Pewabic Pottery records

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Pewabic Pottery records

1891-1973

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Business files and records; correspondence; files on commissions, consignments, and exhibitions; day books (16 vols.); order books; ledgers; legal documents; guest books; correspondence regarding inquiries, recipes, and tests for clays and glazes; photographs; information on the Pewabic Pottery building; and miscellaneous papers. Also includes some personal papers of Mary Chase Perry Stratton, such as a scrapbook, teaching records, tax returns, property documents, records, and day books of Revelation Kiln owned by Stratton.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6719071

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Pewabic Pottery (Firm)

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Pottery center; Detroit, Mich. Founded in the early 1890s by Mary Chase Perry Stratton where she produced "Revelation Pottery." She experimented and developed potters' techniques and used specially developed kilns for firing, called Revelation Kilns. Michigan State University has subsequently acquired Pewabic Pottery. From the description of Pewabic Pottery records, 1891-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455671 ...

Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961

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Born in Hancock, Mich. on Mar. 15, 1867, Mary Chase Perry Stratton founded the nationally famous Pewabic Pottery Company in Detroit in 1907, named for a mine near her Upper Peninsula birthplace. After the sudden death of her father near the end of the 19th century, she came with her mother and two older siblings to Detroit, where her brother Fred worked as a druggist in 1900. Mary Chase Perry married William Buck Stratton, an architect, on June 19, 1918, and he incorporated her art in his buildi...

Revelation Kiln.

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