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Wordless Novels at SCUA
by Jordan Fridley Wordless novels, also known as woodcut novels, use sequences of wordless images to tell a story using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre reached its peak popularity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, prior to the rise in film and anti-socialist censorship, particularly in Nazi Germany and the United […]
Mary Sue Beam College Scrapbooks
by Kathelene McCarty Smith Mary Sue Beam was a student at the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro) between 1919 to 1923. These were important years in the history of the campus and the country. When Mary Sue left her home in Shelby, North Carolina, to attend the small women’s college in the […]
What They Were Wearing While They Were Reading; The 1920s
January 24 – March 31, 2011First Floor Lobby, Jackson Library The 1920s was one of the most exciting decades in US history. It was a time of prosperity and excess when Americans embraced a modern culture, which included dancing to the “Charleston” and joyriding in Ford Model T automobiles. Women won the right to vote, […]