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Beyond Calico and Gingham: Fashion and the Irish-Immigrant Domestic Servant
One summer day in 1867, Catharine Burns, “a poor servant girl,” boarded the Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn while lugging a valise full of her clothing, according to the New York Herald (September 11, 1867). She was on her way to … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century domestics, Bartow estate, Bartow family, Calico dresses, Clarina Bartow Morgan, Domestic servants, Gingham dresses, Irish domestic servants, Irish domestic servants' clothing, Irish immigrants, Irish immigration in America, Irish servants and fashion, Irish servants and finery, John Leech, Robert Bartow family, Servant clothing in the 19th century, Servantgalism, Servants and caps, Servants and fashion, Servants and finery, Servants' clothing, The Servant Question
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A Carpet of Velvety Green: Lawns on 19th-Century Country Estates
A beautiful undulating carpet of fresh green grass was an essential luxury on 19th-century country estates. Today, that idea may seem fairly obvious, but why? And how did the landed gentry plant and maintain their expansive (and expensive) lawns in … Continue reading →
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Tagged A. J. Downing, A. J. Downing and lawns, Andre Parmentier, Attingham Park, Bartow estate, Claude Lorrain and A. J. Downing, Croquet in the 1870s, Elisha King, English influence on American landscape gardening, English style of gardening, Hawkswood, History of lawns, Humphry Repton, Hunter's Island, John Hunter, Lawn scythes, Lawn tools in the 19th century, Lawns, Lawns and the picturesque, Lawns on 19th-century estates, Martin Euclid Thompson, Mount Vernon, Pelham Bay estates, Pelham Priory, Robert Bartow, Robert Bolton, The Picturesque, Thomas Payne Knight, Uvedale Price, William Rickarby Miller
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Hold Your Horses: Bartow-Pell’s Carriage House
Danger! Keep Out! These were the ominous signs on a dilapidated outbuilding at Bartow-Pell in the 1980s. More than a century earlier, however, the air would have resonated with the clip-clop of horse shoes, an occasional whinny, and the smell … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century carriage houses, 19th-century carriages, 19th-century horse stalls, Andrew Jackson Downing, Bank barns, Barn cupola, Bartow estate, Carriage house and stable, Cisterns in stables, Hay lofts, Hay platform, Hillside barns, James Goold, Side-hill barns, Urine gutters in stables
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