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Curator's Essay and Sources

That's Not Fair! Conflicting Visions of Womanhood at the Columbian Exposition of 1893

 

Framing essay: "That's Not Fair! Conflicting Visions of Womanhood at the Columbian Exposition of 1893" by Madison Arnold-Scerbo

I would like to thank Terry Snyder and the rest of the faculty of the Haverford College Libraries for their assistance in the creation of this project. I would also like to thank my fellow classmates for their valuable feedback and insights into my topic. 

 

Sources

Corn, Wanda M. Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Cotten, Sallie Southall. Scrapbook page. Series 3. Folder 14. Volume 1: 1885-1898: Scan

19. Filename: 02613_0014_0019.tif, in the Sallie Southall Cotten Papers #2613,

Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill.

Garvey, Ellen Gruber. Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the

Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Maxwell, Lauren Alexander. “Constructions of Femininity: Women and the World’s Columbian

Exposition.” Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. Paper 40. 2009. 

Palmer, Bertha. “Opening Address”. Speech at the Opening of the Woman’s Building, May 1st,

1893. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian

Exposition, Chicago USA, 1893. Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1894.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/eagle/congress/opening.html

Wadsworth, Sara and Wayne A. Wiegand. Right Here I See My Own Books. Amherst: University

of Massachusetts Press, 2012.

Weimann, Jeanne Madeline. The Fair Women. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1981. 

Curator's Essay and Sources