9 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/f958ffc40de11e6be6e4c85c73a4d535.jpg b207c03c2a15227c2fddfb182b60abfd Person An individual. Name Ferguson, Henry Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98120240.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98120240.html</a> Birth Date 1882 Death Date 1966 Birthplace San Rafael, CA Deathplace Washington, DC Occupation civil servant; geologist Biographical Text Henry Gardiner Ferguson worked for U.S. Geological Survey, 1911-1958, and specialized in geology of Western United States. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290957" target="_blank">http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290957</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 Henry Ferguson civil servant geologist https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a87b0738801153e7df15133e45398fd7.jpg 9e2ecaa0f238bff02bbea724c86d5dac Person An individual. Name Ferguson, Alice Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99031440.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99031440.html</a> Birth Date 1880 Death Date 1951 Occupation artist; painter Biographical Text Alice Lescinska Lowe Ferguson, wife of Henry Gardiner Ferguson, was a dynamic, creative artist who trained as a painter at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. When Alice and Henry Ferguson bought Hard Bargain Farm in 1922, little did they imagine that it would become a place where children from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area would come to learn about the environment, agriculture and history. The purchase of Hard Bargain Farm changed the course of Alice’s life as she transformed it into a unique, remarkable center that is still alive with the mark of her creative touch. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://fergusonfoundation.org/history/history-of-the-fergusons/" target="_blank">http://fergusonfoundation.org/history/history-of-the-fergusons/</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 Alice Ferguson artist painter women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/8dd58fb9addd90deeb222b930fc60b36.jpg 2e067fa3fcb4a41c4a550ddcb962291c Person An individual. Name Farrington, Dorothea A. Birth Date 1913 Birthplace CT Occupation illustrator; designer; cabinet maker Biographical Text A resident of Suffolk, Virginia, Dorothea Ann Farrington first received word in January 1936 that she would be employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Project to produce pen-and-ink illustrations for the Virginia Commission of Conservation and Development's publications. Farrington became involved in the Index of American Design, another Federal Art Project funded by the WPA. One of Farrington's furniture plates was displayed in an exhibition of the Index of American Design's Virginia Unit held at the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. The original drawings are now in the collections of the National Gallery of Art. Source <a title="https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/farrington" href="https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/farrington">https://lva.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wpa_drawings/artists/farrington</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 Dorothea A. Farrington cabinet maker designer illustrator women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ee7f27175c13e101028ccba5558b4bc0.jpg 706e7d2dbcfcaa6170d60440a4dd253c Person An individual. Name Ellsworth, Elmer Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83219725.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83219725.html</a> Birth Date 1837 Death Date 1861 Birthplace Malta, NY Deathplace Alexandria, VA Occupation military soldier Biographical Text Ellsworth was a law clerk and United States Army soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer killed in the American Civil War, though, in reality, the first casualties of the war occurred more than a month earlier during the Baltimore riots. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_E._Ellsworth" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_E._Ellsworth</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 Elmer Ellsworth military soldier https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ed4ae5abc2d4a4a6d66e716167e1ca4e.jpg 35e2f0b3f9650b909865c25fa58b9989 Person An individual. Name Duvall, W. Henry Birth Date 1896 Death Date 1979 Occupation farmer Biographical Text For more than 50 years, farmer William Henry Duvall of Croom, Md., traveled widely buying old farm implements and hand tools. In 1981, two years after he died, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired his collection and turned it into a museum. As down-home as a garage sale on foldaway tables, the Duvall Tool Museum offers in a one-room, barn-like space more than 2,000 tools and household implements from the 19th and 18th centuries. Source <a title="http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3009" href="http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3009">http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3009</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 W. Henry Duvall farmer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/9fdaa81744fe17f6d97cbb0ca471b224.jpg 20524a6a44dbfb1b06975e1fc6f2f0dc Person An individual. Name Duckett, Charles Occupation military officer; civil war Biographical Text Duckett was a former slave on Trueman family farm who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War. Duckett enlisted in the Union Army in 1864, joining the 19th regiment of the United States Colored Troops, Company 1. He was soon transferred to the Navy, where he served as a landsman for the ships the Allegeny and the Vadalia. Discharged in March, 1866, Duckett worked as a farm hand, on the Trueman property in Aquasco. He built the Duckett cabin around 1880 on the Trueman farm in Aquasco in southern Prince George's County. It was moved to Patuxent River Park in 1974. Source <a title=""http://history.pgparks.com/page43779.aspx "">http://history.pgparks.com/page43779.aspx</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 Charles Duckett african american civil war military officer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/67db9de831874b30732fe144ed807535.jpeg 377b6ffac66b32a339a2b2758ae9d2ed Person An individual. Name Dufy, Raoul Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=dufy&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500024166" target="_blank">http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=dufy&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500024166</a> Birth Date 1877 Death Date 1953 Birthplace Le Havre, France Deathplace Forcalquier, France Occupation painter; designer; potter Biographical Text Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Dufy</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 Raoul Dufy designer painter potter https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/ee1da90fc766c8f88eab71d72ea256dc.jpg dadf24ab11fc3b8480a6c93ae6914e66 Person An individual. Name Douglass, Frederick Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013236.html" target="_blank">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013236.html</a> Birth Date 1818 Death Date 1895 Birthplace Talbot County, MD Deathplace Washington, DC Occupation abolitionist; dignitary; writer; activist Biographical Text Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass</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 Frederick Douglass abolitionist activist african american dignitary writer https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/1c8eccbbf804658d01b62e295393eeed.jpg bcee7283515fc95e4246d32877d21d09 Person An individual. Name Dorsey, A. B. Occupation minister Biographical Text He was a first pastor to the Dorsey Chapel, built in 1900, in Glenn Dale, MD. Dorsey Chapel was built in 1900 to serve the black farming community of Brookland, located near the railroad village of Glenn Dale (originally called Glenville). Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Dorsey_Chapel/History.htm" target="_blank">http://history.pgparks.com/sites_and_museums/Dorsey_Chapel/History.htm</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 A. B. Dorsey minister https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/8b0c32f4891e5720b48ce716051b961c.jpeg 20139d75fa201c6f4990b5697ae00d5c Person An individual. Name Dessez, Leon Authority Sources <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Dessez%2C+Leon&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500081844" target="_blank">http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Dessez%2C+Leon&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500081844</a> Birth Date 1858 Death Date 1918 Birthplace Washington, DC Deathplace Washington, DC Occupation architect Biographical Text Dessez designed public buildings in Washington D.C. and residences in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, including some of the first in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he was the community's first resident. His work includes the 1893 the conversion of 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, The Shepherd Centennial Building, into the Raleigh Hotel (razed in 1911) and the Normal School for Colored Girls (1913) designed with Snowden Ashford. Dessez was elected to the American Institute of Architects as fellow 1896. He was one of the Washington D.C. AIA chapter's charter members in 1887 and he served on a committee for the restoration of the Octagon House, now the AIA headquarters. He also worked pro bono to develop Washington D.C.'s building codes and investigated school building construction and design. Properties he is credited with designing listed on the National Register of Historic Places include Lucinda Cady House, 7064 Eastern Ave., NW. Washington, DC; Engine House No. 10, 1341 Maryland Ave., NE. Washington, DC; Miner Normal School, 2565 Georgia Ave., NW. Washington, DC; and Truck Company F, 1336-1338 Park Rd. NW Washington, DC. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_E._Dessez" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_E._Dessez</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 Leon Dessez architect