Art and Life in Early American Tour

Art and Life in Early America (fka Art and Life in Colonial America)

Our 3 hour tour this year includes the viewpoints and hardships of the Native Americans and Africans slaves.

Docent Guide 2013

• • • Gallery 12 Activity Cards UPDATED in September 2012

      • Furniture Front Back

      • Landscapes Front Back

      • Portraits Front Back

    • Label Card (of Still Life)

    • Gallery 4 Activity

      • Reading a Portrait docent guide

      • Reading a Portrait as the students see it

    • Triangle Trade map

    • Isaac Royall house and slave quarters in Medford, MA

    • Docent Blog on Early America Tour Comments by Betsy, Cathy, Shirlee, Anna, etc....

Old Information

Colonial America Tour information 1, 2

• Object List

• Ships and Things

• Making Cloth

• Clothing

• Paul Revere information

• American Furniture Article

  • Gilbert Stuart to Stuart Davis at HAA, Apollo Magazine

New Information - for Early America Tour

• • Colonial America Kids Book

  • Spinning

  • House labels

  • Northern Slavery Information Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Link 5 Link 6

  • Slave Ship Information Link 1

    • Brookes ship (diagram in exhibition to compare to Mayflower)

    • Slavery in Medford (home of Gov. John Brooks)

    • Royall House and slave house in Medford, MA

  • Slave clothing

  • Attucks Teapot Information

  • Phyllis Wheatley Information

  • African Free School Information

  • Indians of North America 1, 2

    • Wampanoag information Link 2 Link 3 Link 4

  • Games

  • Porcupine Quill baskets