Comments on: Women Working

Women Working

banjo_and_the_pork — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 04:19:42 -0800

Harvard's Open Collections program: Women Working, 1870-1930. Includes photos, manuscripts, trade catalogs and books documenting women working in the United States between the Civil War and Depression. Curious about Abercrombie & Fitch's 1913 styles? Or The Working Girls of Boston?

By: heydanno

heydanno — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:26:49 -0800

And here I thought A&F was the brainchild of some marketing genius in the 1980s. I love the text of the 1913 styles catalog:

Out-of-Doors Clothes for Fastidious Women There is no out-of-door sport for which, from JAUNTY HAT to PROPER BOOTS, we cannot prepare you.

Advertising like that just doesn't exist these days. Sure, the claims were over the top and, at least today, seem rather tongue-in-cheek... but, jeez, how'd we go from that to half-naked 13-year-olds plastered across the entranceways to Abercrombie & Fitch stores?

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:42:32 -0800

FWIW, the Harvard Libray is the largest University library in the country (and among the world) and probably the second largest library in the US (behind the LOC).

By: foxy_hedgehog

foxy_hedgehog — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:55:45 -0800

Thanks so much for this wonderful post. Am rubbing my hands together for the next collection they put online.

By: mai

mai — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:59:18 -0800

This is really cool