A Potter's Progress - Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft

"Born into a traditional, Mennonite culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have survived down to the present. Drawing on the potter's detail-rich diary and numerous primary and secondary sources, Suter's great-great-grandson Scott Hamilton Suter tells the story of how a farmer with a seasonal sideline developed into a technologically advanced entrepreneur operating a modern industrial company. Enhanced by nearly two dozen color images and an examination of daily life in Suter's shops, this vivid case study shows how one craftsman's uncommon career path became a template for progress in late nineteenth-century America-a sign of the market economy to come"--

About the author

SCOTT HAMILTON SUTER, professor of English and American studies, and director of the Margaret Grattan Weaver Institute for Local History and Regional Culture at Bridgewater College, is the author of Shenandoah Valley Folklife and coauthor, with Cheryl Lyon, of two books in the Images of America series: Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Suter
• Publisher: University Of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781621905257
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-525-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Antiques / Collectibles, Antiquitäten und Sammelobjekte: Keramik, Glas und andere ähnliche Gegenstände, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Pottery & Ceramics