Friday, September 16, 2011

Haute Couture Has Nothing Over Mrs. Grace Snyder

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Flower Basket Petit Point Quilt by Grace Snyder, 1940 Grace McCance Snyder , the Nebraskan pioneer, started piecing quilts when she was only...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

If I Could, I Would...

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Evening dress, Chanel, 2011 If I could, I would support the haute couture, speaking of it here in its most narrow definition as the "cr...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Home Economics Revival?

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Home Economics Class--on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1951. Today, for the most part, only private Christian schools have home...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Victorian Husbands and Wives

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See the entire set at Retronaut compliments of Lisby . I feel inspired to write a story for each couple, don't you?
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Grace Snyder's No Time on My Hands

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Grace McCance Snyder's autobiography, No Time on My Hands , written with her daughter, Nellie Snyder Yost, is the account of her pioneer...
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Jessamyn West: "It's Making Something Beautiful"

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In the Old House by Childe Hassam, 1914 Jessamyn West, the 20th-century author of The Friendly Persuasion and many other novels, snap...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Village Life in America by Caroline Cowles Richards

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Caroline Cowles Richards in 1860 Village Life in America is a name given to a diary written by one Caroline Cowles Richards, later Mrs. Edm...
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