Shirley Teresa Wajda

Biographic Data

ID844008
NAMEShirley Teresa Wajda
GIVEN NAMESShirley Teresa
FAMILY NAMEWajda
SIGNATUREWAJDA S T
AFFILIATIONSKent State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Fashion Out of Scranton

    Sarah Hegge, Shirley Wajda et al.ARTICLEDress2022

    The One Hour Dress was considered a “sensation” when introduced in 1923 by sewing and fashion expert Mary Brooks Picken (1886–1968) of the Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Through demonstrations held at American department stores between 1923 and 1925, Picken sought to stop a national decline in sales of sewing equipment and supplies. Endorsement by film actress Mae Marsh (1894–1968) linked the dress with…

  • City of Second Sight

    Open AccessShirley Wajda, Shirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    In Justin T. Clark's City of Second Sight, we find an exciting exploration of the symbiosis between human vision, the material visual, and the visionary in Boston in the three decades before the Civil War. More than an urban history, Clark's study interrogates how “ideas of seeing” shaped both visual culture and inhabitants’ and visitors’ experiences (p. 6, emphasis in original). As such, Clark explores Boston as a case study, as “the crucial spa…

  • The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978

    Shirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEJournal of American History2008

    Temporary exhibition, Oct. 7–Dec. 31, 2007. 3,000 sq. ft. Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs; Diane Waggoner, assistant curator of photographs. Traveling exhibition, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 16–April 27, 2008. The Mona Lisa is not currently displayed at the National Gallery of Art. This, I knew, would be the obvious fact discovered by five young men who were entering the West Building as I was leaving, late in the af…

  • Tender Violence

    Shirley Teresa Wajda, Laura WexlerARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 8

    Photography is a violent medium. As the critic Susan Sontag has observed, cameras can be aimed, subjects shot; the term snapshot, originally referring to a hunter's hurried rifle shot taken without deliberate aim, was in the latter nineteenth century employed to refer to an “instantaneous” photograph, usually taken with a hand camera. “Instantaneous” photography, itself enabled by technological innovations such as dry-plate glass negatives and ma…

  • Memory's Nation

    Shirley Teresa Wajda, John SeelyeARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001

    Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 699. Illustrations. $39.95.) Forefathers' Day is a holiday no longer observed by vast numbers of individuals calling themselves Americans. For a good portion of New England's years of hegemony in national political culture, however, annual observation of much-disputed landing at Plymouth Rock attracted erudite orators-minis…

  • A Measure of Perfection

    Shirley Teresa Wajda, Charles ColbertARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America. By Charles Colbert. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xviii, 441 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2370-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4673-2.) Get access Shirley Teresa Wajda Shirley Teresa Wajda Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue …

  • Confounding Images

    Shirley Teresa Wajda, Susan S WilliamsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999Cited by: 2

  • Inscribing the self

    Open AccessShirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1999References: 5

    Inscribing the Self Shirley Teresa Wajda (bio) Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 248 pages. $30.00 (cloth). $15.00 (paper). The physical act of writing has vexed many Americans. Take for example, Rutherford B. Hayes. The young “Ruddy” Hayes at Norwalk Seminary in Ohio, just beginning to learn genteel performance in 1836, asked forgiveness of his correspondent—his Uncle …

  • American Material Culture

    Shirley Teresa Wajda, Ann Smart Martin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 6

    Journal Article American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field. Ed. by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison. (Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997. viii, 428 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-912724-35-8.) Get access Shirley Teresa Wajda Shirley Teresa Wajda Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, P…

  • Picturing a Nation

    Shirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1997

  • Equal before the Lens

    Shirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1994

  • Neither Rich Nor Poor

    Shirley Teresa WajdaARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article “Neither Rich Nor Poor: Searching for the American Middle Class.” Strong Museum, One Manhattan Sq., Rochester, NY 14607 Get access Shirley Teresa Wajda Shirley Teresa Wajda Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1091–1096, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080802 Published: 01 December 1992

  • Be it Ever So Humble

    Open AccessShirley Wajda, Shirley Teresa Wajda et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1989