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1834 Mother & Very Sweet Little Boy in Two Rather Amazing Hats
.Unknown Artist - Agnes Frazee and Child 1834 (Probably Agnes Clark, Mrs Phineas Freeman Frazee Sr (1810-1891) of Brooklyn NY and then of Richland County, NJ, where he was a carriage maker. They had...
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1829 American Mother & Child
Abel Buel Moore (American, 1806-1879) Maria Eddy wife of Dr. Joseph Freiot and son John Henry Freiot c 1829.
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Woman's Work - Telling Fortunes by American Harry Herman Roseland (c.1867-1950)
Harry Herman Roseland (c 1867-1950) The Palm Reader. The visitor is wearing a hat & carrying her purse & a parasol. A hatbox filled with yarn sits on the floor & unfinished knitting hangs...
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Well, One More Early 19th-Century American Boy & His Faithful Dog...
.Milton W. Hopkins (1789-1844) Pierrepont Edward Lacey (1832 - after 1860) and His Dog, Gun.
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Nevada, Gold, Slavery, & Abraham Lincoln
. In 1864, anxious to have support of the Republican-dominated Nevada Territory for President Abraham Lincoln's reelection, the U.S. Congress quickly admits Nevada as the 36th state in the Union.In...
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Today in History - 1866 Dedication of the Statue of Liberty
.On October 28, 1866, The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland was...
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Mother By Henry Inman (1801-1846)
.Henry Inman (1801– 1846) Georgianna Buckham And Her Mother.
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Women & the Painting "The Burial of Latané"
.William D. Washington(American, 1833-1870) The Burial of Lantane Detail 1864The Burial of Latané was one of the most famous Lost Cause images of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Painted by...
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Today in History - The Telegraph
.This key, believed to be from the first American telegraph line, was built by Alfred Vail as an improvement on Samuel Morse’s original transmitter.On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental...
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Today in History - 1813 US Fur Traders Turn Over Astoria, Oregon, to the British
.John Jacob Astor, Oregon PioneerOn this day in 1813, US citizens operating the Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon, turn the post over to their rivals in the British North West...
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Today in History - 1855 Rival Governments in Bleeding Kansas
.Photo of John Brown 1856On this day in 1855, in opposition to the fraudulently elected pro-slavery legislature of Kansas, the Kansas Free State forces set up a governor & legislature under their...
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Visiting After Church
.Edward Lamson Henry (American Painter, 1841-1919) A Chat After Meeting 1871Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919) was an American genre painter born in Charleston, South Carolina who came to live in New York...
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19th-Century America
.John Gast (1842-a 1877) American Progress or Manifest Destiny (1872).
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19th-Century American Families
.John Barnard Whittaker (American, 1836-1926) The Lesson 1871Horace Rockwell (American painter, 1811-1877) Lewis G. Thompson Family 1842-5Henry F. Darby (1829 – 1897) The Reverend John Atwood and His...
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19th-Century American Children
.Francis Martin Drexel (1792-1863) Double Portrait 1822.
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Unexpected Yellow from American Artists
.George Peter Alexander Healy (1813 –1894) Euphmia White van RensselaerHerbert F. Denman (1855-1903) Under the Willow 1893Frank Russell Green (1856–1940) Lady with a Pink RoseWilliam Merritt Chase...
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American Women from One Century to the Next
. Richard Clague (1821–1873) Mrs Gueynard (New Orleans)Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) A Lady 1893Ruth Alsobrook Florence in a Green Hat 1936.
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American Women from One Century to the Next
.Thomas Le Clear (1818–1862) Margaret Randall EvansWilliam Worchester Churchill (1858-1926) The Nosegay of Violets Portrait of a Woman 1896Louis Mayer (1869–1969) Woman in Violet Chapeau.
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A Glimpse of the 1890s from American Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928)
.When I think of Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), I imagine dancing nudes in mythical landscapes. And I also wonder how he pulled off having two separate wives & families which were unknown to each...
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