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Between 1916 and 1949 a few other companies offered colored shellac discs, including a blue-shellacked series from Columbia during the 1930s and chocolate colored pressings from a budget label “Perfect Records” prior to the 1930s. In 1949 when RCA Victor launched their 45-RPM format they began color-coding their records based on genre calcification. They classifications are as follows: Black Vinyl – Pop Pressings (Prefix 47) Green Vinyl – Country Music (Prefix 48) Red Vinyl - “Red Seal” Classical Pressings (Prefix 49) Orange-Rose “Cerise” Vinyl – R&B (Prefix 50) Sky Blue – International Vinyl (Prefix 51) Midnight Blue – Light Classics (Prefix 52) Opaque Yellow – Children’s Vinyl (Prefix WY) RCA only continued this practice up until they ceased manufacturing of colored vinyl 1953 as for it became too costly to offer these variations. Although colored vinyl did continue to be available throughout the 1950’s and 1960s, the widespread use of colored vinyl rebounded in full force during the 1970s. During this time, album artwork was the primary visual expression. Introducing colored discs increased the visual artistic aspect of the album. Most commonly available record colors during the 70’s included clear, transparent white, red, blue and yellow. Today colored vinyl has grown to include almost any possible variation. Pressing plants like Erika Records in Buena Park, California can create you a colored record that matches almost any custom color. Additionally, they can…

The advertisements for the product ceased to appear in Toronto newspapers after 1870 and in other Canadian newspapers after 1879, while in the United States they ceased to appear after 1872. In 1870, they were advertised as “Job Moses’ Female Pills” (Fig. 3; The Daily Globe 1870; The Times 1870), then as “Job Moses’ Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills” in 1871 (Fig. 3; The Ottawa Times 1871), and later that year as “Job Moses’ Female Pills” (The Ottawa Times 1871). In 1872, they were renamed “The…

including the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company which hit black Americans hard, causing them a loss of over seven million dollars in savings. Even harder hit were the debtors, who advocated for greenbacks (paper money) to be printed, which would create inflation and make it easier for debts to be repaid. The creditors opposed this policy and argued the this was unfair and that the money loaned out should be repaid with money that was not depreciation. In 1894, the advocates for hard money…

To what extent is marriage in ‘A Dolls House’ by Henrik Ibsen being compromised by society in 1879? In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, introduces one of the main themes to be love and marriage which is the base and impact of the story due to the timeline the play follows which is based on how two individuals came together as “equals” and how they face up different conflicts during their marriage. Marriage in Victorian times (1879), forced the ideology that women had to get…

David Einhorn (1809 – 1879) 1861-1866 Senior Rabbi at Keneseth Israel David Einhorn was born in Diespeck, Germany November 10, 1809. At the age of 17, he earned his Rabbinic ordination from the Rabbinic school of Fürth in Bavaria, Germany; the center for Jewish learning at this time. He continued his studies at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich and Würzburg. He later held the position of Chief Rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (in Northern Germany). In 1852, he was called to lead the Reform…

innocent philosophy. Henry James spoke highly of this personal character when he wrote this novel. When Daisy met Winterbourne the first time in the garden, she got familiar with Winterbourne so quickly. There is a description of her eyes: “It was not, however, what would have been called an immodest glance, for the young girl‟s eyes were singularly honest and fresh. (Henry, 1879:11)” A proverb said that eyes are windows of one‟s heart. So, she gave a positive personality at the beginning.…

Terence Powderly served as union leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 to 1893. Powderly became an organizer for the Industrial Brotherhood labor union and was also accepted into the Knights of Labor. He established and led a local order of the Knight of Labor in Scranton and in 1876 became its master workman. Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) Samuel Gompers was originally part of a labor union, however he soon rose to the ranks as president of the American Federation of Labor. Gompers was…

Position of Women in A Doll’s House Compared to Modern Day Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play, A Doll’s House, demonstrates the ongoing struggle of a woman to be of equal position to a man’s in terms of education, place in society, work, and respect. In this play, Nora Helmer, wife of Torvald Helmer, is constantly being treated like a child, and Torvald very clearly expresses that he is superior to her throughout this play. Nora is put in a very difficult situation when she secretly borrows money in…

Nora and Torvald have very different definitions of “human beings”. When Torvald tells Nora that she is acting like a human being, he means that she is acting as society expects her to as a woman. Society expects her to be subordinate to Torvald and listen to what he says. Her doing this fits the stereotype that women were restricted to at this time and makes her just like everyone else, or just like a “human being” in his eyes. Later on in the play however, Nora uses the term human being again.…

Another theme of the play is women and femininity; in other words, Nora breaks away from the domination and her domineering husband Torvald. (Www. shmoop.com) Throughout the play, it is often talked about the traditional roles of women, and the price they pay once they break the tradition. Furthermore, another theme of this play is men and masculinity in other words this play has a lot of gender roles as a woman and men. Men are often the providers they bear the burden of supporting the entire…