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Illuminated Manuscript - Telling the Shepherds of Jesus' Birth
Illuminated Manuscript Annunciation to the Shepherds Unknown; c 1475-1480
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George Washington - Where & how my time is spent - December 1769
George Washington George Washington (1731-32-1799) as a Young Man, Painted by Rembrandt Peale (American artist, 1778–1860) December 1769 - Where & how—my time is—SpentDecr. 1. Dined at Mrs....
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Why did 18C US Freemasons, including Jas Madison & Geo Washington, have...
December 27 is the feast of Saint John the Apostle & Evangelist.Freemasons historically celebrate two feasts of Saint John. The feast of John the Baptist falls on 24 June, & that of John the...
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 At Home & At Military Camps
MW 1796 Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828). Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) (Daniel Parke Custis) (George Washington)Martha Dandridge's first husband was a man much older than herself & her...
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Women in the Whiskey Rebellion, America's 1st Civil War
Initially, US soldiers & local militias maintain the union in the Early Republic. Washington Reviewing the Western Army, at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, after 1795, attributed to Frederick...
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18C American Woman Reading
1797 Gilbert Stuart (American painter, 1755-1828) Mary Willing Clymer holding a book
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18C American Woman Reading
1799 Charles Peale Polk (American artist, 1767-1822) Margaret Baker Briscoe (Mrs. Gerard Briscoe) with glasses & a book
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18C American Woman Reading
1799 Charles Peale Polk (American artist, 1767-1822) Eleanor Conway Hite & James Madison Hite who is looking at a book
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18C American Woman Reading
1801 Jacob Frymire (American artist, c 1770-1822) Amelia Heiskell Lauck (1760-1842) of Winchester, KY keeping her place in a book
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18C American Woman Reading
1800 Charles Peale Polk (American artist, 1767-1822) Martha Selden Jones (Mrs. Churchill Jones) of Chatham, near Fredericksburg holding a book
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George Washington as a Freemason - No Women Allowed
William Joseph Williams (1759-1823) George Washington, Mason, 1794In July 1792, Washington had turned down a request for a sitting from American artist William Joseph Williams, telling Governor Henry...
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Turtles, Turkeys, & Punch - Food & Drink at 18C US New Year's gatherings
In 1774 John Adams recorded in his diary on several special occasions enjoying the turtle on the dinner table, while visiting Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. 1774 Septr. 11. "Dined at...
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1755 Marylanders read of a new London school theater for Christmas Plays
1733 The Laughing Audience from an etching by William Hogarth (1697-1764) detail adapted by Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879)British American colonists were at least aware of the English tradition of...
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18C American Mother & Daughter Reading
1794-96 James Earl (American artist, 1761-1796) Rebecca Pritchard and her daughter Eliza reading & sewing
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18C American Family Reading
1796 Jonathan Budington 1766-1854 George Eliot and Family with a book & a journal
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18C American Woman Reading
1797 Gilbert Stuart (American painter, 1755-1828) Mary Willing Clymer holding a bookUniversity of Delaware’s F. W. Grubb wrote in 1990: Of all European countries perhaps only Scotland surpassed America...
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1798 No Women in Congress...Some Things Change, Some Things...
"Congressional Pugilists" 1798 published in PhiladelphiaThis cartoon of "Congressional Pugilists" depicts a heated partisan debate in the interior of Congress Hall in 1798. A fight on the floor of...
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18C American Woman Reading
1799 Charles Peale Polk (American artist, 1767-1822) Margaret Baker Briscoe (Mrs. Gerard Briscoe) with glasses & a book
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January 5th & 6th Celebrations in Colonial British America
When the British settled in colonial America, many brought their Twelfth Night celebrations with them. In the 18C colonies, Twelfth Night parties frequently took place in regions where large numbers of...
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18C American Woman Reading
1801 Jacob Frymire (American artist, c 1770-1822) Amelia Heiskell Lauck (1760-1842) of Winchester, KY keeping her place in a book
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