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American Folk Art - Unconventional Portrait of an Early 19C American Woman
Unknown Vermont Artist. Woman in a Rose Dress c 1805-1815Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists exhibit several similar...
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Allen Smith Jr (1810–1890)
.Allen Smith Jr (American artist, 1810–1890) The Artist's MotherNew York-trained artist, Allen Smith, Jr. settled in Cleveland, Ohio in 1841, having been in New York City from 1930, and swiftly rose to...
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Life in North Carolina during Reconstruction
WOMAN WITH COLLARD LEAF ON HER HEAD TO CURE A HEADACHE by Mary Lyde Hicks William (1866-1959) Mary reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in North Carolina.
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - Old Fogies
.Mrs. W. H. Clausen gave birth to a healthy son weighing fifteen pounds. And yet old fogies croak about the degeneration of the human race.-from the Burlington Hawkeye, Des Moines, Iowa, March 19,...
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Fighting for Equality - Florence Allen 1884-1966
Florence Allen attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University), graduating with honors in 1904. After graduation, Allen traveled to Germany to further her music studies....
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From the Newspapers - A Curious Case of Kidnapping in June 1857
.Unknown American Artist Baby in a Red Chair 1825 A German girl named Bertha Bushkill, “was arrested on Sunday last, in New York, for kidnapping a child. Her purpose was that she might induce a young...
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Another Portrait of African American Muslim Yarrow Mamout 1822
.1822 James Alexander Simpson (American artist & teacher) Yarrow Mount. Peabody Room, Georgetown Public LibraryGeorgetown artist James Alexander Simpson, a sometime painter & instructor at...
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American Folk Art - Women & Their Children Attributed to George G. Hartwell...
George G. Hartwell (American artist, 1815-1901) Prior-Hamblen School attributedChild Holding Doll and Shoe c 1845George G. Hartwell was associated with the Prior-Hamblin group of painters. He was...
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Earliest known portrait of practicing American Muslim by Charles Willson Peale
.One of the earliest formal portraits of an African American - a well-known oil painting of a kufi-wearing free black man painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1819 - has been sold by the Philadelphia...
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - Chicken Bones
New York, Nov. 16, 1899–Justice Bookstaver, in the Supreme Court, yesterday heard the application for divorce made by Mrs. Mary E. Okerlind from Gustavus E. Okerlind of Brooklyn. Mrs. Okerlind...
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American Folk Art - Quaint Portraits of Early 19C American Women
attributed to John Usher Parsons (American artist, 1806-1874) Woman in Pink c 1835-38 Several New England artists shared a unique painting style during the 1820s-30s. Women depicted by these artists...
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - The Bustle Returns
.What self-respecting female sticks a hump on her back the size of a dollar’s worth of flour?The Winston Herald, March 15, 1894 (Alabama)That Pesky Bustle.—That ridiculous bustle is going to be “the...
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From the Newspapers - Giddy Mother of 16
.Mrs. J.C. Anderson, a giddy young thing, and the mother of 16 children, has run away with a big-trousered dude 25 years of age.Xenia, Ohio 1889 -The TelegraphFrom Tweets Of Old.
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Fighting for Equality - Hallie Quinn Brown 1850-1949
Hallie Quinn Brown was born on March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of former slaves. Her family migrated to Canada and to the United States in 1870, settling in Wilberforce, Ohio....
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Long Island in the 1860-70s by William Moore Davis (1829–1920)
.William Moore Davis (American artist, 1829–1920) The Lady Behind the DoorBorn in Setauket, New York, the self-taught William Davis was a painter of trompe l'oeil still life, genre, & landscapes....
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Men & Women Camping in the Adirondacks, New York
.Photographer J F Holley, Camping in Lean-tos in the Adirondacks 1890Here, both men and women are camping in the Adirondacks in various styles of fashionable dress. The six couples are standing in...
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - Toenails
.A woman in Minnesota filed for a divorce because her husband “never cuts his toenails and being a restless sleeper, scratches me severely.”-from The Hartford Weekly Herald, Hartford, Kentucky, April...
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