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  Galleries on this site 

Gilded Age-Roaring Twenties

Great Depression

  • Domesticity in an Age of Deprivation, 1929-1939

  • WPA Posters: Domestic Themes, 1929-1940

  • Scenes of Rural Life, 1930-1941

World War II

  • The Patriotic Housewife, 1941-1945

  • Defining the Wartime Home, 1941-1945

Cold War

  • The Spread of the American Suburb

  • Television: The Key to a Happy Home

  • Is Your Floor Really Clean? Domestic Anxiety, 1950-1963

1960's - 1970's

  • Home Decor, 1965-1975

  • The Kitchen as Prison: The Feminist Critique of the Traditional Home

  • Scenes of Rural Life, 1960-1975

Postmodern Age

  • Suburban Sprawl, 1980-2005

  • Homeless in a Home-Centered World, 1980-2000

  • Totally Wired: Domesticity and Social Speed-up, 1990-2005

 

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Housewife in Kitchen

Scholarship on the history of the home and domestic life  

Gilded Age

Roaring 20's

Great Depression

World War Two

Cold War

1960's-1970's

Postmodern Era

1900 Sears Roebuck Catalog

1870-

1928

1929-

1939

1941-

1945

1948-

1963

1963-

1979

1980-

Present

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