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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
About: Header Images
Protect Your Hands!
Protect Your Hands! : You Work With Them,
Robert Muchley, artist,
Pennsylvania: Federal Art Project, [1936]
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
6-year Old Jewel Walker
6-year Old Jewel Walker. Location: Comanche County—[Geronimo], Oklahoma,
Lewis W. Hine, photographer,
1916.
Prints and Photographers, Library of Congress
Litha Lowe Piecing a Quilt Top
Litha Lowe Piecing a Quilt Top,
Lyntha Scott Eiler, photographer,
1978.
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
“Lightnin’” Washington
“Lightnin’” Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with his group in the woodyard at Darrington State Farm, Texas,
Alan Lomax, photographer,
April, 1934.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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