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Ellis, Levice B. “Your Appearance.” Your Appearance, June 1944.
This article is vital to my research because it gives a sharp insight into the upkeep of women’s hygiene at the time. The magazine includes information about how to create products like deodorant, shampoo, etc. Each section is focused on solely one aspect of a woman’s appearance from “superfluous Continue reading “What Makes A Charming Woman?”
History and Facilities of the Bureau of Business Research. School of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama, 1941.
Found in the Hoole library archive of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, The History and Facilities of the Bureau of Business Research is a 111-page book published by the University of Alabama`s School of Commerce and Business Administration in 1941 and is composed of three parts: “Review of the First
Navratil, Lillian; Regina Friant; and Rosalie Rathbone. “Rating Scale for Personal Appearance.” The Manual Arts Press, 1936. 1632.002/27. University of Alabama Special Collections. “Carolyn Shepherd Price Home Economics Teaching Materials” collection; “Relationships—Personal” folder.
One culturally interesting item in the Hoole archives is a packet of ten identical “Rating Scales for Personal Appearance.” Each is a two-page handout (printed front and back) to be used not by students to rate themselves, but by home
The Rural South: Background—Problems—Outlook is a 466-page hardback non-fiction novel written by University of Alabama alum, Samuel Chesnutt, produced in 1941. This edition was acquired from Hoole Special Collections in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the book remains stationed there as a library
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Johnson. Negro Housing: Physical Aspects, Social and Economic Factors Home Ownership and Financing
This report, located in UA’s Hoole Special Collections library, addresses the physical, social, economic, and financial factors of home ownership within the Negro communities—more specifically “from the farm of the South to the
Caldwell, Erskine, and Margaret Bourke-White. You Have Seen Their Faces. The Viking Press, 1937. Hoole Special Collections Library, UA.
You Have Seen Their Faces, by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White, is a compilation of photos and short excerpts published in 1937 by The Viking Press, which explores the South during the Great Depression, and uses pictures and personal quotes to describe the sentiments felt by those living
“Punishment” is the 56th entry in the radio broadcast Your Children by Angelo Patri. This radio broadcast was turned into an eight-page transcript produced in 1932 by the Cream of Wheat Corporation in association with the Columbia Broadcasting System in Minneapolis. It is currently housed at the University of Alabama’s W.S Hoole Special Collections Library.
Davis, Jonathan. History Over Chatanooga. A Southerner Discovers the South.The McMillian Company. 1938
Jonathan Davis’s book “A Southerner Discovers the South” contains a chapter titled ‘History Over Chattanooga’ that follows the author and his friend Joe on
Buying Electrical Equipment. The State College of Washington, 1937.
The Buying Electrical Equipment pamphlet was distributed by an extension service of the State College of Washington in 1937 as a result of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 that established extension organizations of land-grant
Stretching the Clothing Dollar. Household Finance Corporation, 1937.
Although a relic from the 1930s-era American desire to pinch every penny possible, the pamphlet Stretching the Clothing Dollar focuses on the ever-ironic American obsession with fashion, even in the darkest of times. Directed