Introduction

Examining The Collection

Methodology

Lynching History

Wider Southern History

Consumption

Conclusion

Home

Finley, Gregg, "The Gothic Revival and the Victorian Church in New Brunswick : Toward a Strategy for Material Culture Research" Material History Bulletin 32 (1990) 1-16.

Finley provides a two-level model, starting with systematically recording the basic properties of the object, before moving on to address a larger research question in level two:

Level one

  • material
  • construction
  • function
  • provenance
  • significance

Level two

  • relate the object to larger, historical question

On to Gilborn's Model