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Women and Labor Day
.Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riviter 1943The United States Department of Labor tell us that Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social...
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - The Hired Girl
.Don’t light the fire with kerosene. Let the hired girl do it. She hasn’t any wife and children; you have.–from The Climax, Richmond, Kentucky, February 19, 1890From Tweets Of Old.
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American Artist John S. Blunt 1798–1835 The Borden Limner
.John S. Blunt (American artist, 1798–1835) Lady with a Gold CombJohn S. Blunt was was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. Many of John S. Blunt's family were seafaring people. His father was a...
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American Artist William Jennys 1774-1858
.William Jennys (American artist, 1774-1858), Unknown WomanWilliam Jennys, an itinerant portraitist, was painting in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, & then in New York...
View ArticleFrom the Newspapers - Milking Stool
.Mr. Arthur Antle presented his wife with a new 3-legged milk stool on the occasion of their wedding anniversary last week.-from The Indian Republican, Tulsa, Indian Territory (IT), 1900From Tweets Of...
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19th-Century American Women - by James Frothingham 1786-1864
.James Frothingham (American artist, 1786–1864) Lucia PickeringJames Frothingham was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and began as a chaise painter in his father's chaise manufactory. In the Boston...
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A Few Girls of Summer by American Clement Rollins Grant 1849–1893
.Clement Rollins Grant (American artist, 1849–1893) A Seat in the Garden Clement Rollins Grant was born in Freeport, Maine in 1848. In 1866, he sailed for Europe, spending time in Great Britain &...
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19th-Century Women Playing Tennis
.Otto Henry Bacher (American painter, 1856–1909) Portrait of Mary HollandGeorge Goodwin Kilburne (English painter, 1839-1924) A Game of TennisFrancis Sydney Muschamp (British artist, 1851-1929) A Game...
View ArticleAlmshouses for People in Need in Maryland
Almshouses in MarylandAlmshouses, residences for the care and housing of people in need, once served as the primary institutions for the housing and care of the poor and homeless. Few, however, realize...
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African American Schoolhouse by William Wallace Wotherspoon (American...
.William Wallace Wotherspoon (American painter, 1821-1888) Scene Outside Southern Schoolhouse (perhaps during Reconstruction).
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19C American Women in Green - Spring is Here
Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Portrait of a young lady c 1803John Trumbull (American artist, 1756 – 1843) Mrs. Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1805-1870) 1828Richard Clague (1821–1873) Mrs...
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Wordplay
Wordplay (but no fun at all) - Before the 20th century, the word sex did not refer to sensual pleasures, simply to the "other sex".
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1829 Ohio George Washington's Birthday Ball
.Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans. Written during her stay in America, 1827-18311829 Ohio George Washington's Birthday Ball In noting the various brilliant events which diversified...
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1828 Life on a Farm in Ohio
.Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans. Written during her stay in America, 1827-18311828 Life on a Farm in Ohio. Spring 1828. We visited one farm which interested us particularly from...
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1827 New Orleans' Quadroon Women
.Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans. Written during her stay in America, 1827-1831Quadroon Women in New Orleans, Louisiana. December 1827. Our stay in New Orleans was not long enough...
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