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Tag Archives: Joseph Downs Collection
A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
The coconut: it conjures up images of summer luaus and tropical sands, or perhaps it brings to mind the zany sound effects from a certain Monty Python production. There is another intriguing way to envision a lovely bunch of coconuts: … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Programs, American Culture Studies, Conservation, Decorative Arts, museum collection, Uncategorized
Tagged 19th century, coconuts, du Pont, early tools, H. F. du Pont, Henry Francis du Pont, HF du Pont, Joseph Downs Collection, objects, organic materials, Winterthur, Winterthur Garden, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Playing with Fire
“Fire engines gave us the same thrill that children have felt in all times at the sight of running horses accompanied by the clanging of bells.” –Samuel Canby Rumford Samuel Canby Rumford grew up in a house on the corner … Continue reading
The Adventures of Archibald Hamilton Rowan: Textile Manufacturer on the Banks of the Brandywine
In the summer of 1795, exiled Irishman Archibald Hamilton Rowan arrived in Philadelphia, his journey to America quite an extraordinary one. Born in 1751 into an Irish family of privilege, he was raised by his wealthy English grandfather and educated … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Library
Tagged Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Benjamin Franklin, Brandywine River, Caesar Rodney, French Revolution, James Lea, Jeanne Solensky, John Dickinson, Joseph Downs Collection, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Marie Antoinette, Mary Willstonecraft, Newgate Prison Dublin, Robespierre, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Thomas Mifflin, William Aldred, Winterthur, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Library manuscript, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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French Fashions on Paper: Advertising the Coiffure in 18th-Century Paris
Among the numerous items in the library’s Maxine Waldron Collection of Children’s Books and Paper Toys is a gorgeously hand-painted French set of paper cards from the late 1780s not intended as a children’s plaything but rather as an advertisement … Continue reading
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Tagged coiffures, Denis-Antoine, Esnauts Raphilly, Galerie des Modesm Cabinet des odes, H. F. du Pont, Harry du Pont, Henry Francis du Pont, HF du Pont, Ile de la Cite, Jeanne Solensky, Joseph Downs Collection, Marie Antoinette, Maxine Waldron, Maxine Waldron Collection of Children's Books and Paper Toys, Palais Royal, Paris, Queen Marie Antoinette, Rose Bertin, Rue Saint-Denis, Rue Saint-Honore, Rue Saint-Jacques, Seine, Winterthur Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Library Ephemera, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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Watercolor Drawings from Paris
In the early 1800s, an artist or a group of artists created at least four volumes of watercolor catalogues depicting personal goods that were for sale in Paris. Two of the volumes, labeled numbers one and four on their spines, … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Library
Tagged Colonial Williamsburg, E. Richard McKinstry, Frank H Sommer, Joseph Downs Collection, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, LeBeuf, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Objects d'Usage & de Gout, Rich McKinstry, Winterthur, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Library Collection, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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John Hancock Writes His Wife
Most of us know John Hancock (1737–93) as the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. His large, bold signature sent a clear message to the British people that he hoped their days as rulers of the American colonies would … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Library
Tagged Declaration of Independence, Dolly Hancock, Dorothy Hancock, Dorothy Quincy, Downs Collection, John Hancock, Joseph Downs Collection, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Library collection, manuscript collection, The Old Print Shop, Winterthur, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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