TY  - GEN
T1  - A potter's progress : Emanuel Suter and the business of craft
A1  - Suter, Scott Hamilton
LA  - English
PP  - Knoxville
PB  - The University of Tennessee Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1114273589
AB  - "Born into a traditional, Mennonite culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have survived down to the present. Drawing on the potter's detail-rich diary and numerous primary and secondary sources, Suter's great-great-grandson Scott Hamilton Suter tells the story of how a farmer with a seasonal sideline developed into a technologically advanced entrepreneur operating a modern industrial company. Enhanced by nearly two dozen color images and an examination of daily life in Suter's shops, this vivid case study shows how one craftsman's uncommon career path became a template for progress in late nineteenth-century America-a sign of the market economy to come"--
CN  - HD9611.95.S88
SN  - 9781621905370
SN  - 1621905373
SN  - 9781621905257
KW  - Suter, Emanuel, : 1833-1902.
KW  - Suter, Emanuel, : 1833-1902
KW  - Potters : Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) : Biography.
KW  - Pottery industry : Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) : History : 19th century.
KW  - ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Pottery & Ceramics
KW  - Potters
KW  - Pottery industry
KW  - United States : Shenandoah River Valley
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -