Jane Nylander

Jane Nylander is an American historian and author. She is known for her work on textiles and used buildings to describe life in past eras.

Jane C. Nylander
Born	1938^[1]
Other names	Jane Cayford^[1]

Education and career

Nylander was born in 1938^[1] and grew up in Ohio.^[2] She has an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University and a master's degree in early American history from the University of Delaware.^[3] She then moved to Winterthur Museum where she was the first woman student,^[4] and she led a program that used houses to describe past eras.^[2] She was the director of the Strawbery Banke Museum from 1986 until 1992,^[5] and while there she led an exhibition pairing a house viewed as if in 1950 with a 1795 household.^[6] At the Old Sturbridge Village Nylander was the curator of textiles and ceramics.^[7][8] She served as president of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, which is now known as Historic New England.^[when?][9]

After she retired, she wrote the book The Best Ever! Parades in New England which is a historical investigation of parades in small towns in the United States.^[10]

Selected publications

• Fabrics for Historic Buildings (4th ed.). National Trust. 1990. ^[11]
• Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860. Knopf. 1993.^[12]
• Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes. Historic New England. 2009.
• The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788-1940. Bauhan Publishing. 2022.^[13]

References

1. "Jane C. Nylander". New Hampshire Historical Society. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
2. Miller, Margot (1993-07-08). "A social historian brings her savvy to museum houses". The Boston Globe. pp. [1], [2]. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
3. Dudley, Mary (1975-09-28). "1800s village curator dabbles in past". Austin American-Statesman. p. 93. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
4. Miller, Margo (7 January 1999). "Historic paint shows its true colors". Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. [Boston, Mass]. pp. F1 – via ProQuest.
5. Robinson, J. Dennis (2007). Strawbery Banke : a seaport museum 400 years in the making. Internet Archive. Portsmouth, N.H. : Published for Strawbery Banke Museum by Peter E. Randall Publisher ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0-9603896-2-9.
6. Slade, Marilyn Myers (1988-08-25). "A Split House Depicts Life In 1790's and 1950's". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
7. Dimick, Patricia (1975-01-10). "Not all rooms sumptuously draped in Federal era". Evening Express. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
8. "Jane Nylander". Old Sturbridge Village. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
9. "ADAF — Individual Lectures". adafca.org. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
10. Hickman Ring, Madelia (2022-02-01). "Q&A: Jane Nylander - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyAntiques And The Arts Weekly". Retrieved 2022-12-28.
11. Review for Fabrics for Historic Buildings
    • Bogle, Michael (1977). "Review of Fabrics for Historic Buildings". Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology. 9 (4): 83–85. doi:10.2307/1493642. ISSN 0044-9466. JSTOR 1493642.
12. Reviews of Our Own Snug Fireside
    • Calvert, Karin (1994). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". The Journal of American History. 81 (1): 246. doi:10.2307/2081033. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2081033.
    • Trent, Robert F. (1994). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". The William and Mary Quarterly. 51 (1): 151–152. doi:10.2307/2947022. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 2947022.
    • Vlach, John Michael (1995). "Review of Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". American Studies International. 33 (1): 135–136. ISSN 0883-105X. JSTOR 41280893.
13. Review of The Best Ever! Parades in New England
    • Yukevich, Gerald (February 3, 2022). "Vineyard Bookshelf: The Best Ever".