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Unbuttoned
Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each chapter provides an overview of the process, including designing and shopping; draping, cutting, dyeing, and painting; and beading, sewing, and creating embellishments and accessories. This book features interviews with practitioners from Broadway and regional theatres to opera and ballet companies, offering valuable insights into the costume design profession. Exceptional behind-the-scenes photography illustrates top costume designers and craftspeople at work, along with gorgeous costumes in progress.
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The Weston Sisters
The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family’s work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement’s most influential members. In an extensive and original look at the connections among women, domesticity, and progressive political movements, Lee V. Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed “kin-work,” that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women’s roles from the domestic to the public sphere. The Weston sisters and abolitionist families ...
A genealogical record of the descendants of Christian and Hans Meyer
And other pioneers together with historical and biographical sketches, illustrated with eighty-seven portraits and other illustrations.
Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897
"Jonathan Fairebanke (Fairbank, Fairbanks) came from Sowerby in West Riding of Yorkshire, England to Boston, Mass., in the year 1633, and in 1636 settled in Dedham, Mass, where he built the noted "Old Fairbanks House"...He was born in England before the year 1600...when he settled in Dedham,...[he] was one of the earliest pioneers...he died in Dedham, Dec. 5, 1668. His wife's name was Grace Lee. She died 28th 10 m. 1673 or 19: 3: 1676. Their children [were] all born in England..."--P. 9, 31. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire , New York, Indiana, New Jersey, Vermont, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Missouri, Michigan, California, Iowa, Illinois, New Jersey, Utah, Canada and elsewhere.
Rhetoric in American Anthropology
In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific wr...
