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Andrews, William D., and Deborah C. Andrews. Technology and the
housewife in nineteenth-century America. Women's studies,
v. 2, no. 3, 1974: 309-328. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The "industrial revolution" in the home:
household technology and social change in the 20th century. Technology
and culture, v. 17, Jan. 1976: 1-23. Glazer-Malbin, Norma. Housework. Signs, v. 1, summer 1976:
905-922.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on the history of household technology can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs include the following: Highly Relevant
American home life, 1880-1930: a social history of spaces and
services. Edited by Jessica H. Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth.
Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, c1992. 284 p. Cohen, Daniel. The last hundred years, household technology.
New York, M. Evans, c1982. 184 p. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More work for mother: the ironies of
household technology from the open hearth to the microwave.
New York, Basic Books, c1983. 257 p. Du Vall, Nell. Domestic technology: a chronology of developments.
Boston, G. K. Hall, c1988. 535 p. Hardyment, Christina. From mangle to microwave: the mechanization
of household work. Cambridge, Eng., Polity Press; Oxford, New
York, Basil Blackwell, 1988. 220 p. Lifshey, Earl. The housewares story: a history of the American
housewares industry. Chicago, National Housewares Manufacturers
Association, 1973. 384 p. Seymour, John. Forgotten household crafts. lst American
ed. New York, Knopf, 1987. 192 p. Strasser, Susan. Never done: a history of American housework.
New York, Pantheon Books, c1982. 365 p. Yarwood, Doreen. Five hundred years of technology in the home.
London, B. T. Batsford, 1983. 184 p.
Buehr, Walter. Home sweet home in the nineteenth century.
New York, Crowell, 1965. 159 p. An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology. Edited
by Ian McNeil. London, New York, Routledge, 1990. 1062 p. Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At home: the American family, 1750-1870.
New York, H. N. Abrams, 1990. 304 p. Hechtlinger, Adelaide. The seasonal hearth: the woman at home
in early America. Woodstock, N.Y., Overlook Press, 1986, c1977.
256 p. Making the American home: middle-class women & domestic
material culture, 1840-1940. Edited by Marilyn Ferris Motz
and Pat Browne. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University
Popular Press, c1988. 212 p. Matranga, Victoria Kasuba, and Karen Kohn. America at home:
a celebration of twentieth-century housewares. Rosemont, Ill., National Housewares
Manufacturers Association, 1997. 208 p. Morse, Sidney Levi. Household discoveries. Rev. ed. Petersburg,
N.Y., etc., Success Company's Branch Offices, c1913. 1173 p. Plante, Ellen M. Women at home in Victorian America: a social
history. New York, Facts on File, c1997. 242 p. Talbot, George. At home, domestic life in the post-centennial
era, 1876-1920. An exhibition, spring 1976 through fall 1977
at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Prepared with the
assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts. Madison, State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, c1976. 88 p.
Beecher, Catharine Esther. A treatise on domestic economy.
New York, Source Book Press 1970, c1841. 441 p. Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The frugal housewife: dedicated
to those who are not ashamed of economy. 8th ed., corr and
arr. by the author, to which are added, hints to persons of moderate
fortune, some valuable receipts, etc., etc. London, T. Tegg, 1832.
176 p. Davidson, Caroline. A woman's work is never done: a history
of housework in the British Isles, 1650-1950. London, Chatto & Windus, 1982. 250 p. Grier, Katherine C. Culture & comfort: parlor making and
middle-class identity, 1850-1930. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1997. 267 p. Laughlin, Clara E., ed. The complete home. New York, D.
Appleton and Co., 1907. 313 p. Mayhew, Edgar de Noailles, and Minor Myers, Jr. A documentary
history of American interiors: from the colonial era to 1915.
New York, Scribner, c1980. 399 p. Richards, Ellen H., and Maria Elliott. The chemistry of cooking
and cleaning. American kitchen magazine, v. 6, Oct.1896:
11-14. Thuro, Catherine M. V. Oil lamps: the kerosene era in North
America. Repr. with updated prices. Radnor, Pa., Wallace-Homestead
Book Co., 1992. 364 p.
300 years of kitchen collectibles: a price guide for collectors.
1981- Compiled by Linda Campbell Franklin. Florence, Ala., Books
Americana.
Brewer, Priscilla J. From fireplace to cookstove: technology
and the domestic ideal in America. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse
University Press, 2000. 338 p.
Brewer, Priscilla J. “We have got a very good cooking
stove”: advertising, design, and consumer response to the
cookstove, 1815-1880. Winterthur portfolio, v. 25, spring
1999: 35-54.
The Country house kitchen, 1650-1900: skills and equipment
for food provisioning. Edited by Pamela A. Sambrook and
Peter Brears. Phoenix Mill, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
A. Sutton Pub., in association with the National Trust, 1996.
266 p. (Food and society, 8)
Dimensions of the meal: the science, culture, business,
and art of eating. Edited by Herbert L. Meiselman. Gaithersburg,
Md., Aspen Publishers, 2000. 344 p.
Hayes, Joanne Lamb. Grandma’s wartime kitchen: World
War II and the way we cooked. New York, St. Martin’s
Press, 2000. 244 p.
Jones, Joseph C. American ice boxes: a book on the history,
collecting, and restoration of ice boxes. Humble, Tex.,
Jobeco Books, 1981. 100 p.
McFeely, Mary Drake. Can she bake a cherry pie?: American
women and the kitchen in the twentieth century. Amherst,
University of Massachusetts Press, c2000. 194 p.
Plante, Ellen M. The American kitchen, 1700 to the present:
from hearth to highrise. New York, Facts on File, c1995.
340 p.
Rockwood, Laura C. Food preparation and its relation to the
development of efficient personality in the home. Popular
science monthly, v. 79, Sept. 1911: 277-298.
Rorer, Mrs. S. T. Furnishing a kitchen. Everyday housekeeping,
v. 22, June 1906: 793-796.
Shapiro, Laura. Perfection salad: women and cooking at
the turn of the century. New York, Modern Library, 2001.
274 p.
Werbel, Amy B. The Foley Food Mill. Technology in society,
v. 14, no. 3, 1992: 345-356.
Williams, Susan. Savory suppers & fashionable feasts: dining
in Victorian America. New York, Pantheon Books in association
with the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, c1985. 335 p.
Barlow, Ronald S. The vanishing American outhouse: a history
of country plumbing. El Cajon, Calif., Windmill Publishing
Company, c1989. 136 p.
Breese, Jessie Martin. The bathroom of to-day. Country
life: a magazine of the home-maker of the country, v.
39, Apr. 1921: 66-67.
Lupton, Ellen, and J. Abbott Miller. The bathroom, the kitchen,
and the aesthetics of waste: a process of elimination. MIT
List Visual Arts Center. Cambridge, Mass., the Center;
New York, Distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, c1992.
74 p.
Ogle, Maureen. All the modern conveniences: American household
plumbing,1840-1890. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996. 191 p. (Johns Hopkins studies in the history of
technology, new ser., no. 20)
Ogle, Maureen. Domestic reform and American household plumbing,
1840-1870. Winterthur portfolio, v. 28, spring 1993:
33-58.
Sipe, Brian M. Earth closets and the dry earth system of sanitation
in Victorian America. Material culture, v. 20, summer/fall
1988: 27-37.
Wright, Lawrence. Clean and decent: the history of the
bath and loo and of sundry habits, fashions & accessories of
the toilet, principally in Great Britain, France & America.
Rev. ed., with additional material by Dave Larder. London,
Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. 211 p. Sewing
Connolly, Marguerite. The disappearance of the domestic sewing
machine, 1890-1925. Winterthur portfolio, v. 34, spring
1999: 31-48.
Cooper, Grace Rogers. The sewing machine: its invention
and development. 2nd ed, rev. and expanded. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. 238 p.
Fox, Sandi. For purpose and pleasure: quilting together
in nineteenth-century America. Nashville, Tenn., Rutledge
Hill Press, c1995. 164 p.
Institute of Modern Sewing, Inc., New Haven. First course
in modern mechanical methods of home sewing. New Haven,
The Institute of Modern Sewing, Inc., 1920. 71 p.
Markrich, Lilo, and Heinz Edgar Kiewe. Victorian fancywork:
nineteenth century needlepoint patterns and designs. Chicago,
Regnery, 1974. 172 p.
Mohanty, Gail Fowler. The sewing machine--“the queen
of inventions,” an exhibition at Slater Mill Historic Site,
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Technology and culture, v.
28, Oct. 1987: 839-841.
Brooke, Sheena. Hearth and home: a short history of domestic
equipment. London, Mills and Boon, 1973. 168 p.
De Haan, David. Antique household gadgets and appliances,
c. 1860 to 1930. Poole, Eng., Blandford Press, 1977. 165
p.
Franklin, Linda Campbell. 300 years of housekeeping collectibles:
tools & fittings of the laundry room, broom closet, dustbin,
clothes closet & bathroom. Florence, Ala., Books Americana,
c1992. 212 p.
The Official from hearth to cookstove: an American domestic
history of gadgets and utensils made or used in America from
1700 to 1930. By the House of Collectibles, Inc. Editor,
Thomas E. Hudgeons. 3rd ed. Orlando, Fla., House of Collectibles,
c1985. 271 p.
Peet, Louise Jenison, and Lenore E. Sater. Household equipment. New
York, John Wiley & Sons, 1934. 315 p.
Smith, Robert Paul. Lost & found: an illustrated compendium
of things no longer in general use: the hatpin, the icebox,
the carpet beater, and oven; household possessions they don't
make that way any more. New York, Charterhouse, 1973.
158 p.
Webb, Pauline, and Mark Suggitt. Gadgets and necessities:
an encyclopedia of household innovations. Santa Barbara,
Calif., ABC-CLIO, c2000. 377 p.
Ahern, Eleanor. The way we wash our clothes. New York,
M. Barrows & Co., c1941. 140 p.
Apkarian-Russell, Pamela E. Washday collectibles.
Atglen, Pa., Schiffer Publishing, c2000. 159 p.
Berney, Esther S. A collector's guide to pressing irons
and trivets. New York, Crown Publishers, c1977. 182 p.
Doyle, Robert. Laundry: the whys and hows of cleaning
clothes. Halifax, N.S., Sartorial Press Publications,
c1999. 230 p.
Irons, David. Even more irons. Northampton, Pa., D. Irons,
c2000. 158 p.
Irons, David. Pressing iron patents: a pictorial presentation
of patent briefs, 1876-1912. Northampton, Pa., D. Irons,
c1994. 54 p.
Jewell, Brian. Smoothing irons: a history and collector’s
guide. Tunbridge Wells, Eng., Midas Books, 1977. 72 p.
Leal, Ronald. Rub a dub dub: a short history of home laundry. Mankind,
v. 1, Dec. 1968: 50-54.
Mohr, Merilyn Simonds. The art of soapmaking: a complete
introduction to the history and craft of fine soapmaking: complete
recipes for hand soaps, herbal shampoos, natural toothpaste,
vegetarian soap, laundry soap, and many rich and fragrant homemade
soaps. Camden East, Ont., Camden House Pub.; Toronto,
Trade distribution by Firefly Books, c1979. 127 p.
Rawlings, Irene, and Andrea VanSteenhouse. The clothesline.
Layton, Utah, Gibbs Smith, c2002. 95 p.
Russell, Malcolm B. Cleaner clothes for less work: the Upton
Machine Company, 1911-1929. Essays in economic and business
history, v. 12, 1994: 383-397.
Salade, Robert F. Demonstrating and selling washing machines. House furnishing
review, v. 45, Aug. 1916: XII-XVII.
Santiago, Chiori. It all comes out in the wash. Smithsonian,
v. 28, Sept. 1997: 84-92.
Shepherd, Meredith. Dollars and sense and the washing machine:
how it “pays for itself” and adds leisure hours to
washday. House furnishing review, v. 41, Aug. 1914:
46, 54.
United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. Methods
and equipment for home laundering. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print, Off., 1926. 37 p. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Farmers’ bulletin,
no. 1497)
Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and crimping
irons: Victorian clothes: how they were cleaned and cared for. London,
Owen, 1978. 199 p.
Whitton, Mary Ormsbee. Ironing machines for time economy:
timesaving element strongest selling point in influencing the
housewife to buy this class of merchandise. House furnishing
review, v. 58, Jan. 1923: 133-135.
Zmroczek, Christine. Women, class, and washing machines, 1920s-1960s. Women’s
studies international forum, v. 15, no. 2, 1992: 173-185. Titles relating to Correspondence, Reminiscenes, and Biography
Clark, Ava Milam, and J. Kenneth Mumford. Adventures of a home
economist. Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 1969. 432
p.
Fenster, J. M. The woman [Josephine Cochrane] who invented
the dishwasher; she did it because the servants broke the china.
American heritage of invention & technology, v. 15, fall
1999: 54-61.
Green, Harvey, and Mary-Ellen Perry. The light of the home:
an intimate view of the lives of women in Victorian America.
With illustrations from the Margaret Woodbury Storng Musuem.
New York, Pantheon Books, c1983. 205 p.
Holt, Marilyn Irvin. Linoleum, better babies & the
modern farm woman, 1890-1930. Albuquerque, University
of New Mexico Press, c1995. 250 p.
Memories of Hoosier homemakers. Eleanor Arnold, editor
and project director. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1993. 6 v.
Mendelson, Anne. Stand facing the stove: the story of the
women who gave America the Joy of Cooking. New York, H.
Holt, 1996. 474 p.
Porter, Lorle. Sara’s table: “keeping house” in
Ohio, 1800-1950. Zanesville, Ohio, New Concord Press,
2001. 176 p.
Rutherford, Janice Williams. Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine
Frederick and the rise of household efficiency. Athens,
Ga., University of Georgia Press, c2003. 283 p.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Catharine Beecher: a study in American
domesticity. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973. 356
p.
Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention: notes
for a revised history of technology. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow
Press, 1993. 1116 p.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of invention:
from the bra to the bomb: forgotten women & their unforgettable
ideas. New York, Morrow, c1988. 256 p.
Voices of American homemakers. Eleanor Arnold, editor
and project director. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1993. 295 p.
TX23.V65 1993
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Irons. Minneapolis, Carolrhoda Books,
c1998. 48 p.
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Vacuum cleaners. Minneapolis,
Carolrhoda Books, c1997. 48 p.
Kalman, Bobbie. The Victorian home. New York,
Crabtree Publishing, c1997. 32 p.
Steele, Philip. Clothes and crafts in Victorian times. Milwaukee,
Wisc., Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2000. 32 p.
Thomson, Ruth. Washday. London, A. & C. Black,
c1990. 32 p.
Anderson, Oscar Edward. Refrigeration in America: a history
of a new technology and its impact. Port Washington, N.Y.,
Kennikat Press, 1972, c1953. 344 p. Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans, the national experience.
New York, Vintage Books, c1965. 517 p.
Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American family home, 1800-1960.
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c1986. 281 p.
Cummings, Richard Osborn. The American and his food. New
York, Arno Press, 1970, c1941. 219 p.
Domestic ideology and domestic work. In History of women
in the United States: historical articles on women’s
lives and activities, v. 4. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. Munich,
New York, G.K. Saur, 1992. 2 v. (591 p.)
Dudden, Faye E. Serving women: household service in nineteenth-century
America. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press; Scranton,
Pa., Distributed by Harper & Row, c1983. 344 p. Early American technology: making and doing things from the
colonial era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill,
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
482 p. Giedion, Sigfried. Mechanization takes command, a contribution
to anonymous history. New York, Oxford University Press, 1948.
743 p. Gowans, Alan. The comfortable house: North American suburban
architecture, 1890-1930. Bibliography by Lamia Doumato. Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, c1986. 246 p. Hoover, Robert, and John Hoover. An American quality legend:
how Maytag saved our moms, vexed the competition, and presaged
America’s quality revolution. New York, McGraw-Hill,
c1993. 293 p.
Katzman, David M. Seven days a week: women and domestic service
in industrializing America. New York, Oxford University Press,
1978. 374 p.
Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha
Stewart: a cultural history of domestic advice. Chapel
Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2002. 250 p.
Martin, Edgar Winfield. The standard of living in 1860; American
consumption levels on the eve of the Civil War. Chicago, The
University of Chicago Press, 1942. 451 p. Matthews, Glenna. "Just a housewife:" the rise and fall of
domesticity in America. New York, Oxford University Press,
1987. 281 p.
Nye, David E. Electrifying America: social meanings of
a new technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press,
c1990. 479 p.
Panati, Charles. Extraordinary origins of everyday things.
New York, Perennial Library, c1987. 463 p. Rybczynski, Witold. Home: a short history of an idea.
New York, Viking, 1986. 256 p. Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: transformation in everyday
life, 1876-1915. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, c1991.
363 p. Sweet's architectural trade catalog file, Avery Library, Columbia
University [microform]. New York, Clearwater Pub. Co., 1987.
2334 microfiches. Technology and women's voices: keeping in touch. Edited
by Cheris Kramarae. New York, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
246 p.
Zimmerman, Jean. Made from scratch: reclaiming the pleasures
of the American hearth. New York, Free Press, c2003. 266
p.
Dissertations can be located by using the following indexes located in the Library's Main Reading Room or on FirstSearch:
Bacon, Elizabeth Mickle. The growth of household conveniences
in the United States from 1865 to 1900. Cambridge, Mass., Radcliffe
College, 1944. 301 leaves.
Connolly, Marguerite A. The transformation of home sewing
and the sewing machine in America, 1850-1929. Ann Arbor,
Mich., ProQuest Information and Learning, 1995. 414 p.
Nickles, Shelley Kaplan. Object lessons: household appliance
design and the American middle class, 1920-1960. Ann Arbor,
Mich., ProQuest Information and Learning, 1999. 477 p.
Ogle, Maureen. All the modern conveniences: American household
plumbing, 1840-1870. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1992. 276 p. Strasser, Susan. Never done: the ideology and technology of
household work, 1850-1930. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1977. 422 p.
American women: a Library of Congress guide for the study
of women’s history and culture in the United States.
Edited by Sheridan Harvey. Washington, Library of Congress;
For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2001. 420 p. Bindocci, Cynthia Gay. Women and technology: an annotated bibliography.
New York, Garland Pub., 1993. 229 p. (Women's history and culture,
v. 7) (Garland reference library of social science, v. 517)
Boston. Public Library. A list of books on domestic science
in the Public library of the city of Boston. Boston, the
Trustees, 1911. 78 p. Catanese, Lynn Ann. Women’s history: a guide to
sources at Hagley Museum and Library. Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press, 1997. 338 p. (Bibliographies and indexes in
women’s studies, no. 26)
Current bibliography in the history of technology. 1990-
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992- ISIS cumulative bibliography: a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65.
Edited by Magda Whitrow. London, Mansell in conjunction with the
History of Science Society, 1971-1984. 6 v. Romaine, Lawrence B. A guide to American trade catalogs, 1744-1900.
New York, Dover, 1990. 422 p.
Rudolph, G. A. Kansas State University receipt book and
household manual. Manhattan, Kansas State University Library,
1968. 230 p. (Kansas State University Library. Bibliography
series, no. 4)
United States. Patent Office. Subject-matter index of patents
for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790
to 1873, inclusive. New York, Arno Press, 1976. 3 v. (1951
p.)
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature on household technology are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are "Household Appliances," Kitchen Utensils," "Electricity in the Home," "Stoves," "Vacuum Cleaners," "Electric Apparatus and Appliances," "Domestic Economy," "Fireless Cookers," "Carpet Sweepers," "Laundry," "Cookery," "Kitchens--Equipment," "Refrigerators," "House Cleaning," "Housework," "Housewives," and variations of these terms. Several of these titles may also be available online. FirstSearch and Eureka, available on workstations in the Science Reading Room and the Computer Catalog Center, contain additional files. Consult reference librarian for the location of abstracting and indexing (A&I) services and computer terminals.
Austin, W. H. Electric cleaners for the house-furnishing department. House
furnishing review, v. 42, Feb. 1915: XIII-XV.
Bonney, A. M. Old pots, trammels and trivets. House
beautiful, v. 46, Dec. 1919: 360-361. Bowden, Sue, and Avner Offer. Household appliances
and the use of time: the United States and Britain since the 1920s.
Economic history review, v. 47, no. 4, 1994: 725-748.
Burke, Hamilton. Do you carry kitchen cabinets? House furnishing
review, v. 36, Apr. 1912: 51-55; May 1912: 56-60. Clark, Clifford E., Jr. Domestic architecture as an
index to social history: the romantic revival and the cult of domesticity
in America, 1840-1870. Journal of interdisciplinary history,
v. 7, summer 1976: 33-56.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The “Industrial Revolution” in
the home: household technology and social change in the 20th
century. Technology and culture, v. 17, Jan. 1976: 1-23. Edwards, Warren. Electrical housewares; now is the time to
investigate these everyday sellers--cost of current being reduced. House
furnishing review, v. 45, July 1916: XII-XIII. Fitts, Robert K. The archaeology of middle-class domesticity
and gentility in Victorian Brooklyn. Historical archaeology,
v. 33, no. 1, 1999: 39-62. Guynes, David. Managing household pests the old-fashioned way:
defenses against pest damage in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Material history review/Revue d’histoire
de la culture matérielle, v. 44, fall 1996: 97-111.
Hoy, Suellen. The garbage disposer, the public health,
and the good life. Technology and culture, v. 26, Oct. 1985:
758-784.
Jellison, Katherine. Women and technology on the Great Plains,
1910-40. Great Plains quarterly, v. 8, summer 1988:
145-157.
Johnson, Helen Louise. The selection of freezers: results
of a practical test of five different freezers proves that freezers
vary widely in efficiency; customers should select best by test. House
furnishing review, v. 36, Jan. 1912: 91-93.
Kwolek-Folland, Angel. The elegant dugout: domesticity and
moveable culture in the United States, 1870-1900. American
studies, v. 25, fall 1984: 21-37. McMahon, R. Making housekeeping automatic. Ladies'
home journal, v. 37, Sept. 1920: 3-4.
Malan, Allan, and Deanna Malan. Bee boxes to pie pullers. Michigan
history magazine, v. 82, Mar./Apr.1998: 12-16. Ravetz, Alison. The Victorian coal kitchen and its
reformers. Victorian studies, v. 9, June 1968: 435-460.
Riley, Glenda. In or out of the historical kitchen? Interpretations
of Minnesota rural women. Minnesota history, v. 52,
summer 1990: 61-71. Schroeder, Fred E. H. More "small things forgotten:"
domestic electrical plugs and receptacles, 1881-1931. Technology
and culture, v. 27, July 1986: 525-543.
Schwartz, Ruth. Less work for mother? American heritage,
v. 38, Sept.-Oct. 1987: 68-76.
Smyth, William D. Oh! to be clean: domestic cleanliness in
mid-nineteenth-century America. Lamar journal of the humanities,
v. 17, fall 1991: 53-73.
Summers, John. Beyond brown bread and oatmeal cookies:
new directions for historic kitchens. Material history bulletin,
v. 27, spring 1988: 1-13. Thrall, Charles A. The conservative use of modern
household technology. Technology and culture, v. 23, Apr.
1982: 175-194. Two forms of a new dish-washing machine. Scientific
American, v. 82, Feb 14, 1900: 116.
Vanek, Joann. Household technology and social status: rising
living standards and status and residence differences in housework. Technology
and culture, v. 19, July 1978: 361-375.
Walker, Margaret F. A woman’s work is never done:
or, the dirt on men and their laundry. Overland journal,
v. 16, summer 1998: 4-13.
Whitman, Roger B. The joy of hot water. Country life:
a magazine for the home-maker in the country, v. 39,
Apr. 1921: 71-72.
Selected Materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Bache, Rene. Easy ways to save work in the home: how Uncle Sam, inventor, is constantly devising little things to help women. Popular mechanics, v. 48, Oct. 1927: 578-582. Busch, Jane. Cooking competition: technology on the domestic market in the 1930's. Technology and culture, v. 24, Apr. 1983: 222-245. Cooper, Carolyn C. The ghost in the kitchen: household technology at the Brattleboro Museum, Vermont. Technology and culture, v. 28, Apr. 1987: 328-332. Cowan, Ruth Swartz. Less work for mother. American heritage of invention & technology, v. 2, spring 1987: 57-63. Electric servants accomplish many household tasks. Dun’s international review, July 1929: 30-34, 64, 66, 68. Electrical housewares: save food, fuel, time, money by wire. House furnishing review, v. 49, Aug. 1918: 74-75. Feiner, Frederick M. Electricity for lighting, heating, and cooking: the story of a house in which the push button and the switch control lights, bells, radiators, cigar lighters, flatirons, and kitchen range--what such conveniences cost. Country life in America, v. 11, Dec. 1906; Homebuilder’s Supplement: xxix-xxxi, xxxviii-xl. Fox, Bonnie J. Selling the mechanized household: 70 years of ads in Ladies’ Home Journal. Gender & society, v. 4, Mar. 1990: 25-40. Gordon, Jean, and Jan MacArthur. Popular culture magazines and American domestic interiors, 1898-1940. Journal of popular culture, v. 22, no. 4, 1989: 35-60.Kline, Ronald R. Idealogy and social surveys: reinterpreting the effects of "laborsaving" technology on American farm women. Technology and culture, v. 38, Apr. 1997: 355-385. Levenstein, Harvey. The New England Kitchen and the orgins of modern American eating habits. American quarterly, v. 32, fall 1980: 369-386. The Planning and furnishing of the kitchen in the modern residence. Architectural record, v. 16, Oct. 1904: 384-392. Santiago, Chiori. It all comes out in the wash. Smithsonian, v. 28, Sept. 1997: 84-92. Sipe, Brian M. Earth closets and the dry earth system of sanitation in Victorian America. Material culture, v. 20, summer/fall 1988: 27-37. Roberts, A. Vacuum cleaners stand for economy. House furnishing review, v. 56, Mar. 1922: 74-75. Some early history of domestic gas appliances. American gas journal, v. 140, May 1934: 107-111, 153. Williams, Rosalind. The other industrial revolution: lessons for business from the home. Technology review, v. 87, July 1984: 30-40. Wilson, D. L. Housekeeping by electricity. Harper's bazar, v. 34, Apr. 6, 1901: 905-907. Zmroczek, Christine. Dirty line: women, class, and washing machines, 1920's-1960's. Women's studies international forum, v. 15, no. 2, 1992: 173-185.
The Internet offers a growing number of sites useful in the study of domestic and household technology. The National Museum of Science and Technology of Canada (http://www.technomuses.ca/) has an active site that includes articles on housework in the 19th century, including information on various appliances. Use your favorite search engine and the terms "household technology" or "domestic technology" and the terms "museum," "America(n)," or "history" when searching the web for bibliographies, descriptions of courses, museum exhibits, and links to other topics of interest. Bibliographies |
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