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"A sonata, sung by a number of young girls, dressed in white and decked with wreaths and chaplets of flowers, holding baskets of flowers in their hands, as General Washington passed under the triumphal arch raised on the bridge at Trenton, April 21, 1789.
A SONATA
Sung by a Number of young Girls, dressed in white and decked with Wreaths and Chaplets of Flowers, holding Baskets of Flowers in their Hands, as General Washington passed under the Triumphal Arch raised on the Bridge at Trenton, April 21,…
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Full title: A serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest by a lover of her sex.…
Eliza Smith, The Compleat Housewife
Originally published in London in 1727, Eliza Smith’s The Compleat Housewife was published in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1742. It is considered to be the first cookbook published in America. In addition to recipes, the work also contains…
Every Man His Own Doctor
Full title: Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician: prescribing, plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines…
Advertisement, "Virginia Planter's Best Tobacco"
This label represents an idealized depiction of life in eighteenth-century Virginia tobacco country. It shows a white planter smoking a pipe, with slaves in the background holding hoes used to cultivate the crop. Another slave holds an umbrella to…
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