16 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/7f29eb33c5bb38e990b12726fe5e0c6f.jpeg 7f76f52313955fdd2e5f742ee3e106e9 Person An individual. Name Mistie, Elsie J. Birth Date 1907 Death Date 1960 Birthplace Chicago, IL Occupation artist Biographical Text One of the artists created WPA historic house drawings. She studied art in her hometown at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Vogue Commercial Art School. Mistie was an accomplished artist, receiving commissions for a variety of art projects throughout her life. Mistie's collection of about 500 drawings and paintings of wildflowers is now in the collections of the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, and the remainder of her work is at the Rogers Historical Museum in Arkansas. Source <a href="https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/mistie">https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/mistie</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elsie J. Mistie artist women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/6965de8dfdfd9cb0fb87ab92369ab76f.jpg 80379f17b609607249c46d45a8becb70 Person An individual. Name Keckley, Elizabeth Authority Source authority source <a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85055360.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85055360.html</a> Birth Date 1818 Death Date 1907 Birthplace Petersburg, VA Deathplace Washington, DC Occupation Seamstress Biographical Text Elizabeth Keckley was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. Born into slavery near Petersburg, Virginia, Keckly used her talents as a seamstress and designer to buy her freedom and that of her son. In July of 1860, Elizabeth moved to Washington, D.C. She created an independent business in the capital based on clients who were the wives of the government elite. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley founded the Contraband Relief Association ("CRA") in August 1862, receiving donations from both Lincolns, as well as other white patrons and well-to-do free blacks. The CRA provided food, shelter, clothing, and emotional support to recently freed slaves and/or sick and wounded soldiers. The organization was based in Washington, D.C., but the funds distributed and the services provided helped families in the larger region. After the American Civil War, Keckley wrote and published an autobiography, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868). It was both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for breaking privacy about them. Source <a href="http://www.surrattmuseum.org/elizabeth-keckly-gravesite">http://www.surrattmuseum.org/elizabeth-keckly-gravesite</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Keckley african american Lincoln, Mary Todd seamstress Washington, Martha women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/3ecaccfeb89357870a5c7f9f29ef3777.jpg e1517fea13dc00ee1f50f48ada8db728 Person An individual. Name Adam, John Birth Date 1775 Death Date 1848 Birthplace Alexandria, VA Occupation silversmith; jeweler Biographical Text Nothing is known about the youth of silversmith John Adam. He probably learned silversmithing from his father James Adam who worked in Alexandria. It is commonly accepted that John continued the use of his father’s name punches, which were used over long periods, both too early for the son to have been making large hollowware pieces and well after the father had died. Source <a href="http://www.catherinehollan.com/JohnAdam.pdf">http://www.catherinehollan.com/JohnAdam.pdf</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Adam jeweler silversmith https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/0ecfa3633693ca763c7448e3653d79a5.jpg 02f3919359aa64813ff041f3640d8f3f Person An individual. Name Adams, Abigail Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142790.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142790.html</a> Birth Date 1744 Death Date 1818 Birthplace Weymouth, MA Occupation first lady Biographical Text Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) was an American first lady (1797-1801), the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnadams" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnadams</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Abigail Adams first lady women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/178c3a8822b3caca900338c6a85e5040.jpg 27fd05263792ea40c66c50d45da9996e Person An individual. Name Adams, John Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79105675.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79105675.html</a> Birth Date 1735 Death Date 1826 Birthplace Braintree, MA Occupation president Biographical Text John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was a direct descendant of Puritan colonists from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He studied at Harvard University. In 1774, he served on the First Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Adams became the first vice president of the United States and the second president. He was married to Abigail Smith Adams. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnadams" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnadams</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Adams president https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/6b15496be7265717813558b42f2cf46d.jpg 04e9125d5edcc686202916ccd96d8f7e Person An individual. Name Allyn, Rex M. Birth Date 1887 Death Date 1965 Birthplace Wellington, OH Deathplace Powhatan, VA Occupation artist; photographer Biographical Text Rex Merrill Allyn (1887–1965) was born in Wellington, Ohio. In 1931, Allyn was hired by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Development's Division of History and Archaeology to take photographs and maintain highway markers, taking hundreds of photographs of historic properties. The photographs served as the basis for artistic pen-and-ink drawings commissioned by the division for use in a publication on historic Virginia shrines, using funds from the WPA's Federal Art Project (FAP). Allyn was one of five artists to contribute to the project, producing fourteen drawings of historic houses and churches between 1934 and 1937. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/allyn" target="_blank">https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/allyn</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rex M. Allyn artist photographer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/043f72e42b41632434129c4e6c9517f3.jpg 8f615ed7916487f95828e7f3eaa67058 Person An individual. Name Alpert, Seymour Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96803414.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96803414.html</a> Birth Date 1918 Death Date 2008 Birthplace New York, NY Deathplace Silver Spring, MD Occupation physician; educator; philanthropist Biographical Text Seymour Alpert graduated from Columbia University in 1939 and subsequently attended Long Island College of Medicine. After a stint in the U. S. Army where he was based at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D. C., he joined the faculty of the George Washington University School of Medicine where he practiced anesthesiology and taught from 1948 to 1983. Dr. He was involved in several philanthropic organizations and activities. He was a founder of Israel Bonds of Washington and held many leadership positions in the organization. He was also active in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where there is now an established chair in his name. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://library.gwu.edu/ead/ms2008.xml" target="_blank">https://library.gwu.edu/ead/ms2008.xml</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seymour Alpert educator philanthropist physician Person An individual. Name Alsop, Benjamin H. Death Date 1885 Occupation landowner Biographical Text Along with his wife, Sarah J., was the first non-Snowden family member to own Snow Hill Manor in Laurel, Md., Prince George's County. In 1865, Sarah Snowden and her sister Mary Tyson sold their lands to Benjamin and Sarah Alsop. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/md/md0500/md0536/data/md0536data.pdf" target="_blank">http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/md/md0500/md0536/data/md0536data.pdf</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Benjamin H. Alsop landowner https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ed8194975bf826215c7cba40d2fb1848.jpg 21392611ac1a3dd9a2b870f0571ebfb3 Person An individual. Name Anderson, Isabel Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87926606.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87926606.html</a> Birth Date 1876 Death Date 1948 Birthplace Boston, MA Deathplace Washington, DC Occupation writer; heiress; philanthropist Biographical Text Anderson, Isabel Weld (née Perkins), wife of Larz Anderson, owner of the Anderson House. When Isabel was only five years old, she inherited $17 million dollars from her grandfather William Fletcher Weld, making her the wealthiest woman in America. When Larz Anderson died in 1937 with no children, his widow oversaw the gift of Anderson House and its contents to the Society of the Cincinatti, of which Larz had been a devoted member. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Weld_Perkins" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Weld_Perkins</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Isabel Anderson heiress philanthropist women writer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/4d70846bcf578d7bd4778786848eeb0c.jpg f31b3301f436042604873962c36512ea Person An individual. Name Anderson, Larz Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90688618.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90688618.html</a> Birth Date 1866 Death Date 1937 Birthplace Paris, France Deathplace White Sulphur Spring, WV Occupation businessman; ambassador; diplomat Biographical Text He was a wealthy businessman. As a diplomat he briefly served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1912–1913). He was the great grandson of Lieutenant Richard Clough Anderson who served in the American Revolution, and also the grandnephew of Brigadier General Robert Anderson who defended Fort Sumter at the beginning of the American Civil War. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larz_Anderson" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larz_Anderson</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Larz Anderson ambassador businessman diplomat