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American John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) in European Gardens
John Singer Sargent was not actually brought up in America. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy, and spent his childhood & adolescence touring Europe with his American parents who had decided on a...
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John Singer Sargent's (1856-1925) Summer Recliners
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Reclining FigureJohn Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Zuleika RecliningJohn Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Woman RecliningJohn Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Two Girls in...
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Girls of Summer by James Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903)
James Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903). Symphonie in White No 2 1864James Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903). Tanagra 1867-70 James Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903). Symphony in White no 1 1862James Mc Neill...
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A Garden in Maine
Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Poppies on the Isles of Shoals.Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935). In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden.)Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Celia Thaxter's...
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Another Lady Reading
"Child Hassam (1859-1935). Portrait of Edith Blaney, Pastel on paper, 1894. This portrait shows Mrs. Blaney at rest with the island garden behind her. The book in her hand, charmingly, is Celia...
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American Gardens & Parks for Everyone
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Portrait of Fredrick Law Olmstead..
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19C American Soda Fountains, Phopsphates, & Drinks They Served
Eating ice cream soda, 1906 Sun, Aug 12, 1906 – Page 24 · Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, Nebraska) What were soda fountains? The simplest answer is that a soda fountain was an apparatus that dispensed...
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Our Grandchildren's Chickens
.Winslow Homer (American artist, 1836-1910) Fresh EggsJust in time for the holidays, our grandchildren's 11 chickens are finally all producing an egg each daily. While the chicks are searching for new...
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19C Female Switchboard Operators Recruited to Serve in World War I
1918 Back our girls over there United War Work Campaign by Clarence F. Underwood, (Painter, Illustrator, 1871-1929) After the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, General John Pershing discovered that...
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19C American Women as Stenographers & Office Help
In 1885, a young, single, white, native-born woman named Isabel Wallace did something that was still considered quite unusual in its time; she took a job as a clerical worker in Chicago. Isabel, who...
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Women’s Inclusion into Higher Education in 19-20th Centuries USA
Harvard about 1720 From "A Brief History of Colonial Harvard" Copyright © The President & Fellows of Harvard College"...Harvard College was established in 1636 by the General Council of...
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Timeline of Clara Barton (1821-1912), Philanthropist, Nurse, & Educator
Timeline of Clara Barton (1821-1912)1821, Dec. 25 Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Oxford, Mass., youngest child of Stephen Barton (1774-1862) & Sarah Stone Barton (1783-1851)1833-1835 Nurse to her...
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Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), abolitionist and women's rights activist, lived for a time in Boston, where she befriended Lydia Child. With Lucretia Mott, she organized the 1848 Seneca Falls...
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Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 - Solitude of Self 1892
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony (standing) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown and died October 26, 1902 in New York CitySolitude of SelfAddress Delivered...
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Fighting for Equality - Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches,...
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Fighting for Equality - Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880
Lucretia Mott (1793 - 1880), by Joseph Kyle (1815 - 1863)One of 8 children born to Quaker parents on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) dedicated her life to the...
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Fighting for Equality & Bloomers - Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894
Amelia Bloomer edited the first American newspaper for women, The Lily. It was issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were...
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Fighting for Equality - Hallie Quinn Brown 1850-1949
Hallie Quinn Brown was born on March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of former slaves. Her family migrated to Canada and to the United States in 1870, settling in Wilberforce, Ohio....
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Fighting for Equality - Florence Allen 1884-1966
Florence Allen attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University), graduating with honors in 1904. After graduation, Allen traveled to Germany to further her music studies....
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On Quilts & Uncle Tom - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1853 portrait by Alanson Fisher Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the most popular American book of the 19th century. First published...
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1856 Gentility for Proper American Ladies
The Lady’s Guide to Perfect Gentility etc. By Emily Thornwell (New York: Derby & Jackson, Published 1856) Etiquette Lesson #1: Gait & CarriageA lady ought to adopt a modest & intentionally...
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Timeline of the Fight for All Women’s Right to Vote
19th Amendment: A Timeline of the Fight for All Women’s Right to VoteBy: Sarah Pruitt Updated: History.com July 23, 20241848 - Senecca FallsThe Seneca Falls Convention was the 1st women's rights...
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USA Women Fight To Vote - 19th Amendment
In colonial British America, men were considered superior to woman in all ways. In a strict patriarchal hierarchy, men controlled not only wealth & political power but also how their wives served...
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