Loving, Learning, Working, Serving explores the lives and works of Louisa Macculloch (1785-1863), Mary Louisa Macculloch Miller (1804-1888), Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942), Dorothea Miller Post (1878-1947) and Charlotte Miller Bowler (1880-1942) as well as the enslaved women and female servants who lived and worked at Macculloch Hall. Loving, Learning, Working, Serving commemorates this centennial anniversary by celebrating the Macculloch/Miller women who combined a dedication to family with a commitment to charity, community and ultimately, women’s suffrage. officially adopted the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Portrait of Louisa Macculloch, circa 1840 Nast was a prolific Book illustrator whose work appeared in more than 125 books on topics ranging from politics and the military to children’s and Christmas books, among others. Thomas Nast painted the series of watercolors on display for an edition that was never published. Interest in The Arabian Nights continued through the nineteenth century. Scheherazade either did not finish the night’s story or began a new story stopping midway to pick it up the next evening in order to hold the king’s attention and ultimately to save her life. Though over time stories were added and omitted, the frame story or organizing principle remained the same: over 1,001 nights Scheherazade told a story to her husband, King Shahryar. By the eighteenth century, the Arabian Nights were entertaining western audiences through various translations in French (1704-1717) and English (1706). Throughout the Middle East and South Asia these exciting folk tales, deeply rooted in oral tradition, were compiled into Arabic from the eighth through the thirteenth centuries. Nast’s image of Santa Claus as a jolly, round-bellied, white-bearded, gnome-like figure immediately captured the imagination of both children and adults throughout the United States and eventually the world and they continue to delight audiences to this day. Elements from Moore’s poem are illustrated in many of Nast’s Christmas drawings. Nast was inspired by the famous poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas, more popularly known as Twas The Night Before Christmas, written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822. Sometimes Nast drew Santa as small and elf-like, while at other times the artist drew the grand figure that we know and love today. Some of his images of Santa were political cartoons while others were festive and celebratory seasonal images of the jolly old elf. Nast continued to create images of Santa for other publications and for his family throughout his lifetime. In 1863, Nast published his first image of Santa Claus in Harper’s Weekly and he drew the jolly old elf for the publication almost every Christmas season for more than 20 years. Though famous for his political cartoons, Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was most proud of the popularized image of Santa Claus that he created.
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