Home Economics in the US (1870-1930)

Garth Williams (American, 1912-1996), “A Trip to the Store”, in Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder), 1953. A moral management of household money The mercantile, a place ...

Mrs. Frank Unger, “How I made 1150 dollars in eleven months”, dans The Delineator, février 1922. Promoting the home-made success of an American housewife the chiselled paper of the Delineator, ...

Mary Hinman Abel, Successful family life on the moderate income, éd. Forgotten Books, 2019 (1921). A pillar for the home economics movement Underneath the gold edging that covers this background, the ...