| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America. By Thomas Andrew Denenberg. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xii, 228 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-300-09683-6.)
In antique shops all over the United States one can still find Wallace Nutting's tinted photographs. Romantic images of the New England landscape or of women doing genteel things in colonial garb, they were a great commercial success. They remain popular among collectors, in part because they resonate with the yearning for the simpler past.	1
Other Nutting aficionados have long valued his line of finely crafted reproductions of colonial American furniture, manufactured in the 1920s and 1930s. Nutting based the furniture on his collection of antiques, which he donated to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, where it resides to this day.	2
Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America is the product of Thomas Andrew Denenberg's longtime research interest in the Congregational minister and entrepreneur whose ideas and work embodied what American material culture scholars call the colonial revival. This phenomenon touched everything from literature to furniture to product naming and packaging. It was an olio of nationalism and nativism that supported the belligerent paranoia of the Immigration Restriction League while simultaneously appealing to the enthusiasm of newly arrived immigrants who proudly adopted the United States as theirs.	. . .

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