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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
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Two Scrapbooks of Newspaper Clippings
Author: Two Scrapbooks of Early Newspaper Clippings Compiled by the Misses Washburne 1895 to Ca. 1910, Illustrating Social Life as it was Experienced in Pleasantville, New York, at the Turn of the Century
Author: Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings on the Civil War
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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A scrapbook in two volumes contains newspaper clippings dated 1862 through 1864, providing reports of Civil War actions.
A Buried Past
Author: Yuji IchiokaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520313534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Writing with Scissors
Author: Ellen Gruber GarveyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199986355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.
Kindergarten Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings, 1889-1892, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Perkins Institution For The BlindPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483965430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Excerpt from Kindergarten Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings, 1889-1892, Vol. 2 Girls, Louisa. Warrener and Myrtle A. Aldrich. Immediately 'following the readings. Another example of what may be mhshed by these unfortunate ones was was the introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet
Author: Martha Ullman WestPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065844
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed. Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine Littlefield, Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just as responsible for the direction of American ballet as the legendary George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The stories of Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also demonstrate that the flowering of American ballet was not simply a New York phenomenon. West includes little-known details about how Bolender and Reed laid the foundations for Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet in the 1970s and how Bolender transformed the Kansas City Ballet into a highly respected professional company soon after. Passionate in their desire to dance and create dances, Bolender and Reed committed their lives to passing along their hard-won knowledge, training, and work. This book celebrates two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the establishment of ballet in America from one coast to the other.
Literature as Pulpit
Author: Randi R. WarnePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a “pulpit” from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God’s intention for Creation was a “Fair Deal” for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a perfect place to begin to bring that about. Woman suffrage, temperance and the ordination of women were keystones in the battle — engaged, in contrast to contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compelling humour that won over enemies as it delighted her allies. Literature as Pulpit explores Nellie McClung’s vision of a “better world,” and the impediments to it, as expressed through her novels and her feminist “tract,” In Times Like These. It addresses the profoundly anti-feminist context within which McClung was forced to make her arguments, and notes her indebtedness to other feminist writers and thinkers of her day. Throughout, McClung’s religion of “active care” emerges as a consistent and harmonizing theme which integrates her feminism and social activism into a single empowering vision for social change.
Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date
Author: Edward Le Roy RicePublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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MCL Scrapbooks
Author: Morris County Library (Whippany, N.J.). Archives Room CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Languages : en
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Scrapbook containing press clippings pertaining the Morris County Library from 1969 to 1970 and 1963.