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About Emerging America Page: Silk Wedding Shoes
Silk wedding shoes belonging to Sally Pomeroy, daughter of General Seth Pomeroy, 1770. From the Collections of Historic Northampton, Massachusetts.
The Birth of Old Glory.
Painting by Percy Moran, 1917. Library of Congress Collections
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Photograph, 1963.From the Library of Congress Collection.
Emerging America Banner: Daniel Shays
Daniel Shays – from a drawing of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, Bickerstaff’s Boston Almanac, 1787, 3rd edition.
Emerging America Banner: Farm Couple
A resettled young couple. Douglas County Farmsteads, Nebraska. Arthur Rothstein, photographer. 1936. From the FSA/OWI Collection.
Emerging America Banner: Apartments in row houses
Fordham House, New York City. Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Chest belonging to Sarah Strong
Joined chest with drawer carved with the name “Sarah Strong”, early 18th Century. Northampton, Massachusetts is believed to be the probable origin of the chest. From the Collections of Historic Northampton, Massachusetts.
Emerging America Home Page: Shays and the Armory
“Daniel Shays, with about 1500 indebted farmers, attacked the Springfield Armory in 1787.” Historic Northampton.
Emerging America Navigation Menu: Mount Holyoke
“View from Mount Holyoke”, attributed to Victor de Grailly, c. 1845.
Emerging America Navigation Menu: Row houses. Poster.
WPA Poster Collection New York, Federal Art Project. 1936 or 1937. WPA Poster Collection, Library of Congress.
Emerging America Navigation Menu: President Coolidge
“President Coolidge with dogs Rob Roy and Tiny Tim on the porch of his home at 21 Massasoit Street in Northampton, Mass”, Eric Stahlberg, photographer, 1930.
Emerging America Navigation Menu: Town Hall
“View of the Town Hall, Northampton, Massachusetts” from Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Wood engraving, 1854.
New World Encounter
Painting, 1893. Library of Congress Collections.
Online Exhibits Navigation Menu: Canal
Advertising poster for the New Haven – Northampton Canal, 1845.
Online Exhibits Navigation Menu: NAEI Constitution
Constitution of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, 1843.
Online Exhibits Navigation Menu: Sewing Machine
Sewing Machine with wooden table top case made by the Florence Sewing Machine Company of Florence, Massachusetts, c. 1867.
Online Exhibits Navigation Menu: Women
Online Exhibits Navigation Menu: Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, woodcut, from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, dictated by Sojourner Truth, Boston, 1850. Sojourner Truth chose this illustration of herself for the frontispiece of her autobiography, the Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Photo Portrait of Two Girls
Mid-19th Century daguerrotype of two young women.
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution.
Painting. Library of Congress Collections.
Slovak Woman with Children
Photograph, 1906-1914. New York Public Library
True Sons of Freedom.
World War I Posters, 1918.Library of Congress Poster Collection.
Tuko-See-Mathla, A Seminole Chief
Painting, 1843. Smithsonian Institution.
Unidentified African-American soldier in Union uniform.
Photograph,1863-65. Library of Congress Collections.
Rotating Image: Detroit
Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan. c. 1921.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection
Rotating Image: Lady Strikers
Picket Girls on Duty, Tailor Strike, New York City, Bain News Service, 1910.
George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress
Rotating Images: Northampton Parade
Rotating Images: Hadley Barn
Rotating Images: Springfield Armory
Rotating Images: Eagle
Rotating Images: Truck

Shay’s Proclamation Flier
“Proclamation to pardon those insurgents who would lay down their arms.” Governor James Bowdoin, Boston, Massachusetts, February 17, 1787.

Windows on History Image
“Arthur Chalifoux (4th boy from left), 3 Rand Street, Works in Eclipse Mills, No. Adams, Massachusetts” photograph by Lewis Wickes Hines, 1911.

Library of Congress Header
“West Front from the Northwest”, Library of Congress. Northeast corner of First Street & Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC.
Radical Equality Website: Image Sources
Photograph by Historic Northampton.
Manufacturers of Corticelli Silk.
David RugglesRealistic caricature drawn by American cartoonist was Edward W. Clay who worked during the 1830s and 40s mainly for H. R. Robinson, lithographer, of 52 Cortland Street, NY.
Shows several artifacts typical of schools in the mid-1800s.
Dolly Witter StetsonPortrait, 1860s.
Early twentieth century snapshot of the former silk factory and community boarding house of the Northampton Association.
Poster. Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass traveled around the United States, speaking about his experience as a fugitive slave. When he came to Northampton, he stayed at the Northampton Association.
Portrait, 1860s.
This copy owned by NAEI founder H. Judd. His name is in the upper right corner.
Lucy StetsonPortrait, 1840s.
Lydia ChildPortrait, 1840s.
Photograph of the factory site on the Mill River.
Samuel Whitmarsh turned an old oil mill on the banks of the Mill River in Northampton into a silk mill in the early 1830s. The later mill went up at the same location on the river.
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Samuel HillPhotograph of the abolitionist co-founder of the NAEI.
Blue-black Northampton silk dressc.1840-43
Model of silk reeler.From Eight Years Experience…, by Samuel Whitmarsh, Northampton, 1839.
Silk Worm Life CycleArtist’s rendering of the life cycle of the silk worm.
c. 1867. Pencil drawing by Charles Burleigh who lived at the Association during its time in the 1840s.
Civil War era photograph of the abolitionist.
Portrait of Frederick DouglassDouglass (1818-1895) by an unidentified artist. Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Although this portrait is attributed to an unidentified artist, Dolly Stetson’s letter of April 15, 1845 suggests that Elisha Hammond, a member of the Northampton Association, painted Douglass’ portrait during Douglass’es visit to the Association in 1845.




