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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1766 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Thomas Boylston (Sarah Morecock) Harvard Univ
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The art of Wax Figures in 18th-century American taverns & gardens & museums
Early American social life was a little boring and conservative in the opinion of one French visitor who wrote "Americans...in social life have less; and if they live almost without pain, they also...
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1766-67 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Woodbury Langdon (Sarah Sherburne) pvt
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1754 A Picnic in Annapolis, Maryland
Fishing in the British American colonies was a social sport, & the outcome was as unpredictable then as it is nowadays. This poem appeared in the 1754 Maryland Gazette about preparing a list of...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1767 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. William Turner (Ann Dumaresq) Wadsworth Athenaeum
View Article1756 Baltimore Indentured Servant Elizabeth Sprigs' letter home
. Elizabeth Sprigs, a servant in a Maryland household, financed her passage to the colonies from England in exchange for a term as an indentured servant. She served in a Maryland household and wrote...
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1770s Matthew Pratt 1734-1805 Lucy Randolph Burwell ca. 1744-1802. Matthew Pratt VHS
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1754 Indentured Servants - Germans in Pennsylvania
From Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754 (Philadelphia, 1898).Gottlieb Mittelberger traveled to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1750, on...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1770 Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772). Margaret Stiles Manning. Brown University Portrait Collection
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1789 View of the seat of his Excellency John Hancock in Boston
1789 Seat of his Excellency John Hancock, Esqr. Boston, Massachusetts Magazine
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1767-69 John Singleton Copley 1715-1738 Elizabeth Green Mrs Ebenezer Storer II pvt
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A day in the life of a wealthy widow on a country seat in colonial New York
Margarita Schuyler was a wealthy housewife in the countryside near Albany, New York. She was born in January 1701, the daughter of Johannes Schuyler & Elsie Staats Wendell. She was raised by her...
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1774 Charles Willson Peale 1741-1827 Elizabeth McClure Mrs Mordecai Gist Milwalkee
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A day in the life of a gentry wife in a colonial southern town
To understand the well-to-do housewife in the colonial South, the most important fact to remember is that she was completely subordinate to her husband. He was the head of the household & exercised...
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1769 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Elizabeth Storer 1726-1788 Mrs Isaac Smith Yale Univ Art Gallery
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1733 Woman's Tale - The Tea Table
.This story about the miraculous virtues of tea was printed in the Rhode Island Gazette. Tea was reportedly introduced into the British American colonies in 1714. This is the 1758 John Potter...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1774 Ralph Earl 1751-1801 Mrs Henry Daggett Eliz Perscott Pvt
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Benjamin Franklin publishes The Drinker's Dictionary 1737
The Drinker’s Dictionaryby Benjamin Franklin Posted on January 13, 1737 The Pennsylvania Gazette There was a similar list published inthe New England Weekly Journal of July 6, 1736.Nothing more like a...
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1769 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs Jeremiah Lee Martha Swett Wadsworth Athan
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