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| Slant-front desk & bookcase (1700-30) from CT or NY at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. | Desk & bookcase (c1715-20) from Boston, MA at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Georgian-style secretary (c1750-70) from England at Hill-Stead Museum. Farmington, CT. | Dropfront desk & mirrored bookcase (1750-70) from Boston, MA at Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL. |
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| Bureau cabinet (c1750) at Rienzi house museum. Houston, TX. | Desk & bookcase (1755-65) from Philadelphia plus side chairs (1770-1) from Philadelphia at National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Desk & bookcase (c1755-70) from Newport, RI at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Rococo desk & bookcase (c1755-90) with double-back & side chairs all from Boston or Salem at Bayou Bend. Houston, TX. |
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| Rococo desk & bookcase (c1755-90) from Boston or Salem with other Massachusetts objects at Bayou Bend. Houston, TX. | Display of early American chests & desks showing variety of shapes (c1760-1800) mostly from Massachusetts at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Desk & bookcase (c1760-90) & side chairs (c1765-90) all from Boston at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. | Desk & bookcase (c1760-85) attrib. to John Goddard of Newport, RI at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. |
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| Desk & bookcase (1760-80) attrib. to Nathaniel Gould of Salem, MA at Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX. | Mahogany desk & bookcase (1760-85) made in Newport, RI at Chrysler Museum of Art. Norfolk, VA. | Detail of compartments of mahogany desk & bookcase (1760-85) made in Newport, RI at Chrysler Museum of Art. Norfolk, VA. | Desk & bookcase (c1765-85) plus two chests of drawers (c1760-75) all from Newport, RI at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. |
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| Mahogany desk & bookcase (c1765-80) from Boston or Salem at Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, MO. | Desk & bookcase (1770-90) from Boston beside side chair (1755-65) from New York at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. | Desk & bookcase with bombé profile (c1770-5) by George Bright of Boston, MA at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Mahogany desk & bookcase (1780-1800) from Boston, MA in Chippendale bedroom at Bayou Bend. Houston, TX. |
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| Desk & bookcase (1785-90) from Providence, RI made for John Brown at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. | Desk & bookcase (1785) by John Carlile, Jr. of Providence at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. | Secretary with looping window pattern on library portion (late 18th-early 19thC) from England at Hill-Stead Museum. Farmington, CT. | Desk & bookcase (1799) by Samuel Knox of North Carolina in Ohio period parlor at DAR Memorial Continental Hall. Washington, DC. |
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| South German Baroque desk (early 18thC) in Morning Room at Rough Point. Newport, RI. | Ornately carved secretary in Dutch Renaissance style (c1864) at Hower House. Akron, OH. | Desk-on-Stand (c1890) possibly by Patrick Stevens of Hartford, CT at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. | Drop front desk in Balcony House. Nassau, The Bahamas. |
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| Desk & bookcase at Hyland House. Guilford, CT. | Drop front desk at Butler-McCook House Museum. Hartford, CT. | Drop front desk with bookcase at Oliver Ellsworth Homestead Museum. Windsor, CT. | Drop front desk with book case which belonged to Oliver Phelps at Phelps-Hathaway House. Suffield, CT. |
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| Swans neck pediment over drop front desk at Phelps-Hathaway House. Suffield, CT. | Drop front desk with bookcase at Silas Deane House. Wethersfield, CT. | Drop front desk with library case beside Windsor chair at Silas Deane House. Wethersfield, CT. | Revolutionary era furnishings at Shaw Mansion. New London, CT. |
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| Early American drop front desk & bookcase at Shaw Mansion. New London, CT. | Secretary with bookshelves in parlor at Florence Griswold Museum. Old Lyme, CT. | Drop-front desk & bookshelf with ladderback armchair at Tudor Place. Washington, DC. | Grenville Dodge's office at Dodge House. Council Bluffs, IA. |
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| Antique drop front desk with bookcase at Emo Court. Ireland. | Fold-down desk with bookcase at Vaile Mansion. Independence, MO. | Drop front desk at General Daniel Bissell House. St. Louis, MO. | Drop front desk in Eudora Welty House. Jackson, MS. |
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| Parlor extension with desk, piano & painting of Fillmore at Millard Fillmore House. East Aurora, NY. | Drop front desk in unrestored apartment at Tenement Museum. New York, NY. | Drop front desk in back parlor of Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace. New York, NY. | Drop front desk in bedroom in Layton Home at Old Bethpage Village. Old Bethpage, NY. |
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| White house desk used from time of U.S. Grant to Teddy Roosevelt now at Hayes Museum. Fremont, OH. | Dropfront desk in James A. Garfield home. Mentor, OH. | Drop front desk at Wildwood Manor House. Toledo, OH. | Colonial Revival slant-front desk & bookcase in South Parlor/Sitting Room at Kingscote. Newport, RI. |
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| Writing desk in bedroom with branches wallpaper at Chepstow. Newport, RI. | Dropfront desk with carved stylized shell used by Newport, RI cabinetmakers in Newport room at Bayou Bend. Houston, TX. | Elaborate desk at Nichols-Rice-Cherry House at Sam Houston Park. Houston, TX. | Parlor desk & bookcase in LBJ birthplace house at Lyndon B. Johnson NHP. Stonewall, TX. |
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| Inlaid desk with china cabinet beside dining room fireplace at Broughton House. Kirkcudbright, Scotland. | Secretary desk & wall tapestry in West Wainscot Bedchamber at Hopetoun House. Queensferry, Scotland. | Dropfront desk in study at Ash Lawn-Highland. Charlotttesville, VA. | Rocking chair & slant-front desk in birthplace house at President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Park. Plymouth Notch, VT. |
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| Sitting room desk & bookcase in Coolidge Homestead at President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Park. Plymouth Notch, VT. |
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