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Vivian is dress 4 or 3 still available?

Book of needlework...for your pleasure

The ladies' hand book of fancy and ornamental work
Hartley, Florence 1860
http://archive.org/details/ladieshandbookof1860hart

"Women of the Civil War: Sacrifice and Service"

July 27 - 29, 2012
at
DuQuesne University
Pittsburgh, PA

Workshops
Tour the Heinz Historical Center
Work Clothing - Presenter: Juanita...

Children LOVE to help do laundry...water, hard soap (lye) and scrub board and kids are happy! Two kids can help wring out wet stuff. You can pick up inexpensive sheets at thrift stores, yard or...

wOO HOO!!! Found it...now to learn to sing it :)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200001437/full.html

I'm looking for the words to "The Knitting Song". It is listed in Beadle's song-book, volume 12. I have not been able to find it.
Thank you for your assistance.

Susan Armstrong

'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
by Sam R. Watkins
http://librivox.org/co-aytch-by-sam-r-watkins/

Enjoy.

This website is great. It is constantly being updated. I check out the "New Listings" regularly to see what book is now available. At the top of the page is posts the most recent update, date.
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The Bertrand Bottles: A study of 19th-century glass and ceramic containers

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002848101;page=root;view=thumb;size=100;seq=116;num=102;orient=0

Enjoy...

I'm sharing this information from the 19th century foodways group
Susan Armstrong

I am delighted to report that I will be giving a presentation, "A Taste of the
Civil War," at the Roger Smith...

1882 Detailed minutiæ of soldier life in the Army of northern Virginia, 1861-1865
By Carlton McCarthy
...

The lady's dictionary of needlework
Matilda Marian Pullan 1856

http://books.google.com/books?id=9D4CAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_\
summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

A Confederate Girl's Diary, by Sarah Morgan Dawson
http://librivox.org/a-confederate-girls-diary-by-sarah-morgan-dawson/

Susan Armstrong

Do you think soaking your hands in plain old peroxide the kind in the brown bottle? I recently discovered its many uses and it does not hurt the skin but whitens. Google uses for peroxide.
Hope...

Civil War at Sea
Symposium
http://www.navymemorial.org/events/tabid/69/vw/3/itemid/6/d/20110423/Civil-War-at-Sea.aspx
Saturday, April 23, 2011, 9:00 a.m.
Free and open to the public

The Society for Women and the Civil War 2011 Conference
"Riots To Relief: A Border State Goes To War"
to be held July 29 - 31, 2011
College of Notre Dame - Maryland
4701 N. Charles Street...

As I see it, this is not a dignified pose. As a student of women's history, I find it insulting to see women depicted in a manner that would not be used for a male historical figure. Why would...

Looking at the statue I'm confused. What period and event in her life is being depicted? Is something going to be in her raised hand? It looks like a blustery day, is she being depicted outside?
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New book to be released in April. It can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
Starving the South:How the North Won the Civil War

http://andrewfsmith.com/books/starving-the-south

Thanks for posting the picture. Love the garters!

They had work-boxes, work-bags and work-baskets. There were used to store what ever you are working on plus materials.

Google books advanced search will give you any number of designs for these...

Does anyone do/reproduce these types of pictures...would be interesting to have one done.

http://tinyurl.com/45b66pj

The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 4, pg 238
A specimen of the performances of certain damsels was thus recorded June 29, 1862, by the editor of the Ohio Statesman:
“A female military...

A Diary from Dixie
by Mary Chestnut
http://librivox.org/a-diary-from-dixie-by-mary-chesnut/

That's not an original, is it? I need to get a few just like that one? The flies at Westville were a real problem.