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Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Dr. Leslie Davis Burns, Dr. Kathy Mullet, Dr. Marilyn Read, and Dr. Barb Lachenbruch. Your

Creator:: Sullivan, Rachel M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the proposed women's college styles for day and evening in selected magazines to the documented apparel of college women from Oregon State College in the 1949-1957 time period. The historic method and visual analysis methods were used to complete this study. An...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Gay, Catherine E.
Abstract:: Historically, women made quilts for utilitarian and for aesthetic purposes. Quilting was for many women one of the few outlets in which they could express themselves in a patriarchal society. Quiltmaking in groups afforded women the opportunity to increase their personal and political empowerment and to legitimate social gatherings. Because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 1991, p. 47). 17 The Contemporary Quilter Social anthropologist Marilyn Davis analyzed the

Creator:: Burton, Kathryn Lee
Abstract:: A. W. N. Pugin was a driving force in the Gothic Revival movement in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was an architect and a writer who expounded on the virtues of reviving Gothic architecture, not only for its reflection of the sacred mystery of ancient...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Marilyn, you rock! I would never have started down the road to my Ph.D. if you’d not laid the path out

Creator:: Bryant, Kathleen J.
Abstract:: The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins, Oregon is an intact, well-preserved example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger patterns of expansion in America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Reeves-DeArmond, Genna F.
Abstract:: The sinking of the RMS Titanic has achieved a difficult feat – it has remained culturally relevant. The dedication of the general public to understanding Titanic is evident in many avenues of popular and consumer culture. For those individuals who did not get enough of the 1997 Titanic movie, there...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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