Visual Fictions and the U.S. Treasury Courtesans: Images of 19th-Century Female Clerks in the Illustrated Press
During the Civil War, the United States Treasury began hiring female clerks to work within its departments, a decision that would lead to the federal government becoming, according to historian Cindy Sondik Aron, “the first large, sexually integrated, white-collar bureaucracy in America.” By 1864, a...
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Dalhousie University
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Belphégor |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/593 |