Everyday folks - Fishing
James Goodwyn Clonney (English-born American artist, 1812-1867) Waking Up 1851
View ArticleLove & Marriage: Frakturs from the National Archives
.Illustrated family record (Fraktur) found in Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application File R9408, for Samuel Shade, Pennsylvania., ca. 1800 - ca. 1900Frakturs are elaborate...
View ArticleEveryday folks - The War Pension Agent
 John Eastman (American Painter, fl 1842-1880) The Pension Claim Agent
View ArticleHunting & Shooting in 19th century America
Charles Deas (American artist, 1818-1867) Turkey Shooting 1838James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) Which way shall we go?William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857) Wild...
View ArticleEveryday Life - Industrious Family
John George Brown (1831-1913) The Industrious Family
View ArticleFishing in 1800s America
George Caleb Bingham (American genre painter, 1811-1879) Fishing on the MississippiJames Goodwyn Clonney (English-born American artist, 1812-1867) The Happy Moment 1847William Tylee Ranney (American...
View ArticleLife in the streets of 1840s New York City by Nicolino Calyo (Italian-born...
Nicolino Calyo (Italian-born American artist, 1799-1884) Broadway New York City 1840-44Born in Naples, Nicolino Calyo was an accomplished American nineteenth century painter who worked first in...
View ArticlePerennial Alert! from American artist William Merritt Chase 1849 - 1916
Orphan perennials are going on sale as the weather warms. Lots of years of joy to come.William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) The Nursery 1896.
View ArticleEveryday Life - Crossing the stream
John George Brown (American genre paintere, 1831-1913)Â Crossing the Stream
View ArticleOver the River & Thru the Woods to Grandmother's House We Go
My Grandmother CarrieWhen I was young, we lived very close to my grandmother's house. My grandmother was a product of the last quarter of the 19th-century in the mid-west.  Each day my mother would...
View Article1825 The tow path by the Concord River
Jabez Ward Barton (American artist, 1798-1888) c 1825 View from William Rogers House. Shown, looking west, may be the packet boat George Washington being towed across the Concord River from the...
View ArticleLadies Boating by Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939)
Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939) Before The Bath Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939) Frederick Carl Frieseke - On the RiverFrederick Frieseke (1874-1939) On The EpteFrederick Frieseke (1874-1939) On The River...
View Article1850 Yale College & State House, New Haven, CT
Yale College & State House, New Haven, Connecticut. 1850
View ArticleCroquet in the Garden
 Johann Mongles Culverhouse (Dutch-born American painter, 1825-1895) CroquetCroquet is, like pall mall, trucco, jeu de mail & kolven, clearly a derivative of ground billiards, which was popular in...
View ArticleJohn Warner Barber (1798-1885) View of Salem
John Warner Barber (1798-1885) Southern View in the Central Part of Salem.
View ArticleEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): His 13-year-old-wife & the other women in his life
Edgar Allan Poe was born just over 200 years ago, and he died in 1849. The writer & poet, is known worldwide for his surprise-ending horror mysteries & macabre poetry. Poe was one of the...
View Article1810-20 George Washington Felt (American artist, 1776-1847) Courthouse...
George Washington Felt (American artist, 1776-1847) Courthouse Square Salem MA 1800 - 1820
View ArticlePost Civil War fashions for American Women
1866 Godey's fashions for April 18661866 Godey's fashions for December, 18661866 Godey's fashions for January 18661866 Godey's fashions for May 18661866 Godey's fashions for October 1866.1866 Kimmel...
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