Word: fraktur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, the story is one of displacement and adaptation. The severe, timber-framed houses of the New England Puritans are the same houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung...
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