Details
Contributor W. M., ill.
Title Benjamin, Sarah.
Alternate title Sarah Benjamin (109 years of age) / W.M.
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1854?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 8.2 x 6.3 cm.
Description Waist-length seated portrait of Mrs. Benjamin wearing bonnet, holding staff.
Notes In The American phrenological journal, vol. 20 (Nov., 1854), p. 101.
"She was with the army all through the Revolutionary War. She was in Albany during the hard winter of 1780, and at West Point two or three years, while the army was stationed there ; and when it left under General Washington, she followed. Her business was cooking and washing for her husband and other soldiers. She speaks distinctly of riding horseback through the streets of Philadelphia on the way to Yorktown and also of embarking on board ship at the head of Elk river, and of cruising down Chesapeake Bay, and landing (I think) at James River.”--P. 101.
Also known as Sarah Osborn.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Benjamin, Sarah -- Portraits.
Women.
Older women.
Phrenology.
Women in war.