Becky Fifield
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, 2013
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 3 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 2 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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, 2012
- 1 min
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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