#1790s usa

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, 1794, American.

Portraying Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes in a white dress with gold details.

Painted by Gilbert Stuart.

Met Museum.

[rabbitcruiser]

George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City on January 8, 1790.  

[3vz]

"Sea and mist swirl through an ancient lava flow- a legacy of Haleakala on Maui's northeast coast. The volcano last erupted in 1790."

Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 1985.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1790 Man's suit (coat and waistcoat) (USA)

wool with silk embroidery

(Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Watch holder, 1790-1800, USA.

[mapsontheweb]

Migration of Population Centers from 1790 to 2010, Overall USA population, Whites, Non-Whites, and Blacks.

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Reading your characters profile, I realize you never mentioned their date of birth.  Can you tell me the year or time period that the characters (USA, Australia, Ireland,….)  be born?

So I kind of did that on purpose because its one of those things that people have their own very specific headcanons and versions and I don't feel that strongly about it because there's multiple ways to go about things and I've changed my mind about this couple of times but generally I go with the earliest reference to a culture emerging I can find. The idea of a nation rather than the hard founding dates because there are more to these things than just when a European stepped foot somewhere. And full disclaimer, when I don't have writing to use, I'm using archaeology and artistic expression as what that idea might have been. Also I think if I were to rewrite this now, but I don't want replace a lot of existing writing I would make them born much later but fuck it, here we go. Also I had so many links to put in this but I lost them so eh, there's one lmao fuck my entire life im so tired.

Britannia/Eirian — 1500-1000 BC. I'm kind of bullshitting because geography and history are hard to do when there's like 2 pieces of Roman propaganda that survive. The National Museum of Wales says the Celts arrived about 1000 BCE so that's when she found herself rooted in the British Isles. She might be older than that.

Ireland/Brighid — 600-400 BCE. again we're working with what's in a lot of ways prehistory here so the earliest example I could find of what archaeologists identified as a distinctly Irish take on broader artistic styles. Particularly in ironwork. There's a spearhead that was found in the River Inny that is of a style recognisable in medieval Ireland but carbon dated too before 500 BCE.

Scotland/Alasdair — 600-400 BCE. The archaeology suggests a a population increase and an artistic coalescing as temperatures warmed and some new prosperity allowed new pottery styles, increased use of horses came along and allowed the very earliest brochs or stone towers mostly found on the coastlines of Scotland seem to date to this era.

Wales/Rhys — 400-300 BCE. Literally based this off one of my favourite torcs found in Wales and that's as good as I've got send help.

England/Arthur — 50BCE-100 AD. Roman Britain get jiggy with it just wanted a couple of centuries between the baby bilge rate and his siblings.

America/Alfred — 1580s. The first reference I ever saw to America being associated with new opportunities and money making and protestant havens was 1585.

Canada/Matt - 1610s. The first reference to Canadians being different from European Frenchmen was in the 1610s so Matt popped out around then. The French unlike the British or Spanish were less attentive to the claims they made on Canada but then didn't settle for nearly a century.

Australia/Jack — 1790s. Australians as a concept was the late 1790s with some of the first references made by Gaelic speaking Irish prisoners.

Aotearoa/Zee — 1810s. She's a little harder because there's a lot of escaped prisoners, whalers and other random white people living with Māori before the Brits properly showed up but I'm just rolling with it.

[bonefool]

the frontispiece page of an 1808 edition of "Tales of Terror. A Gothic horror story collection. When this book was first published, in the 1790s, was the peak of this genre. The gothic literary movement involved a mixture of romantic features connected to medieval stories, (hence the term Gothic) but combined them with contemporary mores and references. Wealth, Monstrous nobility, dead loves and family, secret societies, and of course, supernatural creatures were all popular features. Many of its most popular authors were women, most famously Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1818. European culture was rocked by violent revolutions, including the future USA, France, and Haiti, as well as the rise of urban industrialization and the scientific discoveries. Even as the most fortunate of the public were starting to experience some of our current confidence in the power of mankind, this dark and unreal literature fed the human hunger for romantic mystery and powerless suffering . It had cultural impacts in the English, French and German speaking worlds that influence many to this very day.

[gogmstuff]

1790s - Dress in transition

Top  1790s Rural Charity by John Raphael Smith (location ?). From fripperiesandfobs.tumblr.com/image/25240050971; fixed spots & some flaws w Pshop 1219X1484.

Second row left  1791 Family portrait with the Colosseum in the background by Jacques Sablet (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne - Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland). From tumblr.com/themusingsofadah 1536X1274.

Second row right  1791 Penelope Lee Acton by George Romney (Huntington Library ). From theessenceoffrenchness.tumblr.com/image/169610889996; increased exposure 45% 700X1140.

Third row  1793 (after) Sophia, Lady Burdett by Sir Thomas Lawrence (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK). From Wikimedia 2400X3874.

Fourth row left  1796 Maistre Sisters by Antoine-Jean Gros (Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, USA). From their Web site; removed spots throughout image w Pshop 946X1325.

Fourth row right  1796 Two Women Making Music by Pauline Azou (Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara, California, USA). From tumblr.com/themusingsofadah; fit to screen 1297X1300.

Fifth row  1797 Elizabeth Iliffe, Countess of Egremont by Thomas Phillips (Petworth House and Park - Petworth, West Sussex, UK). From arthive.com/artists/2927~Thomas_Phillips/works/521626~Elizabeth_Iliffe_Countess_of_Egremont#show 771X1000.

Sixth row  1798 Theresa Parker by Henry Edridge (location ?). From tumblr.com/themusingsofadah 2048X2986.

[gentlyepigrams]

It is certainly no secret that I adore this period’s menswear, being an unabashed color whore. Not only was this period’s menswear beautifully colorful the style itself was flattering to a broad range of people.

This suit is from 1790 in the USA. It is crafted of black woolen material. From the depth of the black coloration, this was some pricey wool fabric. The embroidery is done entirely in silk flosses in a pattern of daises, roses and other flowers. Sad to say that the breeches did not survive. They would have had the same embroidery on the cuffs and the buttons.

Collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

[argaman01]

Jerusalems in the United States - New York State

I reposted a blog earlier today about how Jewish Voice for Peace had at some point had people recite "Next Year in Al-Quds" instead of "Next Year in Jerusalem" during a Passover seder. Someone then commented that they could have said "Next Year in Jerusalem New York," and in fact, there is a Jerusalem, New York, and it's not very far from me. (I live in Ithaca)

The New York Jerusalem is in Yates County, right on Keuka Lake. (In the map below, it's enclosed by the dotted red line).

From a history of the town published in 1892:

"Jerusalem is practically and substantially the mother of towns in Yates County.  The district, sometimes called township, of Jerusalem, was organized in 1789 as one of the subdivisions of Ontario County, and included with its limits all that is now Milo, Benton and Torrey, as well as its own original territory.  On the erection of Stueben County in 1796, the region or district called Bluff Point, or so much of it as lies south of the south line of township seven, was made a part of the new formation; but in 1814 an act of the Legislature annexed Bluff Point to Jerusalem, and to which it has since belonged.   

"In 1803 the town of Jerusalem was definitely erected, embracing township seven, second range, and so much of township seven, first range, as lay westward of Lake Keuka and lot No. 37.  At or about the same time the other territory that had previously formed a part of the district of Jerusalem was organized into a town and called Vernon, after Snell and finally Benton."

The Public Universal Friend

Portrait of the Public Universal Friend, from 1812, unknown painter. Source: Yates County Historical Society

A famous resident of the town (famous then, not now), was the Public Universal Friend:

"The Public Universal Friend, Jemima WILKINSON, was of course a pioneer of this town, the same as she had been in the locality and settlement on Seneca Lake.  In 1790 she first came to the Genesee country and four years later she established herself permanently in the town of Jerusalem."

The Public Universal Friend was born as Jemima Wilkinson in 1752 to a Quaker family in Rhode Island. Jemima was transformed into the Public Universal Friend after "a night of fevered dreams" on October 10, 1776.

Jemima took on a new identity after the fever. "'Reborn' in their place was the Public Universal Friend, neither male nor female. According to the Friend, Jemima’s soul had passed into heaven, and God had reanimated their body with the spirit of the Friend sent to spread the Quaker gospel. From then on, the Friend began to gather followers and travel as a preacher."

The Friend lived as nonbinary person: "The Public Universal Friend dressed in a way that blended masculinity and femininity, and this drew much attention. Their clothing included a cravat and robe like traditional ministers and clergymen wore, as well as the kind of hat typically worn by Quaker men. They also didn’t wear the traditional bonnet or head covering women were expected to wear. The Public Universal Friend’s gender presentation caused curiosity and anger, and it was a radical challenge to the status quo that the Friend was not willing to be bound by the customs of the community." 

How did the Friend come to settle in Jerusalem, New York? After their transformation, the Friend gathered a following, and they decided to create a settlement in western New York, called Jerusalem.

The Friend's house, where they lived until dying in 1819. (Photo from the National Park Service).

Sources

Yates County, New York, History of the Town of Jerusalem: https://web.archive.org/web/20050125071905/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/yates/jerusalem/jeruhistory.htm

New York Public Library, January 13, 2023: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/02/16/who-was-public-universal-friend-living-outside-gender-binary-revolutionary-times

Washington Post, January 5, 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/05/long-before-theythem-pronouns-genderless-prophet-drew-hundreds-followers/

National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/places/the-friend-s-home-jemima-wilkinson-house.htm

Life Story: The Public Universal Friend: https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/public-universal-friend/

Jerusalem and the Society of Universal Friends: http://upstatehistorical.org/items/show/75

More information about the Friend

The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America, by Paul B. Moyer (Cornell University Press, 2015).

"'Indescribable Being': Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819," by Scott Larson, Early American Studies 12:3 (2014) 576-600. (Special issue: Beyond the Boundaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America). JSTOR link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24474871

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, 1798, American.

Portraying Chloe Burrall Smith in a green dress, with her children.

Painted by Ralph Earl.

Met Museum.

[rabbitcruiser]

George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City on January 8, 1790.  

[blueiight]

according to larry koger in his book black south carolina , between the years 1790 and 1860, 10k slaves were owned by free black people in louisiana, maryland, sc and virginia. [which is approx. 1-2% of all people ever owned in the continental usa]. research done on the background of the owners shows that many themselves were former slaves (albeit situations varied. some were born as house slaves , or manumitted earlier from urban servitude .. but nonetheless these owners were themselves born in slavery and/or descended from immediate family born into slavery) & purchasing their own family members and were later restricted by the dominant (white) law in doing so and had to set quotas or Choose Between which one of ur own family members to BUY. speaking so flippantly on real life , tragic history with no research or care for the people & descendants involved is disgusting, no matter who you are.

[enjoypaitings]

Grigory Gluckmann (Russian (Active in USA), 1898 - 1973) - Manana is Another Day

picture resolution 1790 × 1957

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[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Portrait of a woman in a lace cap, 1790, USA.