Ladies Gold Watch with Hunter Case
Jewelry and Watches
Spring-driven gold watch with cylinder escapement, 1701-1800 by Ellicott, London in pinchbeck inner case and white enamel dial with Arabic & Roman numerals.
Watch: hinged silver back with numbers 252 0120, inner back is mark: "F.S." below small crown, Dial:White enamel dial with Roman numerals, gold is from the mid 18th century (ca 1740-1770)
Watch is complete in running condition
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Object
419
Clementine L. Dixon Welling
Photography, Civil War Portraits, Carte de visites, Civil War nurses,
Biography: daughter of Sen. James Dixon of Connecticut, Miss Clementine L. Dixon, privately educated by poetess, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, during the Civil War 1861-1865 volunteered at Armory Square hospital in Washington, D.C, after the Civil War she turned down a marriage proposal by O. C. Marsh, Yale paleontology professor, she and her sister ran Rose Mount, family estate located where the Aetna Insurance home office in Hartford, CT. She married George Washington University president, Dr. James Clarke Welling, they had two children, Elizabeth Dixon Welling and William Corcoran Welling. She died at Rose Mount in 1911.
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Private Collection - Welling - Van Deusen
1861
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Eng
Image
TGN
1864 Rail Pass to Fairfax Courthouse
Dixon, Elizabeth Lord Cogswell (1819-1871)
Civil War Ephemera 1864 Railway Pass to visit Union troops in Virginia
March 26, 1864 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dixon carried this pass in order to travel from Washington via rail over the Long Bridge to Fairfax Courthouse Virginia, to visit friends and family stationed at Gen. Mead's headquarters.
Unknown
Private Family Collection
From the Private Family Collection Archives
1864
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
CC BY 4.0 DEED
English
Document
431
Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
Mrs. Elizabeth L. C. Dixon Visits Soldiers in Virginia
Civil War group photograph -- 1864 -- Virginia
This photograph from the private family collection is a friendship keepsake of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and her daughters, Bessie and Clemmie. <br /><br />Written on back of photo: <br /><br />Guests of Gen. Robert O. Tyler at Fairfax Courthouse. Mrs. James Dixon, her daughters, Miss Ramsey, Miss Trumbull, Miss Barry - Staff officers, Col. McMahon, Lieutenant. Kinney, Captain. Kinney, Lieutenant. LaMotte, Captain. LaMotte, Major Ryan.<br /><br />This photo was taken March 29, 1864. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dixon carried a pass from Washington via rail over the Long Bridge to Fairfax Courthouse Virginia to visit General Robert O. Tyler. <br /><br />Their journey was described in a letter written to Professor O.C. Marsh of Yale. The officers were Lieutenant Charles E. LaMotte and Captain Robert Smith LaMotte, of Delaware.<br /><br />Tragically Col. James P. McMahon died in June 1864 at Battle of Cold Harbor. Mrs. Dixon’s nephews were Lieutenant Ernest Lord Kinney and Capt, Nathaniel Cogswell Kinney, sons of Mrs. Mary Kinney, sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Lord Dixon. <br /><br />No other copy of this photo is known to exist.
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Mrs. Elizabeth L C. Dixon
From the Private Family Collection Archives
1864
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
CC BY 4.0 DEED
Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
5x6
Eng-
Image
423
<h4>Hawaiian Feather Cape</h4>
Feather cloaks - Hawaiian
Lost + Found family heirloom found in the <span>NMNH - Anthropology Dept. </span>collections on the Smithsonian Institution website about a Hawaiian feather cape passed down through the Dixon-Welling family.<br /><br /><div>
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<div><span>Catalog Number:</span></div>
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<div><span>E128386-0</span></div>
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<div><span>Specimen Count:</span></div>
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<div><span>1</span></div>
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<div><span>Division:</span></div>
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<div><span>Ethnology</span></div>
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<div><span>Object Name:</span></div>
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<div><span>Feather Cape</span></div>
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<div><span>Index Term:</span></div>
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<div><span>Cape</span></div>
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<div><span>Continent:</span></div>
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<div><span>Polynesia</span></div>
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<div><span>Country:</span></div>
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<div><span>United States</span></div>
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<div><span>Province/State:</span></div>
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<td>
<div><span>Hawaii</span></div>
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<div><span>Collector(s):</span></div>
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<div><span>Cogswell, J.</span></div>
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<div><span>Collection Date:</span></div>
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<div><span>1837 (pre-1837?)</span></div>
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<div><span>Accession Number:</span></div>
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<div><span>019116</span></div>
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<div><span>Donor Name:</span></div>
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<div><span>Mrs. Clementine L. Welling</span></div>
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</tr></tbody></table><div>The record notes contains interesting details: </div>
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<br />Collector: J. Cogswell (Rev. Jonathan Cogswell 1782-1864) our great3 grandfather<br />Donor: Mrs. Clementine L. Welling (Clementine Lydia Dixon Welling 1843-1912) our great1 grandmother<br /><br />Collection date: 1837 (pre-1837?) The family has no record of Rev J Cogswell acquiring a the cape and boa. The Record Collection date of 1837 is the same year his first wife, Elizabeth Abbot Cogswell died and he married second wife, Jane Eudora Bayard Kirkpatrick Cogswell. <br /><div></div>
<p>From card: "Ground of red feathers of the Iiwi (Vestiaria coccinea) [a.k.a. 'i'iwi or Hawaiian Honeycreeper.] Two centrally located crescents, one crescent under the neck, and a vertical crescent on each side of the front of yellow feathers of the Oo (Acrulocercus nobilis). Band of the same yellow feathers around the entire lower border. Upper border and the two front margins have the base color of the ground (red), alternating with tufts of black feathers.</p>
<p>Accompanying this cape is a cylindrical boa of yellow feathers or lei to be worn on the head [number for feather lei is E128386-1]. 23" long.</p>
<p>This is apparently the cape numbered 43 in Brigham's "Hawaiian Feather Work" (Bishop Mus. Mem. 1, p. 68 and fig. 84)." `Ahu`ula, feathered cape, olona fiber (Touchardia latifolia), feathers from `i`iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) and `o`o (Moho nobilis).</p>
<p>Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.</p>
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<div>The object link: </div>
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<div><a href="https://womenshistory.si.edu/object/feather-cape%3Anmnhanthropology_8334997">https://womenshistory.si.edu/object/feather-cape%3Anmnhanthropology_8334997</a></div>
Smithsonian Photographic Services
Mrs. Elizabeth L C. Dixon
1837
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
CC BY 4.0 DEED
LENGTH - OBJECT: 38 cm WIDTH - OBJECT: 74 cm 168 cm
English
Object
ACCESSION NUMBER: 019116 USNM NUMBER: E128386-0
<span>Hawaii, United States, Polynesia</span>
Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate
Musical Instruments -- Hand bell
Musical Instruments -- Apostles Bell
Writing or engraving on the bell are the twelve Apostles around skirt, kneeling cherubs form handle, cross on top. This bell is a replica of the nine ton bell handing in the basilica of St. Peter’s cathedral, Rome, known as the most beautiful bell in the world. Handbell noted in 1846-47 Washington diary of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon, Hartford, CT published in White House History, Issue 33.
Also, with the Bell is an accompanying Plate
Unknown
Private Family Collection
From the Private Family Collection Archives
1846
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
Height 7 ¼”
Diameter skirt: 4 ¼”
-English
Object
541
Autograph of Japanese Ambassadors circa 1860
1860 Japanese Visit of Foreign dignitaries
Found within the private collection belonging to Elizabeth L. C. Dixon is the 1860 autograph of the Japanese Ambassadors - Murgaki Norimasa, Shimmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasu given to the Dixon family during their 1860 visit to the US
Japanese Ambassadors - Murgaki Norimasa, Shimmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasu
Private Family Collection
From the Private Family Collection Archives
1860
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
paper
Japanese
Text
542
Lost + Found Family Heirloom : High chest and Dressing Table
Heirlooms
In 1976 my great aunt, sold family heirlooms; a japanned high chest and dressing table to Zeke Liverant, an antique dealer from Colchester, CT, who sold them to Albert Sack for the Kaufman's, renown collectors and philanthropists.
The high chest had been a treasured family heirloom for more than 250 years, passed down over the generations from our New England ancestors.
The high chest by John Scottow, who had been a neighbor of the Abbott and Cogswell families of Boston. The dresser was by Randle Davis shop also in Boston. Financial necessity prompted the sale to a private collector. Up until then family tradition was to donate papers or items with historical significance to public museums such as the Connecticut Historical Society and Wadsworth Athenaeum.
Today we are grateful knowing our lost and now found heirlooms have a permanent home, accessible to the public today and in the future. The high chest at VMFA and dressing table at National Museum of Art in DC
Media:
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/a-tribute-to-albert-sack/
https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12962242/
The comments about these heirlooms by Caroline Welling Van Deusen. Nov 10, 2020
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
http://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/admin/items/edit/543
2013
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Great granddaughter of Rev. Jonathan Cogswell, 14th child of Dr. Nathaniel Cogswell, of Rowley, MA but born at Cogswell's Grant, Essex, MA
English
Object
US
Letter written to Elizabeth L.C. Dixon from Mary Lincoln
Lincoln assassination-- Mary Lincoln
CHS Accession Notes:<br /><br />Ms. 56141 Mary Todd Lincoln letter, 1865 October 13, Chicago, to Elizabeth Dixon.<br /><br />Mary Todd Lincoln described her grief on the loss of her husband, Abraham Lincoln, and her intent to remain in Chicago where her sons, Robert and Teddie, were attending school. She remarked on the marriage of Admiral John Dahlgren and Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Goddard and compared Elizabeth Dixon’s daughters to the young women of Chicago. In closing, Mary Todd Lincoln also thanks Elizabeth Dixon for her camaraderie and says that she will send her some small relics that once belonged to Abraham when she can get to the objects in storage. <br /><br />Donated by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling. April 1947. <br /><br />Not included in the above accession notes was the fact that this letter verified the close friendship between Elizabeth L.C. Dixon, Mrs. Mary C. Kinney (Elizabeth's sister) and Mary Lincoln. This letter confirmed why Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Mary C. Kinney were present at the Petersen House at President Lincoln's deathbed. Text from the letter: "and when Robert said to me, "Mother, who should I go for? " I immediately exclaimed; "Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Kinney!". <br /><br />This handwritten letter by Mary Lincoln to her friend, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon recounted the horror they experienced together the night Lincoln died. The letter sheds new light on the close friendship shared with her lady friends, Mrs. Dixon and sister Mrs. Kinney. These friends are unknown to history but they are shown seated with Mary Lincoln in Chappel's historic painting, Lincoln's Final Hours, at Chicago History Museum and John Hay Library, Brown University.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mrs. Elizabeth L C. Dixon
1865 Oct
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
Manuscript letter
English
Text
CW1865#611
Witness history - Fort Sumter 1861
Civil War - Fort Sumter 1861
James Clarke Welling response to article, Diary of a Public Man, published 1879 in The Nation
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Private Family Collection
From the Private Family Collection Archives
Dec. 4, 1879
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
CC BY 4.0 DEED
Passed from Dr. James Clarke Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
Textual
Eng
Document
NI1861AprilJCW