Voices from the back stairs
Subtitle: interpreting servants' lives at historic house museums
By: Jennifer Pustz.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780875806228
Subjects: Historic house museums -- Interpretive programs -- United States; Historic sites -- Interpretive programs -- United States; Household employees -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Household employees -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Household employees -- United States -- Social conditions; Household employees -- United States -- Social life and customs; Households -- United States -- History; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918; United States -- History, Local
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shrines, slave quarters, and social relevance : the changing historic house museum; title: Interpretation of domestic service at post-Civil War house museums; title: The ideal, the real, and the servant problem; title: Photo essay I: The servant problem illustrated; title: Using the servant problem to interpret domestic life; title: Case studies in domestic service interpretation; title: Photo essay II: Contemporary interpretations of domestic service; title: Appendix 1: Text of mail questionnaire sent to historic house museums; title: Appendix 2: Additional resources.