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CHAPTER 11: GLEAMING THINGS

[>] "In days of old": Edward Hungerford, "Night Glow of the City," Harper's Weekly, April 30, 1910, p. 13.

[>] "when it was found": "Fines the Edison Co. for Smoke Nuisance," New York Times, January 17, 1911, p. 7.

[>] "Electrical articles": Quoted in Ronald C. Tobey, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), p. 30.

"It was a Dover iron": Quoted in Earl Lifshey, The Housewares Story: A History of the American Housewares Industry (Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturers Association, 1973), p. 231.

"so-called instruction": Christine Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer (New York: Business Bourse, 1929), p. 186.

[>] "Fancy cooking cutlets": Maud Lancaster, Electric Cooking, Heating, Cleaning, Etc.: Being a Manual of Electricity in the Service of the Home, ed. E. W. Lancaster (London: Constable, 1914), frontispiece.

"There is no household": A. E. Kennelly, "Electricity in the Household," in Electricity in Daily Life: A Popular Account of the Applications of Electricity to Every Day Uses (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891), p. 252.

"A traveler will find": "Electricity in the Household," Scientific American, March 19, 1904, p. 232.

"can be very delicately": Ibid.

"Even an invalid": Ibid.

[>] "went after every kind": Harold Platt, interview, "Program Two: Electric Nation," in Great Projects: The Building of America, http://www.pbs.org/greatprojects/interviews/platt_i.html (accessed April 7, 2009).

[>] "A tin can": Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer, p. 157.

168 "electricity, the unseen": Hungerford, "Night Glow of the City," p. 14.

"Woman has been": Mary Pattison, "The Abolition of Household Slavery," in Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor, ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 124.

"They have let go": H. R. Kelso, House Furnishing Review, July 1919, quoted in Lifshey, The Housewares Story, p. 289.

[>] "As a matter of fact": Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978), p. 135.

"We can see and feel": Frederick W Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, Modern History SourceBook, http//www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/MOD/1911taylor.html (accessed March 26, 2006).

"The cry of the home": Pattison, "The Abolition of Household Slavery," pp. 126–27.

[>] "Because we housewives": Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in Ehrenreich and English, For Her Own Good, p. 162.

[>] "Rise from bed": F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 2004), p. 173.

"When the gas": Brian Bowers, Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 132.

"In the parlor": Kennelly, "Electricity in the Household," p. 246.

"When they say": E. B. White, "Sabbath Morn," in One Man's Meat, enl. ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), p. 51.

[>] "Walk around the outside": Charles Frederick Weller, Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1909), pp. 10–11.

[>] "The whites generally occupied": David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 7.

"ironing beside": Weller, Neglected Neighbors, pp. 17–19.

"the perspiring woman": Ibid., pp 82–83.

[>] "each day was a scuffle": Ethel Waters, with Charles Samuels, His Eye Is on the Sparrow: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951), p. 46.

"The prettiest sight": Ibid., pp. 18–19.

CHAPTER 12: ALONE IN THE DARK

[>] "They are pronounced": James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), pp. 265–66.

[>] "will be a highly skilled": Quoted in Clark C. Spence, "Early Uses of Electricity in American Agriculture," Technology and Culture 3, no. 2 (Spring 1962): 150.

"not improbably": Country