Becky Fifield
Apple of My Eye: Lead Pesticide Use in 1920s Orchards
Orchard workers at Mt. Pleasant Orchard, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, c. 1915. Over the Christmas holiday, I unearthed a small journal...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 5, 2013
- 1 min
Museum Monday – Chester County Historical Society
Chester County Historical Society. In addition to Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library, Wednesday also took me to the Chester...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 1, 2012
- 2 min
Should We Feel Sorry for Twinkies?
Mourning miniature, 1788. Brooklyn Museum. 21.474. Twinkies. I’ve had a few. I’ve had more pink Snowballs and Suzy-Q’s than Twinkies. I...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 9, 2012
- 1 min
A Visit to the Drugstore, 1786
Halloween’s passed us by, but here’s a tale of horror from the late eighteenth century: a visit to the drugstore. This advertisement...
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Becky Fifield
- Oct 24, 2012
- 2 min
Wanderlust Wednesday: The Johnstown Inclined Plane
People generally know one thing about Johnstown, PA: the flood. The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is located on the rim of the former...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 11, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and Ohio
I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 7, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: Runaway!
This post is not about servants. So much of the time when I refer to runaways, it’s in relation to indentured and enslaved women....
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 28, 2012
- 1 min
Eadweard Muybridge – Gridded on my mind
I wrote those words “gridded on my mind” years ago in a short story, the protagonist describing herself as the antagonist’s Eadweard...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 19, 2012
- 2 min
Transit Tuesday – The New York Transit Museum
Transit and Museums? Two of my loves rolled up into one. Visitors to New York want to see the Empire State Building, Times Square, and...
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Becky Fifield
- May 24, 2012
- 2 min
Tenement Treatment for Tuberculosis – The Cherokee Apartments, New York City
Balconies of Gustavino tile at The Cherokee Apartments. RL Fifield, 2005. Others have blogged about the Cherokee Apartments before, and I...
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Becky Fifield
- May 6, 2012
- 2 min
Rational Chit Chat About Birth Control, from 1855
Reproductive Control. View the whole text at the U.S. National Library of Medicine website. http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/objec...
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Becky Fifield
- May 6, 2012
- 2 min
Rational Chit Chat About Birth Control, from 1855
Reproductive Control. View the whole text at the U.S. National Library of Medicine website. http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/objec...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 28, 2012
- 2 min
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 28, 2012
- 2 min
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 7, 2012
- 2 min
Vaccination – for one, for everyone
Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 7, 2012
- 2 min
Vaccination – for one, for everyone
Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
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