Archive: 2023 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Andrea J. Briggs; (Year) 2023

A Stitch in Time: Sewing a 1920s Dress Inspired by Hazel MacKaye

September 28, 2023

The author connects with the past by sewing a dress inspired by one worn by pageant director Hazel MacKaye, as seen in a photograph from the National Woman’s Party Records.

Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History

Hand-drawn image of insects in colored circles, in large bound volume

Bugging Out Over Jacob Stauffer’s “Sketches of Insects,” 1859-1880

July 6, 2023

Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs

The richly colored illustrations and handwritten text in Jacob Stauffer’s manuscript book “Sketches of Insects” reflect his decades of observing some of the smallest inhabitants of the natural world.

Posted in: Diaries, Science and Technology

Refined by: (Author) Andrea J. Briggs; (Year) 2023