Category: history
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Word-Worthy Women
Hi, everyone! It’s been a busy week here in the library. Everyone has been working hard before a long holiday weekend. We hope you have a great long weekend! Here’s an old V&I post to in case you missed it: Word-Worthy Women: Heroes of the past
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Word Worthy Woman: Madame C. J. Walker, bath and beauty pioneer
I’m currently writing a post about minority women who have become prominent social figures through their cosmetics entrepreneurship. I feel I could hardly do them justice without talking first about one of America’s first female or black millionaires, an early advocate for civil rights and women’s rights, and patron of the arts. Madame C.J. Walker,…
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Magazine of the Week
In the early 20th century, photography was novel and exciting. Magazines printed few photographs because they were expensive. Into this market marched the magazine Life, redesigned to feature photographs of everything that could possibly be interesting to its middle-American public. It’s contribution to American culture rests on its photographers, who captured, and its printers, who…