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1716 Boston Lighthouse's 1st Keeper, his Wife, & Daughter met a Tragic End
Engraving of original Boston Lighthose situate at the Entrance of Boston HarbourAs early at 1675, settlers lit bonfires on a hill overlooking Boston Harbor as an aid to navigation, but it wasn’t until...
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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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Martha Washington - Not thrilled to be First Lady
1796 James Sharples (1751-1811). Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) (m Daniel Parke Custis) (m George Washington)The White House Historical Association tells us that Martha Washington...
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18C American Woman Reading
1796 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Sherman Boardman (Sarah Bostwick) holding a book
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1734 A Divine & Supernatural Light, Imparted to the Soul by God-Spiritual &...
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)nbsp; by Joseph Badger (1708–65). Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was an American preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as "one...
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18C American Woman Reading
1795 Joseph Steward (American artist, 1753-1822) Pamela Sedgwick 1753-1807 with her daughter who holds a small book
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18C Delicate Women in the Almshouse
1748 Jersey Nanny by John Greenwood 1748A 1751 petition to Philadelphia's Overseers of the Poor conveyed the request of Mary Marrot and her daughter for more refined fare in the almshouse. Although...
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18C American Woman Reading
1797 Gilbert Stuart (American painter, 1755-1828) Ann Willing Bingham with books
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Excessive Heat & Gay Women - Charleston, South Carolina - Before the Revolution
A View of CHARLES-TOWN, in the Capital of SOUTH CAROLINA engraved in London by Samuel Smith after a painting by Thomas Leitch, depicts recognizable Charleston landmarks during its peak of prosperity...
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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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Mothers & Sons; Pet Deer; & Deer Parks in 18C America
1712 Justus Englehardt Kuhn (fl in Maryland 1708-1717). Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702 - 1782).In colonial British America, the sons of gentry were painted with deer pets, while their elders often...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1708-09 Henrietta Johnston 1674-1729 Unknown Lady SC Governor's Mansion
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Tea Time in 18C Massachusetts
Creamware Tea Pot from Leeds c 1780In America during the 18th century, young & the old from all levels of society occasionally spent their leisure time taking tea together.Elizabeth Fuller...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1708 Henrietta Johnston 1674-1729 Mary DuBose Mrs Samuel Wragg Gibbes Mus Art
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Massachusetts Slave "Mumbet" 1742-1829
Elizabeth Freeman ("Mumbet") 1742-1829Elizabeth Freeman ("Mumbet") was born a slave around 1742. She was raised, along with her younger sister Lizzie, in Claverack, Columbia County, New York (about 20...
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Tea, Violence, & Divorce in 18C America
1787 Remains of the slashed & torn portrait by the Sherman Limner (perhaps Abraham Delanoy 1742-1795). Rebecca Austin Mrs John Sherman & son Henry (1789-1817).Rebecca Austin (b 1753) married...
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18C Women in Business - Commerce & Character
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Earlier in the century, trade was often characterized in moral rather than political terms. Benjamin Franklin's fabricated letters to the editor on...
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18C Women in Business in Nantucket
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Descnbing the customs of eighteenth-century Nantucket, Hector St John de Crevecoeur praised the industnousness of the wives of the town, who,...
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18C Women in Business - Train in Accounting & Business
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Author Daniel Defoe 1660-1731 argued for the necessity of women being trained in accounting and business skills, such training provided economic...
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