 This is a side chair, meaning it's not an arm chair, it doesn't have arms. Much more interestingly, it's a Hitchcock chair. Now, Hitchcock chairs are both known as chairs that were made by the Hitchcock Company or Lambert Hitchcock, initially the entrepreneur in Connecticut, but more significantly there are certain genre of chairs. So lots of different painted chairs of the first half of the 19th century, sort of festooned with lots of cornucopia and sort of gold stenciling, cane seats were known as Hitchcock chair. So it's got a larger sort of import because of that, but it's extremely popular. You can still find lots of these in antique shop. What I find really interesting about it, first of all, is the decoration. And I think that's what it was meant to say. It's a decorated chair, not just a plain black chair. What I know from my own prior knowledge, of course, is that often painted decoration stands in for sort of other kinds of decoration. In earlier chairs, one would have used rich carving, which takes a lot of experience by the artisan. So here, instead of having rich depth in the carving, we have two things which stand in for that three-dimensionality. We have turnings. This is done on a lathe. These are done also mass produced, so that these parts are relatively interchangeable. So at the same time as these Hitchcock chairs are being mass produced, $1.50 a piece, usually sold in sets, someone like Eli Terri in the Connecticut clock, industry is also making cheap shelf clocks by relatively interchangeable parts, so that the gears and the clocks are made all at once and then can be fit into a variety of different clocks. So that obviously is going to cut down on costs. And also on the skill level for the chair workers assembling the chair. So much of the work is really done by semi-skilled workers rather than an older style where one person made one chair at a time. In some chair industries, they would have made some parts at the sawmill, they would have then made other parts or assembled them in a shop, and then third, they would have had women and children seating the chairs by hand in homes and then collected everything together. So in the case of Hitchcock's innovation, sort of like the Lowell Mills is that he did everything together in a factory, which really allowed him great advances in terms of scale, savings by scale. When you look in the back, on the back of the seat, it will say Hitchcock warranted. And so it's got a stencil on the back. This is the first entrepreneur to do this, that there's sort of warranted that if, you know, there's a problem with this, you can sort of return there. So again, it's this assumption, and this is a new stage, that these will be distributed throughout the United States. There will not be a face-to-face encounter between maker and consumer, so that you would need to have this sort of publicized warranty in a way that if you actually knew the craftsman 20 years earlier, you wouldn't need that sort of published, stamped warranty. What Hitchcock's great idea was to take a bit of this and a bit of that, put it together, push it forward with division of labor, and also extensive marketing, and really produce something that's a prototype of a sort of mass-produced object that bespeaks gentility to a wide section in the American public, from top to bottom, and do it at a really low price. And that really is what accounts for the popularity of the chair at the time, and I think also its significance for us to sort of look at and talk about.