Photo Record
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Metadata
Object |
Postcard |
Year Range from |
1910 |
Year Range to |
1920 |
Print size (inches) |
3.5" x 5.5" |
Location |
Vermont, Bennington, West Main Street |
Description |
Postcard picturing the Dewey house with the mill pond in the foreground. Published by E. T. Griswold of Bennington, Vermont. Produced from colorized photograph and reproduced by lithography. Printed by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn, New York. Text on back reads: "No. 219 Dewey Homestead/Bennington, Vt./This house has been occupied by the Dewey family since it was built in 1765. On its floors slept many Patriots the night before the Bennington Battle, while the women of the household baked eighty large loaves of bread for their sustenance on the following day of strife./Here also gathered the females of the colony to pray for the success of the American arms, and when the timid ones expressed fear of the Indians, it was the lady of the house, Mrs. Mary Tilden Dewey, who reassured them by proposing to fight off the foe with hasty pudding and hot water./One of a series of 200 local post cards published by E.T. Griswold, Bennington, Vt. Catalog free." |
Related People |
Griswold, Ernest Twamley Dewey, Mary Tilden |
Credit line |
Gift of Tyler Resch |
Catalog Number |
2003.19.4 |