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18C American Women in Business - Historiography of Women's Economic Roles in...
A Woman Shopkeeper of the 1790s, by an Unknown Artist.Everything indicates that, should need arise, there was nothing in the social or economic code of the times to prevent a woman's supporting herself...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1749-52 John Wollaston. 1733-1767 Portrait of a Woman. Art Institute of Chicago
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Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) Best Selling Author, Actress, & Educator
Preparation for War to defend Commerce, Birch's Views of Philadelphia, Published by W. Birch, Springland Cot. near Neshaminy Bridge on the Bristol Road; Pennsylvania. Decr. 31st 1800., Plate 29Slavery...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1749-1752 John Wollaston. 1733-1767 Mary Walton Morris. National Gallery of Art
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Painting 18C Women Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772)
Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Catholic portrait painter & engraver John Alexander (1690-1765) and the great grandson of George Jameson (c.1587-1644), whom...
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Thomas Jefferson, Art Collector, seemed to collect little art about Women
John Trumbull (American painter, 1756-1843) Thomas Jefferson 1788Thomas Jefferson was acutely conscious of the importance of historical icons in the formation of a national identity, like Indian...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman - Moravian Mrs. C. Theodora Neissen. Johann...
Mrs. C. Theodora Neissen. Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780) Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Valentine's Day - 1700s British Colonial & American Couples
1773 John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Miffin (Sarah Morris).1773 John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Winslow (Jemima Debuke)1775 John Singleton Copley...
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1749-1752 John Wollaston. 1733-1767 Mrs. Joseph Reade Met
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Politics Became her Passion - Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839)
Detail of 1903 photograph of an 1830 painting of Quaker historian Deborah Norris Logan.Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839), collector of historical records, was peculiarly fitted by inheritance &...
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18C Portrait of an American Woman
1760 Joseph Badger. Colonial American Artist, 1708-1765, Sarah Larrabee Edes.
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1750 John Hesselius 1728-1778 Millicent Conway Gordon VA Hist Soc
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1747 Portrait of an American Family
1747 John Greenwood (American colonial era artist, 1727-1792). The Greenwood-Lee FamilyFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive &...
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1750 Portrait of an American Family
1750 John Wollaston (American colonial era artist, 1710-1775). Family GroupFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so...
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Biography - Revolutionary Soldier Deborah Sampson 1760-1827
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827) became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension from the...
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1750 Portrait of an American Woman
1750 John Wollaston 1733-1767 Experience Johnson (1720-1788) Mrs. Samuel Gouverneur (1720-1798) at WinterthurExperience Johnson of New Jersey, married New York merchant Samuel Gouverneur, son of Isaac,...
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Infanticide - The Execution of Boston's Rebekah Chablit 1733
Rebekah Chamblit (ca.1706-1733) lived in Boston, Massachusetts. She was tried and executed in 1733 for infanticide. Her "declaration," reportedly "read at the place of execution," September 26th, 1733,...
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18C American Women with a Book
1750 Joseph Badger 1708-1765 Faith Savage Waldo Mrs Cornelius Worcester Mus ArtThomas Jefferson, who knew that reading was important, drafted a Virginia Assembly bill in the 1770s, titled “A Bill for...
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Sexual Politics-Mohawk-Style 1754
Hendrick Theyanoguin Chief of the Mohawk Indians, published in London in 1755 The British American colonial government convened a conference in Albany, New York, in the summer of 1754. French troops...
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