elizabeth,
do you have access to any of the "old" housekeeping techniques, methods and materials that were detailed in historic receipt books?  often the last chapter or two had those early "hints from heloise (?)" with recipes for everything from bootblacking to ???  maybe poster-sized
versions with some of the tools used or artifacts that would have been polished or ???  do the posters on paper that gives the "yellowed with age" feeling.  compare/contrast to modern equivilent i.e. labor to create the rpoduct to do the task as well as labor necessary to do the
task.  just a thought....
linn

elizabeth Nora wrote:

> I have another question--I have just accepted a position as Assistant
> Director.  A new exhibit is supposed to open in two months and nothing has
> been done yet.  EEEEK!  Though the exhibitions here have always been fairly
> well done, I want them to look different.  Here's the catch--I have a very
> small budget and very little time.  The exhibit is about the social history
> of keeping house, housewifery, etc.  I am seeking ideas for exhibit
> materials, fabrication ideas, etc., that look new and up to date, but on a
> small budget.  Any ideas?  I will take any and all.
>
> Elizabeth J. Nohra
> Assistant Director
> Mahoning Valley Historical Society
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