Then they would point me to the "w" section of their card catalog and inform me that that is where I would find the women. Reconstructing a life: the archival challenges of women's history "Just because I pull the card out of the card catalog does not mean that the book isn't on ...
The 1956 fall/winter Sears catalog shows women's clothing. By the 1950s, Sears had opened more than 700 stores in the United States and had expanded into Mexico and Canada, where it joined forces with a Canadian mail-order company and became Simpson-Sears. As shopping malls became ubiquitous...
The plates are of designs from embroideries, clothing, cloth, rugs from the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Japan, Central Asia. Used, fair; defective: the portfolio, text describing the plates for volume I, and plate 20 are missing; edges of sheets chipped, but not affecting the ...
In the late 1960s I volunteered to create a darkroom and a photography program for the Oakland (CA) Boys’ Club (now Boys’ and Girls’). This is the branch down in the largely segregated urban core, the zone of the then-rising Black Panthers. I wandered all over with the kids, out...