The Consumer culture and the American home 1890-1930
Subtitle: edited proceedings from the second annual McFaddin-Ward House Museum Conference
By: edited by Glenda Dyer and Martha Reed
Publisher: McFaddin-Ward House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Beaumont, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Interior decoration; Consumer goods; Popular culture
Table of contents: title: Consumer culture and intellectual life in America, by Harvey Green; title: World's Fairs go to the home, by Robert W. Rydell; title: Coaxing the consumer: giveaways and gimmicks, 1890-1930, by Deborah A. Smith; title: "The Adamless Eden": the world of the department store, by Susan Porter Benson; title: Country stores, country fairs, and mail order catalogs: consumerism in rural America, by Thomas J. Schlereth; title: Sears in Texas: 1906-1913, by Patrick H. Butler III; title: The McFaddins and their consuming passion, by Jessica H. Foy; title: Mail-order architecture: plan books and American house design, by Margaret Culbertson; title: Post-Victorian Texas houses, by Peter Flagg Maxson; title: The decoration of houses: Prescriptive literature and interior decoration, by Gail Caskey Winkler; title: Chasing the gospel of physical fitness: clean living and American consumer culture, by Harvey Green; title: In honor of the conspicuous consumer: late nineteenth-century American presentation silver, by Katharine S. Howe.