All posts tagged "World War I"
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6.4K4Arts and LeisureKarl Muck Departs the Boston Symphony Orchestra in World War I Era Scandal
Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881, and for nearly 40 years made it an unparalleled success. Until, that...
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2.4K2MassachusettsLeverett Saltonstall Worries About Nora Seeing Men in Pyjamas
Nora Saltonstall for nearly a year had been a Red Cross volunteer on the Western Front when she got a chance to...
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7.6K3Arts and LeisureCharles Dana Gibson Finds the Perfect Woman
When Charles Dana Gibson sold his first drawing to Life magazine, a picture of a comical dog baying at the moon, he...
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19.8K8Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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9.3K15Business and LaborThe Glory Days of Springfield’s Indian Motocycle
For nearly two decades the Indian Motocycle made Springfield, Mass., the center of the global motorcycle business. From 1902, when the first...
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7.2K4Arts and LeisureThe Angels of Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer was a bird-crazy boy who grew up to paint stunning pictures of angels — and to promote the military use...
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6.9K5MassachusettsNora Saltonstall: ‘Urge Everyone You Know To Take Up Nursing’
After nine months on the western front during World War I, Nora Saltonstall was fed up with housekeeping and glad to take the less...
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4.6K7MassachusettsThe German U-Boat Attack off Cape Cod: World War I Arrives in New England
On July 21, 1918, New Englanders found themselves with World War I on their doorsteps in the form of a German U-boat...
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Nora Saltonstall Has the Time of Her Life on the Western Front
By July 1918, 23-year-old Nora Saltonstall had spent nine months in war-torn France volunteering with the American Red Cross. She was working...
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3.4K2Religion and Social MovementsCrystal Eastman Keeps Her Name, Doesn’t Do Housework
Crystal Eastman wanted to change the world for women and change the way women lived in the world. A suffragette, magazine editor...
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