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Prairie Wolf

Description: Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 15, Plate LXXI from Audubon’s “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”.
Date: unknown
Creator: Audubon, John James
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Decanter

Description: Rare decanter depicting Generals Washington & Taylor; Obverse reads, "The Father of His Country"; Reverse reads, "General Taylor Never Surrenders"
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

Description: According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 18… more
Date: February 1835
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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