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Book Chapter
Speakers As We Might Be—Now
2010
Overview
From the World’s Columbian Exposition, I venture down the hall of the house. My research quest takes me from the Woman’s Dormitory to New York where many of the working-class women, for whom the dormitory had been built, had originated from. As I go, I see ahead a colossal mural hanging on the wall.
A hugely popular photograph of a mural—something akin to a sound bite—is Edmunds E. Bond’s “Weavers of Speech,” c. 1915 (figure 5.1).
The black-and-white photograph was popularized in An Ideal Occupation for Women, a pamphlet that the New York telephone company circulated in the
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
9780817317157, 0817317155
