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Documenting Women's Lives

A User's Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society

By: Virginia Historical Society,Gail S. Terry

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Documenting Women's Lives

A User's Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society

By: Virginia Historical Society,Gail S. Terry

This book contains a listing of materials given or acquired by the Virginia Historical Society which have representations of women in them or were created by women. It is divided into two parts: the first is the manuscript collections and the second is the freestanding volumes.

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American Society of Civil Engineers

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0945015151

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9780945015154

Twenty Thousand Roads

Women, Movement, and the West

By: Virginia Scharff

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Twenty Thousand Roads

Women, Movement, and the West

By: Virginia Scharff

Virginia Scharff's wonderfully readable account of women in motion complicates and enriches our understanding of the nineteenth and twentieth century Wests. Her gendered remapping of the regional landscape explodes traditional notions of western movement. All students of women and gender, travel and place, the West and America, would do well to read this excellent book."—David M. Wrobel, author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West "Virginia Scharff claims for women what has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West—free movement and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American land."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado "Brilliant is not a word that is often a part of my critical vocabulary, but brilliantly is how Twenty Thousand Roads begins. When writing of Sacagawea and Susan Magoffin, Virginia Scharff shows vividly how a single life can be a source of sophisticated cultural analysis without becoming an academic artifact or an object of condescension."—Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West

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252

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Univ of California Press

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0520212126

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9780520212121

The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in Print

A Selective Union List with Annotations of Serial Publications Issued by the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church and Its Agencies and Associates, 1855-1962, with Selected Serial Publications After 1962

By: Virginia P. Follstad

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The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in Print

By: Virginia P. Follstad

This book identifies more than 300 periodicals published by the Augusta Evangelical Lutheran Church, its agencies, and various related institutions. Follstad presents these journals, magazines, and newspapers and briefly explains their contents, when and by whom they were published, and where materials are located in libraries and archives in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. Anyone researching Swedish-American history and culture, the history of the Lutheran Church in the United States and Canada, Swedish-American church history, and the history and inner life of Augustana Evangelical Lutherans will find this a helpful guide."--BOOK JACKET.

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382

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Scarecrow Press

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0810858312

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9780810858312

Woodbridge

New Jersey's Oldest Township

By: Virginia B. Troeger,Robert James McEwen

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Woodbridge

New Jersey's Oldest Township

By: Virginia B. Troeger,Robert James McEwen

Comprised of ten distinct communities, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey nevertheless has a unified identity with historic roots reaching back more than 330 years. Originally populated by Native Americans, the Dutch claimed the area in the early seventeenth century before the English established the religious, political, and educational heritage that Woodbridge boasts today. In the 1800s, the township flourished under the leadership of residents who provided strong social ties and entrepreneurs who developed the clay and brick companies as well as the once popular Boynton Beach resort in Sewaren. Dedicated citizens continued their commitment to Woodbridge's progress and prosperity through the years.Woodbridge: New Jersey's Oldest Township takes readers on a trip through an ever-changing community. Vintage photographs, maps, and a lively narrative reveal the heroic actions of citizens such as Janet Pike Gage, who raised the town's first liberty pole, and Reverend Azel Roe, the minister who defied the British during the Revolutionary War. Readers accompany the town's growth through the rise and fall of the clay and brick industries that once defined the local economy from 1825 to the onset of the Great Depression. Voted "All-America City" in 1964 by the National Municipal League, the community continues to uphold the legacy of the people who made it such a great place to live and work. Woodbridge: New Jersey's Oldest Township is a memorable tribute to this tradition.

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164

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738523941

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9780738523941

Stewards of Our Heritage

A History of the Presbyterian Historical Society

By: Virginia F. Rainey

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Stewards of Our Heritage

A History of the Presbyterian Historical Society

By: Virginia F. Rainey

This first history of the Presbyterian Historical Society is a thorough, well-researched presentation.

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Geneva Press

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0664502121

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9780664502126

Berkeley Heights

By: Virginia B. Troeger

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Berkeley Heights

By: Virginia B. Troeger

The Township of Berkeley Heights--a rural community until well into the twentieth century--has matured into a diverse and dynamic town. Images of America: Berkeley Heights chronicles the fascinating history of the township from the 1880s to the early 1960s in a remarkable series of vintage images and lively commentary. Author Virginia B. Troeger invites you to stroll past the homesteads and businesses of yesteryear along Springfield Avenue, visit some of the people who have called Berkeley Heights home, and stop by such landmarks as the Bonnie Burn Sanatorium (later Runnells Hospital), the world-renown Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill (now part of Lucent Technologies), the Deserted Village, Old Saint Mary's Stone Hill, and the unique community of Free Acres.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738589942

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9780738589947

Keeping House

Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790–1850

By: Virginia Bartlett

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Keeping House

Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790–1850

By: Virginia Bartlett

This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns. Keeping House: Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850, tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes.Intrigued by late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks in the collection of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia Bartlett wanted to find out more about women living in the region during that period. Quoting from journals, letters, cookbooks, travelers' accounts - approving and critical - memoirs, documents, and newspapers, she offers us voices of women and men commenting seriously and humorously on what was going on around them.The text is well-illustrated with contemporaneous art- engravings, apaintings, drawings, and cartoons. Of special interest are color and black-and-white photographs of furnishings, housewares, clothing, and portraits from the collections of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.This is not a sentimental account. Bartlett makes clear how little say women had about their lives and how little protection they could expect from the law, especially on matters relating to property. Their world was one of marked contrasts: life in a log cabin with bare necessities and elegant dinners in the homes of Pittsburgh's military and entrepreneurial elite; rural women in homespun and affluent Pittsburgh ladies in imported fashions. When the book begins, families are living in fear of Indian attacks; as it ends, the word "shawling" has come into use as the polite term for pregnancy, referring to women's attempt to hide their condition with cleverly draped shawls. The menacing frontier has given way to American-style gentility.An introduction by Jack D. Warren, University of Virginia, sets the scene with a discussion of the early peopling of the region and places the book within the context of women's studies.

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201

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822971615

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9780822971610

Place Names in Alabama

By: Virginia O. Foscue

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Place Names in Alabama

By: Virginia O. Foscue

Catalogs some 2700 Alabama communities, ranging from Abanda, in Chambers County, to Zip City, in Lauderdale County.

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186

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University of Alabama Press

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081730410X

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9780817304102

Early San Angelo

By: Virginia Noelke

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Early San Angelo

By: Virginia Noelke

Soon after the Civil War, the city of San Angelo developed around Fort Concho. The mission of this western fort was to protect transportation routes, travelers, and settlers as they moved into territory claimed by Native Americans; and the mission of San Angelo was to make money by providing goods that the military personnel wanted and needed. After Fort Concho created peace in West Texas, it ceased operations. By 1889, however, San Angelo had plenty of dedicated citizens who would create an important western city on the banks of the Concho River. Agriculture was the basis of the economy in early San Angelo, which became a financial and marketing center for a wide region of West Texas. This book presents fascinating photographs that highlight the early history of a frontier town. The story ends in the late 1920s, when the discovery of oil changed the area dramatically.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738584762

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9780738584768

Educational Architecture in Ohio

From One-room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages

By: Virginia Evans McCormick

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Educational Architecture in Ohio

From One-room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages

By: Virginia Evans McCormick

Examining the evolution of US institutions of learning, from one-room schools to vast campuses, this text seeks to remind readers of this heritage through an examination of the philosophies behind the architectural styles of Ohio's schools and colleges, libraries and opera houses.

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348

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Kent State University Press

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0873386663

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9780873386661

Alabama: A History

By: Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton

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Alabama: A History

By: Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton

Surveys the outstanding events and portrays the outstanding personalities in the history of the Yellowhammer State, noting Alabama's role in the nation's history.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393301729

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9780393301724

A Field Guide to American Houses

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

By: Virginia Savage McAlester

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A Field Guide to American Houses

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

By: Virginia Savage McAlester

The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

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881

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Knopf

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0385353871

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9780385353878

Seeing Historic Alabama

Fifteen Guided Tours

By: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton,Jacqueline A. Matte

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Seeing Historic Alabama

Fifteen Guided Tours

By: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton,Jacqueline A. Matte

Lists and describes battlefields, forts, historic mansions, pioneer settlements, civil rights monuments, and other historic sites

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University of Alabama Press

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0817307907

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9780817307905

Family and Community

Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930

By: Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

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Family and Community

Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930

By: Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

A vividly human presentation of the Italian migration to America. Real people appear here, with ordeals and hopes, successes and failures, in all of the circumstances envisioned by the marriage vows. Unions, churches, the rackets, the press, even ideals and ideologies come into focus on this meticulously comprehensive canvas.''--The New Republic ''Yans-McLaughlin has demonstrated effectively that Buffalo's Italian families did not disintegrate or experience major transforamatios under the pressure of immigration and life in a radically different environment. . . . points the way for further significant study of immigrant families.''-John Briggs, International Migration Review ''Methodologically speaking, Yans-McLaughlin's most important conclusion is that quantification is not enough. Statistics, she insists, can give us only the form of group structures; they do not assist the historian in penetrating to the cultural content of those structures. . . . Her book's great strength is its intelligent and painstaking analysis of the key institution of the family among Italian immigrants.''--New York Historical Society Quarterly.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252009169

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9780252009167

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