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Truth in art.

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wild/constrained madness and corsets

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turnofthecentury

liquidnight:“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,

And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, [For indeed I do not love it … you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!] To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you— Without these friendships—life, what cauchemar!”

— T.S. Eliot, from “Portrait of a Lady”

Photograph by Loescher & Petsch, Berlin, circa 1870

[via Servatius]

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intimacy

soyouthinkyoucansee

(the materialcost/time-investment for photography in those day’s: lets call this fashion..Art!!)

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From Inventing the American Woman: an Inclusive History by Glenda Riley

#interior and exterior space #primary #image

Buttons

#buttons #mrs elnathan graves #oral tradition

Button Industry in Western Massachusetts

#buttons #Williston #mrs elnathan graves #oral tradition #legend

The extreme hardships endured by the women who fought for the right to vote.

#suffrage #force feeding #prison

#injury #millworker #millriver history #leeds #scalped

"Women Work Women Vote"

#suffrage

his broadside contains the lyrics to “The Factory Girl’s Song,” a folk song whose origins date back at least to the 1830s. The song’s nineteen 4-line stanzas describe the daily work of the mill girls in different jobs: spinning, weaving, and dressing the finished cloth. At the end the singer tells of returning home to marry, giving up the rigors of tending the machinery and working for harsh overseers. The song may have originated in Lowell, Massachusetts, but some scholars suggest that the reference to wages earned in “shillings” instead of dollars may mean it had connections to Canadian immigrants to the Lowell textile mills. Several iterations of the song are known, including “The Lowell Factory Girl”, “The Factory Girl’s Come-All-Ye” from Lewiston, Maine, and generalized versions titled “Factory Girl.”

#song #marriage #primary source