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1848 Rules for the Girls at Lowell, Massachusettes
Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED by all persons employed in the factories of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company. The overseers are to be always in their rooms...
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1845 Report of Labor Conditions at Lowell, MA Textile Mills
In 1775, the American Manufactory at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, introduced to America the spinning jenny, a machine for spinning thread. In 1814, a Waltham, Massachusetts, factory became the 1st...
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1835-48 Mill Girls at Lowell, Massachusettes
Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1825-1911) was born in Boston, one of 4 children of William and Harriet Hanson. When she was six years old, her father died. To support the children, her mother moved to...
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Lucy Larcom 1824-1893 Poet and Mill Girl
Tintype. University of Massachusettes at LowellAmerican poet Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was the ninth of ten children. Her sea captain father died when she was very young. When she was 11 years old, her...
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1827 The Textile Spinning Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts
Bobbin Girl by Winslow Homer, Lowell National Historical ParkIn 1775, the American Manufactory at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, introduced into the British America colonies the spinning jenny, a machine...
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Women Working - 1824 "Proper" Occupaions for Women in America
From James Fenimore Cooper, Notions of the AmericansNEW-ENGLAND. 1824. On the Proper Occupations of Women in America.Edward Lamson Henry (American Painter, 1841-1919) Woman with a BabyThere is...
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Everyday Life for Women in 1800s America
Edward Lamson Henry (American artist, 1841-1913) Entertaining the New Minister Edward Lamson Henry (American Painter, 1841-1919) Teaching a Child to Descend the Stairs 1870Edward Lamson Henry (American...
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1800s Women Working at Schools
Edward Lamson Henry (American artist, 1841-1913) A Country SchoolCharles Frederic Ulrich (American expatriate artist, 1858–1908) Children in a SchoolroomConstant Mayer (French-born Amerian artist,...
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Dwellings of African Americans before & after the Civil War
William Aiken Walker (American painter, 1839-1921) Cabin Scene The dwellings of African Americans did not change dramatically after the Civil War, except that families usually occupied one cabin....
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Hon. Alexander Smyth, a slave holder, and for ten years, Member of Congress from Virginia, in his speech on the Missouri question. Jan 28th, 1820. "By confining the slaves to the Southern states, where...
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American Slaves Working
Mr. Eleazar Powel, Chippewa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, who lived in Mississippi in 1836 and 1837. "The slaves had to cook and eat their breakfast and be in the field by daylight, and continue there...
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Hon. T. T. Bouldin, a slave-holder, and member of Congress from Virginia, in a speech in Congress, Feb. 16, 1835. Mr. Bouldin said "he knew that many negroes had died from exposure to weather,'' and...
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American Slaves & Rice
Slaves and Rice Cultivation in South CarolinaThe intricate steps involved in planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing rice required an immense labor force employing both men and women. Planters...
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A glimpse of everyday life in 19th century America - A Man's World - Baltimore
Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Politics in an Oysterhouse 1848Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) was supported by his prosperous Baltimore family, who had hoped he would become...
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American Women by Jacob Eichholtz 1776-1842
Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Ann Old Coleman (Mrs. Robert Coleman), c. 1820I first became aware of Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842), when I roamed the halls of the Maryland Historical...
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A Few Quirky, Folky Portraits of Early 19th-Century American Women
attributed to Emily Eastman (Loudon, New Hampshire, 1804-? ) Woman in Veil c 1825Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists exhibit...
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19th-century Pennsylvania by Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842)
Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Conestoga Creek & Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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American Landscape Painter George Inness 1825-1894
George Inness (American Hudson River School/Tonalist Painter, 1825-1894) Early Autumn, Montclair 1888George Inness' (1825-1894) early work was influenced initially by prints of the works of Claude...
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Memorial Day
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in...
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