Furniture
The Ulster American Folk Park’s furniture collection consists of pieces typically found in rural areas in Ulster and the eastern coast of the United States of America from the late 1700s to the 1920s. Ranging from large dressers and presses to fine chairs and work tables, roughly hewn benches to exquisitely painted blanket chests, the collection represents the work of local craftspeople in predominantly rural areas
Chairs
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Pictured left is a chair that was made in County Down, Northern Ireland. Made from ash wood with a rope seat. (Get closer by clicking the images)
Pictured below right is baby’s high chair with spindle back, north eastern United States of America. /Collections/Domestic-Life/uafp_domestic_life_furniture_03)
Pictured below left is a ladderback chair made from chestnut wood with straw seat, north eastern United States of America. /Collections/Domestic-Life/uafp_domestic_life_furniture_05)
Pictured below right is a 'cheese cutter’ rocking chair. Ladderback chair with splint seat and turned finials. Made in Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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Tables
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Pictured right is a double stretcher table, north eastern United States of America.
Dressers
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Fiddle front pine dresser, painted brown-black. Made in Ulster. This dresser is on display in the Weaver’s House at the Ulster American Folk Park.
Cupboards
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Pictured right is a Jelly cupboard, made from walnut, pine and poplar, with two dovetailed drawers and two doors. Pegged construction. Hand-planed back and underneath top. From Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Pictured below left is pie safe, walnut, with twelve punched tin panels. Dovetailed drawers and gallery. Turned legs. From Rockingham County, Virginia, United States of America./Collections/Domestic-Life/uafp_domestic_life_furniture_12)
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Pictured right is a small hanging cupboard, wood with brass hinges. Marks on inside where lock has been removed. Paint worn on outside edge near keyhole - possibly had swivel catch. One shelf inside cupboard. Exterior painted yellow, with grained/stippled repeating pattern. Green bands painted at top and bottom of front and left side. Two holes in back for fixing to wall. From Virginia, United States of America.
Pictured below is a pine wardrobe with two doors in top section and two small drawers over one large drawer at base. Made in Ulster./Collections/Domestic-Life/uafp_domestic_life_furniture_09)
Dry sinks
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Dry sink made from wood and decorated with a stencilled design. There is one dovetailed drawer with an ornate metal pull handle to the left of the unit. The drawer is divided into two compartments. The measurements of the dry sink are: length 115cm, breadth 51cm, height 79cm. It came from Adamstown. Pennsylvania, United States of America and was probably made between 1880 to 1890. This dry sink is on display in the kitchen of the Western Pennsylvania House.
Cradles
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Pine cradle on rockers, made in Ulster.
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Cradle, wooden with pale blue painted interior, made in Ulster.
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Cradle, made from walnut. Dovetailed at corners. From Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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