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Photo Archives - 19C African American Women Working
A woman in South Carolina winnowing chaff from grain using a fanning basket. Two South Carolina women pound outer husks from rice grain. Pounding rice using a wooden pounding tool and a hollowed out log.
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Photo Archives - African American Ladies & the Language of the Victorian Parasol
Apparently Victorian ladies also understood the language of the parasol.Alvan S. Harper (1847-1911) Tallahassee c 1884 State Library and Archives of FloridaIf the lady touched the tip of the parasol to...
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Photo Archives - Children & Their Pets
My absolute favorite.Helena, MontanaPhotographer Beales, Fulton, New York. PennsylvaniaPhotograhers King Brothers, Santa Paula, Calfornia.Perhaps it's the child, perhaps it's the dog. Hard to...
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Photo Archives - Back To School
Hands-on learning out-of-doors became commonplace in late 19th-century elementary schools in the United States. The new trend introduced basic science, conservation, and preservation into the...
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Photo Archives -- Little Girls That Could Be Me
I am not just posting these girls because they lived in the 19th century. I am fascinated by these photos, because I see myself, or at least a part of me, in each of these photos. I am waiting for my...
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Photo Archives 19C American Millinery Creations
1847 by Ball, James Presley, 1825-1904Photograph by L Hagendorff, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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America Shelter Us in the Shadow of Your Wings. Copyright by Heb. Pub. Co. 1901Many Jews who lived in Eastern Europe between the 1880s & 1920s experienced extreme anti-Semitism & were often...
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Paving the Way - Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805-1875) Early Female Medical...
Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805-1875)Today, the ranks of our medical professionals are growing. Men & women now serve as nurse practitioners & physician assistants maintaining an important place in...
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Ex-slave Teshan Young, about 86, Christmas Memories
Teshan remembered,"When do chores am done on Sunday or Christmas, we'uns can have de music, dance and singin'. We'uns have some good ole times. De songs am de ole timers, sich as Swanee River, Ole...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Meta Morris Grimball 1862 in...
Journal of Meta Morris Grimball: South Carolina, December 1860-February 1866: At the Grove Plantation, St. Paul's Parish, South CarolinaMargaret Ann "Meta" Morris Grimball, 1810-1881, was a descendent...
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Ex-Slave Molly Ammond's Christmas Memories
Ex Alabama Slave Molly Ammond:"Us was treated fine. Our folks was quality. We had plenty somp'n t'eat, but dem slaves hadda work powerful hard though. Atter dey come home fum de fields dey was so tired...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Julia Johnson Fisher of Georgia
DIARY OF JULIA JOHNSON FISHER, 1864Julia Johnson Fisher, 1814-1885, was a native of Massachusetts, living with her husband, William Fisher (1788-1878), and her children in an isolated area in Camden...
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Ex-Slave Eda Rains' Christmas Memories
Eda Rains was born a slave in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1853. In 1860 Eda, her brothers and mother, were bought by a Mr. Carter and brought to Texas:"Now, I mus' tell you all 'bout Christmas. Our...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Sarah Lois Wadley 1860-1864
Diary of Sarah Lois Wadley August 8, 1859 - May 15, 1865Sarah Lois Wadley, 1844-1920, was the daughter of William Morrill Wadley (c1812-1882) and Rebecca Barnard Everingham Wadley (fl. 1840-1884) and...
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