Item #36419 THOMAS DAY: Cabinetmaker. An Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina 1975

THOMAS DAY: Cabinetmaker. An Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina 1975

Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1975. 1st Edition. Wraps. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy. 4to., 75 pp., illustrated with b&w photographs. Stiff tan covers. Very light wear to covers. Text appears unmarked. Near Fine. Item #36419

Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman, boasting the largest and most productive workshop in the state during the 1850s.

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