Powerpoint from co-presentation with Lori Beth White, Cooperstown Graduate Association (CGA) Conference, October 3-4, 2008, program available at: www.oneonta.edu/academics/cgp/misc/CGAConference_2008.pdf

1. ON THE ROAD WITH THE JONESES
Ryan Anthony Donaldson & Lori Beth
White
Heritage: Past, Present, Future
"To recreate the world of those who preceded us, their conflicts and
decisions, is to throw our own lives into perspective."
Louis C. Jones, “Forward,” vii, Creating Historical Drama (1966)

2. Louis C. & Agnes Halsley Jones
Dr. Jones with student, 1965
Publications Photo File, Cooperstown Graduate Program
Agnes Halsley Jones portrait, 1958
Louis C. Jones Collection, New York State Historical
Association

3. Cooperstown Graduate Program
Louis C. Jones instructing class, from 1965 NYSHA Director’s Report

4. Cooperstown Graduate Program
Group photo at Farmers’ Museum, 1968, Publications Photo File,
Cooperstown Graduate Program

5. The Farmers’ Museum (1944)
Cooperstown, NY
Farmers’ Museum postcard, 1962
Farmers’ Museum postcard, c. 1950
Birds eye view postcard of
Farmers’ Museum birds-eye
postcard, 1964

6. Types of Sites Visited:
1 - Open-Air Museums
2 - Folk Art & Art Museums
3 - University Museums & Libraries
4 - Archaeological sites
5 - Parks (National Parks and Sculpture)
6 - Historic Houses
David Jones with camper, 1960
Image courtesy Louis C. Jones, 112 Museums in 93 Days
(unpublished, 1960), NYSHA Library

7. COMMON COLLECTIONS
Unidentified, The Horse with the Longest Hair in the World (1880-1900), Fenimore Art
Museum, New York State Historical Association [N0040.1958]

8. Skansen = “Open
Air” (1891)
Skansen postage stamps, 1991
Skansen front entrance, 2007
Skansen postcard, c. 1910

9. Skansen Museum- gold standard for living history museums
Blekinge Cottage interior,
c.1940
Image courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of
Sweden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pg. 173
Skansen restaurant menu with mermaid & merman, c. 1955
Image courtesy http://cgi.ebay.com/Norway-Poster-Stamp-SKANSEN-RESTAURANT-MERMAID-

10. Skansen folkdancers, postcard, 1952
Image courtesty http://cgi.ebay.com/SWEDEN-SKANSEN-FOLKDANSER-154-
PRE-1906_W0QQitemZ170091034531QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
Halsingland House, interior designed by
Gustav Reuter (photo c. 1940)
Image courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of Sweden. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pg. 195
Skansen 7” (Cupol records), c. 1958
Image courtesy http://cgi.ebay.com/Swedish-50s-7in-Pic-Slve-EP-PA-SKANSEN-Med-ERIC-
OST-NM_W0QQitemZ230276167864QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

11. Artur Hazelius - Museum
Innovator
Skansen visitors map, 2006-7
image courtesy: travellingsahil.blogspot.com
Artur Hazelius, 1910. Images courtesy Emil Hildebrand, Sveriges
historia intill tjugonde seklet, and the Nordiska Museet, www.nordiskamuseet.se

12. Skansen Millesgarden viewmaster, 21 stereo
pictures, c. 1960
Image courtesy http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~srs/Ken/templ.php?pid=784&collection=View-Masters
Faelyn House (sod
roof)
Image courtesy
http://static.flickr.com/108/285809573_c785ab7215_s.jpg

13. Nordiska Museet (1873)
Djurgården Island,
Stockholm, Sweden
From left: Louis C. Jones, Gösta Berg,
Albert Eskerod, at Nordiska, 1960
Image courtesy Louis C. Jones, 112 Museums in 93 Days (unpublished, 1960)
Nordiska images courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Flickr

14. Nordiska -folk art
collections
Wall painting of women at “beauty-mill”
Top reads "Do you recognize us?"
Images courtesy Iona Plath, The Decorative Arts of Sweden. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1948, pgs. 195, 198
Corner cupboard

15. Frognerparken (1906)
Oslo, Norway
Birds-eye view of Frogner Park
Image courtesy Google Earth
Images courtesy Flickr

16. Vigeland Sculpture Park
Gustav Vigeland at his studio, c.1910

17. Sinnataggen= angry boy
Frogner Park postcard, c. 1955Frogner Park postcard, c. 1955
Image courtesy: http://cgi.ebay.com/POSTCARD-NORWAY-NORGE-OSLO-FROGNER-PARK-THE-POOL-Image courtesy: http://cgi.ebay.com/POSTCARD-NORWAY-NORGE-OSLO-FROGNER-PARK-THE-POOL-
1950s_W0QQitemZ160282933078QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20080914?IMSfp=TL080914103001r14241950s_W0QQitemZ160282933078QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20080914?IMSfp=TL080914103001r1424

18. Maihaugen Lillehammer, Norway (1887)
Maihaugen, 2008,
http://flickr.com/photos/66759125@N00/335493206
Visitors map, courtesy planetware.com
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Image courtesy:
http://www.viajesyfotos.net/images/noruega/images/Lilleham
mer_Maihaugen.jpga

19. Anders Sadvig-Anders Sadvig- Founder of MaihaugenFounder of Maihaugen
Portrait of Anders Sadvig, c. 1900
Image courtesy http://www.norgesski.no/index.php?item=0,3596,3600&id=3600

20. Maihaugen
House interior, 2007,
Image courtesy Maihaugen Museum

21. Chastleton House Moreton-in-Marsh
Oxfordshire, England (built 1603)
Chastleton House, 2008
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chastleton_House_04.jpg
Chastleton House, 2005
Image courtesy http://www.pbase.com/birsay/image/80362717

22. Chastleton House garden, c. 1900.
Image courtesy: Golden Age Gardens, http://goldenagegardens.blogspot.com
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Croquet lawn, 2008
Image courtesy Wadleynet/Sandbox,
http://peeg.net/?cat=1&paged=2

23. Dovecote Ruins
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

24. Special Thanks To :
• Kajsa Sabatke
• Wayne Wright
• Florence Carnahan
• Erik Mason
• Cathy Raddatz
• Wayne Wright
• Dr. Cynthia Falk
Louis C. Jones with camper,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1960