THIST 487 Technology in the Modern World - Kucher: Primary Sources
Featured primary sources
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex and the Family This link opens in a new window
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Fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.
Historical Magazines
- American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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U.S. magazines, 1740-1900. Full text available. - Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Index to American magazines 1890-1980. No full text. - British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Full-text collection of 18th, 19th and some early 20th century British magazines
- Time Magazine ArchiveTranscriptions to Time magazine articles from 1923- .
Images & Ads on the Web
- adViewsCommercials from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- Early Advertising of the WestLocal ads. 1867-1918
- Emergence of Advertising in AmericaImages relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. 1850-1920.
- Gender AdsCreated by Dr. Scott A. Lukas to provide gender studies educators and students with a resource for analyzing the advertising images that relate to gender.
- The Package MuseumDigital images of a personal collection of food and household item packages from the early 20th century.
Digital Collections that include food materials
- Hearth: Home Economics ArchivesCore collection of books and journals published between 1850 and 1950 in Home Economics.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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Collection of diaries & letters from the colonial period to approximately 1950. - Global Commodities This link opens in a new window
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History and development of 15 major commodities through manuscripts, printed and visual primary source materials.