Copper City Historian

Gwendolyn Lockman | Labor and leisure historian studying parks, mining, urban development, social reform, and environmental remediation in Butte, Montana, 1879-2020 | PhD Candidate @ UT Austin History | Garden and Landscape Studies Jr. Fellow @ Dumbarton Oaks | Member Communication Workers of America Local 6186/Texas State Employees Union | Western History Association Graduate Student Caucus Vice Chair | Georgetown University Alumna (C'16) | Content shared/reblogged/posted here does not represent the institutions who employ, fund, or otherwise support me and my work.

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Women lumberjacks at the Northwestern Timber Salvage Administration’s lumber mill at Turkey Pond, N.H. get $4 a day, 11/10/1942. 

Thank you to NARA staff member Shannon Kerner for the document suggestion!

File Unit: [Women Operating Sawmill, Turkey Pond, New Hampshire], 1938 - 1943

Series: Records Relating to Timber Salvage, 1938 - 1943

Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2022

Image description: Three women in heavy work clothes and kerchiefs over their hair carry a log on their shoulders. In the background is a pond filled with logs.

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Kew Gardens in the Early 20th Century

Illustrations from top to bottom:

The Queen’s Cottage

The Queen’s Cottage Gardens

The Wild Garden in Spring

The Water Lily Pond

Botanical illustrations by T. Mower Martin for Kew Gardens (1908) by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. More beautiful artwork from this publication can be found in Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr album.

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A Hedgehog in a Landscape (1643-51)

Lovely portrait of a hedgehog, small snail, acorns, and leaves by Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). Artwork is held in a private collection in West Hartford, Connecticut and loaned to the Detroit Institute of Arts for the exhibition, By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, held 6 February – 29 May 2022.

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ever since experiencing the double monitor set up at work, i’ve been eyeing one for my own desk! it’s way more ergonomic and comfortable, and i’m so excited to finally have one ✨🖥 this desk revamp took way too long, and i did my take on a ‘the shadow of the wind’ aesthetic (books, stuffed notebooks, written letters, messy piles).. but i love how it looks :) i’ll have a full video of my desk details soon! ✨✨ (at Perth, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaCb8PpP_Od/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Ebbets Field, Brooklyn N.Y., a view from upon high. - 1955 - 1960.

via reddit

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Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962

via reddit

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Gwendolyn R. Lockman

Historian, Writer, and Educator. Gwen is a PhD candidate in U.S. History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a historian of U.S. labor and leisure, with interests in work, play, class, community, identity, race, gender, and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the American West. Her current research uses park…

my homepage is at gwendolynrlockman.com 

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Perspective | Unionizing the minor leagues could reshape baseball

Minor league players have always received paltry wages. Unionization could change that.

Back at it again in Made By History, this time on minor league baseball players unionizing.

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Recreation and Reclamation of the “Richest Hill on Earth”

Editor’s note: This is the eight and final post in our theme for January 2022, Urban Environmentalism. Additional entries can be seen at the end of this article. By Gwendolyn Lockman Butte, Montana…

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Perspective | Baseball’s lockout reflects renewed labor might in the United States

The sport's contentious labor relations have long tracked the ebbs and flows of the union movement.

My take on the MLB lockout from December 2021.

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Five Books I Recommend from Comps - Labor and Citizenship in the United States - Not Even Past

by Gwendolyn Lockman The best part of reading for comprehensive exams in graduate school is getting to read scholarship that inspires, even if it is not directly related to your dissertation research. I am a historian of labor and leisure in the U.S. West, so my comprehensive exams encompassed readings in U.S. History, divided into […]

Studying for comprehensive exams? Here are five books I recommend.

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From Butte to Here - Not Even Past

By Gwendolyn Lockman From the Editors: From There to Here is a new series for Not Even Past in 2021. It builds off a past initiative but expands its focus to document the journeys taken by individual graduate students to Garrison hall and the University of Texas at Austin. Gwendolyn Lockman, who is completing her PhD in History, shares […]

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Review of The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson (2020) - Not Even Past

by Gwendolyn Lockman Megan Kate Nelson. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West. New York: Scribner, 2020. xx+331 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Megan Kate Nelson has written a captivating history of the southwestern theater of the American Civil War. There more than one war […]

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Forward-Looking Perspectives upon Returning to the Classroom and the Zoomroom - Not Even Past

by Gwendolyn Lockman We hoped we would face a more “normal” fall for 2021. Instead, we face another semester that will demand flexibility in the face of anxiety as we continue to teach through the Coronavirus pandemic and the Delta variant surge. After scrambling to adapt to online learning environments in March 2020, many of […]

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Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead - Not Even Past

by Gwendolyn Lockman Past the local dump and the interstate, and separated by foothills from the nearby historic neighborhoods of Missoula, Montana, the Moon-Randolph Homestead can be found, steeling itself against the modern world but not quite stuck in the past. It is an unusual historical site where the ecological and the human, and the […]

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NEP Author Spotlight – Gwendolyn Lockman

Gwendolyn Lockman is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History. Her dissertation project, “Recreation and Reclamation: Parks, Mining, and Community in Butte, Montana,” investigates the history of outdoor leisure spaces, union identity, and environmental health in an industrial copper mining city. Her work is supported by the Carrie Johnson Fellowship, the Charles Redd Fellowship in Western American History, the Mining History Association Research Grant, and Dumbarton Oaks through the Garden and Landscape Studies Workshop, part of the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies. At UT, Gwen is an affiliate of the Center for Sports Communication and Media in the Moody College of Communication, completed a Women’s and Gender studies portfolio, and has contributed to the History Department as a co-leader of the Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality, social media manager, History Graduate Student Council Representative, and web news assistant. She earned her MA in History at UT in 2020. Before graduate school, Gwen worked in the legal department for the Washington Nationals. She earned her BA in American Studies from Georgetown University. She is originally from Poplar, Montana, and calls Missoula, Montana home.

I often write for Not Even Past, the digital history magazine of the UT Austin History Department. Last year, they included me in the author spotlight series.

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I’m migrating back to tumblr

After a fun couple of years on Twitter, I’m back on tumblr. This space is for my grad school, historian, labor, baseball, Montana musings and more.