Rag Darlings
Title | Rag Darlings PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Nixon |
Publisher | C&T Publishing Inc |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2015-02-01 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1617453854 |
Discover the history behind more than 250 dolls, with photos, fabric panels, and ephemera that bring America’s past to life. Since the day a simple rag doll was carried off the Mayflower, dolls have captured our hearts, and thrifty Americans have always made dolls for their children. As the centuries progressed, early homemade dolls with painted faces gave way to commercial cut-and-sew versions. Then advertisers jumped in with dolls printed on flour sacks and fabric panels—which became precious possessions of little girls during the dark days of the Great Depression and World War II. In this book, you’ll find history and photographs of more than 250 dolls, fabric panels, and doll ephemera, many rarely seen items, careful collected and documented by historian Gloria Nixon.
Dish Rag Darlings
Title | Dish Rag Darlings PDF eBook |
Author | Annie's Attic |
Publisher | Drg Texas Lp |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 2007-03-01 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781596351561 |
The Darlings
Title | The Darlings PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Alger |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101560312 |
A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, by an author who “knows her way around 21st-century wealth and power” (The Wall Street Journal). Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie. Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider's perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail.
American Rag Dolls
Title | American Rag Dolls PDF eBook |
Author | Estelle Patino |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780891453703 |
Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual
Title | Garage Sale and Flea Market Annual PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Huxford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1998-04 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9781574320466 |
Packed with descriptions and current values for nearly 25,000 collectibles, representing virtually every collectible category on today's market--old books, sports cards, ornaments, toys, '50s glassware, just to name a few--this guide also provides expert advice on recognizing great buys, reselling items, or holding a successful sales.
Swing Shift
Title | Swing Shift PDF eBook |
Author | Sherrie Tucker |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2000-06-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0822380900 |
The forgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance. Although all-female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now hundreds of such groups, both African American and white, barnstormed ballrooms, theaters, dance halls, military installations, and makeshift USO stages on the home front and abroad. Filled with firsthand accounts of more than a hundred women who performed during this era and complemented by thorough—and eye-opening—archival research, Swing Shift not only offers a history of this significant aspect of American society and culture but also examines how and why whole bands of dedicated and talented women musicians were dropped from—or never inducted into—our national memory. Tucker’s nuanced presentation reveals who these remarkable women were, where and when they began to play music, and how they navigated a sometimes wild and bumpy road—including their experiences with gas and rubber rationing, travel restrictions designed to prioritize transportation for military needs, and Jim Crow laws and other prejudices. She explains how the expanded opportunities brought by the war, along with sudden increased publicity, created the illusion that all female musicians—no matter how experienced or talented—were “Swing Shift Maisies,” 1940s slang for the substitutes for the “real” workers (or musicians) who were away in combat. Comparing the working conditions and public representations of women musicians with figures such as Rosie the Riveter, WACs, USO hostesses, pin-ups, and movie stars, Tucker chronicles the careers of such bands as the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Phil Spitalny’s Hours of Charm, The Darlings of Rhythm, and the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band.
Signs of Life
Title | Signs of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Joan M. Schenkar |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0819572373 |
Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America's most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as "comedies of menace." Bristling with wit and intelligence, the collection features Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, The Universal Wolf, Burning Desires, The Last of Hitler, and Fulfilling Koch's Postulate. These plays explore issues of feminism and gender politics, history and memory, sexuality and violence, bringing to life such figures as Gertrude Stein and Marlene Dietrich, Hitler and Eva Braun, P. T. Barnum and Henry and Alice James, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Schenkar's charged language and evocative stage directions invite the reader to become both performer and audience, and the experience is enhanced both by richly evocative stage directions and illustrations from productions of the plays. Initially written to be read like novels as well as staged, the plays provide a unique theatrical experience, an experience that can only be accessed by laughter.