Merge pull request #77 from digbmc/wbbm-grace

photos to deanery

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   date: 1917
   description: Catalogue page showing different Asian-inspired plant stands. 
   source: Internet Archive 
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+  title: Japanese Garden Seat
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+  description: This ceramic seat was one of many that Thomas usesd to decorate the Deanery garden (Taft Garden)
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+  accession_number: Deanery.184
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current/disoriented/orientalism-at-deanery.md

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 ### The Deanery Garden (Taft Garden)
 
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 Thomas went to great lengths to fill her personal garden (now Taft garden) with an eclectic collection of Asian and Middle Eastern objects. On a 1915 trip to Beijing, Thomas brought back a pair of two stone lions that were claimed to be over 1000 years old. The stone statues were placed facing inward, instead of the conventional outward direction. Around the garden, there were also several Japanese stools, like the one seen here, which were common in American homes attempting to recreate an Asian aesthetic. ​
 
 ## M. Carey Thomas Abroad 
 
 Although Thomas decorated the Deanery with art from around the world, she remained intensely hateful towards non-Western cultures. In a 1922 letter to family from Bombay, Thomas discussed her avid support of Lothrop Stoddard, prominent American eugenicist, KKK member, and, later, Nazi. She recommended her family read The Rising Tide of Color (1920) and Revolt Against Civilization (1922). The books advocated for strict, selective immigration and eugenics practices to preserve white racial purity.​
 
 > "It is not only our duty to try to give a good heredity to our children but also to try to control the heredity of our nation and of our race. Nothing else in the world seems to me quite so important as this." M. Carey Thomas ​
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