A few years ago, I acquired some pottery from the estate of Frederick H. Norton (1896-1992), a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and descendant of the famed Norton family of potters in New England. Although, Norton was also a potter himself, and much of Norton's antique and original pottery collection is actually owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today. But recently I purchased much of Norton's research notes, original hand-written articles, original pottery manuscripts, original photography and New England pottery ephemera.
Norton's research and ephemera was largely referenced in 1950 when Massachusetts author Lura Woodside Watkins' (1897-1982) book, Early New England Potters and Their Wares was published. Norton also published some of his own information in the 1920s and 1930s through places like MIT and The Magazine Antiques, such as an original article with original photography written about the nineteenth century Osborn pottery in Gonic, New Hampshire.
Nonetheless, I have just been able to acquire Professor Norton's original hand-written pottery articles, archaeology notes from Dogtown in Gloucester, Massachusetts, original photography of Gonic pottery, original photography of potteries in Peabody, Massachusetts and Exeter, New Hampshire, original photography of the Crafs pottery in Nashua, New Hampshire, notes on the Norton pottery in Worcester, Massachusetts, ephemera from the Norton pottery in Worcester as well as Bennington, Vermont, along with some original bills of receipt that Watkins actually wrote about from potteries in Dublin, New Hampshire and West Sterling, Massachusetts. I'm really thrilled over this, and I hope in the near future that I can publish some of this information in a magazine or newspaper.
Frederick H. Norton (1896-1992) Collection
Norton's research notes, original articles, original photography and New England pottery ephemera
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