Author: William L. PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Davenport (Iowa).
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Them was the Good Old Days
Author: William L. PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Davenport (Iowa).
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Them was the Good Old Days
Author: William L. PurcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Davenport (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Them Was the Good Old Days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa - Primary Source Edition
Author: William L. PurcellPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294512325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Index of "Them was the Good Old Days"
Author: R. P. FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Davenport (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Three Midwestern Playwrights
Author: Marcia NoePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253061849
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs. The philosophical and political orientations of Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell generated a theatre practice marked by experimentalism, collaboration, leftist cultural critique, rebellion, liberation, and community engagement. In Three Midwestern Playwrights, Marcia Noe situates the origin of the Provincetown aesthetic in Davenport, Iowa, a Mississippi River town. All three playwrights recognized that radical politics sometimes begat radical chic, and several of their plays satirize the faddish elements of the progressive political, social, and cultural movements they were active in. Three Midwestern Playwrights brings the players to life and deftly illustrates how Dell, Cook, and Glaspell joined early 20th-century midwestern radicalism with East Coast avant-garde drama, resulting in a fresh and energetic contribution to American theatre.
Literature of Pioneer Life in Iowa
Author: Frank Luther MottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Freedom of the Streets
Author: Sharon E. WoodPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.
History of Davenport and Scott County Iowa
Author: Harry E. DownerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Davenport (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Women's Suffrage Memorabilia
Author: Kenneth FloreyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786472936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
While historians have long recognized the importance of memorabilia to the Woman Suffrage movement, the subject has not been explored apart from a few restricted, albeit excellent, studies. Part of the problem is that such objects are scattered about in various collections and museums and can be difficult to access. Another is that most scholars do not have ready knowledge 1of the general nature and history of the type of objects (postcards, badges, sashes, toys, ceramics, sheet music, etc.) that suffragists produced. Then-new techniques in both printing and manufacturing created numerous possibilities for supporters to develop campaigns of "visual rhetoric." This work analyzes 70 different categories of suffrage memorabilia, while providing numerous images of relevant objects along the way and discussing these innovative production methods. Most important, this study looks at period accounts, often fascinating, of how, why when, and where the memorabilia were used in both America and England.
Men of No Reputation
Author: Kimberly HarperPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610758099
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Men of No Reputation is the first account to explore the life of Robert Boatright, one of Middle America’s most gifted, but forgotten, confidence men. Boatright’s story provides a rare window into the secret world of Missouri’s criminal past, which influenced the methods of confidence men across the country. Boatright took the preexisting big-store confidence scheme and perfected it. With the assistance of a talented coterie of confederates known as the Buckfoot Gang, this “dean of modern confidence men” fleeced the gentry of the Midwest on fixed athletic contests in the turn-of-the-century Ozarks. Working in concert with a local bank and an influential Democratic boss, Boatright seemed untouchable. A series of missteps, however, led to a string of court cases across the country that brought his criminal enterprise to an end. And yet, the con continued. Boatright’s successor, John C. Mabray, and his cronies, many of whom had been in the Buckfoot Gang, preyed upon victims across North America in one of the largest Midwestern criminal syndicates in history before they were brought to heel. Like the works of Sinclair Lewis, Boatright’s story exposes a rift in the wholesome Midwestern stereotype and furthers our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American society.