Refining Rural Spaces: Women and Vernacular Gentility in the Great Plains, 1880-1920

Autor/in	Radke, Andrea G.
Titel	Refining Rural Spaces: Women and Vernacular Gentility in the Great Plains, 1880-1920
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 24 (2004) 4, S.227-248 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	Females; Photography; United States History; Land Settlement; Cultural Maintenance; Portraiture; Family (Sociological Unit); Social Adjustment; Social Status; Nebraska + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Fotografie; Siedlungsraum; Abbildung; Familie; Soziale Anpassung; Sozialer Status
Abstract	In 1887 the Plains photographer Solomon Butcher met the David Hilton family in Custer County, Nebraska. Mrs. Hilton desired a photograph to send to relatives back East, but felt embarrassed by the family's sod dwelling. She insisted that Butcher not take a photo of the house, but asked the men to drag the Hiltons' beautiful new pump organ out into the field, where the family could pose around the instrument. The sod house remained outside the photograph, and after the session the men returned the organ to the house. Women who settled in the Great Plains between 1880 and 1920 often encountered the harshest of conditions and yet still sought to achieve "gentility" through various civilizing processes. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Center for Great Plains Studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place, P.O. Box 880214, Lincoln, NE 68588-0214. Tel: 402-472-3082; Fax: 402-472-0463; e-mail: cgps@unl.edu; Web site: http://www.unl.edu/plains
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10