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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) The Toll Gate 1861Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in Rotterdam...
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19C American Woman
1830 Elizabeth Kinchen Kearny by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in North Carolina
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Ex-slave Millie Williams, about 86, Remembers stealing a chicken in 19C America
Millie laughed, "I's 'member well de time we'ns steal one of de marster's big chicken's. I's had it in a pot in de fireplace an' it waz sho' smelling good an' seen de mistress cumin'. I's grab dat...
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Portrait of Ernestine
PORTRAIT OF ERNESTINE by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in North Carolina.
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Ex-slave Lucy Thomas, about 86, Remembers the 50 gallon barrel of whiskey in...
Lucy remembered, "All the hands was up and in the field by day light. Nobody laid in bed up in the morning like folks do today. Dr. Baldwin allus had a fifty gallon barrel of whiskey on the place. He...
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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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Ex-slave Mary Armstrong, about 91, Remembers finding her mother after she was...
Mary remembered, "...when the war was over, I started out an' looked for mamma again, an' found her like they said in Wharton County near where Wharton is. Law me, talk 'bout cryin' an' singin' an'...
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Churning and Dish Washing
Churning and Dish Washing by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Ex-slave Leithean Spinks, about 82, Remembers her bossy 1st husband in 19C...
Leithean remembered her first marriage, "Ise gits mai'ied in 1872 to Sol Pleasant. Weuns have 2 chilluns befo' weuns sep'rated in 1876. De trouble am he wants to be de boss of de job an' let me do de...
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Ironing before a Log Fire
1890-1910 After Slavery - Ironing before a Log Fire by North Carolinian Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Ice Bridge at Longue Point 1847Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in...
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Ex-slave Fannie Brown Remembers dancing to fiddle music in 19C America
Fannie recounted, "My how dem niggers could play a fiddle back in de good ole days. On de moon-light nights, us uset to dance by de light ob de moon under a big oak tree 'till mos' time to go to work...
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Child in the Lap of her Nurse
CHILD ASLEEP IN LAP OF NURSE by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Ex-slave Cindy Washington, about 80, Remembers going to church with the white...
Cindy remembered, "...we was taught to read an' write, but mos' of de slaves didn't want to learn. Us little niggers would hide our books under de steps to keep f'um havin' to study. Us'd go to church...
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Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia Planter & Herbal Doctor
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks(1752-1837) Virginia Planter & Herbal Doctor 1752 - 1837 Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum. Painted by John Toole, 1815-1860.While she’s often...
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19C Newspaper Woman Anne Newport Royal 1769-1854
From A Centennial History of Alleghany County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton. Published in 1896."Anne Newport was born near Baltimore in 1769. In 1772 her parents had moved to the mouth of the Loyal Hanna...
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Free Blacks in MarylandFrom the seventeenth century on there was a growing free black population in Maryland. This population grew quickly in the antebellum years. African Americans were usually...
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Harper's Weekly looks at Memorial Day
Decorating 3,000 Graves of Civil War casualties at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York from Harper's Weekly Charles S. Reinhart Illustration, Harper's Weekly June 4, 1870 Floral Tribute to the...
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Thomas Nast (1840-1902) looks at Memorial Day
Thomas Nast (1840-1902) Harpers Weekly Decoration Day, May 30, 1871 Thomas Nast (1840-1902) in Harpers WeeklyThomas Nast (1840-1902) in Harpers Weekly
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