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1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac – archive.org ; Horse Drawn Carts in Winter by Fritz Thaulow – cutlermiles.com
JANUARY – Cooking
Strother, David H., Harper’s (Dec., 1854) p. 7; 1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac – archive.org
JANUARY – Making shoes and boots
A conservative philosopher (boot man) by Strother, David H., Harper’s (Jan., 1856) hathitrust.org p. 178 ; Mr. Jones’s legacy (worn out pair of boots) by A Virginian. Harper’s, December, 1853 hathitrust.org p. 31; Shining Shoes by Thomas Waterman Wood paintingstar.com ; slave shoes – Charles F. Gunther Collection, 1920.1734ab Collection: Chicago History Museum collections.carli.illinois.edu
Ryan Hagerty from the National Digital Library of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mockingbird wikipedia.org
APRIL – Plowing corn ground
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated newspaper Plowing in South Carolina From a Sketch by Jas E. Taylor. Illus. in: Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, v. 23, no. 577 (1866 October 20). loc.gov
MAY – Planting corn
The Iowa Agriculturalist for the Farm, Garden & Household – uni.edu
MAY – Washing Sheep& Shearing Sheep
Washing and Shearing Sheep in the Country sketches by Edwin Forbes July 18, Harper’s Weekly 1868, printsoldandrare.com p. 461
JUNE – Altering Lambs
The Keeper of the Herd by Jean-François Millet – The Art Institute of Chicago – artic.edu
JUNE – Hoeing Corn
A Southern Cornfield, Nashville, Tennessee Thomas Waterman Wood – 1861 – oceansbridge.com
JULY – Cutting and Cradling Hay
Cradle scythe used for harvesting grain – Mississippi History Timeline mdah.ms.gov ; The Iowa Agriculturalist for the Farm, Garden & Household uni.edu
JULY – Nooning
Farmers Nooning by William Sidney Mount – 1836 Long Island Museum (United States – Stony Brook, Long Island, New York) artsandculture.google.com
AUGUST – Hauling & stacking wheat
Culpepper [i.e., Culpeper], Va.–Stacking wheat by Edwin Forbes – loc.gov
AUGUST – Shucking Corn
Corn Husking by Eastman Johnson – 1860 Everson Museum of Art – Syracuse, NY – commons.wikimedia.org
SEPTEMBER – At Market
Charleston Vegetable Woman by William Aiken Walker – Date unknown – wikioo.org
SEPTEMBER – Cutting & Collecting Wood
Currier_Ives_chopping_wood_Matte_detail – Louis Maurer, Preparing for Market, 1856. Hand-colored lithograph, (22 5/8 x 31 1/8 in). Published by N. Currier, New York. commons.wikimedia.org ; Strother, David H., Harper’s July, 1866 hathitrust.org p. 139
OCTOBER – Sowing Red Clover
The Sower by Jean-François Millet – 1850 Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA wikiart.org
Strother, David Hunter; Catching Hogs (W1995.030.004) – 1872 West Virginia and Regional History Collection; Smoked Ham at the Bonnie Crest Inn, North Carolina by William Aiken Walker – 1886 – wahooart.com
DECEMBER – Making warm clothes from linsey-woolsey
“JENNY . . .A GOOD SPINSTER” – inthewordsofwomen.com ; Strother, David H., Harper’s (Aug., 1856) hathitrust.org – p. 309 ; Strother, David Hunter; Lock’s Old Stephen. 1845. Martinsburg Va. (W1995.030.391pg19) West Virginia and Regional History Collection
References:
Aglionby, Charles. “The Day Book Kept By Charles Aglionby at Mount Pleasant, Charles Town, Jefferson County, Virginia.” 6 March, 1861 to 1 January, 1866.” Transcribed by Francis John Aglionby (1932-2002). With permission from Julia Aglionby. (Available at the Jefferson County Museum, Charles Town, WV). Print.
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