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| **Arizona woman removing the cover                       from                    her electric washing machine, 1940.****Prints & Photographs Catalog, Library of               Congress**
History of Household Technology
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Webcast                      The                      History of                     Household Technology*with*                      Constance Carter
    **SCOPE**  
As a rule, when we consider the effects of technology upon society  we think of the golden spike, Kitty Hawk, UNIVAC, the horseless carriage, the  Bomb -- developments somewhat removed from our personal knowledge and experience.  But during the 19th and early 20th century important interactions between technology  and society took place closer to home, indeed, *in* the home, and this  technological revolution, if you will, transformed our daily lives in myriad  ways. In chronicling the development and evolution of our home -- the way  we clean, furnish, repair, and launder, and acquire, prepare, cook, and preserve  food, we have a wonderful opportunity to celebrate human ingenuity, invention,  and the leisure that time- and labor-saving devices have afforded us. 

  Social historians tell us that the artifacts of a culture offer the most revealing  evidence about what a given society was like and how its people lived. The  implements, utensils, and devices people used in their homes have been a major  source of such evidence.  Today's  children, accustomed to microwave ovens, perma-press, fish fingers, TV snacks,  and built-in vacuum systems, are truly fascinated by the artifacts of their  culture -- the hows and whys -- and it prompts the older generations to reminisce  on the changes that they have experienced and how technology, or its absence,  has affected their lives and the lives of their descendants

  The Library's collections can illuminate the hows and whys of domestic technology  because of their depth and breadth. These are shelves of old trade catalogs,  books and a plethora of 19th-century magazines reporting invention in all manner   of household technology. Old texts  report new household products and chronicle  the history of housewares, appliances and household furnishings. These also  describe new methods of cooking, sewing, cleaning, and organizing the house  for convenience and efficiency. Collections of women’s diaries depict  their lives and recount their everyday struggles to keep their families fed  and clothed, even while crossing the prairie. Manuals contain receipts for  making soap, poultices, herbal remedies, candles, or instructions for spinning  wool. By studying these diaries, reminiscences, recipes, and advertisements  of the time, we are able to discover the homemaking skills needed and the challenges  faced by our feminine forebears. 

  This compilation, an update of TB 98-01, lists sources useful in examining  the history of household technology, primarily in the United States during  the  last half  of  the 19th  and the first half of the 20th century. Not intended to be a comprehensive  bibliography, this guide is designed -- as the name of the series implies --to put the reader "on target." 
  TOP OF PAGE  **INTRODUCTIONS**  Andrews, William D., and Deborah C. Andrews. Technology and the               housewife in nineteenth-century America. *Women's studies*,               v. 2, no. 3, 1974: 309-328.                  HQ1101.W77 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>   Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The "industrial revolution" in the home:               household technology and social change in the 20th century. *Technology               and culture*, v. 17, Jan. 1976: 1-23.                  T1.T27 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>   Glazer-Malbin, Norma. Housework. *Signs*, v. 1, summer 1976:               905-922.                  HQ1101.S5 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>   TOP OF PAGE  **SUBJECT HEADINGS**  Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books               on the history of household technology can be located in most card,               book, and online catalogs include the following:             **Highly Relevant**DOMESTIC                          ENGINEERING--HISTORYHOME                          ECONOMICS--UNITED STATES--HISTORYHOUSEHOLD                          APPLIANCES--HISTORY          See also individualitems, e.g., "Irons (pressing)," "Vacuum cleaners," "Stoves" **Relevant**HOME          ECONOMICS--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIESHOUSEHOLD          APPLIANCES, ELECTRIC--HISTORYHOUSEWIVES--HISTORY--NINETEENTH          CENTURYHOUSEWIVES--UNITED          STATES--HISTORYKITCHEN          UTENSILS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY**Related**COOKWARE          INDUSTRY--UNITED STATES--HISTORYDOMESTIC          ECONOMY--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIESDOMESTICS--UNITED          STATES--HISTORYDWELLINGS--UNITED          STATES--HISTORYELECTRIC          HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES INDUSTRY--HISTORYHOUSE          FURNISHINGS INDUSTRY AND TRADE--HISTORYMANUFACTURERS--CATALOGS**More General**TECHNOLOGICAL          INNOVATIONS--SOCIAL ASPECTSTECHNOLOGY--SOCIAL          ASPECTSUNITED          STATES--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
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**BASIC TEXTS**
*American home life, 1880-1930: a social history of spaces and               services*. Edited by Jessica H. Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth.               Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, c1992. 284 p.                  Includes bibliographical references. 			     E168.A513 1992            

Cohen, Daniel. *The last hundred years, household technology*.               New York, M. Evans, c1982. 184 p.                  Bibliography: p. 177-178.			     TX298.C58 1982            

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. *More work for mother: the ironies of               household technology from the open hearth to the microwave*.               New York, Basic Books, c1983. 257 p.                  "Bibliographic essays:" p. 220-233. 			     TX23.C64 1983 <SciRR>                   "Notes:" p. 234-249. 

Du Vall, Nell. *Domestic technology: a chronology of developments*.               Boston, G. K. Hall, c1988. 535 p.                  Includes bibliographical references.			     TX15.D8 1988 <SciRR>            

Hardyment, Christina. *From mangle to microwave: the mechanization               of household work*. Cambridge, Eng., Polity Press; Oxford, New               York, Basil Blackwell, 1988. 220 p.                  Bibliography: p. 203-209.			     TX298.H37 1988            

Lifshey, Earl. *The housewares story: a history of the American               housewares industry*. Chicago, National Housewares Manufacturers               Association, 1973. 384 p.                  Includes bibliographical references.			     HD9773.U5L5            

Seymour, John. *Forgotten household crafts*. lst American               ed. New York, Knopf, 1987. 192 p.                  TX15.S49 1987 

Strasser, Susan. *Never done: a history of American housework*.               New York, Pantheon Books, c1982. 365 p.                  TX23.S77 1982 <SciRR>                  "Source notes": p. 313-355. 

Yarwood, Doreen. *Five hundred years of technology in the home*.               London, B. T. Batsford, 1983. 184 p.                  Bibliography: p. 176-177.			     TX298.Y38 1983            

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**ADDITIONAL TITLES**
Buehr, Walter. *Home sweet home in the nineteenth century*.               New York, Crowell, 1965. 159 p.                  TX19.B83 

*An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology*. Edited               by Ian McNeil. London, New York, Routledge, 1990. 1062 p.                   Includes bibliographical references. 			     T15.E53 1989 <SciRR>                              See especially "The domestic interior: technology               and the home": p. 902-948. 

Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. *At home: the American family, 1750-1870*.               New York, H. N. Abrams, 1990. 304 p.                  Bibliography: p. 288-297.			     TX23.G37 1989            

Hechtlinger, Adelaide. *The seasonal hearth: the woman at home               in early America*. Woodstock, N.Y., Overlook Press, 1986, c1977.               256 p.                  TX23.H4 1986 

*Making the American home: middle-class women & domestic               material culture, 1840-1940*. Edited by Marilyn Ferris Motz               and Pat Browne. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University               Popular Press, c1988. 212 p.                  Includes bibliographical references.			     TX23.M35 1988            

Matranga, Victoria Kasuba, and Karen Kohn.  *America at home:          a celebration of twentieth-century housewares.*Rosemont, Ill., National Housewares        Manufacturers Association, 1997. 208 p. |