Women of Concord

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  Tea Kettle owned by Louisa May Alcott, England, 1830-1850, Copper

The Concord Museum’s new exhibition, Women of Concord, uses objects in its collection to tell the stories of some of the town’s famous and not-so-famous female citizens.
 

  •  The tea kettle that Little Women-author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) kept from her days serving as an Army nurse during the Civil War.
     
  •  A whimsical toy ship made by Martha Lincoln (1897-1985) and Katharine Torrey (1896-1990), founders of the Bantam Workshop, a pre-school and after-school program in the 1950s that taught children wood-working skills.
     
  • The oak and pine chest made in the Concord area in 1705 for Sarah Jones Hoar (1686-1774). The chest descended through the Jones/Hoar/Brooks/Clark/Emerson families.
     
  •  The Slave’s Friend (1837), an anti-slavery periodical, which tells the story of two 12-year-old girls, one black and one white, who walked together holding hands in the Concord Bicentennial Parade in 1835.

These objects were used by women, preserved by women, made by women. Editor, silversmith, social-justice activist, artist, domestic, Army nurse, teacher, factory worker, author, farmer, mother, philanthropist….all were women of Concord. Discover their stories.

This exhibition runs in conjunction with the Concord Museum’s exhibition, N. C. Wyeth’s Men of Concord, showcasing Wyeth’s paintings to illustrate the 1936 book, Men of Concord and Some Others, as Portrayed in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau.