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1860 Autograph of the Japanese Ambassadors
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1860 Autograph of Japanese Ambassadors
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Rice paper with three names written in Japanese language
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1860 Japanese Ambassadors Autograph and envelope
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon<br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon <br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Autograph of Japanese Ambassadors circa 1860
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1860 Japanese Visit of Foreign dignitaries
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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
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1860
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paper
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Japanese
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542
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Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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Japanese Ambassadors - Murgaki Norimasa, Shimmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasu
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Private Family Collection
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From the Private Family Collection Archives
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Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
Murgaki Norimasa
Oguri Tadamasu
Shimmi Masaoki
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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 & administrators to warrant and defend completely totally unencumbered to the said slave & her issue John B. Johnson July 3rd 1787
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jacqueline Amble
Subject
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Genealogy -- Virginia -- African Americans -- records
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler
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An account of the resource
<p>Verso side of Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler.</p>
<p><em>For this within mentioned sum of seventy pounds which I have reserved I bargain, the within mentioned slaves to Jaquelin Ambler Esquire.</em></p>
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
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Public Museum Collections --United States
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
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Ms. 46829
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Johnson, John B.
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Chief Justice John Marshall
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1787 Jul 03
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Chief Justice John Marshall Bill of Sale – Slave Dicey from John B. Johnson to Jaquelin Ambler dated 3 July 1787
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African Americans--Genealogy
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An account of the resource
Handwritten on the page; <br /><p><em>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 & administrators to warrant and defend completely totally unencumbered to the said slave & her issue John B. Johnson</em></p>
<p><em>July 3<sup>rd</sup> 1787<br /><br />Verso of the page; <br /></em></p>
<p><em>For this within mentioned sum of seventy pounds which I have reserved I bargain, the within mentioned slaves to Jaquelin Ambler Esquire.</em></p>
<p><em>JMarshall</em></p>
<p><em>Chief Justice</em></p>
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The family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling opposed slavery. Why or how this one page document was among the Welling family papers donated to the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is unknown.<br /><br />The summer of 1787, John B. Johnson owned and sold an African-American woman, named Dicey, and her child Chief Justice John Marshall for seventy pounds. On verso, Chief Justice John Marshal passes the bill of sale for this mother and child to Jaquelin Ambler, Esq. <br /><br />This transaction in 1787, four years after John Marshall of Virginia married Mary Ambler, daughter of Jaquelin Ambler, Esq. of Virginia.
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
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Document
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Chief Justice John Marshall
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
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1 page document
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-Eng
1787 Jul 03
John B. Johnson
Justice John Marshall
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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<p>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION January 1895</p>
<p><em>Wherein</em> the members of tho Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has been called upon to mourn the death of their esteemed colleague, the late James C. Welling, LLD., president of the George Washington University, who has long been interested in the welfare of the institution, and who for many years has been a Regent and chairman of its Executive Committee.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Board of Regents feels deep regret in the loss of one whose long and distinguished career of public usefulness, especially in the promotion of institutions for higher education, commanded their report, and whose personal character and unselfish devotion to the highest ideals of scholarship and citizenship, their sincere admiration. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, That in the death of President Welling the Smithsonian Institution has suffered the irreparable loss of an earnest friend, a wise and judicious counselor, and one who was preeminently an exponent of its time-honored policy; and the Board of Regents a friend and associate whom they valued most highly. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, that those resolutions to recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Board, and that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family of their departed associator and friend, in token of sympathy in this common affliction.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Secretary be requested to prepare a eulogy of President Welling for insertion in the Journal of the Board of Regents.</p>
<p>Dr. Coppée said that he had been long associated with Dr.Welling than any other member of the Board, since 1884, and particularly as a member of the Executive Committee with him, and as he had for Dr. Welling a very high esteem, he thought it proper to say a word in this connection. Dr. Welling was one of the most valuable citizens of Washington, to whom was confided many trusts, among them the presidency of the George Washington University, and the chairmanship of the Executive Committee of this Institution, and he did well everything that was confided to him. He was a man pure in thought, honest in purpose and action, and intelligent in judgment. He held a ready pen, and how polished his public utterances were, all here would remember when he presented papers and other matters before this Board.<br /><br />Dr. Coppée added that Dr. Welling was cautioned by his friends that he worked too hard, and instanced the fact that at the last meeting which he attended, in May, he announced his purpose to write a work with reference to his favorite subject of anthropology, when Senator Henderson, now present, said to him: “The best thing that you can do is to consider one individual of the species of 'anthropos, 'and very carefully, at this time. You are the man; 'take care of yourself.” It was a grave pleasantry. It was good counsel, but it came too late, for Dr. Welling was injured by the hard work that he did. In him is lost a man who was preeminently excellent in counsel, whether to the Board or in private, but he would leave it to the Secretary to speak of him further. Senator Henderson spoke of his long and intimate acquaintance with Dr. Welling and expressed his admiration for him as a citizen and as an officer of the Institution. The Secretary then said: I have lost in Dr. Welling a personal friend, but I only have to speak of him now in his relationship to this Institution - an institution whose conservative character has been partly due to good fortune in the presence and advice of such men. Dr. Welling was one who possessed, beyond anyone else, what may be called the traditions of the Institution; and though these were not of course his exclusive property, in this respect, as in others, his logs can not be supplied. The rules of conduct which have been laid down by the Regents and by the Sectaries who have administered them are not so much derived from a prior views as they are the outgrowth of accumulated experience; and this experience, it has been thought, is in part, perhaps, due to tho exceptionally long incumbencies of members of the Board as compared with ordinary tenures of office here, and to the continuity of the knowledge of its activities, as illustrated in the case of this departed friend. <br /><br />James Clarke Welling, at the time of his death, September 4, 1894, was nearly 70 years of age. Descended from New England colonial ancestors, a native of one of the Middle States, in early adulthood a teacher in the South, and for nearly half a century a resident of the National capital, he was an American of the noblest type, free from sectional bias, personifying the best traits and tendencies of the nation, loyal to the traditions and aspirations of its founders. He was graduated in 1814 from the College of New Jersey, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but soon afterwards entered upon the profession of journalism. <br />He always retained, forever, a strong inclination for the study of constitutional and international law, and of politics, and his interest in public affairs was greatly stimulated by his connection for fifteen years with the most important of Washington journals, at that time national in its influence. <br /><br />He became the literary editor of the National Intelligencer in 1850, and was its managing editor throughout the entire period of the Civil War. In this capacity he had the privilege of personal acquaintance with all our public men, and confidential access to many of them, including Lincoln, Seward, and Stanton. <br /><br />In later life his attention was given chiefly to educational work. For a time president of St. John's College, Maryland, and later professor of belles - lettres at Princeton, be was, in 1870, recalled to Washington to become president of the George Washington University, an institution founded fifty years before, in the hope that it might fulfill the desire of Washington, Barlow, and Adams, that a seat of liberal learning should exist at the capital.</p>
<p>Dr. Welling was led to accept this position by the urgency of the philanthropist William W. Corcoran and the advice of Joseph Henry, both of whom were influenced by the hope of having with one of the founders of a national university, and who believed that a man of Dr. Welling's character would find in such a position a wide field of influence. <br /><br />His aspirations for the university were never fully realized, owing to the impossibility of securing endowments from private sources for a public institution located so near to the seat of government. <br /><br />He nevertheless secured a considerable addition to its endowment, added new professional schools, greatly increased the number of its faculty and students, removed the institution from the suburbs to a new building in the heart of the city, and accomplished many other things which seemed really wonderful in view of the smallness of the resources at his command. <br /><br />The dream of his life was to establish a school of comparative jurisprudence - the only one of its kind in the world — as a branch of the university. <br /><br />In 1892 he visited Europe, secured approval of his plans from Sir Frederick Pollock and other eminent jurists, and their promise to come to America to lecture as members of the faculty. Failing health interfered with the realization of his plan, which I can but believe he would bare otherwise forced into success. <br /><br />After his resignation of the presidency in 1893, he still retained the chair of international law and the position of dean of the university law school, and, full of hopefulness, it was his purpose to labor on for his beloved project. He confidently expected to live to be 80, and to devote the remaining years of his life to the compilation of a political history of the Civil War, a work for which no one was so well qualified by experience, knowledge, and critical skill as himself. <br /><br />He was a representative man in Washington, identified with all interests which tend toward good citizenship, and held many positions of public trust and honor. <br /><br />He was president of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery and of the American Copyright League, and was appointed by President Harrison commissioner to the Colombian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892.</p>
<p>His bearing was that of a courteous gentleman of the old school. His scholarship was accurate, broad, and genial, as was shown by the critical reviews which he contributed during his later years to some of the principal American journals. <br /><br />His favorite study in hours of relaxation was that of the sacred poetry of tho early Christian Church, some of which be had translated, though not for publication. <br /><br />In 1894 he was chosen a Regent of this Institution to succeed the Reverend Dr. Parker. For ten years he gave conscientious attention to its interests, and upheld in every way those conservative and dignified traditions of which I have already spoken of him in almost the living embodiment; and while he did this primarily because of their harmony with his own personal tendencies and convictions as to their value, he did so because of his affection and reverence for the first Secretary, Joseph Henry, whose pupil he had been in his youth, and with whom in middle life had maintained the relation of friend and confidant.</p>
<p>After Henry’s death, Dr. Welling consented to add to his already burdensome duties those of the chairman of the Executive Committee, which be performed till his own death, so that he may be said to have been a link between the past and present in the history of this Institution, though happily not the only one, since it has preserved others in his contemporaries.</p>
<p><br /><i>On motion</i>, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by a standing vote.</p>
<p><br />Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895 By Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents <br /><br />Transcription by Caroline Welling Van Deusen January 2021<br /><br />Throughout this text the name George Washington University replaced former name of Columbia College</p>
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<p>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION January 1895</p>
<p><em>Wherein</em> the members of tho Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has been called upon to mourn the death of their esteemed colleague, the late James C. Welling, LLD., president of the George Washington University, who has long been interested in the welfare of the institution, and who for many years has been a Regent and chairman of its Executive Committee.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Board of Regents feels deep regret in the loss of one whose long and distinguished career of public usefulness, especially in the promotion of institutions for higher education, commanded their report, and whose personal character and unselfish devotion to the highest ideals of scholarship and citizenship, their sincere admiration. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, That in the death of President Welling the Smithsonian Institution has suffered the irreparable loss of an earnest friend, a wise and judicious counselor, and one who was preeminently an exponent of its time-honored policy; and the Board of Regents a friend and associate whom they valued most highly. <br /><br /><em>Resolved</em>, that those resolutions to recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Board, and that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family of their departed associator and friend, in token of sympathy in this common affliction.</p>
<p><em>Resolved</em>, That the Secretary be requested to prepare a eulogy of President Welling for insertion in the Journal of the Board of Regents.</p>
<p>Dr. Coppée said that he had been long associated with Dr.Welling than any other member of the Board, since 1884, and particularly as a member of the Executive Committee with him, and as he had for Dr. Welling a very high esteem, he thought it proper to say a word in this connection. Dr. Welling was one of the most valuable citizens of Washington, to whom was confided many trusts, among them the presidency of the George Washington University, and the chairmanship of the Executive Committee of this Institution, and he did well everything that was confided to him. He was a man pure in thought, honest in purpose and action, and intelligent in judgment. He held a ready pen, and how polished his public utterances were, all here would remember when he presented papers and other matters before this Board.<br /><br />Dr. Coppée added that Dr. Welling was cautioned by his friends that he worked too hard, and instanced the fact that at the last meeting which he attended, in May, he announced his purpose to write a work with reference to his favorite subject of anthropology, when Senator Henderson, now present, said to him: “The best thing that you can do is to consider one individual of the species of 'anthropos, 'and very carefully, at this time. You are the man; 'take care of yourself.” It was a grave pleasantry. It was good counsel, but it came too late, for Dr. Welling was injured by the hard work that he did. In him is lost a man who was preeminently excellent in counsel, whether to the Board or in private, but he would leave it to the Secretary to speak of him further. Senator Henderson spoke of his long and intimate acquaintance with Dr. Welling and expressed his admiration for him as a citizen and as an officer of the Institution. The Secretary then said: I have lost in Dr. Welling a personal friend, but I only have to speak of him now in his relationship to this Institution - an institution whose conservative character has been partly due to good fortune in the presence and advice of such men. Dr. Welling was one who possessed, beyond anyone else, what may be called the traditions of the Institution; and though these were not of course his exclusive property, in this respect, as in others, his logs can not be supplied. The rules of conduct which have been laid down by the Regents and by the Secretaries who have administered them are not so much derived from a prior views as they are the outgrowth of accumulated experience; and this experience, it has been thought, is in part, perhaps, due to tho exceptionally long incumbencies of members of the Board as compared with ordinary tenures of office here, and to the continuity of the knowledge of its activities, as illustrated in the case of this departed friend. <br /><br />James Clarke Welling, at the time of his death, September 4, 1894, was nearly 70 years of age. Descended from New England colonial ancestors, a native of one of the Middle States, in early adulthood a teacher in the South, and for nearly half a century a resident of the National capital, he was an American of the noblest type, free from sectional bias, personifying the best traits and tendencies of the nation, loyal to the traditions and aspirations of its founders. He was graduated in 1845 from the College of New Jersey, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but soon afterwards entered upon the profession of journalism.</p>
<p><br />He always retained, forever, a strong inclination for the study of constitutional and international law, and of politics, and his interest in public affairs was greatly stimulated by his connection for fifteen years with the most important of Washington journals, at that time national in its influence. <br /><br />He became the literary editor of the National Intelligencer in 1850, and was its managing editor throughout the entire period of the Civil War. In this capacity he had the privilege of personal acquaintance with all our public men, and confidential access to many of them, including Lincoln, Seward, and Stanton. <br /><br />In later life his attention was given chiefly to educational work. For a time president of St. John's College, Maryland, and later professor of belles - lettres at Princeton, be was, in 1870, recalled to Washington to become president of the George Washington University, an institution founded fifty years before, in the hope that it might fulfill the desire of Washington, Barlow, and Adams, that a seat of liberal learning should exist at the capital.</p>
<p>Dr. Welling was led to accept this position by the urgency of the philanthropist William W. Corcoran and the advice of Joseph Henry, both of whom were influenced by the hope of having with one of the founders of a national university, and who believed that a man of Dr. Welling's character would find in such a position a wide field of influence. <br /><br />His aspirations for the university were never fully realized, owing to the impossibility of securing endowments from private sources for a public institution located so near to the seat of government. <br /><br />He nevertheless secured a considerable addition to its endowment, added new professional schools, greatly increased the number of its faculty and students, removed the institution from the suburbs to a new building in the heart of the city, and accomplished many other things which seemed really wonderful in view of the smallness of the resources at his command. <br /><br />The dream of his life was to establish a school of comparative jurisprudence - the only one of its kind in the world — as a branch of the university. <br /><br />In 1892 he visited Europe, secured approval of his plans from Sir Frederick Pollock and other eminent jurists, and their promise to come to America to lecture as members of the faculty. Failing health interfered with the realization of his plan, which I can but believe he would bare otherwise forced into success. <br /><br />After his resignation of the presidency in 1893, he still retained the chair of international law and the position of dean of the university law school, and, full of hopefulness, it was his purpose to labor on for his beloved project. He confidently expected to live to be 80, and to devote the remaining years of his life to the compilation of a political history of the Civil War, a work for which no one was so well qualified by experience, knowledge, and critical skill as himself. <br /><br />He was a representative man in Washington, identified with all interests which tend toward good citizenship, and held many positions of public trust and honor. <br /><br />He was president of the board of trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery and of the American Copyright League, and was appointed by President Harrison commissioner to the Colombian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892.</p>
<p>His bearing was that of a courteous gentleman of the old school. His scholarship was accurate, broad, and genial, as was shown by the critical reviews which he contributed during his later years to some of the principal American journals. <br /><br />His favorite study in hours of relaxation was that of the sacred poetry of tho early Christian Church, some of which be had translated, though not for publication. <br /><br />In 1884 he was chosen a Regent of this Institution to succeed the Reverend Dr. Parker. For ten years he gave conscientious attention to its interests, and upheld in every way those conservative and dignified traditions of which I have already spoken of him in almost the living embodiment; and while he did this primarily because of their harmony with his own personal tendencies and convictions as to their value, he did so because of his affection and reverence for the first Secretary, Joseph Henry, whose pupil he had been in his youth, and with whom in middle life had maintained the relation of friend and confidant.</p>
<p>After Henry’s death, Dr. Welling consented to add to his already burdensome duties those of the chairman of the Executive Committee, which be performed till his own death, so that he may be said to have been a link between the past and present in the history of this Institution, though happily not the only one, since it has preserved others in his contemporaries.</p>
<p><br /><i>On motion</i>, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by a standing vote.</p>
<p><br />Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895 By Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents <br /><br />Transcription by Caroline Welling Van Deusen <br /><br />Throughout this text the name George Washington University replaced former name of Columbia College</p>
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<p>Video contains images and audio of handwritten letter by Mrs. Lincoln describing Lincoln assassination events -about the night President Lincoln died- Letter is significant because there are no other accounts written by Mary Lincoln recalling Lincoln's death, letter confirms that Mrs. Lincoln personally summoned her friends, Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Kinney to the Petersen House where they witnessed Lincoln's last hours-manuscript letter dated October 1865 was discovered and published by Dixon's gr-great granddaughter, Caroline Welling Van Deusen - portion of text of the letter included on mini-video - "Lost and Found History: The Night Lincoln Died" released in 2012 during Civil War Sesquicentennial to commemorate 150 anniversary of Civil War.</p>
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<h4><em>Chicago</em></h4>
<h4><em> Oct. 13</em></h4>
<h4><em> My dear Mrs. Dixon: Notwithstanding weeks have passed, since your last kind letter was received, yet my saddened memory often recalls you to mind; your gentleness & tender sympathy can never – be forgotten. </em></h4>
<h4><em>In the middle of my grief, on that terrible night, which has left me so desolate & broken — hearted — it has often struck me, as strange & yet not so, that even whilst, I was so wild, in my despair, when Robert, said to me ‘Mother what ladies, shall I go for'----I immediately exclaimed, 'Mrs. Dixon & Mrs. Kinney.' </em></h4>
<h4><em>The scenes, we then passed through, are continually present with me, and will ever bow my head in sorrow & vain regret.</em></h4>
<p>--end of transcript-portion of letter</p>
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<p>A handwritten letter by Mrs. Mary Lincoln recalling the night President Lincoln died was discovered and will be featured during the Civil War Sesquicentennial.</p>
<p>The letter, written October 1865 by President Lincoln's wife, Mary to her friend, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon who also present the night Lincoln died. </p>
<p>The historical significance was confirmed by Catherine Clinton, author of <em>Mary Lincoln</em> biography, and Jason Emerson, author of <em>Madness of Mary Lincoln</em>. It is the only existing account written by Mary Lincoln in which she describes her actions the night Lincoln died. In her letter she sheds new light on the close friendship with Mrs. Dixon.</p>
<p>Mrs. Dixon and her sister Mrs. Kinney are shown seated with Mary Lincoln in Chappel's painting, Lincoln's Final Hours, at Chicago History Museum and John Hay Library, Brown University.</p>
<p>Civil War Sesquicentennial (2011-2015) commemorates the 150 anniversary of Civil War and will feature this letter in "Lost and Found History:The Night Lincoln Died" from the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth L. C. Dixon offering a glimpse into the lives of the Lincoln's for the first time in 150 years.</p>
<p>"Lost and Found History:The Night Lincoln Died from the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth L. C. Dixon" includes their letters each offering an eyewitness account, images of the letters and new details about Civil War relics associated with the Lincoln's friendship with the Dixon family.</p>
<p>Also included is an audio version of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon's letters read by Ms. Van Deusen and Mary Lincoln's letter read by Mary Lincoln's great-great niece, Carrie Earl Williams. To request information please visit: <a title="Night-Lincoln-Died_Request-Info" href="mailto:schedulelincolnfriends@gmail.com">http://lincolnfriends.org</a></p>
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- Letter is significant because there are no other accounts written by Mary Lincoln recalling Lincoln's death, letter confirms that Mrs. Lincoln personally summoned her friends, Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Kinney to the Petersen House where they witnessed Lincoln's last hours
-manuscript letter dated October 1865 was discovered and published by Dixon's gr-great granddaughter, Caroline Welling Van Deusen - portion of text of the letter included on mini-video
- "Lost and Found History: The Night Lincoln Died" released in 2012 during Civil War Sesquicentennial to commemorate 150 anniversary of Civil War.
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Chicago
Oct. 13
My dear Mrs. Dixon: Notwithstanding weeks have passed, since your last kind letter was received, yet my saddened memory often recalls you to mind; your gentleness & tender sympathy can never – be forgotten.
In the middle of my grief, on that terrible night, which has left me so desolate & broken — hearted — it has often struck me, as strange & yet not so, that even whilst, I was so wild, in my despair, when Robert, said to me ‘Mother what ladies, shall I go for'----I immediately exclaimed, 'Mrs. Dixon & Mrs. Kinney.'
The scenes, we then passed through, are continually present with me, and will ever bow my head in sorrow & vain regret.
--end of transcript-portion of letter
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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.
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Omeka Image File
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Bit Depth
8
Channels
3
Height
227
Width
187
Image
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Original Format
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Photo
Physical Dimensions
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3" x 2"
Dublin Core
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Title
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Clementine L. Dixon Welling
Subject
The topic of the resource
Photography, Civil War Portraits, Carte de visites, Civil War nurses,
Description
An account of the resource
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.
Creator
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Source
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Private Collection - Welling - Van Deusen
Date
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1861
Contributor
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Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Language
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Eng
Type
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Image
Coverage
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TGN
Armory Square hospital
Mrs. Lydia Sigourney
O. C. Marsh
Sen. James Dixon
Yale
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Dublin Core
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Title
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
Subject
The topic of the resource
Public Museum Collections --United States
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Description
An account of the resource
Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
Rights
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Source
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Publisher
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Object
Items from collections that are neither a document or still image.
Dublin Core
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Type
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Bisque doll
Subject
The topic of the resource
Toy ca 1840 Doll
Description
An account of the resource
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 attached. The eyes are fixed. The doll is dressed in white bloomers with lace trim, a white slip with lace trim and a similar overslip with lace trim.
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Identifier
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1976.21.2
Source
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Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling
Date
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1976-03-29
Contributor
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Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Coverage
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ca. 1840
Title
A name given to the resource
Bisque doll
Creator
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Publisher
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https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/
Relation
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None
Format
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19 ½” tall, brown-eyed, blond wigged bisque doll
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Title
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
Subject
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Public Museum Collections --United States
Creator
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Description
An account of the resource
Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
Rights
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Source
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Publisher
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Object
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Original Format
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Circa 1840 materials
Physical Dimensions
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18 1/2 inches
Dublin Core
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Type
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'Colored Mammy" doll
Subject
The topic of the resource
ca 1840 Doll
Description
An account of the resource
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 Senator James Dixon.
Source
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Gift of Miss Elizabeth Welling
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1905-05-05
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
ca. 1840
Title
A name given to the resource
Colored Mammy doll
Creator
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Publisher
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https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/
Contributor
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Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Relation
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Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Identifier
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CHSM None Accession No. donated in 1952
Language
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-Eng
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Dublin Core
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Title
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
Subject
The topic of the resource
Public Museum Collections --United States
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Description
An account of the resource
Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
Rights
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Source
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Publisher
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Object
Items from collections that are neither a document or still image.
Dublin Core
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Type
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Two pair of spectacles and spectacle case
Subject
The topic of the resource
Eyeglass frame industry
Description
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Spectacle case which comprises of a hard case made of black leather with blue velvet lining. The case is imprinted with: “Mary K. Nee, Optician/ 805 Main St. / Hartfor, [sic] Conn.” Also included are a pair of gold, octagonal turn-pin spectacles with small, open teardrop loops as well as a folding lorgnette with gold or gold-filled frames and clear, quadrangular lenses. A hinged bridge allows half of the frame to rotate 180 degrees, so that one lens folds over the other. A small handle on one side of the frame terminates in a large, open loop, so that a chain or ribbon can be run through for hanging.
Identifier
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CHSM Accession No. 11976.21.27-29
Source
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Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1976-05-08
Coverage
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ca. 1850-1870
Title
A name given to the resource
Spectacles
Creator
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Publisher
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https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/
Contributor
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Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Relation
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None- no image available
Format
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Gold spectacles
Language
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-eng
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Small notebook of ivory sheets with writing and silver clasp with writing on each page was inherited from the granddaughter of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon. The notes were various lists of items to remember, one family name "Kirkpatrick" sleigh for New Years. Just like to today, we all need little post it notes to help us remember the minutia.
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Dublin Core
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Title
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FAMILY PRIVATE COLLECTION
Subject
The topic of the resource
Family Private collection
Items still in family private collection and not yet donated or sold out of the family to a private collector
Description
An account of the resource
This collection consists of items passed down through the family and still remain in our private collection.
Creator
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon<br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
Contributor
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Elizabeth L. C. Dixon <br />Dr. James Clarke Welling
Rights
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<p>CC BY 4.0 DEED</p>
Image
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Original Format
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Small notebook of ivory sheets with writing and silver clasp with writing on each page was inherited from the granddaughter of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon. The notes were various lists of items to remember, one family name "Kirkpatrick" sleigh for New Years. Just like to today, we all need little post it notes to help us remember the minutia.
Physical Dimensions
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5” x 3”
Dublin Core
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Title
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1864 Ivory Notebook
Subject
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Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
Description
An account of the resource
Small notebook of ivory sheets with writing and silver clasp with writing on each page was inherited from the granddaughter of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon. The notes were various lists of items to remember, one family name "Kirkpatrick" sleigh for New Years. Just like to today, we all need little post it notes to help us remember the minutia
Creator
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Mrs. Elizabeth L C. Dixon
Contributor
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Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Source
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Rev. Jonathan Cogswell
Date
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1864
Type
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Object
1840
1850
1860
Cogswell
Ivory notebook
Kirkpatrick
note taking
sleigh
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Dublin Core
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Title
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PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTION
Subject
The topic of the resource
Public Museum Collections --United States
Creator
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The heirs of the family of Sen. James Dixon, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and Dr. James Clarke Welling
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
Dr. James Clarke Welling
Mrs. Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Description
An account of the resource
Items in this collection were at one time part in our private family collection but because of the historic or cultural value were donated to public repositories therefore ensuring public access to these items in the future.
Rights
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CC BY 4.0 DEED
Source
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Publisher
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citizenarchivist.omeka.net
Document
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Text
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Invitation to Lincoln’s 1861 Inaugural Ball
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1861 Inaugural Ball Invitation to Misses Dixon
Subject
The topic of the resource
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling 1885-1976
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span>"Misses Dixon," being the wife of Connecticut' Republican Senator, James Dixon.</span></p>
<p>with this elaborately-engraved document - printed by the Philp & Solomons; hereby invited to attend President Lincoln's 1861 Inaugural Union Ball.</p>
<p><span>The "Union Ball," began at 10 p.m was held in a temporary ballroom constructed behind Washington’s City Hall called the “white muslin Palace of Aladin.” The ballroom had rooms for dancing, rooms for supper, and dressing rooms located within City Hall, the ladies having commandeered the Common Council chamber, and the gentlemen, the courtroom. The President and Mrs. Lincoln arrived at 11 p.m. - and although Lincoln stayed only a half hour, and Mrs. Lincoln two, a grand time was had by all 2,500 guests.<br /><br />Located at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Dixon-Welling Collection, Manuscripts and Ephemera <br /></span></p>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1861 March 4
Contributor
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Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Rights
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Creator
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Philp and Solomons, Metropolitan Book Store, Washington D.C.
Source
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President Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
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An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Language
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-Eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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1976.21.24