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Author: Irene Reed Publisher: TUDOR GATE PRESS ISBN: 0974094978 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 333
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From the 17th century to the present, thousands of women have lived and worked in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This book celebrates their accomplishments and honors the women who have contributed to the quality of life in Berks County.
Author: Irene Reed Publisher: TUDOR GATE PRESS ISBN: 0974094978 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 333
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From the 17th century to the present, thousands of women have lived and worked in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This book celebrates their accomplishments and honors the women who have contributed to the quality of life in Berks County.
Author: Irene Reed Publisher: TUDOR GATE PRESS ISBN: 097409496X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 352
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From the 17th century to the present, thousands of women have lived and worked in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This book celebrates their accomplishments and honors the women who have contributed to the quality of life in Berks County.
Author: Trina Vaux Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512808369 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 188
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Molly Peacock Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1773058398 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.
Author: Robert Flynn Johnson Publisher: G Editions LLC ISBN: 9781943876587 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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What started out as a simple trip to a postcard fair turned into a lifelong investigation for author Robert Flynn Johnson. Captivated by the beauty and originality of a group of nineteenth-century photographs of women, he had to know more. Now, nearly a decade after his first encounter with the images, Johnson has uncovered more than two hundred vintage photographs of women who lived and worked at a brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1892. Taken by commercial photographer William Goldman, the photographs paint a full picture of the environment that the women inhabited--from inside the brothel, posing artistically for the camera, to their off-duty routines, such as reading, smoking, and bathing. Never-before published and taken two decades before the famous E. J. Bellocq photographs of prostitutes in Storyville in New Orleans circa 1913, these beautifully produced photographs are only now seeing the light of day. Johnson uses these photographs to detail their aesthetic, historical, and sociological importance in the history of photography, examining them alongside paintings and photographs by such artists as Degas, Picasso, Atget, and more. Accompanied by essays from Professor Ruth Rosen and Dennita Sewell that provide an insightful historical overview of these images in context of the period in which they were taken and a preface from famed burlesque dancer Dita von Teese, this volume provides a personal visual record of lives of these women while also offering a deeper understanding of the Working Girls that existed more than 120 years ago.
Author: Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738536330 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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The tiny villages along what is now known as the Route 100 Corridor are Bally, Eshbach, Bechtelsville, New Berlinville, Boyertown, and Washington Township, which consists of Schultzville, Barto, and Forgedale. In the late 1800s, the area's prosperous industry attracted such figures as Thomas Edison. The rich history of the area also includes the worst fire in U.S. history, the first Mennonite house of worship, one of the first Catholic missions in the thirteen original colonies, and a young missionary woman who traveled to India and perished on the Titanic. Through vintage photographs and descriptive captions, Along the Route 100 Corridor is a trip down these historic dirt roads with the early settlers.
Author: Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738538440 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Along the Route 100 Corridor Revisited documents the villages and townspeople along the Route 100 Corridor that were instrumental in the beginnings of many industries in the area. They also played a significant role in the formation of religious organizations, including the Mennonite, Catholic, and Schwenkfelders. Heavily populated by the Pennsylvania Dutch, industries such as furniture making, pottery, shoemaking, and tinsmithing all developed. Businesses known as hucksters serviced the nearby communities by traveling via horse-drawn wagons. Travel back to the dirt roads, country doctors, and rural lifestyle through this collection of vintage photographs.
Author: Irene Reed
Author: Irene Reed
Author: Irene Reed
Author: Morton Luther Montgomery
Author: Trina Vaux
Author: Molly Peacock
Author: Robert Flynn Johnson
Author: Cyrus T. Fox
Author: Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell
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Author: Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell