"That Evening Sun", 289 (Event)
Text:
Page Number:
289
Order within Page:
1
First 8-10 words of event:
Monday is no different from any other weekday in Jefferson
Page Event Ends:
289
Era:
The Twenties (1920-1929)
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Narrative Status:
Narrated
Date:
Tuesday, January 1, 1924 to Wednesday, December 31, 1924
Summary:
The narrator describes modernization in Jefferson by focusing on the paved streets, the arrival of telephones and electricity, and a city laundry that uses motor cars to gather soiled clothing from its customers and replaces with laundry machinery the Negro washerwomen of old.
Chronological Order:
24.00
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Keywords:
Modernity, modernization, technology, city, automobile, race, class, gender, domestic labor
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