Roaming through the Internet jungle, I chanced to find this map of Portland area transit lines by graphic designer Cameron Booth: Cameron writes: “This map…compares the passenger rail network of Portland from three different eras – 1912, 1943, and 2015, when the Portland-Milwaukie MAX light rail line will be completed. In this case, “passenger rail” [...]
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Graphic Design Meets Transit Lines
Posted by Ruth on January 24, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/01/24/graphic-design-meets-transit-lines/
Look Who’s Here: 2013
Thanks to the meticulous savers at the Library of Congress, I can bring you this cover of Puck magazine from December 27, 1911. The caption reads: “LOOK WHO’S HERE!” Father Time is ushering out 1911, who appears to be startled, aghast, and amazed at the new year 1912. Instead of the usual chubby baby boy [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 1, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/01/01/look-whos-here-2013/
Did She Wear Lipstick?
Our fictional Miriam Josefsohn was 16 years old in 1912. Now, a hundred years later, most girls Miriam’s age in the U.S. wear lipstick—or not—and no one bats an eyelash. But back then it was a different story. First off, there was no such thing as “lipstick” in 1912. Women—and men in some eras—had been [...]
Posted by Ruth on December 11, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/12/11/did-she-wear-lipstick/
Oakland to San Francisco, 1912
Blue Thread ends with our gal Miriam on a southbound train to Oakland, California. Miriam’s friend, Florrie, lives near there and goes to school in Berkeley. Florrie writes: You would love Berkeley as much as I do. We’re just a ferry ride away from San Francisco across the bay. Imagine being so close to the [...]
Posted by Ruth on December 4, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/12/04/oakland-to-san-francisco-1912/
Thanks to Oregon Men, Today’s the Day!
Decades after the first attempt to give Oregon women the right to vote, the issue once again appeared on the ballot on November 5, 1912. The majority of men who voted in the precinct of Miriam’s family in Blue Thread voted against suffrage for women. But statewide 61,265 men didn’t share Julius Josefsohn’s opinion of [...]
Posted by Ruth on November 5, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/11/05/thanks-to-oregon-men-todays-the-day/
Suffering Suffrage!
Welcome to 2012. Another presidential election in the U.S. Big deal. No really—it is a big deal. I won’t go all mushy and patriotic on you, but the right to vote didn’t come easy in this country unless you were a white male with property. It’s still not easy for some citizens. Think about it! [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 2, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/01/02/suffering-suffrage/
Blue Thread: Separated at Birth
Once upon a time there was a draft manuscript on the corner of my desk, and its name was Blue Thread. One day I took that manuscript, so complete and neat, so very “done,” and tore it limb from limb, right down the middle. Here’s why. The spark for my original Blue Thread, as some [...]
Posted by Ruth on December 12, 2011
http://bluethreadbook.com/2011/12/12/separated-at-birth/
Those Amazing Hats!
Mrs. Steinbacher was easy to spot, owing to an eruption of ostrich plumes and felted roses spewing from her head. Welcome to Miriam’s world of hats. Hats were still big in the Edwardian era in more ways than one. This period covers the reign of England’s King Edward VII, from 1900 to 1910, and spills [...]
Posted by Ruth on December 8, 2011
http://bluethreadbook.com/2011/12/08/hats/
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