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Lost + Found family heirloom found in the NMNH - Anthropology Dept. collections on the Smithsonian Institution website about a Hawaiian feather cape passed down through the Dixon-Welling family. Catalog Number: E128386-0 Specimen…

On October 9, 1799 President George Washington wrote a letter to William Thornton asking him to show the City of Washington to Col. John Walker (1744–1809) and Hugh Nelson (1768–1836), son of Gov. Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), who had just  married…

Discovered within our Dixon-Welling family papers at the Connecticut Historical Society is an autograph manuscript dated Nov 22, 1802 from Thomas Jefferson to Gen. John Mason asking acceptance of three peccan trees. Pecan trees..... interesting. How…

Wedding dress worn on October 1, 1840 by Elizabeth L. C. Dixon on the day of her marriage to James Dixon, Esq. She wore it again in 1842 at her presentation to King Louis Phillippe of France, in Italy when she met Pope Gregory XVI and in 1846 when…

"Misses Dixon," being the wife of Connecticut' Republican Senator, James Dixon. with this elaborately-engraved document - printed by the Philp & Solomons; hereby invited to attend President Lincoln's 1861 Inaugural Union Ball. The "Union Ball,"…

19 ½” tall, brown-eyed, blond wigged bisque doll which belonged to the donor’s mother. The full body and legs are made of white kid leather, which is stuffed with sawdust. The arms are also kid to the midpoint of the forearm where bisque forearms are…

A 4 1/4" diameter, eighteenth century iron and steel round tinder box with a handled box fitted with a socket on the cover for a candle.

Handwritten on the page; I do hereby bargain, sell & convey in absolute property to John Marshall for seventy pounds which I have this received from him  one negro wench named Dicey with her child and do bend myself, my heirs executors &…

Autograph manuscript, Bill of Sale, sale of a slave family dated 3 July 1787, 1 page,
John B. Johnson sells slave woman, named Dicey, and her child; on verso John Marshall writes bill of sale for mother and child to Jaquelin Ambler.

This bill…

This doll is 18 1/2" tall overall and has a black guttapercha head, black kid hands, white cotton body and legs, and wears a white turban and green and white cotton print dress. It was owned by the Misses Elizabeth and Clementine Dixon, daughters of…