Wanted: Women to Meet the Wartime Challenge! A Pictorial Essay

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Wanted: Women to Meet the Wartime Challenge! A Pictorial Essay A woman’s place is in the home. That time-honored maxim certainly held true until the out­break of World War II. This selection of photographs and posters – some startling, some engaging – tells the story of a world turned topsy-turvy. Drawn from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Bureau of Archives and History, the Charles L. Blockson Afro­-American...
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Eyedazzlers: The Two-Century Romance of Navajo Weavers and Germantown Yarn

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Eyedazzlers: The Two-Century Romance of Navajo Weavers and Germantown Yarn The cavernous nineteenth-­century factory buildings of Philadelphia’s John Wilde & Brother, the oldest independent rug yarn mill in the United States, seem out of place against the trendy restaurants and galleries of Manayunk, a showplace of modern urban renewal in the city’s greater Germantown neighborhood. A mural on the wall of the smallest mill building depicts images...
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