Dear Bee. Loving Letters to a Daughter 1927-1935
by Kaeumlen, Viola
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
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About This Item
The artist has located family photographs, postcards from the era, paper clippings and greeting cards, all of which were scanned in printed on an archival inkjet printer on a range of papers including Epson Matte, Red River Polar Pearl Metallic, Silver Metallic, Canson Newsprint, Strathmore translucent Vellum and Sennelier Calligraphy paper. The fonts used are Helvetica for Ms. Kaeumlen's own writing and general information texts and Lucida Handwriting for the excerpts of Mary Arthur's letters.
This is a beautiful object, redolent of another time when hand-written mail meant significant time lapses in communication and correspondents had expressive and unique hand-writing as well as vocabulary. More than that, the author / artist, Viola Kaeumlen, has taken this remarkably personal correspondence and placed it firmly in a time and place in American social history. with information about health epidemics, social issues - the Arthur's must deal with payment in "scrip" instead of real money, criminal cases of local and national interest, as well as the role of the local church and welfare societies in everyday life. It is as beautiful and meaningful way of learning social history as one could find. Beatrice Arthur, the "Dear Bee" of the letters, is perhaps the prototype of the 20th century woman who earned a bachelor's degree in Business Education and completed post-graduate work at Harvard, Boston University and Bridgewater State College and worked summers in the Plymouth Cooperative Bank, the Plymouth Cordage Company office, and as a civil service secretary in the U.S. government as well as marrying and raising her step-children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Priscilla Juvelis (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10608
- Title
- Dear Bee. Loving Letters to a Daughter 1927-1935
- Author
- Kaeumlen, Viola
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Marshfield Hills, MA
- Date Published
- 2012
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About the Seller
Priscilla Juvelis
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