Jane Nylander is an American historian and author. She is known for her work on textiles and used buildings to describe life in past eras.
Jane C. Nylander | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938[1] |
| Other names | Jane Cayford[1] |
Education and career
editNylander was born in 1938[1] and grew up in Ohio.[2] She has an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University and a master's degree in early American history from the University of Delaware.[3] She then moved to Winterthur Museum where she was the first woman student,[4] and she led a program that used houses to describe past eras.[2] She was the director of the Strawbery Banke Museum from 1986 until 1992,[5] and while there she led an exhibition pairing a house viewed as if in 1950 with a 1795 household.[6] At the Old Sturbridge Village Nylander was the curator of textiles and ceramics.[7][8] She served as president of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, which is now known as Historic New England.[when?][9]
After she retired, she wrote the book The Best Ever! Parades in New England which is a historical investigation of parades in small towns in the United States.[10]
Selected publications
edit- Fabrics for Historic Buildings (4th ed.). National Trust. 1990. [11]
- Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860. Knopf. 1993.[12]
- Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes. Historic New England. 2009.
- The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788-1940. Bauhan Publishing. 2022.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Jane C. Nylander". New Hampshire Historical Society. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
- ^ a b Miller, Margot (1993-07-08). "A social historian brings her savvy to museum houses". The Boston Globe. pp. [1], [2]. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ Dudley, Mary (1975-09-28). "1800s village curator dabbles in past". Austin American-Statesman. p. 93. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ Miller, Margo (7 January 1999). "Historic paint shows its true colors". Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. [Boston, Mass]. pp. F1 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Robinson, J. Dennis (2007). Strawbery Banke : a seaport museum 400 years in the making. Internet Archive. Portsmouth, N.H. : Published for Strawbery Banke Museum by Peter E. Randall Publisher ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0-9603896-2-9.
- ^ Slade, Marilyn Myers (1988-08-25). "A Split House Depicts Life In 1790's and 1950's". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ^ Dimick, Patricia (1975-01-10). "Not all rooms sumptuously draped in Federal era". Evening Express. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ "Jane Nylander". Old Sturbridge Village. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ^ "ADAF — Individual Lectures". adafca.org. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ^ Hickman Ring, Madelia (2022-02-01). "Q&A: Jane Nylander - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyAntiques And The Arts Weekly". Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ^ Review for Fabrics for Historic Buildings
- Bogle, Michael (1977). "Review of Fabrics for Historic Buildings". Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology. 9 (4): 83–85. doi:10.2307/1493642. ISSN 0044-9466. JSTOR 1493642.
- ^ Reviews of Our Own Snug Fireside
- Calvert, Karin (1994). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". The Journal of American History. 81 (1): 246. doi:10.2307/2081033. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2081033.
- Trent, Robert F. (1994). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". The William and Mary Quarterly. 51 (1): 151–152. doi:10.2307/2947022. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 2947022.
- Vlach, John Michael (1995). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". American Studies International. 33 (1): 135–136. ISSN 0883-105X. JSTOR 41280893.
- ^ Review of The Best Ever! Parades in New England
- Yukevich, Gerald (February 3, 2022). "Vineyard Bookshelf: The Best Ever".