18C American Women in War & Democracy

 Henrietta Middleton by Mary Roberts  flourished c1752-58 (died 1761 Charleston, South Carolina)  Metropolitan Museum of Art Mary Roberts (d...

  Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801)   Her son Joseph's late-18C portrait of his mother at the American Philosophical Society. Hannah C...

Eleanor Magruder Briscoe by John Drinker, in Jefferson County West Virginia 1800-02  When Eleanor Magruder Briscoe was born on January 6, 17...

1716 Frances L’Escott (1705-1747) by Henrietta Johnston(c 1674-1729) Frances L’Escott was born in 1705, the daughter of Reverend Paul L’Esco...

George & Martha Washington's Wash House at Mount Vernon in Virginia    Compiled by Sydney Marenburg  In the Mount Vernon home of Mar...

A Laundress on the Beach, The Decameron, Manuscript 5070. 1432. Arsenal, Paris.  Soap, mainly soft soap made from ash lye & animal fat, ...