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Prolific author and performer Margherita Costa traveled from city to city to perform in the theaters and private salons of Europe’s great courts. She did not shy away from crossing the boundaries around decorous female writing, and some of her works have a feminist twist. These two works bound together include poems on unwanted pregnancy, female cosmetics, and sexual double standards. -
Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway
Maria Hadfield grew up in Florence, where she studied art, copying paintings at the Uffizi under Johan Zoffany. She was elected to the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno at eighteen. Influenced by Henry Fuseli and Angelica Kauffman, Cosway continued to paint after her marriage, but her husband, the miniaturist Richard Cosway, would not permit her to sell her work. A pioneer in liberal education, she established a number of girls schools in Italy. The aquatints in Progress of Female Virtue are from her drawings. -
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Visualization of Duke Libraries vendors
A world map indicating where some of Duke Libraries vendors are located. -
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Test October 5, 2024-Title in DUblin COre
Description in Dublin core -
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Conceal (Cover)
Conceal. Cynthia Thompson. Women's Studio Workshop, 2003.
Cover. Using photographic images of the female body, Conceal explores the themes of shame, denial, and sexuality. -
Conceal (Panel)
Conceal. Cynthia Thompson. Women's Studio Workshop, 2005.
Using photographic images of the female body, Conceal explores the themes of shame, denial, and sexuality. -
Washington Duke
Washington Duke, 1925, Oil on canvas, 40" x 50," by John da Costa
Washington Duke (1820-1905), father of Benjamin and James Duke, founded the tobacco firm of W. Duke Sons & Company in Durham, North Carolina, in 1878. He was the benefactor of Trinity College, which later moved to Durham and became Duke University. His granddaughter, Doris Duke, donated this portrait to the University.
Artist John da Costa (1867-1931) was born in Teignmouth, England. He painted in oil, in the genre of portraits and classical subjects. Educated at Southampton and Paris, Da Costa received an Honorable Mention at the Paris Salon in 1906 and a medal in 1907. He lived in London, Newlyn, and Clanfield in Oxfordshire and became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. His works were exhibited at the Royal Academician, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers, and at European art galleries and museums. This portrait hangs on the wall to the right and opposite the main desk in the first floor lobby. -
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Farmworker cutting cabbage, Hidalgo County, TX, 1999
Farmworker cutting cabbage, Hidalgo County, TX, 1999
Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Photograph by Danny Lyon
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Martha Rangel harvesting onions near Mercedes, TX. 1999.
Martha Rangel harvesting onions near Mercedes. Ms. Rangel carries her immigration papers in her back pocket in case she has to show them to INS workers, TX, 1999.
Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Photograph byDanny Lyon
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A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools
English physician and natural philosopher Erasmus Darwin wrote this work at the urging of his two daughters, born from his relationship with Mary Parker and out of wedlock. They had sought his counsel on establishing a boarding school in 1794. Darwin argued that young women should be educated in schools, rather than at home, and he advocated for them to study the sciences, learn to handle money, and take vigorous exercise, among other advices. His approach, directed at middle-class women, amplified the contemporary view that men and women should have separate and complementary spheres. -
"The Silent Minority: Asian American Students" from the 1982 Duke Chanticleer
An page describing the Asian American experience from the 1982 Duke yearbook -
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