalesque Male Urinals and Restrooms" by Karen Bernier-Cast (2011) v43n1 pp. 21-39
"The George Cresswell Lead Plantation" by Hugh Davidson (1991) v23n2 pp. 1-24
"Gothic Barns in Brown County, Illinois: A Survey and Interpretation" by H. Wayne Price and Keith A. Sculle (1998) v30n3 pp. 1-41
"Henry Howe's Images of An Emerging Main Street" by Craig Colten (2006) v38n1 pp. 36-53
"The Hermitage, A French-Caribbean Plantation in Central Maryland" by Paula S. Reed (2006) v38n1 pp. 1-35
"Horeb Chapel: The Evolution of a Welsh Barn Chapel Upon the American Landscape" by Michael T. Struble (1993) v25n2 pp. 37-45
"Howard Acree's Chimney: The Dilemma of Innovation" by Charles E. Martin (1983) v15n1 pp. 35-49
"'I Know I'm Home When I Have One': The Cultural Significance of the Garbage Plate of Rochester, NY" by Emily Fekete (2014) v46n1 pp. 25-43
"McCulloch's Rock Engine House: An Antebellum Cornish-Style Gold Ore Mill Near Jamestown, North Carolina" by Elizabeth Hines (1995) v27n3 pp. 1-28
"Mount Calvert: A Study in Architectural Transformation" by Sarah Brown (1987) v19n1 pp. 25-38
"Mountain Justice: An Examination of Three Mountainous West County Courthouses" by Al Larson (1999) v31n1 pp. 21-31
"The Navarre Cabin: A Study in Pièce sur Pièce Construction" by Jeffrey L. Green (1998) v30n1 pp. 29-47
"A New England Log House on the Central California Coast" by Kathleen E. Davis (1989) v21n3 pp. 27-39
"New Haven's Second Centennial Medal and the Origins of City Identity" by Laura R. Macaluso (2016) v48n2 pp. 1-15
"Pioneer Romanticism: The Ballard Schoolhouse" by Anthony Denzer (1999) v31n2 pp. 55-64
"The Pelster Housebarn: Endurance of Germanic Architecture on the Midwestern Frontier" by Howard Wight Marshall (1986) v18n2 pp. 65-104
"A Philadelphia Squatter's Shack: Urban Pioneering" by Ted Daniels (1981) v13n2 pp. 43-46
"The Silverplated Ice Water Pitcher: An Image of Changing America, 1850-1900" by Charles L. Venable (1987) v19n1 pp. 39-48
"Small Wampum Bands Used by Native Americans in the Northeast: Functions and Recycling" by Marshall Joseph Becker (2008) v40n1 pp. 1-17
"Standing Guard: The Chapman Rustic Monument and the 'Pioneering Spirit'" by Traci I. Langworthy (2015) v47n2 pp. 1-22
"A Story Thoroughly Told?: History Becomes the Thoroughgood House in Princess Anne County, Virginia" by Virginia Price (2016) v48n2 pp. 32-53
"The Traditional Barns of Hardin County, Illinois: A Survey and Interpretation" by Keith A. Sculle and H. Wayne Price (1993) v25n1 pp. 1-27
"A Unique and Very Early Structure near Huntington, Long Island" by Gregory D. Huber (2000) v32n3 pp. 27-41
"Vernacular Form and Early Suburban Housing: The Case of the Lockard House, Baltimore" by Michael A. Grimes (1990) v22n1 pp. 33-48
"Windmills in American Agriculture" by Allen G. Noble (1992) v24n1 pp. 1-12
"Wooden Signal Horns of Southern Appalachia: Provenance and Function" by Daniel N. Rolph (1989) v21n3 pp. 9-25