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The Rose
1900-1916
1988.02
Cross-stitched embroidery by the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework. |
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Mary: Lamson family servant
c. 1867
2000.19.22.01
African American women like Mary experienced only limited economic opportunity after the Civil War. |
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Woman washing
1857
1994.20.03.35
George Fuller (1822-1884) sought to highlight in his sketches of southern slaves what he called "the expressions of what we call lowly or everyday life." |
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African-American woman sewing
1856-1858
1994.20.03.54
Like his other drawings of slave and southern plantation life, this interior sketch of slave quarters by George Fuller (1822-1884) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carefully details the spaces in which slaves worked and lived. |
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Clothes Wringer
c. 1872
1967.07.01
The wooden wringer, to squeeze the water from newly washed laundry, was patented May 28, 1872. |
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Work shoe
1800-1830
1989.018.01
This is typical of a unisex work shoe for the early 19th century. |
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"Negro Nurse with a Child"
1861
1995.14.02
This painting by George Fuller of a child having her hair combed by her African American "nurse" was undoubtedly a product of Fuller's travels in the South just before the Civil War. |
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"Women of Plymouth"
c. 1893
1995.14.05
This preparatory study served as the model for a mural for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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Patent Model of Plow
c. 1840
1977.44
This model of a plow was made by Dexter Pierce of Montague, Massachusetts. The Patent Law of 1836 required that any request for a patent had to be accompanied with a model. |
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Broad Ax
1925.11.06.01
A broad ax is used to shape a round tree trunk into a square or rectangular timber. |