Pictures and taste in home art from Mrs Stowe
The Atlantic Almanac 1869 exhorts readers on selecting family pictures. Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe argues for art that suits daily life, warns against overvaluing high art, praises honest, relatable images, and encourages personal taste over critics while noting practical home styling with affordable chromolithographs.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sauther
John Stubbs
Don Positivo
Arundel Society
Louvre
Stubbs
Tait
Prang
Belisarius
Michael Angeles
Satan
Schaffer
Francisca di Rimini
Erosion of Time Wearily Wears All Things Away
The passage ponders how rivers stones and mountains yield to time and force, noting that all living and material things decay. It reflects on old customs and ideas dissolving into new ones, leaving only layers beneath what is currently used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Parton
New England
Massachusetts
Palestine
Boston
Constantinople
Oston
George Francis Train
Count Johannes
Atlantic
Jervis
Connecticut
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Florida
Ten Knota
Natarlitsky
UV. Picayune
Old Fashioned Pickle Recipe and Humorous Anecdotes
The fragment includes a meat curing pickle recipe using water sugar saltpetre and potash with boiling and cooling steps and notes on using the pickle on beef or pork for days. It also contains several short comic notes about a preacher collecting funds, a kettle repair dispute, and sentimental verses about bonnets and love.
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Orn Rerecwr
Ray
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Bristol
Phenil Building
Hope Street
R. J. Ze Tert
C. A. Greene
Arya
Rene Dd .aGixer
Tad
Bern
Hooffand
Geo. W. Woodward
Supreme Court of
Curman
W. Woodward
James Thompson
Siprema Court of Pensrylvanis
Vmil Pekreitate Sprit
Keke Bens
Storey Coor i
Rom
Joseph H. Kenkard, DD
Tenth Baptist Church
Philade
Jaccson
Dean
Ofoffic
SlaRe
Bucyanna
Bee
MB. Jackson & CO
Hoefland
Arra
Hoehand
Heeiland
Hodiland
Hospiland
Mepland
United States
Anp
Dominion OF Canada
North America
Aite
New York
GEO. P. Rowell & CO
Pohliqmers & Newsrarss Andvertisixa Agents
Park Row
Publishers & Advertising Agents
Florence
Paris
Westminster Street
Providence, R. I
Ano
D. Church
Agt
Bradford Street
J. A. Miller
State Street
Reynolds
Bristol Institution For
H. C. Gifford
J. G. Whittier
Asknee
Gea
Roots, Shoes
Providence
Ladies Amburg
COOKE
Congress
Janos
Pearce
State
Thames Streets
R. I
Dove
McCaw
First National Bank of Bristol
M. Bennett
National Eagle Bank
Bloyd
America
Europe
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Lloyd's Map Bureaus
Cortlandt &T
N. Yu
Bradford Dee
Ca Beit Fordetreat
J. Ae Miller
Pearse
Geo. H. Reynolds
Valtby
Waldron
Stowe
Vatican
Rome
Emile
Uariet Beecher Stowe
New York Tribune
Monsieur de Paris
Monsieur
Medical Faculty of
Marie Antoinette
Mer
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Aly
Sixpenica Gaat
Uis Em2d
Ployer
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Omar
Reese
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