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New York furniture for the Stirlings of Wakefield, Saint Francisville, Louisiana.
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May 1, 2007|
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On October 24, 1836, twenty-eight crates of furniture, commissioned from the eminent New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe by the Louisiana planter Lewis Stirling (Fig. 1, left) and his wife, Sarah Turnbull Stirling (Fig. 1, right), arrived in New Orleans on board the ship Creole. (1) This delivery marked the culmination of a five-month trip taken by the Stirlings to the East Coast and Canada for the purposes of acquiring furnishings for their new house, enrolling their son at Yale University, and taking a grand tour of the famous sites of upstate New York. The Stirlings' ...
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