Topics in Material Culture HIS 476/1543
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This site contains webpages of individual material culture research projects by the 1997/8 students of HIS1543.

1997/8 COURSE PARTICIPANTS:

ELIZABETH BERNHARDT,
Renaissance Venetian Chopines (shoes)

LISA FOX

What Time is it?: A Study of Wristwatches

AGNES GOMES

Perfume Bottles: A Study of Contemporary Material Culture

NICOLE MARKHAM

Jigsaw Puzzles as Material Culture

CHRISTOPHER MARTINELLO

Kennaway: Remnants of a Logging Town

CHRISTOPHER PETRIK

Neckties

NICOLE PLASKETT

Rings of Love in the Renaissance

SANDRA SHAW

Folk Art Underfoot And On The Walls: Nova Scotian Hooked Rugs

MARY SIMPSON

Button Robes of the Northwest Coast

ED TRACY

Apple and the History of Personal Computer Design

KELLY WILHELM

History Contained: Exploring Daily Life Through the Boxes at Gibson House

KATE WOLFORTH

A Purse Story