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Celebrating in Pennsylvania 1819-1820 with John Lewis Krimmel 1786-1821
John Lewis Krimmel (German-born American artist, 1786-1821) The first known image of a Christmas tree in AmericaJohn Lewis Krimmel was born in Ebingen, Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1787, and accidently...
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Civil War Christmas Memories of Dolly Sumner Lunt 1864 in Georgia
A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantationof Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge) :Dolly Lunt...
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Mrs. Lydia B. Bacon's Journal, 1811-1812 from Boston through Pennsylvania to...
In 1811 Lydia Bacon traveled with her husband, a lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry, from Boston through Pennsylvania, then down the Ohio River to Vincennes. She stayed in Vincennes through the winter of...
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1830 Odd Scraps of Information for the Frugal Housewife
Lydia Maria Francis ChildThe Frugal Housewife - Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy 2nd Edition To Which is Added Hints to Persons of Moderate FortuneBoston: Carter and Hendee. 1830Henry...
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Native American Women Gathering Rice by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Rice GatherersFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a variety of...
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Scalp Dance Of The Dakotas by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Scalp Dance Of The DakotasFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a...
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Sioux Men & Women Breaking Up Camp by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Sioux Indians Breaking Up CampFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a...
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Indigenous Americans by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) - An Indian Camp...
Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874) An Indian Camp"At no distant date, the mountains and prairies of the Far West will no longer be a place of refuge from the onward march of civilization &...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Winter Landscape Laval 1862Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in...
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Attack by Crow Indians with Women Watching by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874) Attack by Crow IndiansMiller did not see this scene, which occurred during one of Captain Stewart's earlier trips to the mountains, but it was explained to him...
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Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman
The Narrative of Bethany Veney a Slave Woman. Published in Worcester, Mass. 1889. CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD - FIRST LESSONS IN MORALITY - FIRST LESSON IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING.I have but little...
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Woman at a Waterside Encampment by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Winnebago EncampmentFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a variety...
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Women & Baby on the Canadian Frontier by Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872
Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and studied in Rotterdam & Dusseldorf. He traveled to the United States in the 1830s, where he served in the Army...
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Arapaho Woman & Baby by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874) Arapahos "This scene represents an Arapaho Indian en famille, smoking his pipe and reposing under a blanket suspended from the branches of a tree, to screen...
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Women traveling in Winter on the Canadian Frontier - by Cornelius Krieghoff...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Winter Landscape 1849Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in Rotterdam...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - A personal look at American Women...
I have noticed, while writing these blogs about the work of women in America beginning in the early 1700s, that I am particularly incensed that women did not get the right to vote in our democracy...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - A Man's take on a Liberated Woman
John George Brown (1831-1913) A Liberated Woman 1895
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Call to the 1st US Women's Rights...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the National Portrait GalleryA CONVENTIONWill be held at Worcester, Mass., on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October next, (agreeably to appointment by a preliminary...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Abby Price's Address US Women's Rights...
Read to the "Woman's Rights Convention," at Worcester, by Mrs. Abby H. Price 1814-1878, of Hopedale, Mass.In our account of the work of Creation, when it was so gloriously finished in the garden of...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Paulina W Davis' Address 1850 Women's...
.Paulina W DavisThis leaves me at liberty to occupy your attention for a few moments with some general reflections upon the attitude and relations of our movement to our times and circumstances, and...
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