Perhaps few women in late nineteenth-century Utah could better represent the bridging of the public and private spheres of life than Kate Diantha Barron Buck: a Salt Lake City dentist who won a blue ribbon and a bronze medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, as well as a blue ribbon at the Utah Territorial Fair in 1894, for her extraordinary silk embroidered map of the United States. Buck worked on her “Columbian Centennial Souvenir Map” for over a year, and the process of its creation is documented by the map itself and by items that have been preserved in tandem with the map.1 The fair encouraged the emergence of the well-rounded post-Victorian woman, one who was both an exemplary home keeper and who pursued a more public life through education and political societies.2 Buck, the creator of the map, was an excellent example of just...
Dentistry and Embroidery in 1890s Utah: The Work of Kate D. Barron Buck
CHRISTINE COOPER-ROMPATO received her PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut. She is professor of English at Utah State University, where she teaches and researches medieval literature and religious studies. Her most recent book is Spiritual Calculations: Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval English Sermons (2022), and she is currently working on several projects involving the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer's reception in the nineteenth century. Cooper-Rompato also publishes on American history, and her articles on the earliest women patent holders in Utah and Utah in the Green Book appeared in earlier volumes of UHQ.
Christine Cooper-Rompato; Dentistry and Embroidery in 1890s Utah: The Work of Kate D. Barron Buck. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 October 2022; 90 (4): 327–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.90.4.05
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