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Contents
• Occupational Folklife
• A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition
• "Lime and Manure": Agricultural Practices Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Alcoa, New Kensington: "It was More Than a Job - It was a Way of Life"
• Women's Work: Textile Manufacturing in the Lackawanna Valley
• Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture
ISSN
0031-4498
Publication Date
Winter 1996
City
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Publisher
Pennsylvania Folklife Society, Inc.
Keywords
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, occupational folklife, work, folklore studies, George Korson, horn combs, comb making, Reinholds, G. Atlee Crouse, Crouse family, twinning machine, mechanization, cattle horns, agriculture, farming, land clearing, meadows, irrigation, drei Felder wirtschaft, gardens, orchards, agricultural lore, fences, aluminum industry, Alcoa, New Kensington, Pittsburgh, women workers, labor relations, unions, Lackawanna Valley, textiles, garment manufacturing industry, knitting mills, Scranton, Carbondale, Aaron Glassman, G & G Company, quilting, African Americans, performers, Philadelphia, Hill District, segregation, discrimination, numbers games, William Harris, Gus Greenlee, nightclubs, musicians, dancers, singers
Language
English
Disciplines
American Art and Architecture | American Material Culture | American Studies | Christian Denominations and Sects | Cultural History | Ethnic Studies | Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts | Folklore | Genealogy | German Language and Literature | Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Religion | Linguistics | Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Recommended Citation
Gallagher, Thomas E. Jr.; Boyer, Robert Troy; Long, Amos Jr.; Mueseler, Christine M.; Jacobs, Catherine Anne; and Freund, Hugo A., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2" (1996). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 146.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/146
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EDITOR: Thomas E. Gallagher, Jr.
MANAGING EDITOR: Nancy K. Gaugler
EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Simon J. Bronner, Earl C. Haag, David J. Hufford, Terry G. Jordan, Susan Kalcik, Donald B. Kraybill, Hilda Adam Kring, Monica Mutzbauer, John W. Roberts, Evan Snyder, Kenneth Thigpen, Don Yoder
SUBSCRIPTIONS: Nancy K. Gaugler