Jacqueline Field collection
Collection Scope and Content
The collection includes copies of published writing, as well as a C.V. and photos from a Robert Burns Dinner Party.
Dates
- 1998-2014, undated
Creator
- Field, Jacqueline (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Biographical/Historical Note
Jacqueline Field is a textiles and dress historian. She was formerly Costume Curator at Westbrook College, Portland, Maine, where she taught textile and dress history. She researches silk production and consumption with a focus on the relationship between nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Asian sericulture and the United States silk industry. She also investigates the manufacture and export of turn of the twentieth-century Canton (now Guangzhou) gambiered mud silk textiles and clothing. Her interests include developments in non-textile uses for silk. She is the lead author of American Silk 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts (2007). Other articles include "North American Silk Industry and Dress" (Berg Fashion Library electronic reference resource 2012) and "Agriculture to Industry: Silk Production and Manufacture in Maine 1800-1930" (Maine History 2008).
Extent
7 folders
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
- Art -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fashion Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Social history Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Jacqueline Field collection, 1998-2014, undated
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jefferson Navicky
- Date
- 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu