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Clementina Rind 1740-1774, Printer for Thomas Jefferson & Editor of the...
Clementina Rind (1740-1774), printer & newspaper editor, wife of William Rind, public printer in Maryland & Virginia, is said to have been a native of Maryland. She may have been the daughter...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art Museum Across the 18C globe, dress varied widely. In the early 18C, British &...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs. John Dart, Henrietta Isabella Sommers (1750–1783). 1772 Jeremiah Theus (American, Chur, 1716–1774 Charleston, South Carolina) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that Henrietta Isabella...
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Sarah Updike Goddard (c. 1701-1770) Printer & Mother of a Spoiled Son & a...
Printer's workshop (18th century woodcut). British Library. Shelfmark Harl.5915.(215.)Sarah Updike Goddard (c. 1701-Jan. 5, 1770), printer, was born at Cocumscussuc, one mile north of the village of...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art Museum Across the 18C globe, dress varied widely. In the early 18C, British &...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs. Francis Brinley (1698–1761) and Her Son Francis (1729–1816). 1729 by John Smibert (American, Edinburgh, Scotland 1688–1751 Boston, Massachusetts)The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that she...
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Baltimore Postmistress & Publisher Mary Katherine Goddard 1738-1816 & Her...
Mary Katherine Goddard (1738-1816) was the only daughter of Sarah Updike (1700-1770) & Dr. Giles Goddard (1703-1757), postmaster & physician in Groton & New London, Connecticut. Sarah...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art Museum Across the 18C globe, dress varied widely. In the early 18C, British &...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
Mrs. Jonathan Pinkney, Jr. (Elizabeth Munroe) 1798 by James Peale (American, Chestertown, Maryland 1749–1831 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that she lived in...
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18C Women Shopkeepers in Boston as a Revolution was Rising
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Scot Artist.From The National Park Service - Boston National Historical Park Cuming Sisters:"She-Merchants" of Boston by Polly Kienle, U.S. Park Guide"As...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1797 Jacques Grasset of Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Costumes of Different Countries, Los Angeles County Art MuseumAcross the 18C globe, dress varied widely. In the early 18C, British &...
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Woman Shopkeeper in 1769 Boston, Mrs. James Smith (Elizabeth Murray)
Mrs. James Smith (Elizabeth Murray) Boston, 1769, by John Singleton Copley (American artist, Boston, 1738–1815)Elizabeth Murray was born in & spent the 1st 12 years of her life in Unthank,...
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Women, Business and George Washington
Women, Business and George WashingtonMarch 27, 2015 by Julie Miller, Early American historian in the Manuscript Division.Library of Congress BlogIn 1766, Philadelphia shopkeeper Rebecca Steel...
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British American Women Merchants
A few women in British Colonial America participated in trade. In England, some had done so since at least the fourteenth century, and a small number even belonged to guilds. Most colonial...
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Colonial Women participate in Consumer Boycotts during the American Revolution
During the American Revolution, many women joined protests and boycotts of imported British goods voluntarily, while others succumbed to pressure from patriots. The colonists first used nonimportation...
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Women, Tea Parties, & the American Revolution
The Boston tea party occurred in December 1773, when angry gentlemen of Boston, some costumed as Native Americans, destroyed property of the East India Tea Company on ships in the Boston harbor in...
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18C Women Owning Millinery Shops
In the 1500s & 1600s, the millinery business involved shopkeepers who dealt in milanese (as in Milan, Italy) ware, like silks, ribbons, armor, swords & other Italian goods. Millinery, however,...
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Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton 1759-1846, poet, humiliated child, betrayed...
Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Mrs. Perez Morton (Sarah Wentworth Apthorp)Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846) was an early American poet whose published work of the...
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18C Women Across the Globe
1770s Bunka Fashion College in Japan. Underneath the illustration the word Dutch is handwritten in pencil. NetherlandsAcross the 18C globe, women's dress varied widely. In the early 1700s, British...
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Female Apprentices in 18C Colonial America
Apprentice Female Tinsmith? Detail Ferblantier (Tin Plate Maker) Encycopedia of Diederot & d'Alembert 1765Though there was no system of standards governing the trades in the British American...
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