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The Carr-Todd Family Reunions New York 1912-1914
Samuel Street Todd (1824-1921) sitting front Left, his ancestors founded Toddsville, New York where this Todd-Carr family reunion was...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


American Painter Lee Lufkin Kaula: The Tea Party
The Tea Party watercolor painted by Lee Lufkin Kaula in Essex, Massachusetts. Subjects Grace Manning Hart and Dorothy Endicott Hart....
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience Emerson Baker
I published this book review 2014 in the Salem Chronicle Wicked Local Salem, MA REVIEW: Family relations focus of new book on Salem Witch...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20203 min read


Baseball Pitcher Sanford "Sandy" Koufax
Baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball Hall of Fame and winner of three Cy Young Awards in 1963, 1965, and...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Two Lasses in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade New York City, 1955
Josephine Barrett and Madeline Ryan, both age 10, in Bob Barrett's Pipers and Drummers. World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, New York...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Book Review: Stories in Stone: A Guide to Cemetery Symbolism
Review by James Pylant Family historians know the familiar symbols they find on an ancestor's grave marker—such as crosses for...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Breaker Boys, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1892
Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Coal breaker boys before act passed regulating the employment of...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Rare Thomas Lynch Jr. Letter (1776) Charleston, South Carolina
Letter written from Charleston, South Carolina to George Laurence Eaton, Esq. In full: “I am happy to extend to you the enclosed letter...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Captain Thomas Foulds Ellsworth Collection at the Pasadena Museum of History, California
Captain Thomas Foulds Ellsworth (1804-1911) was featured prominently in the exhibit, "When Johnny Came Marching West," that ran in 2015...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Mabel Thorp Boardman: American Humanitarian and Philanthropist
Photograph of Mabel Thorp Boarman (1860-1946) from Americana Historical Magazine, Vol. 26 Mabel was born in Cleveland Ohio to William...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Smallest Auto in the World "Hoot Gibson Special" driven by American Gus Petzel, 1925
Gus Petzel in his baby car he built in 1925 at his home, 1207 Grand Street Alameda, California. Gus drove the car all the way to...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Kenneth Worcester Dow Gallery of American Art, Furniture, and Objects MOAS FLA
I viewed this collection June 2019 it was amazing! Here is photo of a Highboy Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1760, Museum of Arts & Sciences...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Patriot Spinners & Knitters: WW I Christmas Packages for the Troops, 1917
“The photograph of this American soldier was made ‘Somewhere in France’ where he now is fighting for America. It was cold and snowing...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Grandma Moses Donates Battle of Bennington Painting to DAR, 1953 Vermont
Grandma Moses donating her painting, "Battle of Bennington," to Mrs. George Kuhner who accepts it for Daughtersof the American Revolution...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20201 min read


Pedigree, Pearls, and Pooches High Society in San Francisco
Photo: Mary Kellogg Crittenden Hopkins. Credit: Isiah West Taber; Stanford Historical Photograph Collection, Stanford University....
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20204 min read


Nathaniel Gould and Rachel Peabody Family Photo Collection
This photo collection, owned by the Stearns family, is shared with Americana-Archives. I wrote an article for the Newburyport News on...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 7, 20203 min read


The Diary of Isabella Cass of Sherwood Hall, Menlo Park, Calif.
Thurlow Lodge, later renamed Sherwood Hall, Menlo Park, California (Picture credit: Stanford University, Department of Special...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 6, 20203 min read


Civil War Dispatch by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan
Major General George B. McClellan An interesting telegraph dispatch by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding the Union forces during...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 6, 20201 min read


Joseph Oliver Stearns and Hellen Louise Dennett
Joseph Oliver Stearns (1838-1917) and Hellen Louise "Nell" Dennett (1843-1874) were married in Amesbury, Massachusetts, on January 1,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 6, 20201 min read


What so proudly we hail: recalling the history of ‘Old Glory’ on its 243rd birthday in New York
An article published in the Riverhead Paper June 15, 2020, written by Ann Otten Regent for the Daughters of the American Revolution...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 6, 20201 min read
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