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The Grizzly, November 30, 2017, Valerie Osborne, Courtney A. Duchene, Thomas Bantley, Sarah Hojsak, Johnny Myers, Emily Jolly, Sophia Dibattista, Kevin Leon, Chloe Sheraden, David Mendelsohn
The Grizzly, November 30, 2017, Valerie Osborne, Courtney A. Duchene, Thomas Bantley, Sarah Hojsak, Johnny Myers, Emily Jolly, Sophia Dibattista, Kevin Leon, Chloe Sheraden, David Mendelsohn
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Ursinus Lights Up the Night • UC Investment Club Stocks Up on Success • Student Perspective: Philly X Moves UC Students to a Big City with Big Opportunities • Hallelujah: Handel's Messiah Returns to Ursinus • Ursinus Students in the Theater • Great Pie Conquest of 2017 • Opinions: Temporary Protection Status Needs as Much Support as DACA; Ursinus Must Support the Humanities Through its Facilities • UC Wrestling Starts Hot • Promising Tip-off for Women's Hoops
Making An Impression: Butter Prints, The Butter Market, And Rural Women In Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Pennsylvania, Jennifer L. Putnam
Making An Impression: Butter Prints, The Butter Market, And Rural Women In Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Pennsylvania, Jennifer L. Putnam
Madison Historical Review
Pre-industrial butter-making was an arduous process, involving milking, churning, proper storage, printing, and, sometimes, transport to market. The 19th-century economy in Philadelphia was forever changed by the practice of rural women selling their surplus butter as a response to the rise of consumerism. Butter-making provided rural women with the means to earn their own income, providing economic agency and increasing their independence by allowing them to work outside of the home. Butter prints emerged as a way to brand one’s butter with a signature trademark. A print’s size and shape, the materials and methods used in its construction, and the …