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American Stoneware is a type of stoneware pottery popular in 19th century North America. The predominant houseware of the era, [ citation needed ] it was usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decoration.
Jerry Dolyn Brown (November 9, 1942 – March 4, 2016) was an American folk artist and traditional stoneware pottery maker who lived and worked in Hamilton, Alabama.He was a 1992 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts [1] [2] and a 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. [3]
Alkaline glaze stoneware, 1857. David Drake (c. 1800 – c. 1870s), also known as "Dave Pottery" and "Dave the Potter," was an American potter and enslaved African American who lived in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake lived and worked in Edgefield for almost all his life. [1] Drake produced alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs between the 1820s and ...
The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...
List of Mexican states by life expectancy; List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy; List of U.S. counties with longest life expectancy; List of U.S. counties with shortest life expectancy; List of U.S. congressional districts by life expectancy; List of U.S. states by changes in life expectancy, 1985–2010; Oldest people ...
Mary Alice Hadley (October 5, 1911 – December 26, 1965) was an American artist from Terre Haute, Indiana, known for her earthenware pottery pieces with hand-painted images of farm and coastal life, which were sold by Hadley Pottery.
George N. Fulton was born in Loudoun County, Virginia in 1834, but by 1835 the family had moved to Fultonham, Ohio, located in Muskingum County, Ohio., [1] [2] His father, James Fulton, was a local potter.
That year, she took first, second, and third prize in the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folk Life [20] and was designated as a National Treasure of the Cherokee Nation. [3] In 1983, Mitchell was invited to participate in an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in Manhattan. [21]