ON THE ROAD WITH THE JONESES

Ryan Anthony Donaldson & Lori Beth WhiteHeritage: Past, Present, Future conference Cooperstown, NY 4 October 2008

"To recreate the world of those who preceded us, their conflicts and decisions, is to throw our own lives into perspective."

Louis C. Jones, “Forward,” vii, Creating Historical Drama (1966)

Louis C. & Agnes Halsley Jones

Dr. Jones with student, 1965Publications Photo File, Cooperstown Graduate Program

Agnes Halsley Jones portrait, 1958 Louis C. Jones Collection, New York State Historical Association

Cooperstown Graduate Program

Louis C. Jones instructing class, from 1965 NYSHA Director’s Report

Cooperstown Graduate Program

Group photo at Farmers’ Museum, 1968, Publications Photo File,

Cooperstown Graduate Program

The Farmers’ Museum (1944)

Cooperstown, NY

Farmers’ Museum postcard, 1962

Farmers’ Museum postcard, c. 1950

Birds eye view postcard of Farmers’ Museum birds-eye postcard, 1964

Types of Sites Visited:

1 - Open-Air Museums 2 - Folk Art & Art Museums 3 - University Museums & Libraries 4 - Archaeological sites 5 - Parks (National Parks and Sculpture)

6 - Historic Houses

David Jones with camper, 1960Image courtesy Louis C. Jones, 112 Museums in 93 Days (unpublished, 1960), NYSHA Library

COMMON COLLECTIONS

Unidentified, The Horse with the Longest Hair in the World (1880-1900), Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association [N0040.1958]

Skansen = “Open Air” (1891)

Skansen postage stamps, 1991

Skansen front entrance, 2007

Skansen postcard, c. 1910

Skansen Museum- gold standard for

living history museums

Blekinge Cottage interior, c.1940Image courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of Sweden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pg. 173

Skansen restaurant menu with mermaid & merman, c. 1955 Image courtesy http://cgi.ebay.com/Norway-Poster-Stamp-SKANSEN-RESTAURANT-MERMAID-MERMAN_W0QQitemZ150223745067QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Skansen folkdancers, postcard, 1952Image courtesty http://cgi.ebay.com/SWEDEN-SKANSEN-FOLKDANSER-154-PRE-1906_W0QQitemZ170091034531QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Halsingland House, interior designed by Gustav Reuter (photo c. 1940)Image courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of Sweden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pg. 195

Skansen 7” (Cupol records), c. 1958 Image courtesy http://cgi.ebay.com/Swedish-50s-7in-Pic-Slve-EP-PA-SKANSEN-Med-ERIC-OST-NM_W0QQitemZ230276167864QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Artur Hazelius - Museum

Innovator

Skansen visitors map, 2006-7 image courtesy: travellingsahil.blogspot.com

Artur Hazelius, 1910. Images courtesy Emil Hildebrand, Sveriges historia intill tjugonde seklet, and the Nordiska Museet, www.nordiskamuseet.se

Skansen Millesgarden viewmaster, 21 stereo pictures, c. 1960

Image courtesy http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~srs/Ken/templ.php?pid=784&collection=View-Masters

Faelyn House (sod roof)Image courtesy http://static.flickr.com/108/285809573_c785ab7215_s.jpg

Nordiska Museet (1873) Djurgården Island, Stockholm, Sweden

From left: Louis C. Jones, Gösta Berg, Albert Eskerod, at Nordiska, 1960Image courtesy Louis C. Jones, 112 Museums in 93 Days (unpublished, 1960)

Nordiska images courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Flickr

Nordiska -folk art collections

Wall painting of women at “beauty-mill” Top reads "Do you recognize us?"

Images courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of Sweden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pgs. 195, 198 Corner

cupboard

Frognerparken (1906)

Oslo, Norway

Birds-eye view of Frogner Park Image courtesy Google Earth

Images courtesy Flickr

Vigeland Sculpture Park

Gustav Vigeland at his studio, c.1910

Sinnataggen= angry boy

Frogner Park postcard, c. 1955Frogner Park postcard, c. 1955Image courtesy: http://cgi.ebay.com/POSTCARD-NORWAY-NORGE-OSLO-FROGNER-PARK-Image courtesy: http://cgi.ebay.com/POSTCARD-NORWAY-NORGE-OSLO-FROGNER-PARK-THE-POOL-1950s_W0QQitemZ160282933078QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20080914?THE-POOL-1950s_W0QQitemZ160282933078QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20080914?IMSfp=TL080914103001r1424IMSfp=TL080914103001r1424

Maihaugen Lillehammer, Norway (1887)

Maihaugen, 2008, http://flickr.com/photos/66759125@N00/335493206

Visitors map, courtesy planetware.com

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Image courtesy: http://www.viajesyfotos.net/images/noruega/images/Lillehammer_Maihaugen.jpga

Anders Sadvig- Anders Sadvig- Founder of Founder of MaihaugenMaihaugen

Portrait of Anders Sadvig, c. 1900Image courtesy http://www.norgesski.no/index.php?item=0,3596,3600&id=3600

Maihaugen

House interior, 2007,

Image courtesy Maihaugen Museum

Chastleton House

Moreton-in-MarshOxfordshire, England

(built 1603)

Chastleton House, 2008Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chastleton_House_04.jpg

Chastleton House, 2005Image courtesy http://www.pbase.com/birsay/image/80362717

Chastleton House garden, c. 1900. Image courtesy: Golden Age Gardens, http://goldenagegardens.blogspot.com

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Croquet lawn, 2008Image courtesy Wadleynet/Sandbox, http://peeg.net/?cat=1&paged=2

Dovecote Ruins

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Special Thanks To :• Kajsa Sabatke• Wayne Wright • Florence Carnahan• Erik Mason• Cathy Raddatz• Wayne Wright• Dr. Cynthia Falk

Louis C. Jones with camper, Stockholm, Sweden, 1960