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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
Woman @ Desk
Woman @ Desk,
Harry Mellon Rhoads, photographer,
[between 1920 and 1930?].
Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library / Library of Congress
Four Young Men Standing Around a Large Piece of Machinery in a Workshop
Four Young Men Standing Around a Large Piece of Machinery in a Workshop.
Chicago Daily New, Inc.,
1928.
Chicago Historical Society / Library of Congress
Meeting of the Mechanics and Others of the City of Washington
Meeting of the Mechanics and Others of the City of Washington,
broadside,
Washington, D.C., 1852.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
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