Now in a second printing in 2000, this book originally published in 1981 continues to give a look at some of the roles women traditionally filled in the decades after World War II. The photographer points out, "In the years these images were taken, very few middle-class women worked outside of their homes. The roles then assigned to women separated them from business, from politics and from each other." Weston Naef, then assistant curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, selected two of these images, Nan Wood Graham, Model for American Gothic, 1975, and Junior League Christmas Party, 1962 for the museum's photography collection. Many of the images have gentle satire such as the Coe College Faculty Wives' Club with a painting of a semi-nude by Kunyioshi and disapproving members. The photographer says, "During the years that I took these photographs, I did not realize how they documented the limited roles of women in that era. I wanted to explore their lives to see why my own life seemed so alienated and different from theirs in so many instances. With the birth of the women's movement in the 1960s, these photographs ultimately defined some of the social conditions of this era. The photographs have been exhibited at the New York City Camera Club and in many galleries. Paper bound, 8-1/2x11", 72 pages.

Women 1957-1975

Arts & Photography

Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret

Photography & Video

Penfield Press

An enlightening, instructive collection of articles written by journalists between 1867 and 1935 on their perceptions of the Amana colonies. Furthermore, the newspaper stories demonstrated that from an early date communal Amana was a popular new subject, not an isolated unknown, and provide many examples of how the community opened itself to outsiders. A bit of Europe in America, a voice out of the past on the world's western frontier, this unique community stands as the nearest approach in our day to the Utopian's dream of a community of men and women living together in peace, plenty, and happiness, away from the world and its many distractions. But the communism of Amana is not a dream: it is a fact an established order of life. Historical photographs and articles document the Amana community.

Life in Amana: Reporters' Views of the Communal Way, 1867-1935

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penfield Books

They came by boat, some in 1825 in the smallest vessel ever to cross the Atlantic at the time. They came for a new life, a better future. They brought arts, culture, and foods the lies of which American had never seen before. "Norwegian Touches" tells the stories of Norwegian immigrants, their ancestors, and their descendants. It also includes tales of great Norwegians such as playwright Henrik Ibsen, artist Edvard Munch, composer Edvard Grieg, violinist Ole Bull, sculpture Jacob Fjelde, master novelist Ole Edvart Rolvaag, and Wisconsin woodcarvers Else Bigton and Philip Odden. Featureed tourist attractions include Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa; The Chapel in the Hills, Rapid City, South Dakota; Moorhead, Minnesota's Heritage Hjemkomst Center; and Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, which bills itself as the troll capital of America. The book is beautifully designed and is illustrated with about 80 photographs, half of them in full color. About 100 classic recipes cover a range of Norwegian foods.

Norwegian Touches: History, Recipes, Folk Arts Notably Norwegian

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Louise Roalson

Regional & International

License to Cook Iowa Style

Over 130 black and white photographs and text, highlight the years from 1951, to images of Monet''s garden taken in 2007. Joan has photographed Martin Luther King in 1962, and President Barack Obama during his campaign in 2007. Her images document the people who have worked for civil rights in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the 1960s, as well as many photographs showing women''s roles during the last half of the twentieth century. At age 22, Joan photographed the birth of her first son. Initially the photographs were rejected nationwide by magazines as unfit to print, although the only medically graphic image was her baby with the umbilical cord still attached. The Des Moines Register''s Picture Magazine published the photographic series as subsequently LOOK magazine used the essay, and LIFE used one photograph. This series is in the autobiography, called one of the outstanding photographic essays of the 1950s. Two of her photographs, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are in the book. They are of Nan Wood Graham, model for the painting American Gothic (1975) and one of the Junior League Christmas Party (1962). As a photographer for The Des Moines Register and The Iowan, Joan covered Iowa''s ethnic groups and farm life in four states for children''s educational books showing Iowa cornbelt farming, Wisconsin dairy farming, Texas cotton farming, and apple growers in Washington. Her sixty-plus-year career as a photographer gives insight into her three marriages and family background.

Pictures and People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice

Arts & Literature

This book, a revision of Scandinavian Christmas, out of print for over a decade, features Christmas scenes from Washington to Pennsylvania. Essays and stories by Scandinavian writers about Christmas are included. There are stories by Selma Lagerlöf, facts about St. Lucia traditions for Swedish Americans, and information about Norwegian and Danish customs. Norwegian immigrant Elizabeth Koren s beautiful essay about Christmas is included. Photographs show St. Lucia arriving in a replica of a Viking boat at Poulsbo, Washington; Christmas customs at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa; the Swedisah American Historical Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Danish Windmill, Elk Horn, Iowa; the Swedish-American Museum, Chicago; and the St. Olaf Christmas choirs and orchestra, Northfield, Minnesota. Recipes feature all five Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland from American contributors. They include beverages, appetizers, vegetables, side dishes, breads, soups, main dishes, and desserts.

Scandinavian Christmas: Essays and Stories, Recipes and Traditions

Helen Elizabeth Blanck

Whitney Pope

Selma Lagerloff

Inkeri Vaananen-Jenson

Paul B. Du Chaillu

Kay Atkinson

Dr. Marion Nelson

Elisabeth Koren

Birgitte Christianson

Julie Jensen McDonald

A. R. Holmberg

Julie Ingebretsen

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