early American
Frontier-era decorative style
Early American describes the style, culture, or artifacts of the American colonial period through the early republic—roughly the 1600s to early 1800s.
The term appears most often in furniture and decorative arts: early American furniture, an early American quilt.
The style emphasizes rustic craftsmanship, simple lines, and materials like pine and maple.
In broader use, early American can describe anything from that era: early American history, early American literature.
- folk artTraditional community-made creativity
- slaveryOwnership of people
- New England coloniesNortheastern British settlements
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- Plymouth RockFabled Pilgrim arrival site
oral storytelling · Declaration of Independence · indentured servitude · quilting · spinning wheel · revolution · Constitution · independence · musket ball · Shaker furniture · log cabin · Jamestown · town meetings · town crier · cobblestone streets · agrarian economy · corn husking · Founding Fathers
early Americanmodern
Of recent times
contemporary · mid-century modern · Victorian · postmodern · Gilded Age
early AmericanVictorian
Of a prim era
Rococo · Baroque · ornate · industrial · mass-produced
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