Georgia -

     You will probably want to touch on the matter of furnishing plans in 
your thesis; in fact, it might be central to your thesis, since furnishing 
plans serve historic houses as their collection planning guides. The best 
book on furnishing plans is still William Seale's _Recreating the Historic 
House Interior_, published by the Aerican Association for State and Local 
History in 1979. There is also a good essay on furnishing plans by Bradley 
Brooks in Jessica Foy Donnelly's _Interpreting Historic House Museums_ (Alta 
Mira Press, 2002). It might be interesting to look at the different types of 
evidence used by different types of historic houses for their furnishing 
plans - estate inventories, photographs and visual images, oral histories, 
letters and diaries, court testimony, etc.

Lonn Taylor
Fort Davis, Texas
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Subject: Help MA Thesis Historic House Collection Planning


> I'm a grad student at Seton Hall.My thesis is on the value to a historic
> house of having a collection planning guide in addition to a collections
> managament policy to avoid accepting anything into the collection.Anyone
> in a historic house have any contacts, suggestions, opinions, help would
> be greatly appreciated. Georgia Bonilla, Museum Arts Professions @ Seton
> Hall University. [log in to unmask]
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