Born into a traditional culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have survived down to the present.
Drawing on Suter\'s diary--rich with meticulous descriptions of his ceramic wares, along with glazing recipes and the quotidian details of nineteenth-century business--as well as myriad other primary and secondary source.
Born into a traditional culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have survived down to the present
