#1839

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pelisse

1835-1840

United States or England

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Object Number: 1996-273

[clove-pinks]

Étude du matin by Paul Gavarni, March 9, 1839.

Still in the 1830s, although these two young men are spiritually in the 1840s already with the long hair and questionable facial hair decisions. One smokes a trendy chibouk pipe and shows a great view of straps on his trousers.

[quii]

[shihlun]

此物出在浙江處州府青田縣數十成羣人禦之化為血水兵官持砲擊之刀箭不能傷現有示諭軍民人守有能剿除者從重獎賞此怪近因官兵逐急旋即落水逢人便食真奇怪哉

"Chinese Caricature of an English Sailor (in war of 1839)"

The Illustrated London News, April 25, 1857.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode, 28 décembre 1839, Paris. Robe satin garni de tulle. Mantelet garni de cigne. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

Wearing a pink bodice with ruffled sleeves and hem. Background— Piano, royal-blue chair, white drapes, and hanging picture.

[dabiconcordia]

The Poet

The poet sits and dreams and dreams; He scans his verse; he probes his themes. Then turns to stretch or stir about, Lest, like his thoughts, his strength give out.

Then off to bed, for he must rise And cord some wood, or tamp some ties,

Or break a field of fertile soil, Or do some other manual toil.

He dare not live by wage of pen, Most poorly paid of poor paid men,

With shoes o'er-run, and thread bare clothes, And editors among the foes

Who mock his song, deny him bread, Then sing his praise when he is dead. by Raymond Garfield Dandridge

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[todaysdocument]

An Act Giving the President of the United States Additional Powers for the Defense of the United States

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress

[handwritten pencil "1176"] Twenty Fifth [handwritten pencil "89" and right corner "Pub "82"] Congress of the United States at the Third Session Begun and held at the City of Washington in the District of Columbia on Monday the third day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. AN ACT giving to the President of the United States additional powers for the defence of the United States, in certain cases, against invasion, and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to resist any attempt on the part of Great Britain, [strikeout text] to enforce, by arms, her claim to exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the States of Maine which is in dispute between the United States and Great Britain; and, for that purpose to employ the naval and military forces of the United States and such portion of the militia as he may deem it advisable to call into service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the militia when called into service of the United States by virtue of this act or of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union suppress insurrections repel invasions and to repeal the act now in force for these purposes," may, if in the opinion of the President of the United States the public interest regime it, be compelled to serve for a term not exceeding six months after the arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year unless sooner discharged. The "And be it further enacted, that in the event of actual invasion of the territory of the United States by any foreign power, or if imminent danger of such invasion discovered, in his opinion, to exist before Congress can be convened to act upon the subject the President be, and he is hereby, authorized if he deem the same expedient to accept the services of any number of volunteers not exceeding fifty thousand, in the manner provided for by an act entitled "an act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen, approved May Twenty third Eighteen hundred and thirty six". Sec 4. And be it further enacted , that in the event of either of the contingencies provided for in, [strikeout text] this act the President of the United States shall be authorized to complete the public armed vessels now authorized by law, and to equip, [full transportation at link]

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View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, 1839, by Martinus Rørbye (1803-1848) 

[marryat92]

Captain Marryat on what has gone wrong with the city of Detroit: THE FRENCH.

The French never have succeeded as colonists, and their want of success can only be ascribed to an amiable want of energy. When located at any spot, if a Frenchman has enough, he seeks no more; and, instead of working as the Englishman or the American does, he will pass his time away, and spend his little surplus in social amusements. The town of Detroit was founded as early as the city of Philadelphia, but, favourably as it is situated, it never until lately rose to any thing more than, properly speaking, a large village. There is not a paved street in it, or even a foot-path for a pedestrian. In winter, in rainy weather, you are up to your knees in mud; in summer, invisible from dust: indeed, until lately, there was not a practicable road for thirty miles round Detroit.

— Frederick Marryat, A Diary In America (1839)

He goes on to add that (anglo) American industry is now transforming the city. This 1837 print of the Detroit waterfront is from the same time period as Marryat's visit.

William James Bennett after Frederick K. Grain, City of Detroit, Michigan: Taken from the Canada Shore near the Ferry, published 1837 (National Gallery of Art).

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

1839-1840

For her marriage to John A. Richardson on New Year's Day 1839, Susan Capen Everett of Boston, Massachusetts, was on the cutting edge of fashion. A dress very similar to hers, with a fringed neckline and sleeves had been illustrated in a fashion plate in the Petit Courrier des Dames only a month before. Susan must have brought the print straight to her dressmaker in order to have the dress ready in time for the wedding.

Historic New England (Accession Number: 1926.734)

[artschoolglasses]

The Bride of Death, Thomas Jones Barker, 1839

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View of the Öd (1879) by Hans Thoma (German, 1839-1924); oil on paper, on card; Kunst Museum Winterthur (Switzerland)

[alwayswonderingandwandering]

world photo day

[nemfrog]

Tooth extractions. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire. vol. VI. 1839.

Heidelberg University

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode, 14 décembre 1839, Paris. Chapeau de velours orné de dentelles noires et marabout. Chapeau de satin. Fichu de dentelles. Chale de soie écossais et chale cachemire long. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

Chapeaux de Me. Royer, Bd. Italiens. Fichu de Me. Lassalle. Chale de Gagelin Opigez, Richelieu. Robes de Mlle. de Moismont, du Helder, 14 bis., sous jupes bouffantes d'Oudinot Lutel. Mouchoirs de Chapron, rue de la Paix, 4 bis.

Left- Wearing a royal blue parasol with blue plumes. Also wearing a white bodice with puffed sleeves and black fichu at neckline. Has a yellow and purple scarf on lap. Right- Pink bonnet with white lappet. Wearing a pink bodice with a yellow, green, and orange shawl over it.