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Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "A significant site of LGBTQ history, this Victorian Gothic cottage was the home of one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers."
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Subject: Historic house museums, Sexual minorities, Women photographers, Alice Austen House (New York, N.Y.), Lesbians
Group: LGBTQ+, Women
Creator: Historic House Trust New York City
Language: English
City: Staten Island
State: New York
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Set in the picturesque Litchfield Hills in historic Woodbury's village center, the Glebe House is one of the earliest historic house museums in the nation. Its architecture, outstanding regional furniture collection and Gertrude Jekyll Garden combine to create one of the most authentic house museums in the region."
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Subject: Historic house museums, Women gardeners, Enslaved persons, Slavery
Group: Enslaved persons, Women
Creator: The Glebe House Museum
Language: English
City: Woodbury
State: Connecticut
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "In 1857, amidst rising tensions between Native Americans and new settlers, 13-year-old Abbie Gardner’s family was killed by men of the Dakota Indian nation. This tragedy became known as the Spirit Lake Massacre. Young Abbie was taken hostage by the Dakota band and released 84 days later. Decades after the massacre, in 1891, Abbie returned to Arnolds Park and purchased the cabin, operating it as one of Iowa’s earliest tourist attractions."
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Subject: Historic house museums, Women pioneers, Indigenous peoples, Gardner-Sharp, Abbie, 1843-1921, Dakota Indians
Group: Indigenous peoples, Women
Creator: State Historical Society of Iowa
Language: English
City: Arnolds Park
State: Iowa
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Built in 1865, and patterned after a design by Andrew J. Downing, this Evanston house was home to Frances Willard (1839-1898). Both author and activist, Frances Willard lived and worked in this house during the years of her presidency of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). For many of those years, the house also served as an informal national headquarters for the WCTU and a boarding house for its workers."
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Subject: Historic house museums, Women social reformers, Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898
Group: Women
Creator: The Center for Women's History and Leadership
Language: English
City: Evanston
State: Illinois
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "The 1893-1894 Pyle House is a Queen Anne-Style Victorian home that celebrates the Pyle Family and their meritorious careers, specifically Mamie Pyle and Gladys Pyle. Mamie Pyle was the lead Suffragist in South Dakota as president of the Universal Franchise League. Gladys Pyle was a woman of firsts in politics; first woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature, first woman to hold a constitutional office, as South Dakota Secretary of State, and the first woman elected, without previously being appointed, to the United States Congress, just to name a few."
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Subject: Historical museums, Stateswomen, Suffragists
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Greek Revival-style plantation house & grounds dating to the 1840s,"
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Subject: Historic house museums, Historic sites, Enslaved persons, Women, Belle Meade Plantation (Tenn.), Slavery
Group: Enslaved persons, Women
Creator: Belle Meade Plantation
Language: English
City: Nashville
State: Tennessee
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "In 1885, Dr. Arthur Nichols and his wife Elizabeth purchased the 1804 townhouse where their three daughters matured into designers, writers, and social activists. Domestic staff, including locals and individuals from abroad, also lived and worked in the four story home."
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Subject: Immigrants, Household employees, Women, Historic house museums
Group: Immigrants, Servants, Women
Creator: Nichols House Museum
Language: English
City: Boston
State: Massachusetts
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Hull-House, Chicago's first social settlement was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country."
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Subject: Historic house museums, Women social reformers, Immigrants, Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
Group: Immigrants, Women
Creator: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Language: English
City: Chicago
State: Illinois
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "While the builder of our house museum was a man, Andres Ximenez, women have played an iatrical part of the business operated within over our 223-year history. Historically women have been the silent partners of the men who built our communities, but here at the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, the women have been the entrepreneurs and the face of their businesses. "
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Subject: Women, Historic house museums
Group: Women
Creator: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Florida
Language: English
City: St. Augustine
State: Florida
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum reflects not only the Jewett sisters’ eclectic tastes and their desire to preserve family’s tradition, marrying Georgian architecture with Aesthetic Style; the house also reflects the life, work, and passion of Sarah, who created a life of artistic and literal freedom for herself in Victorian America."
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Subject: Lesbians, Women authors, Sexual minorities, Historic house museums
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author and a driving force in humanitarian causes. She was a longtime advocate of cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony as a means of achieving world peace. We continue her legacy of bridging cultures and changing lives through intercultural education, humanitarian aid, and sharing the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark museum."
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Subject: Women authors, Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973, Historic house museums
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Come and hear the stories that Oxmoor has to tell of early pioneer days and the Native Americans, the history of hemp cultivation in Kentucky, the antebellum years and the enslaved community that lived and worked here, through the gilded age and present day. "
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Subject: Indigenous peoples, Women landscape architects, Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Historic house museums
Group: Enslaved persons, Indigenous peoples, Women
Creator: Oxmoor Farm
Language: English
City: Louisville
State: Kentucky
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Learn about the Campbell household and the changes in business, community life, and technology that faced this family, its servants, and its community, circa 1910."
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Subject: Campbell House, Immigrants, Household employees, Women, Historic house museums
Group: Servants, Women
Creator: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Language: English
City: Spokane
State: Washington
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "The contribution of slave labor to the construction and upkeep of the plantation, as well as agricultural prosperity and wealth accrued by Daniel Turnbull, was immense. During peak years of cotton production, operation of Rosedown utilized as many as 450 slaves."
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Subject: Rosedown Plantation, Women, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Historic house museums
Group: Enslaved persons, Women
Creator: Louisiana State Parks
Language: English
City: West Feliciana Parish
State: Louisiana
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Explore upstairs and downstairs life in St. Paul’s largest house"
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Subject: Immigrants, James J. Hill House (Saint Paul, Minn.), Women, Household employees, Historic house museums
Group: Immigrants, Servants, Women
Creator: Minnesota Historical Society
Language: English
City: St. Paul
State: Minnesota
Collection: Historical Representation at American House Museums
Description: "Tudor Place Historic House & Garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of Martha Washington, and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this Georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries."
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Subject: Tudor Place (Washington, D.C.), Immigrants, Free African Americans, Women, Household employees, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Historic house museums
Group: Enslaved persons, Servants, Women
Creator: Tudor Place
Language: English
City: Washington
State: District of Columbia
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