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Albee, Helen R. [1864-1939. USA. Rug Designer/Maker]
Albee, Helen R. [1864-1939. USA. Rug Designer/Maker]
Helen Rickey Albee [commonly known as Helen R. albee] was born Helen Rickey in Dayton, Ohio in 1864 and studied textile design and art in New York City. In 1894 she married the writer John Albee. Later that year the pair moved to New Hampshire where they remained for the next 45 years. During this period Helen Albee, wrote extensively, mainly on gardening and country life.
In 1897 she established a rug-making enterprise Pequaket, near Tamworth and Madison, New Hampshire where she and her husband had a summer residence. The business, which she named the Abnákee Industry, employed local people with rug-making skills. She documented the venture in her book Abnákee Rugs: A Manual Describing the Abnakée Industry’ (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1903).
Albee died in Pequaket in 1939
In 1897 she established a rug-making enterprise Pequaket, near Tamworth and Madison, New Hampshire where she and her husband had a summer residence. The business, which she named the Abnákee Industry, employed local people with rug-making skills. She documented the venture in her book Abnákee Rugs: A Manual Describing the Abnakée Industry’ (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1903).
Albee died in Pequaket in 1939
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Bibliography
1. Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. The once and future gardener: garden writing from the golden age of magazines 1900-1940 Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Dodine, 1999
2. Richardson, Cynthia Watkins. ‘"A profitable philanthropy" : the Abnakee rug industry of Helen Albee of Tamworth’. ‘Historical New Hampshire’ vol.56, nos.3-4, Fall-Winter 2001
1. Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. The once and future gardener: garden writing from the golden age of magazines 1900-1940 Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Dodine, 1999
2. Richardson, Cynthia Watkins. ‘"A profitable philanthropy" : the Abnakee rug industry of Helen Albee of Tamworth’. ‘Historical New Hampshire’ vol.56, nos.3-4, Fall-Winter 2001