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Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives

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Jugtown Pottery Collection

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Identifier: MSS 0122
Abstract In 1917, Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, discovered a local tradition of pottery-making in Moore County, and opened a pottery shop in Greenwich Village, New York in order to create a market and keep the art form alive. This collection was compiled by library staff to augment the Juliana Royster Busbee Collection (MSS 070), and it contains newspaper articles, a brief chronology, transcriptions of items from the Busbee collection, and a symposium brochure and...
Dates: 1956 - 1994