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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
Nov 5, 20152 min read
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle Wood Engraver (1753-1828)
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Cherryburn, Northumberland, National Trust. NT 530359. In digging through the British...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 10, 20142 min read
Transportation Tuesday – B&O Centenary Pageant, 1927
Ladies in nymph-like attire twirling and leaping through fields – sounds like the turn of the century pageantry movement to me. The...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 20, 20132 min read
A Philadelphia Servant, 1787
The Accident in Lombard Street. Charles Wilson Peale. Winterthur Museum. 1962.88. A pie lays broken in the street, a distraught servant...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 29, 20132 min read
Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...
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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
May 31, 20131 min read
Fun with Fraktur – Women’s Dress in a Drawing from Winterthur Museum
An embroidered apron at LACMA, similar in concept to those depicted in the Winterthur fraktur below. M.2007.211.131 I’m not a...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 4, 20133 min read
Connecting the Dots: Convict Servants in Maryland
Eddie Izzard puns on the Church of England: “Cake or Death?” For people found guilty of committing small crimes in England,...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 21, 20122 min read
Shifting Garment Styles, 1750-1790: What Research and Sketching Have in Common
I roll over this analogy in my mind as I work with my study of 1,000 runaway indentured and enslaved women and their 6,000 garments,...
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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 11, 20121 min read
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
Sep 10, 20121 min read
Museum Monday: Online Patterns of Eighteenth Century Garments from LACMA’s Collection
Speaking as a museum professional and a living history practitioner, what a great project. Theatrical designer Thomas John Bernard and...
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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 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
Jun 8, 20122 min read
Lolita Dresses – WTF?
Cosplay-Japan Expo 2012. Photo by Lomita. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. I was minding my own business on...
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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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