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Photograph of University of Alberta student, Edith McKinnon, Home Economics.

A group portrait of the Edmonton Women's Press Club. Miriam Green Ellis is at the far right.

The domestic science movement, which arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and encouraged women to apply scientific knowledge to their household work, is exemplified by this American textbook. This edition was used at the…

The twenty-eight volumes of the Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une societé de gens de lettres(also known as the Encyclopédie) was originally published in Paris between 1751 and 1772. The edition of the…