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Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress, describes the evolution in the technology of washing machines, irons, and stoves and its effect on the work of women in the home. Note: To view the Webcast, you must have the RealPlayer software, available at the RealNetworks player download site. |
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Print Sources on Household Technology: Primary Sources Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. 2 v. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, 1870. Balderston, L. Ray. Lippincott's Home Manuals, Housewifery.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., c1924. Barrett, John Patrick. Electricity at the Columbian Exposition.
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1894. Beecher, Catharine, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. American Woman's
Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science: Being a Guide to the
Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful,
and Christian Homes. New York: J. B. Ford and Co.; Boston,
H. A. Brown, etc., 1869. Campbell, Helen. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking.
Rev. ed. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Canada. Food Board. Fish Recipes. Montreal and Toronto:
Herald Press and Advertising Agency, 1918. Doty's Clothes Washer, and Churn Power. New York: Press
of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, c1865. Ellsworth, Milon W. The Successful Housekeeper. A Manual of
Universal Application, Especially Adapted to the Everyday Wants
of American Housewives. Detroit, M.W. Ellsworth & Company,
1882. Farmer, Fannie Merritt. Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
Rev. ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1933. __________. A New Book of Cookery. Boston: Little Brown,
1912. Frederick, Christine. Household Engineering; Scientific Management
in the Home: A Correspondence Course on the Application of the
Principles of Efficiency, Engineering and Scientific Management
to the Every Day Tasks of Housekeeping. Chicago: American
School of Home Economics, 1919. Hansey, Jennie A. Treasures Old and New, a Collection of Carefully
Tested Household Recipes. Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers,
1892. Hewitt, Emma. Queen of Home, Her Reign From Infancy to Age,
From Attic to Cellar, Twelve Departments, Treating of Home Occupations.
Philadelphia: Miller-Megee Company, 1889. Holt, Emily. The Complete Housekeeper. New York: McClure,
Phillips & Co., 1904. Johnson, Alice A. The Household Companion. Philadelphia:
The Uplifting Publishing Co., c1909. Marsh, E.L. Laundry Work in Theory and Practice. London:
Longmans, Green & Co.,1914. Murphy, Bessie R., ed. Corn Meal for Breakfast, Dinner, Supper.
Chicago: Rand, McNally, c1920. Nida, Stella Humphrey. Letters of Polly, the Pioneer.
New York: Macmillan, 1916. Orr, Painter & Co. Catalogue no. 31: Sunshine Stoves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Othello Ranges, Open Fire Grates, Hollow-Ware, etc.
Reading, Pa.: 1897. Powell, Ola. Lippincott's Home Manuals, Successful Canning
and Preserving. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., c1919. Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau. Papers of Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton,
1793-1861. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. United States. Patent Office. The Growth of Industrial Art.
2 v. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1884. Vail, Mary Beals. Approved Methods for Home Laundering.
Cincinnati: Procter & Gamble Co., 1906. Varney, Almon Clother. Our Homes and Their Adornments.
Detroit: J. C. Chilton & Co., 1884. Wetenhall, Louise. Practical Laundry Work for Home and School.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1915. Wilcox, Estelle Woods, comp. Practical Housekeeping: A Careful
Compilation of Tried and Approved Recipes. Minneapolis:
Buckeye Publishing Co., 1886. Wright, Elizabeth Steele. Papers of Elizabeth Steele Wright, 1846-1912.
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Print Sources on Household Technology: Secondary Sources Brewer, Priscilla J. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology
and the Domestic Ideal in America. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse
University Press, 2000. Bibliography: p.303-24. __________. "'We have got a very good cooking stove': Advertising,
Design, and Consumer Response to the Cookstove, 1815-1880". Winterthur
Portfolio 25 (Spring 1999): 35-54. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of
Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave.
New York: Basic Books, c1983. Bibliographic essays: p. 220-233.
Notes: p. 234-249. Du Vall, Nell. I. Domestic Technology: A Chronology of Developments.
Boston: G. K. Hall, c1988. Includes bibliographical references. Fox, Bonnie J. "Selling the Mechanized Household: 70 Years of
Ads in Ladies' Home Journal". Gender & Society 4
(March 1990): 25-40. Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart:
A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, c2002. Bibliography: p. 229-244. Motz, Marilyn Ferris, and Pat Browne, eds. Making the American
Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1940.
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
c1988. Includes bibliographical references. Santiago, Chiori. "It All Comes Out in the Wash". Smithsonian 28
(Sept. 1997): 84-92. Schwartz, Ruth. "Less Work for Mother?" American Heritage 38
(Sept.-Oct. 1987): 68-76. "Some Early History of Domestic Gas Appliances." American
Gas Journal 140 (May 1934): 107-111, 153. Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes
for a Revised History of Technology. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow
Press, 1993. Bibliography: p. 917-1041. See particularly "Labor-saving
(domestic)": p. 455-65. Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework.
New York: Pantheon Books, c1982. "Source notes": p. 313-55. Walker, Margaret F. "A Woman's Work Is Never Done: Or, The Dirt
on Men and Their Laundry." Overland Journal 16 (Summer
1998): 4-13. Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and Crimping
Irons: Victorian Clothes: How They Were Cleaned and Cared For.
London, Owen, 1978. 199 p. Periodicals American Heritage. LC call number: E171.A43American Kitchen Magazine. LC call number: TX1.E8 American Home. LC call number: NA7100.A45 Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science. LC call number: TX1.A6 Country Life in America. LC call number: S1.C85 Early American Life. LC call number: E162.E214 Everyday Housekeeping. LC call number: TX1.E8 Godey's Lady's Book. LC call number: AP2.G56 <Rare bk coll> Good Housekeeping. LC call number: TX1.G75 Grand Rapids Furniture Record. LC call number: TS840.G7 Hardware & Housewares. LC call number: HD9745.U4 H3 Hardware. LC call number: TS200.H8 Hardware Reporter. LC call number: TS200.H87 Harper's Bazar. LC call number: TT500.H3 Harper's Young People. LC call number: AP201.H2 House and Garden. LC call number: NA7100.H6 House Beautiful. LC call number: NA7100.H65 House Furnishing Review. LC call number: HF6201.H8H6 Housewares. LC call number: HF6201.H8H6 Journal of Home Economics. LC call number: TX1.J7 Ladies' Home Journal. LC call number: Microfilm 05422 (1884-1907); Microfilm 06262 (1908-) Saturday Evening Post. LC call number: AP2.S2 Today's Housewife. LC call number: TX.T6 Today's Magazine. LC call number: TX1.T6 Winterthur Portfolio. LC call number: N9.W52 Woman's Home Companion. LC call number: AP2.W714 Woman's Magazine. LC call number: TT500.W7 Woman's Weekly. LC call number: AP2.W34 Woman's World. LC call number: AP2.W74 Victorian Kitchens and Homes Open to the Public Louisa May Alcott House, Concord, Massachusetts Molly Brown House Museum, Denver, Colorado Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and House, Hartford, Connecticut Merchants House Museum, New York, New York |
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