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| Le Moniteur de la Mode, June 1862. LAPL Visual Collections. |
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Article 7
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Article 6
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| Magasin des Demoiselles, June 1862. LAPL Visual Collections. |
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Article 5
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| Undress Costume. Harper's Magazine, June 1862. NYPL Digital Gallery. |
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Article 4
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| New styles of head-dresses & children's outfits. Peterson's Magazine, June 1862. NYPL Digital Gallery. |
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Article 3
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| The New Style of Silk Sontag. Peterson's Magazine, June 1862. NYPL Digital Gallery. |
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Article 2
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| Bridal Toilet. Harper's Magazine, June 1862. NYPL Digital Gallery. |
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Video: Author Talk: Carol Berkin - Varina Howell Davis
Author Talk: Carol Berkin - Varina Howell Davis from PPLD TV on Vimeo.
Carol Berkin, author of Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, & Julia Dent Grant speaks on Varina Davis.Varina Howell Davis was beautiful, but she was also brilliant, a woman with great intellectual curiosity, a sharp wit, and keen powers of observation of the world around her. Her letters and her memoir offer us remarkable insights into the character of political leaders of the Civil War era as well as vivid accounts of sectional tensions in the antebellum years and the tragedies of the war and its aftermath. Above all, they provide a portrait of a remarkable woman whose independent spirit could never be suppressed.
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Video: Charlottesville Nightingales: Women Providing Nursing Care in Charlottesville During the Civil War.
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Article 24
There is some discussion as to whether this is an older dress remade for use later on, or if this was done in an older style for some reason.
Mourning dress owned by Jane Holcomb Mather.
Black silk dress for second mourning has bell sleeves lined with white silk with three small puffs at upper arms. The bodice is pleated in both front and back and forms a V at center front. The skirt is pleated and has two tiers of flounces.
Jane Holcomb of Hartford, Connecticut was born 15 October 1807. She married William Mather (d.1863.) The Mather family suffered a lot of loss; two of their children died at young ages in the early 1840s, then both William Mather and one of the family's sons died in 1863.
Gift of Elizabeth Yale Hall.
Connecticut Historical Society
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Article 23
Bonnet
Date: ca. 1860
Culture: American or European
Medium: silk
Dimensions: [no dimensions available]
Credit Line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1971
Accession Number: 1971.242.4
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Article 22
Woman's work dress probably owned by a member of the Mix family.
Woman's work dress is made of tan, brown, light blue, and white cotton plaid. The bodice has a high, round neckline and dropped shoulder line. The fabric is gathered at the bodice front and back above the waistline. The sleeves are cut in the fashionable "coat" style, with seams along the outside and underside of the arm. The skirt is pleated and stitched to the bodice.
Connecticut Historical Society
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Article 21
Dress owned by Sarah Elizabeth Dunham Loomis.
Woman's day dress of large-scale brown- and blue-checked silk has a high, round neckline with a narrow band collar, dropped shoulder line, and round waistline. The bodice is trimmed with black velvet ribbon. The full sleeves are pleated into the shoulder and into a tapered cuff. The bodice is slightly gathered into the waist. An embroidered collar is tacked to the neckline. The skirt is pleated to the bottom edge of the bodice.
Connecticut Historical Society.
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Video: Civil War Photography on the Battlefront and on the Homefront
Anthony Lee, professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College, discusses the broad range and types of photographs taken during the Civil War and ponders why some have received more attention than others. This talk took place on July 10, 2012, as part of The Visual Culture of the American Civil War, an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers.
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Article 19
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| Needlework patterns. Pariser Damenkleider-Magazin, 1859. University of Dusseldorf. |
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Article 18
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| Pariser Damenkleider-Magazin, June 1859. University of Dusseldorf. |
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Article 17
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| Graham's Magazine, June 1856. LAPL Visual Collections. |
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Article 16
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| Le Bon Ton, June 1856. LAPL Visual Collections. |
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Article 15
Young Recruits
John George Brown
1861
Painting - oil on canvas
Height: 30.48 cm (12 in.), Width: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Private collection
Image via the Athenaeum
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Article 14
Courting
John George Brown
Painting - oil on canvas
Height: 60.96 cm (24 in.)
Width: 45.72 cm (18 in.)
Private collection
Image via the Athenaeum
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Article 13
Thus Perish the Memory of Our Love
ca. 1865
John George Brown (American)
Painting - oil on panel
Height: 50.8 cm (20 in.), Width: 34.93 cm (13.75 in.)
Private Collection
Image via the Athenaeum
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