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Artist Charles Waldo Jenkins 1821–1896
.Charles Waldo Jenkins (American artist, 1821–1896) Residence of L A Newland 1848From the New York Times, November 17, 1896Charles W Jenkins, at one time a well-known portrait painter, died suddenly...
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Women are more graceful than men because they have no pockets to put their hands in and acquire a slouchy gait while young.Mountain Echo newspaper, Marion County, Arkansas, 1886.
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - Dead mermaid washes ashore...
The dead ‘mermaid’, recently cast up by the sea near Lewes,ought to be preserved in the interest of science.A Mermaid Found in Delaware.Date: January 20 1880Newspaper published in: St. Louis, Mo.(From...
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Fighting for Equality - Determined 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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Anerican Folk Art - Children with Books
.Attributed to George Hartwell (Americian artist, 1815-1901) Little Girl in Pink with Book and Rose, ca. 1840.Attributed to Jacob Eicholtz (American artist, 1776-1842), Two Girls, Lancaster,...
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Portraits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
On January 14 & 16, 2009, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Tribune reported that New York siblings John, Pamela, and William Pickens placed portraits painted by Philadelphia artist...
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American Folk Art - Bonnets, Books, & Color - A Few Liberated Female Readers
.Jonas Holman (American artist, 1805-1873) Woman with Pink Neck Ribbon c 1830-35John Brewster Jr. (American Painter, 1766-1854) Ann Batell Loomis 1822Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) c...
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Carriage Ride
Chevaux & Voitures. Le Cabriolet a Pompe. Published by M. Knoedler & Co. New York.
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Fighting for Equality - Harriet Taylor 1853-1945
Harriet Taylor was born December 17, 1853, in Ravenna, Ohio, the daughter of Ezra Taylor, an Ohio judge. In 1861 the Taylor family moved to Warren, Ohio.In 1880, Upton's father was elected to Congress...
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From the Newspapers - Men need chaperones...
A Chicago woman has been arrested for highway robbery. No proper young man now ventures to appear on Chicago streets without a chaperone.-from The Newton Press, Jasper County, Illinois, February 15, 1888.
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American Folk Art - Emily Eastman (Loudon, New Hampshire (1804-1841)
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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American Folk Art - David Waite Bowdoin (c 1819-c 1872)
.In 1840, David Waite Bowdoin (ca. 1819-ca. 1872), an obscure portraitist (only 2 paintings are known & the other is of his father) from New Braintree, Massachusetts, painted an intense portrait of...
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From the Newspapers - Female Farmer
.A young woman in Dakota who works 160-acres, says she could work twice that if marriage-minded men would stop bothering her.-from the Vernon Courier, Vernon, Alabama, 1887From Tweets of Old.
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From the Newspapers - The Hair on the Back of Their Heads...
.The Atlanta Constitution says: “In Russia the girls carry dynamite in their back hair. In Georgia they carry it in their dear little eyes.”-from the Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, August 8,...
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American Folk Art - Bonnets & Books: America's Very Straightlaced Female Readers
,Sheldon Peck (American painter, 1797-1868) Mrs DodgeSheldon Peck (American painter, 1797-1868) Mr and Mrs William Vaughan of Aurora, IllinoisAmmi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) Katherine...
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