Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1940: The American Woman’s Home Episode: 1940 In which Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister build a model house to pay for a mansion. Today, architectural ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute looks at six archetypes that helped shape the way women dress today From the 1890s heiress dependent on Old World European ideas of style to fashion ...
Hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, this Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture will be led by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a visiting instructor in the Department of History. The talk, titled ...
America in the 1940s was a time of change for women, as they gained more power and brought to life their entrepreneurial ...
Learn about the safety standards for women working in factories in the 1940s. Loose hair and jewelry could cause serious injuries with heavy machinery, leading to the use of headscarves. Trump's ...
Movies and the 1940s / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Movies and the reassessment of America / Matthew Bernstein -- Movies on the edge of war / Sarah Kozloff -- Movies and the march to war / Steven Jay ...
A length of Lorraine Mfg Co. woman's wool suiting fabric in cinnamon brown fine twill weave gabardine. Probably dating from the late 1940s into the early 1950s (the company ceased operations in 1953.) ...