Details
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Briggs, E. G., publisher.
Patton, William, copyright holder.
Title Order of the United Daughters of America [membership certificate] [graphic] : Honesty, virtue & industry.
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by Bro. E. G. Briggs, South Eighth St. No. 61 for Bro. Wm. Patton
Date c1848
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph tinted with one stone; 51 x 41 cm.(20 x 16.25 in.)
Description Membership certificate for the patriotic nativist women's society established in New York in 1845 as an auxilliary to the Order of United Americans. Contains a vignette portrait of Martha Washington flanked by the allegorical figures of Liberty and Justice perched in a cluster of clouds. Below on each side, columns entwined with the American flag and adorned with the American eagle and shield rest on pedestals decorated with horns of cornucopia. Between the columns, a "United Daughter" leads a little girl to another "United Daughter" who welcomes them into a temple adorned with garlands of flowers. The society weakened by the collapse of the nativist political movement remained active until circa 1861.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Copyrighted by Wm. Patton.
Issued October 23, 1847 to Elizabeth Curry for membership in the Lady Taylor Council, No. 10 State of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Wentz, Governess. Anna Clewell, Recd. Secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 160
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 052 U 58
LCP exhibit catalogue: Women 1500 to 1900, entry #192.
See "Order of the United American Mechanics." AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Patt Hone.
Subject Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 -- Portraits.
United Daughters of America.
Women -- Societies and clubs.
Patriotic societies -- Pennsylvania
Liberty.
Justice.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Membership certificates -- 1840-1850.
Printer Briggs, E. G., publisher.
Patton, William, copyright holder.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 052 U 58