// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Harold Shurtleff? Shell of a guy.
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| Born | January 6, 1883 Concord, New Hampshire, United States |
| Died | December 6, 1938 (aged 55) Canton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Painter |
Harold Robert Shurtleff (January 6, 1883 – December 6, 1938) was an American painter.
Shurtleff was an alumnus of Harvard University. He worked as head of the restoration department at Colonial Williamsburg. He also wrote a book titled The Log Cabin Myth: A Study of the Early Dwellings of the English Colonists in North America. This book showed that log cabins were only present in the Delaware valley, and not elsewhere in colonial north America.[1][2] His book dealt both with what people in the North American colonies really used as residences, and also with why and how the myth of the log cabin had come to be. The book was published two years after Shurtleff's death and was completed and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison.[3]
His artistic work formed part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "The Log Cabin Myth — Harold Robert Shurtleff, Samuel Eliot Morison | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on November 11, 2023. Retrieved June 23, 2026.
- ↑ "Park History Program (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved June 23, 2026.
- ↑ C., J. W. (March 1, 1940). "Review: The Log Cabin Myth: A Study of the Early Dwellings of the English Colonists in North America, by Harold R. Shurtleff and Samuel Eliot Morison". Pacific Historical Review. 9 (1): 96–96. doi:10.2307/3634146. ISSN 0030-8684. Archived from the original on January 18, 2025.
- ↑ "Harold Shurtleff". Olympedia. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
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