Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Painted by James Earl, was recently priced at $450,000 in a New York gallery.

The brother of artist Ralph Earl, James Earl came to England before 1787, having followed a band of loyalists, former American Colonists who fled to London after the American Revolution. It is thought he was a student of Benjamin West. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and was a well-known Loyalist in London. He returned to America and died of yellow fever in Charleston, South Carolina in 1796. In that city, he had painted a number of portraits and his intention of settling there for a long period was cut short by his death at age 35.  (Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State)

Lady Mary Beauclerk was the only child of Aubrey [Beauclerk], 6th Duke of St Albans, by his first wife Mary Moses, daughter. of John Moses, of Hull, Co. York.  She was born 30 Mar 1791, died 11 Sep 1845, and married George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry.

Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico.

This photograph by Russell Lee, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in October 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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Wife of Ozark Mountains Farmer, Missouri

Shot by John Vachon, this picture was taken in May 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California.

The photograph was shot in June 1935 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency.

From the negative caption card, “Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Georgia sharecropper sorts tobacco.

Shot in July 1938 by influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange when she was working as a staff photographer for a federal agency, this photo is from near Douglas, Georgia.

From the caption card for the negative, “ ‘You don’t have to worriate so much and you’ve got time to raise somp’n to eat.’  The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper.”

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Mother and baby of family of nine living in field.

This photo is by Resettlement Administration staff photographer Walker Evans took this photo in March 1936 in a field on U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee, near Tennessee River between Camden and Bruceton. The family was living in the open field in a one-room hut built over the chassis of abandoned Ford truck.  Meals were cooked in a rudimentary, open lean-to near the hut.  The hut was “housing” provided by a landlord for an illiterate wood-cutter.

The family’s twelve-year old daughter is pictured in the lean-to at Eyes of the Great Depression 047 and Eyes of the Great Depression 036.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Daughter of Sikkim photographer,  Tse Ten Tashi, January 1969.

Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Record for this photo: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011646512/

Title: Gruppa evreĭskikh malʹchikov s uchitelem. Samarkand
Title Translation: Group of Jewish children with a teacher. Samarkand; Photographer: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire

• Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004.
• Digital color rendering, with hand editing, made by WalterStudio, 2000-2001.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; record page for this image.

Title:Photographer: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Title Translation: Group of children. [Russian Empire]

Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress record page for this image.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Caption with color slide: “Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio.” Photograph by John Vachon, 1942 or 1943.

Library of Congress record page for this image.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

“Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky.”  Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

Photographed by Farm Security Administration staff photographer Marion Post Wolcott in July 1940.  The photo is of Wigwam City #2, Cave City, Kentucky.

“The Wigwam Motels, also known as the “Wigwam Villages”, is a motel chain in the United States in which the rooms are built in the form of teepees, hence the name “wigwam”. It originally had seven different locations: two locations in Kentucky, a location in Alabama, another location in Florida, one in Arizona, one in Louisiana, and another one in California. They are very distinctive historic landmarks. Two of the three surviving motels are located on historic U.S. Route 66, in Holbrook, Arizona and on the city boundary between Rialto and San Bernardino, California. Wigwam Motel #2, in Cave City, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1988 under the official designation of Wigwam Village #2.

“Wigwam village #2 was built in 1937 a few miles south of the original wigwam village #1, but on US-31W in Cave City. It was built consisting of 15 wigwams used as guest rooms and a much bigger concrete and steel central structure that originally served as a restaurant. The 15 wigwams are arranged in a semi circle around a common area with playground and recreation area. Each wigwam has a paved pad to accommodate one car.

The diameter at the base of each teepee is 14 feet (4.3 m), they are 32 feet (9.8 m) in height. Behind the main room of each unit is a small bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. In 2008, the rooms contain the original restored hickory furniture, cable TV and a window mounted air conditioner. There are no telephones to maintain the original atmosphere of the motel, though there is internet access. The restaurant is no longer in operation, but the motel is still open and welcoming guests.

“Wigwam village #2 is close to Mammoth Cave National Park … The motel is located on 601 North Dixie Hwy, Cave City, Kentucky. ” –   Wikipedia

All of these images of working were semi-randomly selected from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog using a search on the word “working.”

(Click on any of the images to view a larger version.)

Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado

This photograph by Russell Lee, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in October 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs: Coca-Cola, Orange-Crush, Royal Crown, Double Cola, and Dr. Pepper.

This photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, was shot in August 1940.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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Nepalese woman wearing purple headscarf and nose ring, holding baby, Sikkim.

During visits between 1965 and 1979 (primarily 1965-1971), Dr. Alice Kandell received special permission to photograph Buddhist monks and lamas, ceremonial dances, and monasteries; people working on farms, in canning factories, and at special crafts; and the royal palace and chapel at Gangtok, including the last king, Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, his American wife Queen Hope Cooke (Dr. Kandell’s college friend), and their family.  (Library of Congress)

From the Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).

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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass., December 1940.

This photo is by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs .

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This photo was taken by National Child Labor Committee photographer Lewis Wickes Hines in December 1910.

Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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General Merchandise, Coffins, & Caskets – Maynardville, Tennessee

This picture was taken in Maynardville, Tennessee by Ben Shahn in October 1935.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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“Reach” for our facebook fan page has gone over 10,000.

Reach?

What the heck is that?

According to facebook, it’s the number of people who have seen any content associated with our page during a seven day period.

Another way of saying it is that something related to our American Civil War on facebook has been seen by 10,588 during the seven day period from April 2nd through April 8th.  That’s up 282% from the previous week.

There must be something to it.  The number of likes has been rising and the rate seems to have increased.  Today we went over 4500 and it currently stands at 4505.

Four blogs contribute material to The American Civil War on facebook:

• The American Civil War; http://civilwar-online.com/;  Jerel C. Wilmore
• Seven Score and Ten; http://gathkinsons.net/sesqui/; Allen Gathman
• Daily Observations from the Civil War; http://dotcw.com/; Mike Goad
• The Civil War Daily Gazette; http://civilwardailygazette.com/; Eric Swanger

This week’s faire is from the U.S. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, which contains a wide cross-section of still pictures from  a large number of online collections.  The images for today are  a random selection of vintage portraits.

	Keokuk Jr. and his son Charles – c.1868 Moses Keokuk (also known as Watchful Fox), son of the famous Sac and Fox chief Keokuk, and Moses’ son, 14 year old Charles Keokuk, full-length portrait, standing, facing front.Photograph taken during their 1868 visit to Washington, D.C., when they were part of an an unofficial Sac and Fox delegation. Collection: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
President A. Lincoln reading the Bible to his son Photographshows Abraham Lincoln, seated, facing right, reading to his son Tad, standing to the President’s left, facing front.Collection: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand Published: New York : Published by W. Schaus, 749 Broadway, c1865.
	A group of hard-labor convicts (common criminals) in Siberia Photograph: c. 1885   Part of: Views of people and places in Siberia from the George Kennan papers
Bill and Ellen Thomas, ex-slaves, Hondo, Texas Photograph: 1937 May 22.Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives collections.
	Ramallah woman in native costume (Palestine) Photograph shows a portrait of Fahra Tzahak Fadeh. Color slide reproduced from black and white negative or print which was handcolored, and then photographed with color film.   Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection
General John L Chamberlain Photograph: Negative was a gift to Library of Congrass by Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Part of: Harris & Ewing Collection Wikipedia
	John Edgar Hoover Photograph: Negative was a gift to Library of Congrass by Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Part of: Harris & Ewing Collection Wikipedia
Col. Henry Ashby, 2nd Regt. Tenn. Cavalry Picture is part of Civil War glass negative collection
	Lawrence Killey Artist: Alfred R. Waud. Drawing – c. 1865 Part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings Inscribed on verso: 3 Jersey Cavalry; Broad yellow band on trousers, yellow braid and large buttons on jacket, false hussar jacket lined with yellow; cap without visor-braided with yellow; very few dress coats [?] on jackets in the Western army; blouse-Army of Potomac more dressy with cap reg. compy [?] marks etc.
His Excel: G: Washington Esq: L.L.D. Late commander in chief of the armies of the U.S. of America & president of the Convention of 1787 / painted & engrav’d by C.W. Peale. Engraving, 1787, Charles Wilson Peale Summary: Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing slightly right; in oval.