Lesley Poling-Kempes
Author
Publisher
Paragon House
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway -- and went on to shape the American Southwest
From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque," they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Catalog of an axhibition held at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, June 11-Sept. 12, 2004, the Columbus Museum of Art, Oct. 1-Jan. 16, 2005, and the Delaware Art Museum, Feb. 17- May 15, 2005./ Includes bibliofgraphical references (p. 134-135) and index.
