Quilters, Canners, and Writers: Women in the Material World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anna Weber (1814-1888), an Ontario Mennonite woman, was considered to be "unbrilliant," yet became the most "prolific and outstanding" Fraktur artist in Ontario. 1 Fraktur-meaning 'fragmented' or 'broken'-is a form of calligraphic writing combined with pen and wash drawings of particular motifs such as hearts, birds, trees, and flowers.It originated in European folk cultures and was brought to Ontario by Pennsylvania German immigrants.Anna, who never married, was considered 'queer' and 'strange' with a rebellious, individualistic nature.After both her parents died, Anna apparently lived with up to nine different families over the next twenty-four years until her death.It was said that "People got along better with Anna if she didn't stay too long at the same place." 2 It seemed that Anna's artistic talents and inclinations were viewed as a hindrance to her homemaking abilities and responsibilities and so some families viewed her as a burden.People sometimes tried to direct her energies into more 'useful' handwork like knitting or hooking mats, but Anna resisted this.As a nonconformist within a community that expected internal conformity, Anna was considered unusual.Spurning normative gender expectations that she marry and apply herself to household skills, Anna instead chose to give expression to the creativity within herself.Anna's artistic work was never sold but was preserved in many family Bibles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".