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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"scrapbooks"”.
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The Scrapbooks of the Roslyn Rensch Collection and Papers at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign
… project includes an analysis and listing of the scrapbooks included in the Roslyn Rensch Collection and Papers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Roslyn Rensch Collection and Papers include more than 2,000 items of harp music, books, recordings, research papers, clippings, and …
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… photographs, postcards, and ephemera into their scrapbooks, Britons fashioned unique records of the world in which they lived. During the twentieth century, scrapbooking remained a popular activity, indebted to earlier Victorian traditions, but fuelled by new forms of mass media and leisure. …
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Fragmentary Connections: Authorship, Curation, and Absence in Polar Scrapbooking, 1870-1920
This dissertation will explore two sets of family scrapbooks held in the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)’s archives, examining them as historical sources in their own right, and subsequently for the alternative narratives and experiences of polar expeditions that they offer to our historic …
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My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
… colorful advertising images and pasted them into scrapbooks. Nowadays, a group of visually-driven social commerce sites like Pinterest.com provides a platform on which both businesses and consumer-collectors publish, collect, and circulate images en masse. This thesis examines historical …
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Arthur William Foote : his contribution to chamber music in Boston and analyses of selected piano chamber works
… means limited to his work as a composer.Several scrapbooks exist containing programs, letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, reviews, and photographs which Foote collected over a twenty-six-year period. These scrapbooks are arranged, for the most part, in chronological order and chronicle …
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Women In Wartime Shipyards: Operating A Drill Press Was Like Using An Egg Beater
… music and films of the time, letters and family scrapbooks, and primary and secondary sources. Most prior research focuses on either women in the workforce or women in the home. This research synthesizes all aspects of the lives of women as they navigated the hostile terrain of the male workforce …
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Women Inside the Canadian Military, 1938-1966
… texts, unofficial histories, and personal scrapbooks, the thesis identifies the voices of women who pursued military careers and makes three arguments. First, women have actively negotiated with defence officials for a place in the armed services in war and peace. Second, servicewomen have …
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Forgotten landmark: the Municipal Auditorium of Kansas City, Missouri
… been forgotten over the years. By using personal scrapbooks and a diary from architect Alfred Barnes, interviews with architect Homer Neville and with architect Alonzo Gentry's niece, newspaper articles from the 1930s, and original sketches and architectural plans, my research uncovers these …
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Motivations for Lifelong Learning in the Life of Mrs. Hendrika Schuster.
… was collected from personal journals, scrapbooks, and newspaper and magazine articles and photographs. The importance of family, formal educational opportunities, the influence of others, selfdirected study, and involvement in community all emerged as motivating themes in her pursuit of …
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Crafting Culture: Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women
… costs of their hobby. In the chapter on scrapbooks, I examine how the product and women's interpretations of it, sustain enthusiasts' participation in the hobby. Using Bourdieu's theory of family discourse, I explain how the scrapbook presents an idealized version of family life that …
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Marks on paper : exploring literacy through theatre - impact of performing on literacy and upgrading students
… journals, learner event reports, personal scrapbooks, photographs, and props; 3) observations made as a participant-observer from both videotapes and live events. Three major categories emerged from the research. First, in terms of PSYCHO-SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS, performing in the play …
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Archives Of Transnational Modernism: Lost Networks Of Art And Activism
… Nancy Cunard and Thyra Edwards each made scrapbooks about the Spanish Civil War that provide alternative histories of the conflict itself, African American organizing efforts, and Republican exile that provide incisive supplements to existing Spanish Civil War scholarship. These writers …
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Archiving the "Sweet" Candy-Loving Matinee Girl: Fashion, Confectionaries, and Fan Scrapbooking in Urban American Culture, 1880-1915
… and performed by matinee girls by exploring scrapbooks and fan art created by fans of matinee idol sensation, Maude Adams. Finally, I draw on the idea of place to understand how girls have been, both then and now, active producers of culture. From making noise to being actively present in …
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Artist, tower, books: the memory theatre of Richard Cockle Lucas
… of Lucas’s Tower and his ‘monumental’ books (scrapbooks and albums) collectively as a ‘memory theatre’. Employing this occult paradigm and spatial metaphor, it argues that the Tower was a strategic enterprise of knowledge and inspiration, self-memory and self-realisation. Lucas’s practice is …
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Filipino American Phenomenon: Community-Based Organization Influence on Ethnic Identity, Leadership Development, and Community Engagement
… included playbill or programs, letters, scrapbooks, and other historical information on goals, images, and programs retrieved from the Filipino American National Historical Society archives located in Seattle's Central District. The entire interview was transcribed verbatim. A codebook …
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Academic Women and the Institutionalisation of English at the University of Cambridge, 1898-1938
… lecture lists, examination papers, notebooks, scrapbooks, novels, student magazines, memoirs, reference books, teaching notes, history books and satirical poems, alongside essays, reviews and monographs. Many of the figures and archival sources discussed have never previously received scholarly …
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Memory-craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals
… book form. Examples of memory-crafts include scrapbooks, art journals, and altered books. Traditionally, women have been the primary assemblers of memory-crafts, using this form as a method of autobiography and genealogical archiving. Memory-crafting is often associated with the amateur …
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The Social Importance of a Small-town Theater: A Case Study of the Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski, Virginia
… (the historic museum in Pulaski), documents from scrapbooks, architectural plans, and the files of the Town of Pulaski. Themes that were identified from the research were (1) the structure was an integral part of the community, (2) the theatre was a reflection of the community's social norms and …