#rural history

[newhistorybooks]

"Written with care and deep respect, this book seeks to undo the erasure of Black women from farming histories in America by bringing into focus their instrumental role in Black agricultural resistance movements. This is a book for everyone interested in the hidden spaces and rarely recognized geographies of Black women’s struggles."

#uwlibraries #history books #african american history #women's history #rural history #agricultural history

[motsimages]

Some glimpses of my great-grandmother's sheet.

She made this herself, very probable from scratch, in linen, as her dowry. This means she probably spun the linen herself and wove the sheets in a loom. Maybe she bought the linen but from what I know about my village history, it is more likely that her family also cultivated linen for this. Frequently men would take care of sowing and washing the linen in the river, but combing it, whitening it and the following steps were already a woman's job. (In fairness, combing could be also done by men).

One of these days I will show the full sheet, but know that her name (Inés) is on the sheet and her last name (Gonzales) is on the pillowcase. The sheet itself is made of three parts, each measuring between 50cm and 60cm, clearly woven in a domestic loom.

Regarding the dowry: women would work since their childhood to have sheets, napkins, curtains, towels, etc for the house. At the very minimum. Maybe also underwear, some cutlery, etc. Rich women could receive it as gifts or buy it, even though they would be expected to do themselves. But they would maybe only do the final parts: embroidery or details.

The poorer you were, the more steps you would do yourself. The poorest girls would create their dowry from the wool that they could find in bushes after sheep passed their, from the fallen linen in other people's field, etc. This was hoping that they would have something else to offer to the marriage other than their body and physical work, which would give them the possibility of a better match.

My great-grandmother was not poor. She was upper-middle class if such a thing existed in that village at the time (19th Century). Her family made wine and some of her sisters owned a bakery and worked there. While they weren't noble (I don't think there were many noble people in my village, from what I've read), they had a big piece of land and some servants in the house (but not in the field, the family worked the land probably hiring workers in season). This is why maybe someone else prepared the linen for her to weave, but maybe not.

What men in my father's generation remember from their mothers, at the beginning of the 20th Century, there were 3 looms still in work in the village, and this was so until the 1950s-1960s. This means that there were 3 people making their living out of these looms. In the 19th Century, those who couldn't pay loom workers, would have a domestic loom (much simpler and slower) at home. At the end of the 18th Century, most of the villages in this region reported that "there is no factory here, only whatever the women weave at home for their domestic use". Some reported that those women sold some extras to other villages.

#linen #textile history #women history #rural history #interrogatorio de la real audiencia

[the-cricket-chirps]

Wright Morris

Eroded Soil, Faulkner Country, Mississippi

1940

#american art #american photographer #wright morris #americana #rural history #documentarian

[internetiquette]

Mill ruins from 1786

#mine #nature #england #countryside #photography #ruins #mill #architecture #history #industrial revolution #rural #nature photography #buildings #river #waterfall #plants #stream

[bebs-art-gallery]

How Animals Mourn

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenk † The Dead Miner (Mourning the Master) by Charles Christian Nahl † The Faithful Hound by sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA † The Orphan. A Memory of Auvergne by August Friedrich Schenk

#painting #art #artblr #oil on canvas #oil painting #grief/mourning #artist #classical art #classic academia #goth #gothic #dark academia #rural decay #rural gothic #art history #artists #art gallery #art blog #historical art #historical painting #art community #religious art #fine art #animals #animal

[intheholler]

cr. Alain Le Garsmeur. Bluefield, West Virginia, 1979

#west virginia #coal mining town #appalachian history #appalachia #appalachian gothic #appalachian #rural #rural gothic #small town america #americana #yall come back now queue hear?

[lionofchaeronea]

October, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1878

#October #autumn #art #art history #Jules Bastien-Lepage #genre painting #rural scene #France #Realism #Realist art #French Realism #French art #19th century art #oil on canvas #National Gallery of Victoria

[serpentandthreads]

Since Pride Month is right around the corner, this is your reminder that:

• In late 2022, the Department of Homeland Security had added LGBTQ+ to their list of potential targets for terror attacks following the Club Q shooting

• Multiple US states are pushing for (and have passed) a number of transphobic laws, ranging anywhere from age restrictions on gender affirming care to stripping parental rights from parents of transgender minors

• Earlier this year, the state of Tennessee criminalized Drag performances and made it so offenders could spend years in prison

This is also your reminder that the Stonewall uprising was a protest started by Marsha P. Johnson, a Drag Queen, and Sylvia Rivera, a transgender Drag Queen. The first Pride parade happened to commemorate the Stonewall uprising one year later.

#pride started with a riot #queer #rural queer #queer community #lgbtq+ #rural lgbtq+ #lgbtq community #pride #pride month #queer history

[cowboyjen68]

Stopped by this restored gas station in small town Iowa. Met the owner Dave and learned some local and Texaco history.

#lesbian #butch #small town #restored #old gas station #rural life #iowa #history

[kriegsminister]

United States, 1989

A woman poses in front of a tornado (Nebraska)

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#aesthetic #history #vintage #america #nebraska #weather #extreme weather #tornado #rural

[newhistorybooks]

“This amazingly researched work will make a meaningful and needed contribution to African American history, as well as to our understanding of how non-Indigenous Americans, Black and white, settled the Great Plains. Its revelation of the multiracial aspect of homesteading on the plains, moreover, will make a most important addition to the general body of American post–Civil War history.”

#uwlibraries #history books #african american history #rural history #agricultural history #american history

[razzek]

One thing that's starting to really get to me with the James Somerton stuff is a real strong undercurrent of disdain toward his fans. And yeah, I was one of them. A good scam artist isn't as easy to spot as y'all seem to think. You forget that you have all the information right now. Two days ago most of you had never heard of him and it would have kept going. Anyone can fall for a scam, nobody is immune. I would love to have had whatever resources you guys think we all should magically know about so I could have kept my sad $5 a month I really needed but thought was going to something worthwhile. Some of us can only devote so much energy into things and when you have no idea whatsoever that something is amiss of course you're not going to go digging for sources, why would you when everything is fine as far as you know? I really wish I could have seen the dissenting opinions on him but for many, many reasons that aren't just that the dissenting voices weren't widely circulating at the time all I had was the thought every now and again that "huh that doesn't seem right" and then go on with my day. And I think that happened to a lot of us. So yeah. Say what you gotta say about Somerton, he has more than earned it with the damage he's caused, but maybe don't shit so hard on his former fans because that is going to be you someday with something, it happens to everyone sooner or later.

#james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #I really am greatful for Harris and Todd's hard work in exposing all of this #and I am glad I get to see the real voices I did like that james was stealing #I'm just tired of all these people jumping on the drama train taking a dump on folks who are also victims of these crimes #razz rambles #this whole situation is upsetting me in the weirdest ways #I'm distraught but I'm not at the same time #and yet it's 6am and I can't stop reading through the tags and seeing the takes I missed #vaspider's essay and remarks from an AIDS pandemic survivor are especially good #I lived through that shit too but had no idea I was living through it #cuz that's what being blind and impoverished in rural community was like #queer wasn't even something I knew I could be until like 2010 #so it's nice to see my own history #it's not just the young queers who have little to no knowledge of our history

[the-cricket-chirps]

Wright Morris

Norfolk, Nebraska (from The Home

Place)

1947

#american art #wright morris #american photographer #the home place #nebraska #photography #rural history #Wright

[la-belle-histoire]

Harvesters, Anna Ancher. 1905.

#aesthetic #art #art history #fashion #historical fashion #historical art #women in art #women #edwardian aesthetic #Edwardian era #Edwardian fashion #rural aesthetic #rural #rural fashion #farm #farm aesthetic #pastoral #cottagecore #cottagecore aesthetic #cottagecore art #blue aesthetic #farmer aesthetic #field #yellow aesthetic

[bebs-art-gallery]

Birth & Death of Christ

The Virgin of the Lilies † Pietra by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

#painting #art #art history #oil on canvas #oil painting #religious painting #religious imagery #artblr #classical art #classic academia #southern goth #southern goth aesthetic #southern gothic #ruralcore #rural gothic #artist #christianity #chapel #small town gothic #small town america #christian faith #jesus christ #historical art #historical painting #art blog #artists #art community

[intheholler]

#cr: thebittersoutherner and dazeddigital #appalachia #appalachian culture #appalachian mountains #appalachian history #americana #american gothic #appalachian gothic #rural gothic #rural america #yall come back now queue hear?