Stop#1 Portrait of David Baldwin 1790 by Ralph Earl
Q1 Describe David Baldwin
Q2 What items in this painting tell me what kind of man he is was
Q3 What year was the portrait painted ?
*David Baldwin Prominent Newtown, Conn Merchant
* Founding Member of the Newtown Masons
*General in the Newtown Militia
Painter Ralph Earl :
*Loyalist fled American to escape the American Revolution and.. Left his wife and child and escaped under a different name. He fled to England and studied art there. He returned to the US in 1785 with a new wife (although he had never divorced his first one) and started a new life in NYC. Arrested for not being able to pay debts and spent 1 11/2 in prison. He got out of debtors prison with the help of an organization that arranged commissions. When he left he had established a great network of friends, which allowed him to travel in the Connecticut River Valley and into Massachusetts and Vermont. He died in 1801 of alcoholism.
Stop#2 Portrait of Mrs.Morse and 2 Children (Lucretia Walker Morse and children Susan and Charles)
Q1 Describe the painting
Q2 Who is the Artist that painted this painting
Q3 Do you recognize his name
Q4 Where you aware that Samuel Morse was not only the inventor of the Morse Code, but also a painter as well ?
Q5 How did his invention impact American History ?
As noted, in 1825 New York City had commissioned Morse to paint a portrait of Lafayette, then visiting Washington, DC. While Morse was painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father that read, "Your dear wife is convalescent". The next day he received a letter from his father detailing his wife's sudden death.[6] Morse immediately left Washington for his home at New Haven, leaving the portrait of Lafayette unfinished. By the time he arrived, his wife had already been buried.[7] Heartbroken that for days he was unaware of his wife's failing health and her death, he decided to explore a means of rapid long distance communication.[8]
Morse went on to marry another lady Sarah Elizabeth Griswold and had 4 more children
Stop #3 4th of July Parade 1886 by Alfred Cornelius Howland
Portrait of his home town in Walpole, New Hampshire
Q1 Describe the scene in this painting, what his happening here ?
Q2 Where do you think this painting takes place
Q3 What year was it painted ?
Q4 Looking at those participating in the parade describe them Would you agree that the author called it an odd place and it has odd people in it ?
Q5 How did the event 100 years previous to this parade impact America ?
Howland wrote that the idolized day of his boyish fancy
He described Howland as the dearest spot on earth
Stop #4 Wolfert Webber at The Inn or Wolfert Webber's Golden Dream by John Quidor 1857
Q1 Describe our cast of characters
Q2 What is the man doing in the chair ? How is the other gentleman reacting to his comment ?
Q3 How would this story relate to being an American in the 17th Century ? The American Dream ?
Based on a short story written by Washington Irving about a gentleman from Manhattan New York who was a cabbage farmer. He dreamed that his cabbage farm was going to bring him money. He had dreamed it three times and therefore it must be true. He did receive a fortune from his property, but because he had sold it.
Stop #5 Silver Service 1854
Presented Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad by his Share holders in 1854 , The set was designed with Pond in mind. The work includes scenes of the route of Hartford and New Haven. Railroad and engraving of winged horses. The winged horses are symbolic of the term "The Iron Horse" applied to the railroad because in years before the invention of the steam locomotive, horses were used to pull carriages along the tracks.
Q1 Describe the features on this silver service
Q2 Was this gift custom made ? How do you know it was custom made?
Q3 Can you see a name featured on the silver tray ?
Q4 The first steam locomotive was invented in 1804 what other type of railroad was used between the years of 1830 to 1861 ? Refer to chart ...
Q5 How did these railroads impact America ?
Stop #6 Crystal Punchbowl Set 1898
During William McKinley’s first term as president, Libbey craftsmen cut two identical punch bowl sets to safeguard the delivery of an undamaged set to the White House for Christmas 1898. At the time, it was the largest cut-glass punch bowl ever made—it took two expert cutters several weeks to execute the design of stars, stripes, and shields. The original shipment arrived safely, but its whereabouts are now unknown. This twin was held in storage in Toledo and later displayed at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at the St. Louis World’s Fair
During William McKinley’s first term as president
, Libbey craftsmen cut two identical punch bowl sets to safeguard the delivery
of an undamaged set to the White House for Christmas 1898
. At the time, it was the largest cut glass
punch bowl ever made
—it took two expert cutters several weeks to execute the
design of stars, stripes, and shields.
The original shipment arrived safely, but its whereabouts are now unknown.
This twin was held in storage in Toledo and later displayed at the
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at the St. Louis World’s Fair
*25TH President of the United States
1859 taught school in Ohio
1861 Enlisted in the Ohio Infantry and fought
in the battle of Antietam in 1962
Elected President 1897 started his term as president
1898 the US declared war on Spain known as the Spanish American War
re elected in 1900 and assassinated in 1901 and died 14 of September 1901
Stop #7 Negro Life at The South by Eastman Johnson 1870
Q 1 There is a lot of things going on in this picture. What is going on here ?
Q2 Do people look happy or sad in this painting, what are the emotions ?
Q3 How does this "shanty" compare to the house next door ?
Q4 Where is the white lady going on in the picture ? Is she going though the fence for fun ?
Q5 With the mixture of people in the picture how do you think people felt about it ?
*Picture was probably painted of his fathers home in Washington DC
*There are a lot of subliminal messages with the children of mixed ancestral races, the rooster high in the tree near the taller house and then on the roof in the Shanty
*Southerns associated it with the plantation life and noted that the "Negroes" seemed cheerful in the leisure time. Northerners might concentrate on the top half of the painting, with the dilapidated roof representing the degradation of slavery and the light-skinned women and child suggesting a theme of miscegenation (he term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations,[1] and more generally to the process of genetic admixture, which has taken place since ancient history. Historically, the term has been used in the context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, known as anti-miscegenation laws)
Stop #8 Nocturne Radio 1934 by Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883–1960), designer; Sparton Corporation (Jackson, Michigan, est. 1900), manufacturer
Q1 We know that this is a radio , how does it compare with the radio's today ?
Q2 When this radio was manufactured in the 1930's it cost about $350 . Where do you think a radio like this would be placed ?
Q3 Television did not take off until about 1943. So, how did people receive their news ?
*Pretend to be in the family room of your great grandparents. Visualize yourself in a very simple room with little furniture, little light , fire in the fire place, and maybe a pet and a large rug. You are sitting with your family and listening to the radio when an announcement comes on . It's a fireside talk given by President Delano Roosevelt ...and this is his message...
Q4 What would have been going through your mind at this time ? How do you think your great grandparents felt ? If you were supporting your family what would you have done ?
Q5 How did this historical event change America ?? How did effect families ? Children ?
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