Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894
Subject: Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography and Life and Writings of Dr. James Clarke Welling
James C. Welling (1825-1894)
James Clarke Welling, Addresses, Lectures and other Papers
Published by Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.
1825-1906
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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Dr .James Clarke Welling>Clementine L. Dixon Welling>William Corcoran Welling>William Welling> Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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Chief Justice Marshall Slave Bill of Sale
Subject - Slavery - Virginia
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 of sale may be found in the Connecticut Historical Society, within the Dixon - Welling family collection, Ms 46829.
Provenance: the donor, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, daughter of Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894. president of George Washington University
Chief Justice John Marshall
An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Unpublished
1787
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5x7 stationary paper
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Ms 46829
US
Portraits of the sons of Sen. James Dixon and Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
German artists -- 19th Cent.
Artists -- Wunder, Adalbert
<p>Crayon and china white shoulder length portrait of two boys. Signed and dated “A. Wunder 1855"<br /><br />in 1855 Adalbert Wunder drew several portraits of the sons and nephew of Sen. James Dixon and wife, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon. According to Art and Artists in Connecticut by H.W. French the artist, Adalbert Wunder was born in Berlin, Germany in 1827 and lived in Hartford from 1855-1869. </p>
Wunder, Adalbert
1855
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Passed from Elizabeth L.C. Dixon to Clementine Dixon Welling to Elizabeth Dixon Welling to Caroline Welling Van Deusen
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1840 Wedding Dress Worn by Elizabeth L.C. Dixon
Wadsworth Athenaeum Textiles Collection -- lost items
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 she met President James Polk; as mentioned in 'Diary of Elizabeth Dixon'; White House History, Issue 33.
The dress was made of cream white satin elaborately embroidered in white on bottom and front in Chinese style with low neck, short sleeves, fitted and boned and sewed onto full skirt.
In 1945, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, granddaughter of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon loaned the dress to Wadsworth Atheneum for an exhibit: 'The Costume Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum', Dec 14, 1946 to Feb 23, 1947.
In 2010 the niece of Miss Welling requested to see the Wedding Dress, and the Wadsworth Atheneum staff confirmed the dress associated with accession number: 1946.375-377 is no longer in the Wadsworth Atheneum collections and staff cannot confirm where it is, when and if it was deaccessioned or sold at auction.
Unknown
1840
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Wadsworth Accession No. 1946.375-377
1840
Gold Locket with Hair of President Alexander Hamilton
18th Century Mourning Jewelry
A small gold locket containing a few hairs from the head of Alexander Hamilton is engraved on the back: “The hair of Alexander Hamilton which was given by his descendant to Mrs. Martha Lyman Foster and left by her to Miss E.L. Dixon.” The above Mrs. Foster was the wife of Senator Lafayette S. Foster (The image shown on this item is not the lock of hair of Alexander Hamilton. It is a place holder for the original which is located at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.)
Alexander Hamilton
An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
1936-10-24
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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Donation to Connecticut Museum of Culture and History by Miss Elizabeth D. Welling, October 1936
Small gold locket
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CHSM Accession No. 1936.24.0
18th Century
Box, tinder, with cover, inner cover, strikers and flints
Tinder box
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.
Provenance confirmed by Mrs. Elizabeth L C. Dixon (1819-1871)
Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling
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1976-03-29
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
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none
4 1/4" diameter, eighteenth century iron and steel round tinder box
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Box, tinder, with cover, inner cover, strikers and flints
CHSM Accession No. 1976.21.1 a-c
18th Century
Bisque doll
Toy ca 1840 Doll
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.
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling
https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/
1976-03-29
Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
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None
19 ½” tall, brown-eyed, blond wigged bisque doll
Bisque doll
1976.21.2
ca. 1840
Colored Mammy doll
ca 1840 Doll
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.
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Welling
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1905-05-05
Miss Elizabeth L. Dixon
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Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling
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'Colored Mammy" doll
CHSM None Accession No. donated in 1952
ca. 1840
Spectacles
Eyeglass frame industry
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.
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
Gift of Miss Elizabeth D. Welling
https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/
1976-05-08
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling
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None- no image available
Gold spectacles
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Two pair of spectacles and spectacle case
CHSM Accession No. 11976.21.27-29
ca. 1850-1870
Mahogany Stool
White House (Washington, D.C.) — furniture
This footstool and a tester bed were bequeathed to CHS by Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling. These items purchased in April-May 1865 from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln just prior to her departing the White House.
The upholstered portion looks quite new with no visible wear and depicts a light and dark blue floral pattern with a single flower repeated on a white backing.
Unknown
An Annotated Bibliography of the Dixon-Welling Family Collection at Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
CHSM Accession No. 1977-11-01
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
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footstool
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Object
CHSM Accession No. 1977.25.2
ca 1830-1850