Today, new mothers get feeding guidelines and post-natal depression questionnaires. In 1918, they got this.
I mean, holy crap, right? Where to start?
Posts tagged ‘family’
Jul 1
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Martha Mudge Wigglesworth, 1662–1690
Martha Mudge Wigglesworth was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1662. Read more
Wedding day, 1945
OK, I know … but it had to be done, right? Royal Wedding coverage is hard to avoid today, and has inspired me to dig out these images of my grandparents’ wedding and scan them at last. Quality isn’t amazing – they are scans of photocopies of originals – but they’re sweet nonetheless. Read more
Dorothy Q. Thomas – ‘Daughters of the American Revolution: Progressivism, Feminism and Human Rights in the U.S.’
I stumbled across the publicity for this talk at Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute about a month ago (around the time I last posted here, actually). It has now been uploaded as a video, and you can see it here. Read more
