University of Delaware

Abstract

John N. Pearce's master's thesis, entitled "The Early Baltimore Potters and their Wares, 1763-1850," builds upon earlier scholarship on the pottery produced in early Pennsylvania and emphasizes the production of pottery in Maryland. The majority of the volume is comprised of the following three chapters: A Monopoly of Earthenware, 1763-1793; Competition Among Craftsmen, 1794-1820; and Crafts Into Industry, 1820-1850.

Abstract Anne Jackson Perkins was born May 10, 1925, and died June 7, 2010. She attended Swarthmore High School, and later Guilford College and the University of Delaware, though she did not complete her bachelor’s degree. She worked as a librarian at Swarthmore College’s McCabe Library until she retired in 1988, and lived with her mother and sister until the ends of their lives. She never married, and her diaries often talk about romance, loneliness, mental and physical illness, dislike of family...