“A Moree Gown”
Every archivist, curator, and collections manager has come across– or perhaps just skimmed over– a document or object that really deserved a little ...
“To maiking a skcy blew sute”
How do you know when a painting is made? For Charles Willson Peale, diaries, letters, and receipts play a large role in determining when his portraits were made...
A 1920s Party Dress
Two years ago, Drunk Tailor and I celebrated my birthday at a vintage event at the Congressional Cemetery in DC, for which I obviously needed a new dress. We bo...
To a plain Mahogany Cradle
There is only one known image of Anne Cadwalader, John and Elizabeth Cadwalader’s first-born child. She sits on Thomas Affleck’s mahogany card table, the carvin...
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