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As a rule, when we consider the effects of technology upon society
we think of the golden spike, Kitty Hawk, UNIVAC, the horseless carriage, the
Bomb -- developments somewhat removed from our personal knowledge and experience.
But during the 19th and early 20th century important interactions between technology
and society took place closer to home, indeed, in the home, and this
technological revolution, if you will, transformed our daily lives in myriad
ways. In chronicling the development and evolution of our home -- the way
we clean, furnish, repair, and launder, and acquire, prepare, cook, and preserve
food, we have a wonderful opportunity to celebrate human ingenuity, invention,
and the leisure that time- and labor-saving devices have afforded us.
Social historians tell us that the artifacts of a culture offer the most revealing
evidence about what a given society was like and how its people lived. The
implements, utensils, and devices people used in their homes have been a major
source of such evidence. Today's
children, accustomed to microwave ovens, perma-press, fish fingers, TV snacks,
and built-in vacuum systems, are truly fascinated by the artifacts of their
culture -- the hows and whys -- and it prompts the older generations to reminisce
on the changes that they have experienced and how technology, or its absence,
has affected their lives and the lives of their descendants
The Library's collections can illuminate the hows and whys of domestic technology
because of their depth and breadth. These are shelves of old trade catalogs,
books and a plethora of 19th-century magazines reporting invention in all manner
of household technology. Old texts report new household products and chronicle
the history of housewares, appliances and household furnishings. These also
describe new methods of cooking, sewing, cleaning, and organizing the house
for convenience and efficiency. Collections of women’s diaries depict
their lives and recount their everyday struggles to keep their families fed
and clothed, even while crossing the prairie. Manuals contain receipts for
making soap, poultices, herbal remedies, candles, or instructions for spinning
wool. By studying these diaries, reminiscences, recipes, and advertisements
of the time, we are able to discover the homemaking skills needed and the challenges
faced by our feminine forebears.
This compilation, an update of TB 98-01, lists sources useful in examining
the history of household technology, primarily in the United States during
the
last half
of
the 19th
and the first half of the 20th century. Not intended to be a comprehensive
bibliography, this guide is designed -- as the name of the series implies --
to put the reader "on target."
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Andrews, William D., and Deborah C. Andrews. Technology and the
housewife in nineteenth-century America. Women's studies,
v. 2, no. 3, 1974: 309-328.
HQ1101.W77 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The "industrial revolution" in the home:
household technology and social change in the 20th century. Technology
and culture, v. 17, Jan. 1976: 1-23.
T1.T27 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Glazer-Malbin, Norma. Housework. Signs, v. 1, summer 1976:
905-922.
HQ1101.S5 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
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Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books
on the history of household technology can be located in most card,
book, and online catalogs include the following:
Highly Relevant
DOMESTIC
ENGINEERING--HISTORY
HOME
ECONOMICS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
HOUSEHOLD
APPLIANCES--HISTORY
See also individual
items, e.g., "Irons (pressing)," "Vacuum cleaners," "Stoves"
Relevant
HOME
ECONOMICS--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
HOUSEHOLD
APPLIANCES, ELECTRIC--HISTORY
HOUSEWIVES--HISTORY--NINETEENTH
CENTURY
HOUSEWIVES--UNITED
STATES--HISTORY
KITCHEN
UTENSILS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
Related
COOKWARE
INDUSTRY--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
DOMESTIC
ECONOMY--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
DOMESTICS--UNITED
STATES--HISTORY
DWELLINGS--UNITED
STATES--HISTORY
ELECTRIC
HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES INDUSTRY--HISTORY
HOUSE
FURNISHINGS INDUSTRY AND TRADE--HISTORY
MANUFACTURERS--CATALOGS
More General
TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS--SOCIAL ASPECTS
TECHNOLOGY--SOCIAL
ASPECTS
UNITED
STATES--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
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American home life, 1880-1930: a social history of spaces and
services. Edited by Jessica H. Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth.
Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, c1992. 284 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
E168.A513 1992
Cohen, Daniel. The last hundred years, household technology.
New York, M. Evans, c1982. 184 p.
Bibliography: p. 177-178.
TX298.C58 1982
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More work for mother: the ironies of
household technology from the open hearth to the microwave.
New York, Basic Books, c1983. 257 p.
"Bibliographic essays:" p. 220-233.
TX23.C64 1983 <SciRR>
"Notes:" p. 234-249.
Du Vall, Nell. Domestic technology: a chronology of developments.
Boston, G. K. Hall, c1988. 535 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX15.D8 1988 <SciRR>
Hardyment, Christina. From mangle to microwave: the mechanization
of household work. Cambridge, Eng., Polity Press; Oxford, New
York, Basil Blackwell, 1988. 220 p.
Bibliography: p. 203-209.
TX298.H37 1988
Lifshey, Earl. The housewares story: a history of the American
housewares industry. Chicago, National Housewares Manufacturers
Association, 1973. 384 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
HD9773.U5L5
Seymour, John. Forgotten household crafts. lst American
ed. New York, Knopf, 1987. 192 p.
TX15.S49 1987
Strasser, Susan. Never done: a history of American housework.
New York, Pantheon Books, c1982. 365 p.
TX23.S77 1982 <SciRR>
"Source notes": p. 313-355.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five hundred years of technology in the home.
London, B. T. Batsford, 1983. 184 p.
Bibliography: p. 176-177.
TX298.Y38 1983
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Buehr, Walter. Home sweet home in the nineteenth century.
New York, Crowell, 1965. 159 p.
TX19.B83
An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology. Edited
by Ian McNeil. London, New York, Routledge, 1990. 1062 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
T15.E53 1989 <SciRR>
See especially "The domestic interior: technology
and the home": p. 902-948.
Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At home: the American family, 1750-1870.
New York, H. N. Abrams, 1990. 304 p.
Bibliography: p. 288-297.
TX23.G37 1989
Hechtlinger, Adelaide. The seasonal hearth: the woman at home
in early America. Woodstock, N.Y., Overlook Press, 1986, c1977.
256 p.
TX23.H4 1986
Making the American home: middle-class women & domestic
material culture, 1840-1940. Edited by Marilyn Ferris Motz
and Pat Browne. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University
Popular Press, c1988. 212 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX23.M35 1988
Matranga, Victoria Kasuba, and Karen Kohn. America at home:
a celebration of twentieth-century housewares. Rosemont, Ill., National Housewares
Manufacturers Association, 1997. 208 p.
Bibliography: p. 196-197.
X298.M38 1997
Morse, Sidney Levi. Household discoveries. Rev. ed. Petersburg,
N.Y., etc., Success Company's Branch Offices, c1913. 1173 p.
TX145.M82 1913
Plante, Ellen M. Women at home in Victorian America: a social
history. New York, Facts on File, c1997. 242 p.
Bibliography: p. 231-237.
HQ1418.P53 1997
Talbot, George. At home, domestic life in the post-centennial
era, 1876-1920. An exhibition, spring 1976 through fall 1977
at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Prepared with the
assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts. Madison, State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, c1976. 88 p.
E168.T13
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Beecher, Catharine Esther. A treatise on domestic economy.
New York, Source Book Press 1970, c1841. 441 p.
TX145.B46 1970
Reprint of the ed. published by Marsh, Capen,
Lyon, and Webb, Boston.
Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The frugal housewife: dedicated
to those who are not ashamed of economy. 8th ed., corr and
arr. by the author, to which are added, hints to persons of moderate
fortune, some valuable receipts, etc., etc. London, T. Tegg, 1832.
176 p.
TX154.C47 1832 <Rare Bk Coll>
Published also under title, The American frugal
housewife.
Davidson, Caroline. A woman's work is never done: a history
of housework in the British Isles, 1650-1950. London, Chatto & Windus, 1982. 250 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX57.D38 1982
Grier, Katherine C. Culture & comfort: parlor making and
middle-class identity, 1850-1930. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1997. 267 p.
Bibliography: p. 223-257.
E166.G83 1997
Revised and slightly condensed version of Culture
& comfort. Rochester, N.Y., Strong Museum, c1988.
Laughlin, Clara E., ed. The complete home. New York, D.
Appleton and Co., 1907. 313 p.
TX145.L3
Mayhew, Edgar de Noailles, and Minor Myers, Jr. A documentary
history of American interiors: from the colonial era to 1915.
New York, Scribner, c1980. 399 p.
Bibliography: p. 389-392.
NK2002.M39
Richards, Ellen H., and Maria Elliott. The chemistry of cooking
and cleaning. American kitchen magazine, v. 6, Oct.1896:
11-14.
TX1.E8
Thuro, Catherine M. V. Oil lamps: the kerosene era in North
America. Repr. with updated prices. Radnor, Pa., Wallace-Homestead
Book Co., 1992. 364 p.
Bibliography: p. 346-347.
NK5440.K44T49 1992
Food and Cooking
300 years of kitchen collectibles: a price guide for collectors.
1981- Compiled by Linda Campbell Franklin. Florence, Ala., Books
Americana.
TX656.A153
Brewer, Priscilla J. From fireplace to cookstove: technology
and the domestic ideal in America. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse
University Press, 2000. 338 p.
Bibliography: p. 303-324.
GT425.U5B74 2000
Brewer, Priscilla J. “We have got a very good cooking
stove”: advertising, design, and consumer response to the
cookstove, 1815-1880. Winterthur portfolio, v. 25, spring
1999: 35-54.
N9.W52
The Country house kitchen, 1650-1900: skills and equipment
for food provisioning. Edited by Pamela A. Sambrook and
Peter Brears. Phoenix Mill, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
A. Sutton Pub., in association with the National Trust, 1996.
266 p. (Food and society, 8)
TX653.C69 1996
"Based on papers from the Eighth Leeds Symposium on Food History,
April 1993 and the Ninth, April 1994."
Dimensions of the meal: the science, culture, business,
and art of eating. Edited by Herbert L. Meiselman. Gaithersburg,
Md., Aspen Publishers, 2000. 344 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX631.D49 2000 <SciRR>
Hayes, Joanne Lamb. Grandma’s wartime kitchen: World
War II and the way we cooked. New York, St. Martin’s
Press, 2000. 244 p.
Bibliography: p. 237-239.
TX715.H393 2000
Jones, Joseph C. American ice boxes: a book on the history,
collecting, and restoration of ice boxes. Humble, Tex.,
Jobeco Books, 1981. 100 p.
Bibliography: p. 99-100.
TP496.J66
McFeely, Mary Drake. Can she bake a cherry pie?: American
women and the kitchen in the twentieth century. Amherst,
University of Massachusetts Press, c2000. 194 p.
Bibliography: p.171-182.
TX649.A1M38 2000
Plante, Ellen M. The American kitchen, 1700 to the present:
from hearth to highrise. New York, Facts on File, c1995.
340 p.
Bibliography: p. 314-319.
TX653.P56 1995 <SciRR>
Rockwood, Laura C. Food preparation and its relation to the
development of efficient personality in the home. Popular
science monthly, v. 79, Sept. 1911: 277-298.
AP2.P8
Rorer, Mrs. S. T. Furnishing a kitchen. Everyday housekeeping,
v. 22, June 1906: 793-796.
TX1.E82
Shapiro, Laura. Perfection salad: women and cooking at
the turn of the century. New York, Modern Library, 2001.
274 p.
Bibliography: p. 255-267.
TX173.S24 2001
Werbel, Amy B. The Foley Food Mill. Technology in society,
v. 14, no. 3, 1992: 345-356.
T14.5.T443
Williams, Susan. Savory suppers & fashionable feasts: dining
in Victorian America. New York, Pantheon Books in association
with the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, c1985. 335 p.
Bibliography: p. 315-320.
TX715.W7293 1985
Plumbing
Barlow, Ronald S. The vanishing American outhouse: a history
of country plumbing. El Cajon, Calif., Windmill Publishing
Company, c1989. 136 p.
Bibliography: p. 95-96.
TH4975.B37 1989
Breese, Jessie Martin. The bathroom of to-day. Country
life: a magazine of the home-maker of the country, v.
39, Apr. 1921: 66-67.
S1.C85 folio
Lupton, Ellen, and J. Abbott Miller. The bathroom, the kitchen,
and the aesthetics of waste: a process of elimination. MIT
List Visual Arts Center. Cambridge, Mass., the Center;
New York, Distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, c1992.
74 p.
Bibliography: p. 74-75.
TD6.A1L87 1992
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition : The process
of elimination: the kitchen, the bathroom, and the aesthetics
of waste, MIT Visual Arts Center, May 9-June 28, 1992."
Ogle, Maureen. All the modern conveniences: American household
plumbing,1840-1890. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996. 191 p. (Johns Hopkins studies in the history of
technology, new ser., no. 20)
Bibliography: p. 161-182.
TH6116.O36 1996
Ogle, Maureen. Domestic reform and American household plumbing,
1840-1870. Winterthur portfolio, v. 28, spring 1993:
33-58.
N9.W52
Sipe, Brian M. Earth closets and the dry earth system of sanitation
in Victorian America. Material culture, v. 20, summer/fall
1988: 27-37.
E179.5.P46
Wright, Lawrence. Clean and decent: the history of the
bath and loo and of sundry habits, fashions & accessories of
the toilet, principally in Great Britain, France & America.
Rev. ed., with additional material by Dave Larder. London,
Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. 211 p.
Bibliography: p. 161-182
GT2845.W74 1980
Sewing
Connolly, Marguerite. The disappearance of the domestic sewing
machine, 1890-1925. Winterthur portfolio, v. 34, spring
1999: 31-48.
N9.W52
Cooper, Grace Rogers. The sewing machine: its invention
and development. 2nd ed, rev. and expanded. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. 238 p.
Bibliography: p. 224-226.
TJ507.C6 1976
Fox, Sandi. For purpose and pleasure: quilting together
in nineteenth-century America. Nashville, Tenn., Rutledge
Hill Press, c1995. 164 p.
Bibliography: p. 160-162.
GN432.F69 1995
“Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... presented
at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, June 25
through September 10, 1995.”
Institute of Modern Sewing, Inc., New Haven. First course
in modern mechanical methods of home sewing. New Haven,
The Institute of Modern Sewing, Inc., 1920. 71 p.
TT710.I6
Markrich, Lilo, and Heinz Edgar Kiewe. Victorian fancywork:
nineteenth century needlepoint patterns and designs. Chicago,
Regnery, 1974. 172 p.
Bibliography: p. 171-172.
TT778.C3M37
Mohanty, Gail Fowler. The sewing machine--“the queen
of inventions,” an exhibition at Slater Mill Historic Site,
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Technology and culture, v.
28, Oct. 1987: 839-841.
T1.T27
Utensils and Gadgets
Brooke, Sheena. Hearth and home: a short history of domestic
equipment. London, Mills and Boon, 1973. 168 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX298.B76
De Haan, David. Antique household gadgets and appliances,
c. 1860 to 1930. Poole, Eng., Blandford Press, 1977. 165
p.
TX298.D4
Franklin, Linda Campbell. 300 years of housekeeping collectibles:
tools & fittings of the laundry room, broom closet, dustbin,
clothes closet & bathroom. Florence, Ala., Books Americana,
c1992. 212 p.
Bibliography: p. 206-209.
TX324.F73 1992
“Together with pithy advice for collectors and dealers,
opinions in polished prose, and a fund of fascinating facts from
cookbooks, trade catalogs, encyclopedias of arts & manufactures
and periodical advertisements.”
“Identification and value guide.”
The Official from hearth to cookstove: an American domestic
history of gadgets and utensils made or used in America from
1700 to 1930. By the House of Collectibles, Inc. Editor,
Thomas E. Hudgeons. 3rd ed. Orlando, Fla., House of Collectibles,
c1985. 271 p.
Bibliography: p. 254-258.
TX656.O35 1985 <SciRR>
Revised ed. of From hearth to cook stove by Linda
Campbell Franklin. 2nd ed. c1978.
Peet, Louise Jenison, and Lenore E. Sater. Household equipment. New
York, John Wiley & Sons, 1934. 315 p.
TX298.P4
Smith, Robert Paul. Lost & found: an illustrated compendium
of things no longer in general use: the hatpin, the icebox,
the carpet beater, and oven; household possessions they don't
make that way any more. New York, Charterhouse, 1973.
158 p.
TX298.S64
Webb, Pauline, and Mark Suggitt. Gadgets and necessities:
an encyclopedia of household innovations. Santa Barbara,
Calif., ABC-CLIO, c2000. 377 p.
Bibliography: p. 331-336
TX298.W43 2000
Washing and Ironing
Ahern, Eleanor. The way we wash our clothes. New York,
M. Barrows & Co., c1941. 140 p.
TT985.A43
Apkarian-Russell, Pamela E. Washday collectibles.
Atglen, Pa., Schiffer Publishing, c2000. 159 p.
TT998.A65 2000
Berney, Esther S. A collector's guide to pressing irons
and trivets. New York, Crown Publishers, c1977. 182 p.
Bibliography: p. 175-176.
TX298.B44 1977
Doyle, Robert. Laundry: the whys and hows of cleaning
clothes. Halifax, N.S., Sartorial Press Publications,
c1999. 230 p.
Bibliography: p. 229-230.
TT985.D69 1999
Irons, David. Even more irons. Northampton, Pa.., D. Irons,
c2000. 158 p.
TS440.I73 2000
David Irons has also published Irons by Irons (1994)
and More Irons by Irons (1997).
Irons, David. Pressing iron patents: a pictorial presentation
of patent briefs, 1876-1912. Northampton, Pa., D. Irons,
c1994. 54 p.
TS440.I77 1994
Jewell, Brian. Smoothing irons: a history and collector’s
guide. Tunbridge Wells, Eng., Midas Books, 1977. 72 p.
TS440.J48
Leal, Ronald. Rub a dub dub: a short history of home laundry. Mankind,
v. 1, Dec. 1968: 50-54.
D1.M3
Mohr, Merilyn Simonds. The art of soapmaking: a complete
introduction to the history and craft of fine soapmaking: complete
recipes for hand soaps, herbal shampoos, natural toothpaste,
vegetarian soap, laundry soap, and many rich and fragrant homemade
soaps. Camden East, Ont., Camden House Pub.; Toronto,
Trade distribution by Firefly Books, c1979. 127 p.
Bibliography: p. 124-127.
TP991.M67 1979
Rawlings, Irene, and Andrea VanSteenhouse. The clothesline.
Layton, Utah, Gibbs Smith, c2002. 95 p.
TT985.R39 2002
Russell, Malcolm B. Cleaner clothes for less work: the Upton
Machine Company, 1911-1929. Essays in economic and business
history, v. 12, 1994: 383-397.
HC10.E73
Salade, Robert F. Demonstrating and selling washing machines. House furnishing
review, v. 45, Aug. 1916: XII-XVII.
HF6201.H8H6
Santiago, Chiori. It all comes out in the wash. Smithsonian,
v. 28, Sept. 1997: 84-92.
AS30.S6
Shepherd, Meredith. Dollars and sense and the washing machine:
how it “pays for itself” and adds leisure hours to
washday. House furnishing review, v. 41, Aug. 1914:
46, 54.
HF6201.H8H6
United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. Methods
and equipment for home laundering. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print, Off., 1926. 37 p. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Farmers’ bulletin,
no. 1497)
S21.A6, no. 1497
Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and crimping
irons: Victorian clothes: how they were cleaned and cared for. London,
Owen, 1978. 199 p.
Bibliography: p. 188.
TT985.W23 1978
Whitton, Mary Ormsbee. Ironing machines for time economy:
timesaving element strongest selling point in influencing the
housewife to buy this class of merchandise. House furnishing
review, v. 58, Jan. 1923: 133-135.
HF6201.H8H6
Zmroczek, Christine. Women, class, and washing machines, 1920s-1960s. Women’s
studies international forum, v. 15, no. 2, 1992: 173-185.
HQ1101.W775
Titles relating to Correspondence, Reminiscenes, and Biography
Clark, Ava Milam, and J. Kenneth Mumford. Adventures of a home
economist. Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 1969. 432
p.
TX140.C5A3
Fenster, J. M. The woman [Josephine Cochrane] who invented
the dishwasher; she did it because the servants broke the china.
American heritage of invention & technology, v. 15, fall
1999: 54-61.
T1.A455
Green, Harvey, and Mary-Ellen Perry. The light of the home:
an intimate view of the lives of women in Victorian America.
With illustrations from the Margaret Woodbury Storng Musuem.
New York, Pantheon Books, c1983. 205 p.
HQ1419.G73 1983
"Notes": p. 186-205
Reprinted in 2003, by the University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville,
Ark.
Holt, Marilyn Irvin. Linoleum, better babies & the
modern farm woman, 1890-1930. Albuquerque, University
of New Mexico Press, c1995. 250 p.
Bibliography: p. 233-240.
HQ1419.H65 1995
Memories of Hoosier homemakers. Eleanor Arnold, editor
and project director. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1993. 6 v.
TX24.I6M46 1993
Partial contents:–v. 1 Feeding our families.–v.
2. Party lines, pumps and privies. “
From Hoosier Homemakers Throughout the Years, an oral history
project of the Indiana Extension Homemakers Association.” Originally
published, West Lafayette? Indiana Extension Homemakers Association,
c1983-1991.
Mendelson, Anne. Stand facing the stove: the story of the
women who gave America the Joy of Cooking. New York, H.
Holt, 1996. 474 p.
Bibliography: p. 453-458.
TX649.A1M46 1996
Porter, Lorle. Sara’s table: “keeping house” in
Ohio, 1800-1950. Zanesville, Ohio, New Concord Press,
2001. 176 p.
Bibliography: p. 172.
TX145.P667 2001
Rutherford, Janice Williams. Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine
Frederick and the rise of household efficiency. Athens,
Ga., University of Georgia Press, c2003. 283 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX140.F74R88 2003
Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Catharine Beecher: a study in American
domesticity. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973. 356
p.
Bibliography: p. 331-334.
HQ1413.B4S54 Overflow
Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention: notes
for a revised history of technology. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow
Press, 1993. 1116 p.
Bibliography: p. 917-1041.
T36.S73 1993 <SciRR>
See particularly "Labor-saving (domestic)": p. 455-465.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of invention:
from the bra to the bomb: forgotten women & their unforgettable
ideas. New York, Morrow, c1988. 256 p.
T36.V36 1988 <SciRR>
Voices of American homemakers. Eleanor Arnold, editor
and project director. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1993. 295 p.
TX23.V65 1993
"From an oral history project of the National Extension
Homemakers Council, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary."
Originally published in Hollis, N.H., National Extension Homemakers
Council, c1985.
Titles for Young Readers
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c1998. 48 p.
TT995.A38 1998
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Vacuum cleaners. Minneapolis,
Carolrhoda Books, c1997. 48 p.
TX298.A55 1997
Kalman, Bobbie. The Victorian home. New York,
Crabtree Publishing, c1997. 32 p.
NK2115.5.V53K36 1997
Steele, Philip. Clothes and crafts in Victorian times. Milwaukee,
Wisc., Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2000. 32 p.
Bibliography: p. 31.
GT737.S74 2000
Thomson, Ruth. Washday. London, A. & C. Black,
c1990. 32 p.
TT985.T53 1990
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Anderson, Oscar Edward. Refrigeration in America: a history
of a new technology and its impact. Port Washington, N.Y.,
Kennikat Press, 1972, c1953. 344 p.
Bibliography: p. 321-325.
TP494.U5A7 1972
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans, the national experience.
New York, Vintage Books, c1965. 517 p.
"Bibliographical notes": p. 433-495.
E162.B68 1965 <Rare Bk Coll: Boorstin Coll>
Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American family home, 1800-1960.
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c1986. 281 p.
Bibliography: p. 255-269.
NA7205.C58 1986
Cummings, Richard Osborn. The American and his food. New
York, Arno Press, 1970, c1941. 219 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TX360.U6C8 1970
Domestic ideology and domestic work. In History of women
in the United States: historical articles on women’s
lives and activities, v. 4. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. Munich,
New York, G.K. Saur, 1992. 2 v. (591 p.)
HQ1410.H57 1992
Dudden, Faye E. Serving women: household service in nineteenth-century
America. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press; Scranton,
Pa., Distributed by Harper & Row, c1983. 344 p.
HD6072.2.U5D82 1983
Early American technology: making and doing things from the
colonial era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill,
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
482 p.
Bibliography: p. 358-460.
T21.E24 1994 <SciRR>
Giedion, Sigfried. Mechanization takes command, a contribution
to anonymous history. New York, Oxford University Press, 1948.
743 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
T19.G54 <SciRR>
Gowans, Alan. The comfortable house: North American suburban
architecture, 1890-1930. Bibliography by Lamia Doumato. Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, c1986. 246 p.
Bibliography: p. 224-239.
NA7571.G68 1986
Hoover, Robert, and John Hoover. An American quality legend:
how Maytag saved our moms, vexed the competition, and presaged
America’s quality revolution. New York, McGraw-Hill,
c1993. 293 p.
BHD9971.5.E544M394 1993
Katzman, David M. Seven days a week: women and domestic service
in industrializing America. New York, Oxford University Press,
1978. 374 p.
Bibliography: p. 341-365.
HD6072.2.U5K37
Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha
Stewart: a cultural history of domestic advice. Chapel
Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2002. 250 p.
Bibliography: p. 229-244.
TX15.L43 2002
Martin, Edgar Winfield. The standard of living in 1860; American
consumption levels on the eve of the Civil War. Chicago, The
University of Chicago Press, 1942. 451 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
HD6983.M34
Matthews, Glenna. "Just a housewife:" the rise and fall of
domesticity in America. New York, Oxford University Press,
1987. 281 p.
Bibliography: p. 227-262.
HQ1410.M38 1987
Nye, David E. Electrifying America: social meanings of
a new technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press,
c1990. 479 p.
Bibliography: p. 443-467.
HD9685.U5N94 1990
Panati, Charles. Extraordinary origins of everyday things.
New York, Perennial Library, c1987. 463 p.
AG6.P37 1987 <SciRR>
Rybczynski, Witold. Home: a short history of an idea.
New York, Viking, 1986. 256 p.
Bibliography: p. 233-244.
NA7125.R9 1986
See paricularly "Efficiency": p. 144-171.
Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: transformation in everyday
life, 1876-1915. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, c1991.
363 p.
Bibliography: p. 307-343.
E168.S35 1991
Sweet's architectural trade catalog file, Avery Library, Columbia
University [microform]. New York, Clearwater Pub. Co., 1987.
2334 microfiches.
Microfiche 90/7075 (T) <MicRR>
Catalogs for 1906-1949.
Technology and women's voices: keeping in touch. Edited
by Cheris Kramarae. New York, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
246 p.
Bibliography: p. 224-239.
T36.T43 1988
Zimmerman, Jean. Made from scratch: reclaiming the pleasures
of the American hearth. New York, Free Press, c2003. 266
p.
Bibliography: p. 257-263.
TX23.Z55 2003
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Dissertations can be located by using the following indexes located
in the Library's Main Reading Room or on FirstSearch:
Comprehensive Dissertation Index (1861-1972)
Z5053.X47 1973
Comprehensive Dissertation Index. Supplement (1973-
annual)
Z5053.X47a <MRR>
Digital Dissertations (Pro-Quest-UMI) (Citations,
1861- ; Abstracts, 1985- ; Full-text, 1997- )
Online in LC: UMI
Digital Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts International (1938- monthly)
Z5053.D57
Masters Abstracts International
Z5055.U49M3
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Bacon, Elizabeth Mickle. The growth of household conveniences
in the United States from 1865 to 1900. Cambridge, Mass., Radcliffe
College, 1944. 301 leaves.
Bibliography: leaves 265-301. Smithsonian Library
Thesis (doctoral)--Radcliffe College, 1944.
Microfilm available from Harvard University Library.
Connolly, Marguerite A. The transformation of home sewing
and the sewing machine in America, 1850-1929. Ann Arbor,
Mich., ProQuest Information and Learning, 1995. 414 p.
UMI Microfiche AAT9516345
Includes bibliographical notes.
Thesis (doctoral)--University of Delaware, 1994.
Nickles, Shelley Kaplan. Object lessons: household appliance
design and the American middle class, 1920-1960. Ann Arbor,
Mich., ProQuest Information and Learning, 1999. 477 p.
UMI Microfiche AAT9916356
Includes bibliographical notes.
Thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia, 1999.
Ogle, Maureen. All the modern conveniences: American household
plumbing, 1840-1870. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1992. 276 p.
UMI Microfiche AAG9223954 <MicRR>
Includes bibliographical notes.
Thesis (doctoral)--Iowa State University, 1992.
Strasser, Susan. Never done: the ideology and technology of
household work, 1850-1930. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1977. 422 p.
UMI Microfiche AAG7803167 <MicRR>
Includes bibliographical notes.
Thesis (doctoral)--State University Of New York
at Stony Brook, 1977.
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American women: a Library of Congress guide for the study
of women’s history and culture in the United States.
Edited by Sheridan Harvey. Washington, Library of Congress;
For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2001. 420 p.
Z7164.U5A47 2001 <SciRR>
See particularly “housekeeping,” “cookery,” and “domestic
life” in index.
Bindocci, Cynthia Gay. Women and technology: an annotated bibliography.
New York, Garland Pub., 1993. 229 p. (Women's history and culture,
v. 7) (Garland reference library of social science, v. 517)
Z7963.T43B55 1993 <SciRR>
Boston. Public Library. A list of books on domestic science
in the Public library of the city of Boston. Boston, the
Trustees, 1911. 78 p.
ZZ5777.B75
Catanese, Lynn Ann. Women’s history: a guide to
sources at Hagley Museum and Library. Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press, 1997. 338 p. (Bibliographies and indexes in
women’s studies, no. 26)
ZZ7961.C38 1997
See especially, “Nineteenth-Century Domesticity”:
p. 41-127.
Current bibliography in the history of technology. 1990-
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992-
TI.T27
Issued by the Society for the History of Technology.
Previously (1964-1990) appeared annually in issues
of Technology and culture.
Also available online (1976- ) through RLIN's
Eureka as part of HST, History of science and technology, file.
ISIS cumulative bibliography: a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65.
Edited by Magda Whitrow. London, Mansell in conjunction with the
History of Science Society, 1971-1984. 6 v.
Z7405.H6I2 <SciRR>
Supplements cover 1966-1975 (Z7405.H6I2 Suppl.<SciRR>), 1976-1985 (Z7405.H6I2
Suppl. 2 <SciRR>), and 1986-1995 (Z7405.H6I2 1997 Suppl. 3 <SciRR>).
The current bibliography is published annually in a separate issue of ISIS.
Romaine, Lawrence B. A guide to American trade catalogs, 1744-1900.
New York, Dover, 1990. 422 p.
Bibliography: p. 397-399.
Z7164.C8R6 1990 <SciRR Desk>
Reprint. Originally published in New York, R.
R. Bowker, 1960.
Rudolph, G. A. Kansas State University receipt book and
household manual. Manhattan, Kansas State University Library,
1968. 230 p. (Kansas State University Library. Bibliography
series, no. 4)
Z5777.R93
Materials published prior to the twentieth century.
United States. Patent Office. Subject-matter index of patents
for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790
to 1873, inclusive. New York, Arno Press, 1976. 3 v. (1951
p.)
T223.D7A45 1976 <SciRR>
Reprint of the 1874 ed. published by the Government
Printing Office, Washington.
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Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles
and other literature on household technology are listed below. Some
suggested terms for searching are "Household Appliances," Kitchen
Utensils," "Electricity in the Home," "Stoves," "Vacuum Cleaners,"
"Electric Apparatus and Appliances," "Domestic Economy," "Fireless
Cookers," "Carpet Sweepers," "Laundry," "Cookery," "Kitchens--Equipment,"
"Refrigerators," "House Cleaning," "Housework," "Housewives," and
variations of these terms. Several of these titles may also be available
online. FirstSearch and Eureka, available on workstations in the
Science Reading Room and the Computer Catalog Center, contain additional
files. Consult reference librarian for the location of abstracting
and indexing (A&I) services and computer terminals.
Applied Science & Technology Index (1913-)
Z7913.I7 <SciRR> and Computer Format
America, History and Life (1964-)
Z1236.A488. etc. <MRR Alc>
Bibliographic Index (1937-)
Z1002.B595 <SciRR>
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
(1895-)
Z1223.A18 <SciRR> and Computer Format
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
AI3.P7 <BRS> and Electronic Format
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-)
AI3.R48 <BRS> and Computer Format
Writings on American History (1902-)
Z1236.L331 <MRR Alc>
Women Studies Abstracts (1972-)
Z7962.W65 <MRR Alc>
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American Heritage
|
E171.A43 |
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
|
T1.A455 |
American Home |
NA7100.A45 |
Better Homes and Gardens |
NA7100.B45 |
Collier's |
AP2.C65/MicRR 06253 |
Early American Homes |
E162.E213 |
Early American Life |
E162.E214 |
Everyday Housekeeping |
TX1.E8 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
AP2.G56 <Rare Bk Coll> Microfilm 01104 <MicRR> |
Good Housekeeping |
TX1.G75 |
Harper's Bazar |
TT500.H3 |
House and Home |
NA7100.H63 |
House Beautiful |
NA7100.H65 |
House Furnishing Review |
HF6201.H8H6 |
Household Magazine |
TX1.H78 |
Housewares |
HF6201.H8H6 |
Journal of American Culture |
E169.1.J7 |
Ladies' Home Journal |
Microfilm 05422 (1884-1907) 06262 (1908-) <MicRR> |
Material Culture |
E179.5.P46 |
Montgomery Ward Company Catalog |
TS199.W25 |
Scientific American |
Tl.S5 (1845-1920 T1.S5 folio) |
Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog |
TS199.S43 |
Signs |
HQ1101.S5 |
Technology and Culture |
T1.T27 |
Today’s Housewife |
TX1.T6 |
Winterthur Portfolio |
N9.W52 |
Woman's Home Companion |
AP2.W714 |
Woman’s World |
AP2.W74 |
Women's Studies |
HQ1101.W77 |
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Austin, W. H. Electric cleaners for the house-furnishing department. House
furnishing review, v. 42, Feb. 1915: XIII-XV.
HF6201.H8H6
Bonney, A. M. Old pots, trammels and trivets. House
beautiful, v. 46, Dec. 1919: 360-361.
NA7100.H65
Bowden, Sue, and Avner Offer. Household appliances
and the use of time: the United States and Britain since the 1920s.
Economic history review, v. 47, no. 4, 1994: 725-748.
HC10.E4
Burke, Hamilton. Do you carry kitchen cabinets? House furnishing
review, v. 36, Apr. 1912: 51-55; May 1912: 56-60.
HF6201.H8H6
Clark, Clifford E., Jr. Domestic architecture as an
index to social history: the romantic revival and the cult of domesticity
in America, 1840-1870. Journal of interdisciplinary history,
v. 7, summer 1976: 33-56.
D1.J59
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The “Industrial Revolution” in
the home: household technology and social change in the 20th
century. Technology and culture, v. 17, Jan. 1976: 1-23.
T1.T27
Edwards, Warren. Electrical housewares; now is the time to
investigate these everyday sellers--cost of current being reduced. House
furnishing review, v. 45, July 1916: XII-XIII.
HF6201.H8H6
Fitts, Robert K. The archaeology of middle-class domesticity
and gentility in Victorian Brooklyn. Historical archaeology,
v. 33, no. 1, 1999: 39-62.
E11.S625
Guynes, David. Managing household pests the old-fashioned way:
defenses against pest damage in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Material history review/Revue d’histoire
de la culture matérielle, v. 44, fall 1996: 97-111.
F1021.N37a
Hoy, Suellen. The garbage disposer, the public health,
and the good life. Technology and culture, v. 26, Oct. 1985:
758-784.
T1.T27
Jellison, Katherine. Women and technology on the Great Plains,
1910-40. Great Plains quarterly, v. 8, summer 1988:
145-157.
F591.G762
Johnson, Helen Louise. The selection of freezers: results
of a practical test of five different freezers proves that freezers
vary widely in efficiency; customers should select best by test. House
furnishing review, v. 36, Jan. 1912: 91-93.
HF6201.H8H6
Kwolek-Folland, Angel. The elegant dugout: domesticity and
moveable culture in the United States, 1870-1900. American
studies, v. 25, fall 1984: 21-37.
E169.1.A486
McMahon, R. Making housekeeping automatic. Ladies'
home journal, v. 37, Sept. 1920: 3-4.
Microfilm 06262 <MicRR>
Malan, Allan, and Deanna Malan. Bee boxes to pie pullers. Michigan
history magazine, v. 82, Mar./Apr.1998: 12-16.
F561.M57
Ravetz, Alison. The Victorian coal kitchen and its
reformers. Victorian studies, v. 9, June 1968: 435-460.
PR1.V5
Riley, Glenda. In or out of the historical kitchen? Interpretations
of Minnesota rural women. Minnesota history, v. 52,
summer 1990: 61-71.
F601.M728
Schroeder, Fred E. H. More "small things forgotten:"
domestic electrical plugs and receptacles, 1881-1931. Technology
and culture, v. 27, July 1986: 525-543.
T1.T27
Schwartz, Ruth. Less work for mother? American heritage,
v. 38, Sept.-Oct. 1987: 68-76.
E171.A43
Smyth, William D. Oh! to be clean: domestic cleanliness in
mid-nineteenth-century America. Lamar journal of the humanities,
v. 17, fall 1991: 53-73.
AS30.L35
Summers, John. Beyond brown bread and oatmeal cookies:
new directions for historic kitchens. Material history bulletin,
v. 27, spring 1988: 1-13.
F1021.N37a
Thrall, Charles A. The conservative use of modern
household technology. Technology and culture, v. 23, Apr.
1982: 175-194.
T1.T27
Two forms of a new dish-washing machine. Scientific
American, v. 82, Feb 14, 1900: 116.
T1.S5 Folio
Vanek, Joann. Household technology and social status: rising
living standards and status and residence differences in housework. Technology
and culture, v. 19, July 1978: 361-375.
T1.T27
Walker, Margaret F. A woman’s work is never done:
or, the dirt on men and their laundry. Overland journal,
v. 16, summer 1998: 4-13.
F593.O93
Whitman, Roger B. The joy of hot water. Country life:
a magazine for the home-maker in the country, v. 39,
Apr. 1921: 71-72.
S1.C35 folio
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Selected Materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet
boxes include the following:
Bache, Rene. Easy ways to save work in the home: how
Uncle Sam, inventor, is constantly devising little things to help
women. Popular mechanics, v. 48, Oct. 1927: 578-582.
Busch, Jane. Cooking competition: technology on the
domestic market in the 1930's. Technology and culture, v.
24, Apr. 1983: 222-245.
Cooper, Carolyn C. The ghost in the kitchen: household
technology at the Brattleboro Museum, Vermont. Technology and
culture, v. 28, Apr. 1987: 328-332.
Cowan, Ruth Swartz. Less work for mother. American
heritage of invention & technology, v. 2, spring 1987: 57-63.
Electric servants accomplish many household tasks. Dun’s international
review, July 1929: 30-34, 64, 66, 68.
Electrical housewares: save food, fuel, time, money by wire. House
furnishing review, v. 49, Aug. 1918: 74-75.
Feiner, Frederick M. Electricity for lighting, heating, and cooking:
the story of a house in which the push button and the switch control
lights, bells, radiators, cigar lighters, flatirons, and kitchen range--what
such conveniences cost. Country life in America, v. 11, Dec. 1906; Homebuilder’s
Supplement: xxix-xxxi, xxxviii-xl.
Fox, Bonnie J. Selling the mechanized household: 70 years of ads in
Ladies’ Home Journal. Gender & society, v. 4, Mar. 1990: 25-40.
Gordon, Jean, and Jan MacArthur. Popular culture magazines and American
domestic interiors, 1898-1940. Journal of popular culture, v. 22, no. 4,
1989: 35-60.
Kline, Ronald R. Idealogy and social surveys: reinterpreting
the effects of "laborsaving" technology on American farm women.
Technology and culture, v. 38, Apr. 1997: 355-385.
Levenstein, Harvey. The New England Kitchen and the orgins of modern
American eating habits. American quarterly, v. 32, fall 1980:
369-386.
The Planning and furnishing of the kitchen in the
modern residence. Architectural record, v. 16, Oct. 1904:
384-392.
Santiago, Chiori. It all comes out in the wash. Smithsonian,
v. 28, Sept. 1997: 84-92.
Sipe, Brian M. Earth closets and the dry earth system
of sanitation in Victorian America. Material culture, v.
20, summer/fall 1988: 27-37.
Roberts, A. Vacuum cleaners stand for economy. House furnishing
review, v. 56, Mar. 1922: 74-75.
Some early history of domestic gas appliances. American
gas journal, v. 140, May 1934: 107-111, 153.
Williams, Rosalind. The other industrial revolution:
lessons for business from the home. Technology review, v.
87, July 1984: 30-40.
Wilson, D. L. Housekeeping by electricity. Harper's
bazar, v. 34, Apr. 6, 1901: 905-907.
Zmroczek, Christine. Dirty line: women, class, and
washing machines, 1920's-1960's. Women's studies international
forum, v. 15, no. 2, 1992: 173-185.
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Hagley Museum and Library
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807-0630
Telephone: 302-658-2400
Fax: 302-658-0568
URL: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us
A division
of the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, the library has an excellent
collection of books, pamphlets, trade catalogs, manuscripts, photographs,
ephemera, and adiodvisual materials documenting the history of technology.
The trade catalogs, especially useful in studying domestic technology,
and books may be searched in its online catalog by keyword, company
name, personal author or title. Researchers are invited to call
the library when they cannot locate the material needed.
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
20900 Oakwood Boulevard
Dearborn, MI 48124-4088
Telephone: 313-982-6001
Fax: 313-271-9652
URL: http://www.hfmgv.org
Twelve
acres of exhibit space with 80 historic structures. Research fields
of interest include domestic life and the history of technology.
The museum maintains a research library pertaining to the exhibits
for the use of staff and visitors.
The Strong Museum
1 Manhattan Square
Rochester, NY 14607
Telephone: 585-263-2700
Fax: 716-263-2493
URL: http://www.strongmuseum.org
A 19th
and 20th century material culture museum with strong collections
in household technology. Publishes widely on the social and cultural
development of northeastern America from 1820 to the present; has
a 60,000-volume library pertaining primarily to its collections.
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
14th & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20560
Telephone: 202-357-2700
Fax: 202-357-1853
URL: http://americanhistory.si.edu
Exhibits
on the history of domestic life and technology; researchers may
use 165,000-volume library chronicling the history of technology
in America.
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The Internet offers a growing number of sites useful in the study
of domestic and household technology. The National Museum of Science
and Technology of Canada (http://www.technomuses.ca/)
has an active site that includes articles on housework in the 19th
century, including information on various appliances. Use your favorite
search engine and the terms "household technology" or "domestic
technology" and the terms "museum," "America(n)," or "history" when
searching the web for bibliographies, descriptions of courses, museum
exhibits, and links to other topics of interest.
Bibliographies
Hearth, a core electronic collection of books and journals in home economics
and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950, from the Mann
Library, Cornell University.
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
Janssen, Barbara Suit. Sewing machines: historical trade literature in
the Smithsonian collections.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Trade-Literature/Sewing-Machines/introduction/bibliography-janssen.htm
Kennesaw State University. Women’s domestic work.
http://www.kennesaw.edu/hss/wwork/bibliography/home.htm
Middleton, Ken. American women’s history; a research guide: homemaking
and home economics.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-homemakers.html
RLG’s Eureka: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
http://eureka.rlg.org/Eureka/zgate2.prod
Onsite Access Only
Vasishth, Ashwani. Housewifery, gender, and the domestication of technology:
working bibliography.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~vasishth/Housewifery-biblio.html
Digital Images
You can search Google (<http://www.google.com>)
and click on IMAGES and then type in your key words, e.g., “household
technology,” “victorian kitchens” or you can search the Library’s
Prints and Photographs Division’s catalog at <http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalogabt.html> and
type in “washing and ironing,” “wood stoves,” or “kitchens.”
Appalachian Library Information Cooperative Exchange
(ALICE). Digital life of Appalachia: domestic life.
http://www.aca-dla.org/DLA_Categories.htm
Duke University. John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising,
and Marketing History. Emergence of advertising in America:
1850-1920.
Includes Nicole Di Bona Peterson Collection of Advertising
Cookbooks: 1878-1929 and Lever Brothers’ Lux Soap
(Flakes): 1916-1925.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa
Library of Congress American Memory. Fred Hultstrand
History in Pictures Collection. Women pioneers of the Northern
Great Plains, 1880-1920: domestic life.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/hult_women.html
National Academy of Engineering. Greatest engineering
achievements of the twentieth century: air conditioning
and refrigeration.
http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/ga_10_1.html
National Academy of Engineering. Greatest engineering
achievements of the twentieth century: household appliances.
http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/ga_15_1.html
Smithsonian Institution. Ivory Project: Advertising Soap
In America, 1838-1998.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/Ivory/index.asp
Youngstown State University. Center for Historic Preservation.
Oral History Digital Collection. Household appliances:
history.
http://www.maag.ysu.edu/oralhistory/oral_hist.html
Manuscript Resources
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial
to 1950
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/nwldlive/
Onsite Access Only
RLG’s Archival Resources
http://eureka.rlg.org/cgi-bin/zgate2.orig
Onsite Access Only
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