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Becky Fifield
Dec 30, 20152 min read
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 25, 20131 min read
A Squeal of Delight at the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Miniature Dresses
RL Fifield. I attended the American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting in Indianapolis at the end of May. The opening reception...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 30, 20122 min read
Eighteenth Century for the Weekend
RL Fifield, 2012. Last weekend, The Brigade of the American Revolution hosted an Authenticity Event at Don Carpentier’s Eastfield...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 29, 20122 min read
Halloween Comes to Downton Abbey
I predicted in this post from April that people would be hot to trot for Downton Abbey influenced costumes this Halloween. True to form,...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 7, 20122 min read
Nanny – A Servant Wager Cup
Online databases are incredible tools. While my museum career has mostly focused on textiles, dress, and ethnographic materials, I never...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 2, 20122 min read
Hold the Tulle: I’m Anti-Princess
Manhattan is a special place, no doubt. I live on the Upper East Side in Yorkville, a formerly German and Czech community. I jokingly...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 22, 20121 min read
Stocking Washing
The summer is full of living history events, and moreso, the laundry that follows a hot sweaty weekend out in a field without a shower....
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Becky Fifield
Jul 20, 20122 min read
Variety Among the 18th Century Lesser Sorts
Der Wöchentliche Pennsylvanische Staatsbote 9/17/1773. As part of my research on 18thcentury working class clothing, I have been studying...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 23, 20121 min read
Names of the Forgotten – Runaway Clothing Database Project
Maryland Gazette, August 9, 1787. Library of Congress. RL Fifield photo. The Runaway Clothing Database project uses newspaper runaway...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 14, 20121 min read
What is Fashion? An Agreeable Tyrant
Continental Journal. October 23, 1783. Photo: Newsbank, American Antiquarian Society. #costume #dress #England #fashion
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Becky Fifield
May 27, 20122 min read
Following Eleanor Ferrell: A Runaway Indentured Servant
New: see the full article online here. If it doesn’t come up, go to the home page and search again. Abraham Emmit labeled her “an ill...
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Becky Fifield
May 26, 20123 min read
Hike up your woolen undies: A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep
Baa. Cool it, already. Photo: Imaginactory. John Wily wrote the motivational pamphlet A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the...
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Becky Fifield
May 14, 20122 min read
Museum Monday: Why Museums Don’t Have Pictures of Everything on Their Websites
I hear the occasional grumble. Why is that photo of that object so bad? Why isn’t there an online database? Why are only selected objects...
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Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read
The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...
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Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read
The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...
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Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
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Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 22, 20121 min read
A Tip for Spring Cleaning – The Servant’s Directory, Improved, 1762
For those of you who are scrubbing floors this weekend and taking down cobwebs from those hard to reach places, a morsel of knowledge...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 22, 20121 min read
A Tip for Spring Cleaning – The Servant’s Directory, Improved, 1762
For those of you who are scrubbing floors this weekend and taking down cobwebs from those hard to reach places, a morsel of knowledge...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 13, 20121 min read
It’s Friday! Do “The Baltimore”
While I think the city of Baltimore had little to do with inspiring the creation of this dance tune by Fred Rich and the Hotel Astor...
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