Sincerely Yours: Linen dresses and infernal machines
Last spring, the IU Archives was contacted by a kind couple in Lafayette, Indiana who just by happenstance discovered a ...
Tag: 20th century
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Sincerely Yours: How Cecil Got His Gun
Cecil K. Byrd (1913-1997) was a longtime librarian and faculty member at Indiana University. He served as Curator of Special ... -
The Women’s Liberation Movement at IU
In the early 1960s, women across the nation started to rise up to further combat the social and cultural inequalities ... -
Sincerely Yours: The IU Coed Band
In 1938, the status of an all-female Coed Band on IU’s campus was in trouble. The band was organized in ... -
No Men Allowed: A Look Inside the Mysterious Panthygatric Dances of the Early 1900s
The word Panthygatric looks and sounds unappealing. However, the women it involved would tell you otherwise. In the late 1890s ... -
Sticking to the Dance Card: Student Socials and Dancing to the Music of Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael at IU
In the early to mid-twentieth century, students didn’t make friends on social media or find a date through an app. They ... -
Dancing the Night Away: Student Life in the 1950s
Margaret Albersmeyer Werling graduated with a bachelor’s in Education in 1953, and, according to her personal scrapbook, attended every sporting event, theater ... -
The Alma Eikerman papers
The Alma Eikerman papers are now organized and available for research! If you don’t remember, the collection came to us ... -
Frances Morgan Swain and the League of Extraordinary (IU) Women
After 110 years of existence, the IU Student Building is being renamed in honor of Frances Morgan Swain (Miller). But ... -
Sincerely Yours – The Dwyers and V-J Day: “That was our celebration.”
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the swift entry of the United States into World ...