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Author : Ruth Patten
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Interesting Family Letters, of the Late Mrs. Ruth Patten, of Hartford, Conn written by Ruth Patten and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan P. Schoelwer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571261
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Connecticut Needlework written by Susan P. Schoelwer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Connecticut Book Award (2011) Winner of the Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit (2012) Connecticut women have long been noted for their creation of colorful and distinctive needlework, including samplers and family registers, bed rugs and memorial pictures, crewel-embroidered bed hangings and garments, silk-embroidered pictures of classical or religious scenes, quilted petticoats and bedcovers, and whitework dresses and linens. This volume offers the first regional study, encompassing the full range of needle arts produced prior to 1840. Seventy entries showcase more than one hundred fascinating examples—many never before published—from the Connecticut Historical Society's extensive collection of this early American art form. Produced almost exclusively by women and girls, the needle arts provide an illuminating vantage point for exploring early American women's history and education, including family-based traditions predating the establishment of formal academies after the American Revolution. Extensive genealogical research reveals unseen family connections linking various types of needlework, similar to the multi-generational male workshops documented for other artisan trades, such as woodworking or metalsmithing. Photographs of stitches, reverse sides, sketches, design sources, and related works enhance our understanding and appreciation of this fragile art form and the talented women who created it. An exhibition of needlework in this book will be held at the Connecticut Historical Society in late fall, 2010. Funding for this project has been provided by the Coby Foundation, Ltd., and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Author : Carol Huber
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572292
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book With Needle and Brush written by Carol Huber and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Connecticut River Valley was an important center for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by young women in private academies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This book identifies the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools throughout the valley, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Vermont and New Hampshire. Needlework was a means of instilling the values of citizenship, faith, knowledge, and patriotism into girls who would become mothers in the early republic. This book describes and illustrates how these embroideries provide insight into the nature of women’s schooling at this time. Over the course of their education, girls undertook progressively more complex and difficult needlework. Before the age of ten, they stitched elementary samplers on linen. As the culmination of their studies, they executed elaborate samplers, memorials, and silk pictures as evidence of the skills and accomplishments befitting a lady. Proudly displayed as enticements to potential suitors, these pieces affirmed a young woman’s mastery of the polite arts, which encompassed knowledge of religious and literary themes as well as art and music. This publication has been made possible through the generous support of The Coby Foundation, Ltd., the Connecticut Humanities Council, the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and several private donors.
Author : Lisa Grunwald
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0307493334
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Women's Letters written by Lisa Grunwald and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801483479
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Daughters written by Mary Beth Norton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.
Author : Gwenn Davis
Publisher : Burns & Oates
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Personal Writings by Women to 1900 written by Gwenn Davis and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 350 pages
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Author : William DeLoss Love
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book The Colonial History of Hartford written by William DeLoss Love and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Author : William Patten
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Mrs. Ruth Patten written by William Patten and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1785, after the death of her husband William, Ruth Wheelock Patten opened a school in Hartford that educated approximately 4000 girls by the time it closed in 1825. The school became known for the needlework of its students.
Author : Jeannine J. Falino
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book New England Silver & Silversmithing written by Jeannine J. Falino and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are the proceedings of a conference held on April 19-20, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The presenters were leading scholars in the field and their scholarship remains remarkably up-to-date.
Author : Harvard University. Library
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Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist: American history written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glee F. Krueger
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Gallery of American Samplers written by Glee F. Krueger and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The superb collection of American samplers dating from 1678-1865 that has been formed by Theodore H. Kapnek is the basis for this exemplary study of the subject, which is also very beautifully illustrated with 112 examples, the majority of them in color. There are also many details enlarged from the samplers, making it possible to examine the stitches closely. Far from being an assemblage that is merely visually stunning, the Kapnek Collection provides the reader with a broad chronological and geographical range of Americana as worked by schoolgirls over a span of two hundred years. Basically a method of teaching the essentials of both practical and ornamental needlework, samplers have become much sought after and prized in recent years as fascinating examples of early American embroidery. The author, an expert on all types of American needlework, provides in the comprehensive introduction a study of the development of the sampler in America, with special attention to the types of schools where this work was taught, the materials and stitches used, and the sources of the designs." -- Provided by publisher
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Total Pages : 524 pages
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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Author : Marla R. Miller
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Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Needle's Eye written by Marla R. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family's textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she reveals; the icon appears to explain early American women's labor history, while at the same time allowing it to go unexplained. Tensions of class and gender recede, and the largest artisanal trade open to early American women is obscured in the guise of domesticity. In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the significance of women's work in the clothing trades of the early Republic. Drawing on diaries, reminiscences, letters, ledgers, and material culture, she explores the contours of working women's lives in rural New England, offering a nuanced view of their varied ranks and roles - skilled and unskilled, black and white, artisanal and laboring - as producers and consumers, clients and crafts-women, employers and employees
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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by S. Austin Allibone written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
