Spic-and-span! : Lillian Gilbreth's wonder kitchen
(2014)
By:
Kulling, Monica
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/658.5/GILBRETH,L/KUL
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781770493803 (bound), 1770493808 (bound)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was left to her own devices to raise their eleven children. Eventually, she was hired by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to improve kitchen design, which was only the beginning