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That Dame's Got Grit: Selling The Women's Land Army, Pamela Jo Pierce
That Dame's Got Grit: Selling The Women's Land Army, Pamela Jo Pierce
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis analyzes the marketing of the Women's Land Army (WLA) using archival sources. I explore how farmerettes, the name given to WLA members, used their patriotic work on the farm as a means of redefining femininity and interrogating the definition of "true womanhood." "That Dame's Got Grit" discusses how the WLA was sold in World War I and World War II. The first chapter describes the press book used to market Little Comrade, a 1919 film about a fashionable farmerette. The theme of uniforms, an idea that weaves throughout the thesis, emerges strongly in this chapter. "A Seductive …
Coal Smoke And Valve Oil: The Steam Era In Cache Valley Agriculture, Michael W. Johnson
Coal Smoke And Valve Oil: The Steam Era In Cache Valley Agriculture, Michael W. Johnson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Over 60 years have passed since steam threshing engines went out of production, yet the legendary machines refuse to vanish from the American scene. At scores of threshing shows every summer, millions of people turn out to experience the drama and poetry that is steam power. Of themselves, the machines are fascinating, but this alone does not explain the continuing interest that perpetuates the anachronistic rituals of steam threshing. The rhythmic tuck-a-tuck of the exhaust, the drone of the separator, and the lingering aroma of coal smoke and valve oil provide a vital link to the age of our fathers …