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Beswick: A Special Breed of Porcelain Animals

Albert Hallan, Animal Figures, Animal Figurines, Arthur Gredington, Batemans of Stamford, Beswick animal figurines, Beswick Beatrix Potter collectibles, Beswick England, Beswick Ware Made within England, Features, figurine collections, Harvey May, James Wright Beswick, John Ewart Beswick, Misc, Peter Scott Wildfowl collection, porcelain figurines
Rare Beswick model of a girl on grey pony 1499 with light green jacket – top auction estimate was $1,000, sold for $1,600 in 2018.
by Maxine Carter Lome, Publisher From 1896 when James Wright Beswick and his sons John and Gilbert first established their earthenware pottery business, “J. W. Beswick,” at the Gold Street ...
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The Horse Fair: A Celebration of Rosa Bonheur’s Equestrian Masterpiece

Alexander T. Stewart, Antoine-Louis Barye, Erica Lome, Ernest Gambart, Features, French art, George Stubbs, internationally renowned French artists, Le Marché aux Chevaux, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painting, Paris Salon, Ploughing in the Nivernais, Realism movement, Rosa Bonheur, Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), Sheet of Studies for The Horse Fair, The Horse Fair painting, Victorian, William P. Wright
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) The Horse Fair, 1852–55, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Erica Lome, Ph. D. Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) The Horse Fair, 1852–55, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art If you took a stroll through the European Paintings galleries at ...
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Jeanne Toussaint: Cartier’s Petite Panthére

Barbara Hutton, Cartier flamingo clip, Cartier Panthère wristwatch, cigarette cases, Coco Chanel, compacts, contemporary jewelry, Daisy Fellowes, Dame à la Panthère, diamond panther bracelet, Dutchess of Windsor, Features, George Barbier, handbags, Jeanne Toussaint, Jeanne Toussaint (1887-1978), jewelry designer Jeanne Toussaint, L’Odysée de Cartier, Louis Cartier, Pierre Lemarchand, Princess Nina Aga Khan, Wallace Simpson, Wallis Simpson Jewelry Collection
Diamond, Emerald, Onyx Panthére ring by Cartier
by Maxine Carter-Lome, Publisher “A woman who revolutionized contemporary jewelry” is how Cartier describes jewelry designer Jeanne Toussaint in the 2019 film series, entitled L’Odysée de Cartier. Born in 1887, ...
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The View From Where You Sit: Personal Magnification Devices

Ancient, Bautain Bte opt-n de la Reine 8 Castiglione 16 Ste Avoye, binoculars, Captain Percival Eddy, convex, Cutts two-draw Spyglass, device, Dollond London, europeans, Faberge's, Features, France, Francois de Vaillou a Milan, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Glasses, Historical, Hugh Powell, Imperial Japanese, ingenieur du roi, invention, inventions, Japanese, jealousy glasses, lense, lenses, London, magnification, magnifying lenses, Melody Amsel-Arieli, MET, metmuseum, Microscope, Middle East, Miniature Dollond Monoculars, monoculars, Nero, ocular, opera glasses, optics, oriental, P. Cutts & Sons, P. Cutts and Sons, Paris, Passemant, Personal, Pliny the Elder, Quizzing Glasses, reading stones, refractor, Roman, science, scientific, smaragdus, South Staffordshire enamel combined etui and spyglass, spyglass, swift, The Met, vintage, World War 2, World War II, world war two
Microscope: 3 convex lenses in the inner cylinder, fitting into shagreen (snakeskin)- covered tube, with gilt-bronze finial cap and tripod stand, optics by Passemant, ingénieur du roi, France, c. 1750 photo: metmuseum.org
by Melody Amsel-Arieli Simple magnification devices, like water-filled spheres and rock crystal (quartz) “burning glasses” were known around the Mediterranean and across the Middle East in ancient times. These evidently ...
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The Genius of the Reticent Inventor – Alexander Graham Bell

Aleck, Alexander, Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander M Bell, Anthony Pollok, Arizona Citizen, audiometer, Bell, Boston, Cambridge, Canada, Cape Breton Island, Declaration of Independence, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland, Eliza, Emperor Pedro of Brazil, Features, Gardiner Hubbard, George Eastman, George Westinghouse, Graham, Helen Keller, Hydrofoil, inventor, John Douglas Parran, long-distance telephone, Lord Kelvin, Mabel Hubbard, Mabel Hubbard Bell, metal detector, Mr. Bell, National Geographic, New York City, Nova Scotia, Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Phone, phones, Protophone, Saul Bass, Scotland, Smithsonian Institute, speech, speech elocution, Stefano Bianchetti, Technology, Telegraph, Telephone, Thomas Watson, University of Edinburgh, Washington DC, Western Electric Company, World Fair
Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance telephone call in 1892, reaching Chicago from New York photo: Stefano Bianchetti
by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “The Boston Advertiser prints an interesting account of an experiment in carrying out a conversation by word of mouth over a telegraph wire, made by Alexander ...
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The Sears National Quilt Contest

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The flyer for Sears’ Quilt Making Contest featuring the Century of Progress Building reached out to women by asking “You can ‘bake a sweet cake,’ but can you ‘sew a fine seam?’”
An essay from Quiltindex.org by Merikay Waldvogel The Sears National Quilt Contest organized by Sears Roebuck & Co. in connection with the Chicago World’s Fair (known officially as “The Century ...
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Samplers: An Evolution of Purpose & Design

Atlantic seaboard, back-stitch, bestiaries, bouillon, British band sampler, british darning sampler, Brunswick Chariton, ceylon, chain stitches, couched, Crafting, cros-stitch, cross, detached buttonhole, double running, E.B. HMS, E.P. Church St. Louis, emblem books, English, Features, ferne-stitch, fisher stitch, flora and fauna motifs, floral design, Florentine, Frances Boyce, French, frost-worke, geometric design, German, gloves, herbals, herringbone, Holbein, irish-stitch, Italian, italian cut-worke, John Taylor, kesemary-stitch, laid worke, linen, linen foundations, Mary Pots, MET, MET Museum, Methodist, Missouri, montegrin cross, mowse-stitch, Museum, needle cases, needlewomen, net-worke, New England, pattern books, Pennsylvnia's Westtown quaker school, purles, Quaker, queen-stitch, Quilting, raisd-worke, Rebecca Marsh, samplers, satin, Shoes, Silk, silk on linen, smarting-whip-stitch, spanish-stitch, spider web, stomachers, Susan Bushey, tent-worke, The Needle's Excellency, tudor, Victoria and Albert Museum of Art and Design
British darning sampler, signed: Frances Boyce/1780, silk on linen, 20 ¹⁄₈ x 20 ¹⁄₈” framed, courtesy www.metmuseum.org
by Melody Amsel-Arieli Samplers are pieces of fabric worked to demonstrate mastery of ornamental embroidery stitches and motifs. This fine art arose in the late Middle Ages when English nuns ...
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Memorial Quilts: Expressions of Remembrance

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Baltimore, comfort, Diane Schweier Krail, Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell, Features, Judy Anne Breneman, Kentucky Historical Society, Memorial Quilt, memorial quilts, Mexican-American war, National Mall, Nina Aura Mitchell Biggs, nineteenth century, Quilting, Quilts, remembrance, San Francisco, Victorian Era
Civil War Memorial Quilt from the Quilt Index and the Massachusetts project. Each of the white strips and the stars are inscribed with the name of a Massachusetts soldier, his company and the date he enlisted.
Graveyard Quilts for Mourning By Judy Anne Breneman, womenfolk.com Before modern medicine the loss of beloved friends and family members was all too familiar. Childbirth was dangerous and it was ...
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Friendship Quilts: A Gift of Remembrance

Album, album quilts, autograph books, Autograph Quilts, bridal quilts, Chelmsford, Ella-Elizabeth Spaulding, Ellen, embroidered, Embroidery, Enoch and Mary, Enoch Worrall, Features, freedom quilts, Friendship, Friendship Quilts, fundraising quilts, Handmade Signature Quilt Antique, indelible ink, Linda Otto Lipsett, Ludlow, Main and Andover, Marilyn Cox, Mary Worrall, Massachusetts, Old Sturbridge Village, OSV Friendship Album, Pennsylvania, presentation quilts, Quilt Historians, quilting bees, Remember Me: Women & Their Friendship Quilts, Rolling Stone Friendship Block, sampler album quilts, Signatures, single pattern quilts, Starley Quilt Collection, Tradition, Vermont, Victorian Friendship Quilt Block, Willard Reed, Women's Work
Oak Reel block dated 1846, Enoch and Mary Worrall quilt, dated 1850. (Starley Quilt Collection)
by Maxine Carter-Lome, Publisher In the summer of 1854, inside an enormous four-story brick house at the corner of Main and Andover in Ludlow, Vermont, Ella-Elizabeth Spaulding joyously prepared for ...
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Erica Wilson: Sharing Joy through Embroidery

America's First Lady of stitchery, Betty Ring, Beverly Gordon, Candace Wheeler, Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Columbia Minerva, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Cynthia Fowler, Designs of the Times, Edith Lynch, Elizabethan Lady, Embroidery, Erica Wilson, Features, Girlhood Embroidery, Linda Eaton, Madison Avenue, Margaret Parshall, Marjorie P. McGraw, Millbrook, Mrs. Daryl, Nantucket, Needlework, needlework designer, New York, New York City, Painted with Thread, Paula Bradsteet Richter, Plain & Fancy, Royal School of Needlework, Samplers and the Modern Priscilla: The Images and Paradoxes of Colonial Revival Needlework, Spinning Wheels, Susan Burrows Swan, Textiles and Winterthur Museum, Vladimir Kagan, Walter Crane, Winterthur Musuem, Witherthur Porfolio, women's needlework
Crewelwork sampler, one of the early projects worked by Erica at the Royal School of Needlework. Their first few projects were designed for them. Students had to pay for their own materials and most proudly kept their projects for the whole of their lives. 2015.0047.004 A, B, Gift of The Family of Erica Wilson, Courtesy of Winterthur Museum
By Linda EatonJohn L. & Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections and the Senior Curator of Textiles at Winterthur Museum Until relatively recently, scholarship on women’s needlework has focused on the ...
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John James Audubon: A Short Reflection on His Life and Works

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John James Audubon, Self-portrait, 1822-23
by Pat Raynock, Biologist and Audubon Collector As a career biologist, I have spent a lifetime looking at the beauty and beastliness of the natural world. I have benefited in ...
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Collecting Inspiration: Henry David Thoreau & Nature

Concord Museum, Erica Lome, Features, Henry David Thoreau
Figure 2: Henry D. Thoreau, ambrotype by Edward Sidney Dunshee, 1862. Th33b, Henry D. Thoreau, Gift of Mr. Walton Ricketson and Miss Anna Ricketson (1929). photo courtesy of the Concord Museum
by Erica Lome, Ph.D. One April morning, when Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was fishing in a stream outside the center of Concord, Massachusetts, he was distracted by a hawk as ...
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