Jane Nylander
American historian (born 1938)
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Education and career
Nylander was born in 1938[1] and grew up in Ohio.[2] She has an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University and a master's degree in early American history from the University of Delaware.[3] She then moved to Winterthur Museum where she was the first woman student,[4] and she led a program that used houses to describe past eras.[2] She was the director of the Strawbery Banke Museum from 1986 until 1992,[5] and while there she led an exhibition pairing a house viewed as if in 1950 with a 1795 household.[6] At the Old Sturbridge Village Nylander was the curator of textiles and ceramics.[7][8] She served as president of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, which is now known as Historic New England.[when?][9]
After she retired, she wrote the book The Best Ever! Parades in New England which is a historical investigation of parades in small towns in the United States.[10]
Selected publications
- Fabrics for Historic Buildings (4th ed.). National Trust. 1990. [11]
- Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860. Knopf. 1993.[12]
- Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes. Historic New England. 2009.
- The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788–1940. Bauhan Publishing. 2022.[13]