Today’s flashback looks at a popular phenomenon of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the “Gibson Girl.” She was the creation of artist Charles Dana Gibson (for a detailed biography, click here), and she was everywhere: in the magazines of Life, Collier’s Weekly, Harper’s, and Scribner’s, to name the major ones. Her look was iconic, and quickly(…)
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19th century primary sources: books, magazines, and directories
Call me strange, but I love to do research. It’s like a scavenger hunt: one source leads you to another, which leads you to…a dead end. Then you have to pick a different trail to follow. Like you other researching folks out there, I have a ton of bookmarks and tags, but only directly(…)