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In Business - Merchants
A few women in British Colonial America participated in trade. In England, some had done so since at least the 14th century, and a small number even belonged to guilds. Most colonial businesswomen were...
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In Business - 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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In Business - Boston Shopkeeper 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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Portrait of 18C American Women
1757 Jeremiah Theus 1716-1774 Elizabeth Rothmahler Brooklyn
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In Business - Shopkeepers in Boston face a Revolution 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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1798 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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Portrait of 18C American Women
1757 John Wollaston 1733-1767 Probably Elizabeth Dandridge CWF
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1729 Portrait of 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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Portrait of 18C American Women
1757 Joseph Blackburn fl 1752-1778 Mrs James Pitts Detroit Inst Arts
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Portrait of 18C American Moravian Woman
1754 John Valentine Haidt (1700-1780), Johannetta Maria Kymbel (1725-1789) Mrs John Ettwein. Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
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Portrait of 18C American Women
1757 Joseph Blackburn fl 1753-1763 Mrs. Joseph Blaney (Abigail Browne) MFA
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In Business - Clementina Rind 1740-1774, Printer for Tho Jefferson & Editor...
Clementina Rind (1740-1774), printer & newspaper editor, was the wife of William Rind, public printer in Maryland & Virginia. She sailed to the Maryland colony with her father John Grierson in...
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1785 John Adams (1735-1826) & Abigail Adams (1744-1818) write of Easter Week...
John Adams by William Winstanley, 1798John Adams noted in his journal Easter Week activities in France.Good Friday. Went in the afternoon to Longchamps. This is the last Day. Every year; the...
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Easter Bunny - 18th-Century Pennsylvania Fractur
This drawing is an example of a Pennsylvania German tradition of decorated manuscripts known as fraktur. This delightful image is attributed to tailor, sailor, & schoolmaster Johann Conrad Gilbert...
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Easter Hot Cross Buns from 18C Britain to British America
A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins, marked with a cross on the top, and traditionally eaten during Easter Week, especially on Good Friday, in the United Kingdom and...
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18C American Women & their Pet Birds
1758 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Portrait of Ann Fairchild BowlerThis is the perfect time to look at paintings of 18C Americans with their birds, both in the wild & captured in aviaries &...
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