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Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930
Kathleen D. McCarthy

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge ...

American Wrench Makers: 1830-1930, Second Edition

1 review
Kenneth Cope

Astragal Pr, 2002

The perfect resource
Kenneth L. Cope has really outdone himself with this edition. The entire book has been revamped and reorganized, and it also includes MANY new entries. What Cope has presented us is a fascinating look into the history of this excellent tool and how it has technically advanced over the years. I was really impressed by the accuracy of which Cope dates each model. He doesn't simply include when ...

American Gardens, 1890-1930: Northeast, Mid-atlantic, And Midwest Regions (Urban and Suburban Domestic ...

1 review

Acanthus Press, 2006

AMERICAN GARDENS
Acanthus Press puts out the most beautiful books and this one does not disappoint. Garden's of the american aristocracy of the northeast and midwest are put on display with gorgeous images to accompany the scholarly text. These gardens are breathtaking and though layed out many years ago, they resonate today; true beauty is eternal I suppose. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an ...

Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

6 reviews
Marbeth Schon

Schiffer Publishing, 2004

Simply a Masterpiece
My wife makes me read most of her dozens and dozens of jewelry books so I can help her out occasionally, but this one didn't need more than a quick browse to get me started. Modernist Jewelry, it seems as though there has never been enough information. Christie Romero's Warman Jewelry and Messengers of Modernism were great aids. The Author's online Modern Silver Magazine has provided ...

New York 1930: Architecture Between the Two World Wars

4 reviews
Robert A.M. Sterm, Gregory F. Gilmartin, ...

Rizzoli, 2009

An excellent record of the idealized city
This is an encyclopedic description of New York as I remember it from my student years. The numerous neat clean photographs and drawings present an idealized city. But what is additionally fascinating are the rich background histories that illustrate the social and economic complexity of Gotham. I enjoy this book at two levels: one, as a valuable artistic document, two, as an encapsulation of ...

Plays by American Women: 1900-1930

1 review
Judith E. Barlow

Applause Books, 2000

A Feminist's Must-Have
This book is a collection of plays that tell the story of women in the turn-of-the-century America. The forward is just a history of plays that were written by women authors. I never knew before I read the forward that there were practically no women playwrights at this time. I guess I just overlooked it. The plays in this collection are all wonderful in their own right. The most engaging ...

Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930
William Howland Kenney

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, ...

Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night" (Krazy Kat)

3 reviews
George Herriman

Fantagraphics Books, 2003

"Oh well, I'll inspire myself with anudda inspiration"
I've said this before and I'll say it again - Krazy Kat is simply one of the best comics ever produced. It completely smashes the western stereotype that comics are merely "for kids" and are supposed to be predictable, cute, and shallow. Krazy Kat is not necessarily for kids. Your kids probably won't get it (and if they do, put them in an honors class immediately), though they may find pleasure ...

Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930

3 reviews
Janice Stockard

Stanford University Press, 1992

Do Read
Daughters of the Canton Delta is not only one of my favorite anthropology texts, but it stands alone as a great read. Although the author went to a great deal of research and fieldwork, each chapter reads easily and quickly. It makes a great classroom text or bedside reading. This book provides the perfect opportunity for someone who doesn't have much experience with good anthropology ...

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

4 reviews
Robert B. Ray

Princeton University Press, 1985

Mandatory reading for Classic Hollywood enthusiasts
The book's title alludes to the 1954 essay by Francois Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema," in which Truffaut describes the "current" trends in French cinema and calls for a change. He, along with Godard, Rivette, Varda, Rohmer et. al, proceeded to enact a French cinema revolution -- the nouvelle vague. It is in this spirit that Ray outlines a certain "tendency" of classic ...

Turbojet: History and Development 1930-1960 Volume 1 - Great Britain and Germany
Antony L. Kay

Crowood, 2007

This important project brings together the early histories of the development of the turbojet, turboprop and turboshaft engines for the first time. he work of twelve nations [Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary] is described from the earliest days up to the end of the 1950s. This was the Golden Age of aeronautical development and in that ...

Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965

3 reviews
Ruth Feldstein

Cornell University Press, 2000

smart, smart, smart
Motherhood in Black and White does what few books on liberalism dare to do-- talk about policy, politics, and psychology as having gendered underpinnings and racial consequences. Feldstein's story is about the good guys, the racial liberals of the age between the New Deal and the Great Society, who optimistically conceive of the state as having a necessary role to play in the eradication of ...

Florida's Golden Age of Souvenirs, 1890-1930
LARRY ROBERTS

University Press of Florida, 2001

As souvenirs become a recognized source for interpreting and appreciating the artistry of the past, this authoritative and beautifully illustrated guide to one of Florida's least-known industries opens a new chapter in the study of the state's history and culture. More than 500 color illustrations in this lavish book showcase an incredible array of travel treasures purchased by Florida's first tourists-primarily wealthy northerners-during ...

Costume in Detail: 1730-1930

13 reviews
Nancy Bradfield

Costume & Fashion Press, 1997

Very detailed
I would have loved to had seen the pieces of the garment drawn in their pattern shapes, but otherwise an excellent book with much detail written about each garment. Only other problem was that sometimes the writer's handwriting about the details on the drawings were a bit hard to decifer.

History of the Fitch Family A.D. 1400 -- 1930 A Record of the Fitches in England and America, Including ...
Roscoe Conkling Fitch

The Apple Manor Press, 2007

Reprint of a classic work originally published in 1930. It is reprinted here in 2 volumes.

Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (American ...
Emily S. Rosenberg

Duke University Press, 2003

Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of ?dollar diplomacy??the use of international lending and advising?to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to ...

American Silk, 1830 - 1930: Entrepreneurs And Artifacts (Costume Society of America)

2 reviews
Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, ...

Texas Tech University Press, 2007

American Silk - New Family History
I went right to the middle section of this book to read about The Haskell Silk Mills in Westbrook, Maine. Why? Because my Great Grandfather Edwin Haskell was the founder. Excellent research by the author and her obvious love of the subject matter gave us, the Haskell descendants, an incredible look at the success and subsequent failure of this local business. I learned much more about my ...

Women's Wear of the 1930's: With Complete Patterns

2 reviews
Ruth S. Countryman, Elizabeth Weis Hopper

Players Press, 2001

Great Resource for making your own 1930s clothing
If you are an experienced sewer who wants to make your own clothing from the 1930s, this is the book for you. It doesn't have hats or hose, but it has everything else from foundation garments to outerwear. A big plus for this book is that for a few of the garments, they give the pattern drawing and a photo of the complete garmment on a real person. The book is also a good resource for dating ...

Conservatism in America since 1930: A Reader

2 reviews
Gregory Schneider

NYU Press, 2003

A "big tent" in the best and most positive of ways
This is a book that, in my humble opinion, probably should be on the desk of every self-described "conservative" leader and activist across America. It's that useful. I say "self-described," because one of the key recurring features in American conservative history has been the drive by one brand of "conservatives" to purge another brand from movement or party for not meeting the first brand's ...

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