Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, will introduce the life and work of English emigrant joiner John Head (1688-1754). Head’s Philadelphia account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in either Great Britain or British North America.
The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, Jay’s new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia,...