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Spotlight Essay

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Over the course of my program, I have worked on analyzing probate inventories from the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts made available by James Deetz and The Plymouth Colony Archive Project. I focused on the frequency of kitchen equipment appearing in the probate inventory records. 

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You can see the evolution of this paper by reading the first iteration in Material Culture, the second and third iterations in Historical Methods and Writing.

 

The final product is below.  

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project Website
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