Gibsons Girl

Author : John Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983082781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalamazoo Gals written by John Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to company lore, Gibson, the guitar manufacturer, had ceased guitar production during World War II with only "seasoned craftsmen" too old for battle doing repairs and completing the few instruments already in progress at their Kalamazoo, Michigan factory. However, beginning in 1942, Gibson started producing wartime guitars each marked with a small, golden "banner" displaying the slogan: "only a Gibson is good enough." Over 9000 of these "Banner" guitars were produced between 1942 and 1945 and they are considered to be some of the finest acoustic guitars ever produced but who was making them? In this work of musical and social history, Thomas explores the origins of the Gibson "Banner" guitars and the remarkable women, many of whom had no prior training in instrument construction, who built them.

Author : Charles Dana Gibson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486135675
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gibson Girl and Her America written by Charles Dana Gibson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young, independent, and beautiful Gibson Girl came to define the spirit of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carefully selected from vintage editions, this collection features more than 100 of Gibson's finest illustrations.

Author : Martha H. Patterson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092104
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Gibson Girl written by Martha H. Patterson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls" as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson explores how writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, Mary Johnston, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather challenged and redeployed the New Woman image in light of other “new” conceptions: the "New Negro Woman," the "New Ethics," the "New South," and the "New China." As she appears in these writers' works, the New Woman both promises and threatens to effect sociopolitical change as a consumer, an instigator of evolutionary and economic development, and (for writers of color) an icon of successful assimilation into dominant Anglo-American culture. Examining a diverse array of cultural products, Patterson shows how the seemingly celebratory term of the New Woman becomes a trope not only of progressive reform, consumer power, transgressive femininity, modern energy, and modern cure, but also of racial and ethnic taxonomies, social Darwinist struggle, imperialist ambition, assimilationist pressures, and modern decay.

Author : Anne McAllister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780263163865
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gibson's Girl written by Anne McAllister and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-10-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Charles Dana Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gibson New Cartoons written by Charles Dana Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne McAllister
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1408986272
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gibson's Girl (Mills & Boon Vintage 90s Modern) written by Anne McAllister and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent seduction?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-10-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317952928
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion & Merchandising Fads written by Frank Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fads by nature and by definition are hard to capture, yet Hoffmann and Bailey have captured over one hundred of the passing fashion fancies and merchandising miracles during America’s short history in their latest collection of fads, Fashion & Merchandising Fads. Life devoid of fads is impossible to imagine, and the fads that do enter our lives become vehicles for amusement upon retrospection. How long any fad stays in vogue is anybody’s guess, but Hoffmann and Bailey have again found those fads that somehow took root and flourished, if only for a short period of time, in America. Concise entries describe each fad from its beginning to its demise and its devout followers. Readers are sure to recognize many of the trends and fads collected in Fashion & Merchandising Fads. A browse through the contents will have readers smiling as they remember Alex, Stroh’s Beer-Drinking Dog and “Baby On Board” Stickers Barbie Dolls and Celebrity Perfumes Convertibles, Digital Watches, and Drive-In Banking Garfield, G. I. Joe, and Handbags for Men Knickers and Matchbox Cars The Model T and the Mustang Paper Dolls and Rubik’s Cube Silly Putty, the Slinky, and Synthetics in Clothes Top Hats, the Trilby, and Twiggy VCRs, Yuppies, and Zubaz Each fad featured in Fashion & Merchandising Fads is examined thoroughly and concisely by the authors. They look at the historical setting, how the trend became popular, and the people most fascinated and involved with the trend. References follow each entry to make further reading on each fad a relatively easy task for those intrigued by fads. As fads enter and encompass society for a period of time, this collection of fads, arranged alphabetically, is sure to captivate readers from beginning to end, or, in a world of fads, from the A-2 Flight Jacket to the Zipper.