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Above bandgap thermo-optic coefficient measurements for direct bandgap materials

Akl, Ramsey (University of Delaware, 2005)

Accurate values of the optical functions of gallium arsenide in the very near infrared region are particularly important for many technological applications. Many different techniques have been used to measure the thermo-optic ...
Adult attachment, conflict style, and relationship satisfaction: a comprehensive model

Steuber, Keli Ryan (University of Delaware, 2005)

The purpose of this study was to create a comprehensive model integrating adult attachment style, conflict style, and relationship satisfaction. The research sought to determine if adult attachment acted as a predictor of ...
Affectionate remembrances: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lucy Truman Aldrich, and a case for cooperative collecting

Denbar, Cheryl Irene (University of Delaware, 2001)

The thesis explores the human connection created by the consumption and exchange of objects. Examining the ceramics and glass at Bassett Hall, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Williamsburg, Virginia residence, the ...
"An air of originality and great richness": the professional and private papers of silver designer Charles Osborne, 1871-1920

John, Katharine Ann (University of Delaware, 2001)

Mystery surrounds most silver designers of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. As large, mechanized manufactures replaced small, independent silversmiths, firms rendered individual designers nameless as it ...
Alexander Anderson and American wood engraving

Smith, Malcolm S. (University of Delaware, 1973)
"All that a genteel family need require": the Church family's frontier experience at Belvidere, Allegany County, New York

Naulin, Melissa Carrie (University of Delaware, 2000)

Images of crude log cabins and primitive living conditions dominate Americans’ inherited understanding of life on the western frontier. The survival of Belvidere, a grand neoclassical-style stone and brick mansion built ...
Allegory and the American mind: a survey of the use of women as allegorical representations of America, 1765-1815

Schaaf, Jennifer Elizabeth (University of Delaware, 2000)

Images of women have been used as allegorical representations of America since the sixteenth century. Initially, a savage Indian Queen symbolized the alien and mythic New World. But as European colonization became entrenched, ...
The almanacs of Michael Gratz: time, community, and Jewish identity in eighteenth-century Philadelphia

Guston, Judith Marla (University of Delaware, 1999)

There is a paucity of scholarship addressing the material life of eighteenth-century American Jews, in part because there is little extant material from this period that can be identified as specifically Jewish. Many of ...
Ambition in brick: the William Brown House, 1758-1785

Brown, Margaret Ann (University of Delaware, 1984)

The William Brown House, a two story, all header bond brick structure, was an extraordinary building for its time and place. The house was built between 1758 and 1764 in the tobacco region of Anne Arundel County, Maryland ...
American decorative arts collecting in New England, 1840-1920

Saunders, Richard Henry (University of Delaware, 1973)
American factory-made parlor suites, 1871-1901

Dennis, Gail Lorene (University of Delaware, 1982)
American finger rings representing bonds of relationships

Monfredo, Rachel Jean (University of Delaware, 1990)

This thesis presents the cultural and historical background for five types of American rings: (1) wedding, and related engagement and friendship rings, (2) mourning rings, (3) fraternal rings, (4) class rings, and (5) ...
The American sketchbook of Benjamin West

Oedel, Oedel, William Townsend (University of Delaware, 1973)
An analysis of the Emery shop attributions

McPherson, Tommy Arthur (University of Delaware, 1999)

This paper is a formal analysis of twenty-nine examples of furniture to determine the likelihood that they were produced in a seventeenth century workshop operated by the Emery family in Newbury. Massachusetts. An object ...
Another city upon a hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the colonial revival

Butler, William J. H. (University of Delaware, 1983)
Apocryphal grandeur: Belle Grove Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Rudd, Robert Mark (University of Delaware, 2002)

In the fall of 1952, residents of Iberville Parish, Louisiana, gathered at the banks of the Mississippi to witness the burning of the mansion house at Belle Grove Plantation. It was what all agreed was an awe-inspiring ...
The archaeology of Mr. Jefferson's slaves

Gruber, Anna (University of Delaware, 1990)

This study examines the archaeological and documentary evidence associated with three slave quarter sites in order to understand more about the material life of the slaves who occupied the three dwellings. Located along ...
Architecture and society of the urban frontier: Windsor, Vermont, 1798-1820

Hosley, William N. (University of Delaware, 1981)
The artifact as historical source material: a comparative study of Philadelphia Chippendale chairs

Zimmerman, Philip D. (University of Delaware, 1980)
The artist's devices: illusionism and imagination in Gerrit Dou's Painter with a pipe and book

Baines, Lorena (University of Delaware, 2005)

Gerrit Dou's Painter with a Pipe and Book (circa 1645) is both a painting of a painting and a painting about painting. It visually represents artistic concepts important to Dou: his manual skill is represented by the ...

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