Birgit Simonis with portrait of her husband Rudolf Simonis; Farsta Portraits Women

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Birgit Simonis; Apartment in Farsta Portraits Women

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Threats and Promises: The Promotion of Artificial Lighting to Women Consumers in the United States, 1880s – 1960s

This article examines the development of a specific gendered discourse in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century that united key beliefs about feminine beauty, identity, and the domestic interior with particular electric lighting technologies and effects. Largely driven by the electrical industry’s marketing rhetoric, American women were encouraged to adopt electric lighting as a beauty aid and ally in a host of domestic tasks. Drawing evidence from a number of primary texts, including women’s magazines, lighting and electrical industry trade journals, manufacturer-generated marketing materials, and popular home decoration and beauty advice literature, this study shifts the focus away from lighting as a basic utility, demonstrating the ways in which modern electric illumination was culturally constructed as a desirable personal and environmental beautifier as well as a means of harmonizing the domestic interior.

Reproduction of oil painting portrait of Judith Danziger nee Nathan Portraits Women

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Reproduction of oil painting portrait of Sara Pesche Polack nee Ruben Hirsch Portraits Women

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Reproduction of oil painting portrait of Ernestine Salomonsen nee Philip Portraits Women

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Ella Hochherr with unidentified woman; Ostende Beach Portraits; Women

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Simon Hochherr and Ella Hochherr with two unidentified women; Kohlhof Portraits; Groups

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Lieselotte Hochherr leaning against a tree Portraits; Women

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dachstein, above bad aussee, seen from poetschenstrasse, romantic koppental Landscapes

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werner bert unidentifiedyoung men and women Portraits Groups

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Rebecca Bardach? Portraits Women

post card, mailed to: ega bardach, vienna

heilbrunn-goldschmict family collection; mother or grandmother of johanna heilbrunn Portraits Women

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heilbrunn johanna Portraits Women

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heilbrunn-goldschmidt family collection' ;4 unidentified men; 6 unidentified women; fashion show; osterode Portraits Groups

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