Browse Titles - 8 results

Black & White Photograph of the Bourbonnais Room in the Vichy Historical Museum
See details
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1937) (1939) , 2 page(s)
Date: 20.07.39 In a room, a woman in period costume stands next to unpowered, wooden machines. A caption reads, "An excellent example of French Regional Museums. The Bourbonnais room in the Vichy Historical Museum, showing the looms on which the famous Vichy Cloth was made, figures clothed in the local costumes, a...
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1937) (1939) , 2 page(s)
×
Do People Choose Optimal Health Insurance Plans?
See details
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The health insurance market is driven by the individual choices consumers make on their insurance plans. The research presented in this video explores the questions of how consumers choose these plans, whether they are able to pick the plan most suited to their situation and whether they switch to another and bett...
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
×
Madam Elizabeth Keckley
See details
written by Eva Nichols Wright, fl. 1926; in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (Xenia, OH: Aldine Printing House, 1926), 153-155
written by Eva Nichols Wright, fl. 1926; in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (Xenia, OH: Aldine Printing House, 1926), 153-155
×
How Can Chemicals Be Produced in a More Sustainable Process?
See details
(Latest Thinking, 2018), 13 mins
KAI SUNDMACHER’s aim is to introduce a more sustainable process to chemicals production. As he explains in this video, for new technological developments in chemical process engineering a new methodology is needed that is able to include many decision variables in order to find the best pathway from the raw mate...
(Latest Thinking, 2018), 13 mins
×
How Does Tourism Change People and Places?
See details
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his fie...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
×
How Is the UNESCO World Heritage Title Being Awarded and What Are Its Consequences?
See details
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The UNESCO World Heritage title has become a powerful global brand. It influences people’s decisions of where to travel and conveys prestige and national pride. CHRISTOPH BRUMANN and his research group investigated how this title is being awarded and what its consequences are on the ground at the chosen sites. B...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
×
Letter from Ruth Benedict to John Collier, October 13, 1939
See details
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 14. Blackfoot Field Trip, 1939) (13 October 1939) , 1 page(s)
Date: 13.10.1939. Typewritten letter from Ruth Benedict to John Collier in regards to the automobile accident that took the life of James Little Plume, on the Browning Reservation. The letter offers liability insurance information that was previously requested by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
written by Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948, in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 14. Blackfoot Field Trip, 1939) (13 October 1939) , 1 page(s)
×
Mine 21
See details
directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) o...
directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
×