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Some examples of research that look at #markets through #materialculture #shoes #portraits #clothes #banknotes #BHC2022MidYear
Thanks @blackjen1 @profmoskowitz
Thanks @blackjen1 @profmoskowitz
So much to get from #scrapbooks
🪡Thread for late 19th-early 20th C. button identification, emphasis on diff. synthetics and organics. Dates for US contexts.
#archaeology #button #materialculture
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#archaeology #button #materialculture
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2/? HARD RUBBER
Sturdy synthetic. Generally has Goodyear backstamp; less commonly Novelty Rubber Co. or unmarked. Smells like rubber when heated. Molded.
Color: matte black; rarely brown. Opaque.
Date: post-1851.
Sturdy synthetic. Generally has Goodyear backstamp; less commonly Novelty Rubber Co. or unmarked. Smells like rubber when heated. Molded.
Color: matte black; rarely brown. Opaque.
Date: post-1851.
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CELLULOID
V. light synthetic. “Bubble” buttons w/ thin dome of celluloid attached to a metal back. Solid celluloid buttons also produced. Molded or carved.
Color: All colors, imitation ivory common. Translucent to opaque.
Date: ca. late 19th-1930s.
CELLULOID
V. light synthetic. “Bubble” buttons w/ thin dome of celluloid attached to a metal back. Solid celluloid buttons also produced. Molded or carved.
Color: All colors, imitation ivory common. Translucent to opaque.
Date: ca. late 19th-1930s.
Dear Egyptology,
Egyptian Archaeology and the study of ancient Nubia *IS* Egyptology.
Egyptology is more than just texts and temples and tombs.
A thread…
#WeAreEgyptology
Egyptian Archaeology and the study of ancient Nubia *IS* Egyptology.
Egyptology is more than just texts and temples and tombs.
A thread…
#WeAreEgyptology
Recently I was a victim of the old-school out-dated idea that Egyptian Archaeology is not Egyptology. I was pinned as just a ceramics specialist, and worse still… a Nubian ceramics specialist. Apparently that's not Egyptology, but let's clear things up.
My work is about Egypto-Nubian relations, two cultures that are inextricably intertwined. Specifically I focus on the Nubians who lived and died in EGYPT, and how their identities changed as a result of contact with EGYPT & in turn how their presence impacted Egyptian society
I was totally delighted when the @V_and_A announced an exhibition on bags. For reasons #materialculture types in particular know, in the last two years I have been fascinated with #shopping bags and #knitting bags: vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/ba…
My former employer, @michiganstateu Museum, has a lovely collection of nearly 300 "designer" paper #shopping bags dating back to the famous @Bloomingdales bags of the 1960s. Here's a wonderful post about Bloomingdale's bags from @cooperhewitt: cooperhewitt.org/2016/05/04/the…
Also at MSUM care earlier textile shopping bags made by women. The history of the #shopping bag has been one told mostly by manufacturers and mostly by historians of technology and business, both based on invention of machines to manufacture paper bags. mo.ma/2m4XhKh
Day 8 of #BlackAtlanticWorld #MaterialCulture for #BlackHistoryMonth I am pulling into #NYC which makes it extra appropriate to remind us all that #Manhattan is a space deeply embedded with the history of slavery. A tangible reminder of that: the African Burial Ground
Marked here on a 1750s map of Lower Manhattan
Near the cemetary? A place where black people were executed
