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Christmas Cookery From Old Traditions To Modern Art
A history of Christmas baking from German trees with apples and wafers to elaborate Pennsylvania Dutch cookies. The piece notes window displays and charity cookies for the poor, the Bel Snickles tradition, postwar shifts in women’s roles, and a 1960s revival via The Museum of Contemporary Crafts led by Mae Gerhard of The Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia.
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Mae. Gerhard
Museum of Contemporary: Crafts of the American Crafts
Council
Museum of Contemporary Crafts
New York City
Mae Gerhard
Hussian School of Art
Philadelphia
Gerhard