Women in the 19C United States of America: 1832 Views of Cincinnati, Ohio by New Orleans artist Adrien Mayers (? 1801

Saturday, July 4, 2020

1832 Views of Cincinnati, Ohio by New Orleans artist Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

1832 View of Mr Pendelton's House near Cincinnati Ohio by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

1832 View of Mr Pendelton's House near Cincinnati Ohio by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

Although there is no way to prove that this is the painter we are studying here, on the web this notation about the dispersal of property after death appears in New Orleans, Louisiana, records. "Court of Probates - Sale by the Register of Wills. - On Thursday the 7th day of November, 1833, at 10 o'clock in the morning, I will expose for sale for the amount of the succession of the late Adrien Mayers, at the late domicile of the deceased, in Chartres street, between Toulouse and Jefferson streets, the contents of his store, consisting of Pictures, Engravings, sets of China ware, and other fancy articles." Courrier de la Louisiane, November 4, 1833, p. 3. Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans, La.)

1832 Cincinatti Ohio by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

1832) View of Cincinatti Ohio from Mr Pendelton's House by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

1832) View of Cincinatti, Ohio Near Deer Creek by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

1832 View of Cincinatti, Covington, and Newport by Adrien Mayers (? 1801–1833)

About this blog

In colonial America, men were considered superior to woman in all ways. In a strict patriarchal hierarchy, men controlled not only wealth & political power but also how their children were raised, religious questions, & all matters of right & wrong.

In the early part of the 19Cy, however, many Americans experienced a revolution in gender. The doctrine of “separate spheres” maintained that woman’s sphere was the world of privacy, family, & morality while man’s sphere was the public world -– economic striving, political maneuvering, & social competition. But women were interested in equality.

In 1848, New York passed the Married Woman’s Property Act. Now a woman wasn’t automatically liable for her husband’s debts; she could enter contracts on her own; she could collect rents or receive an inheritance in her own right; she could file a lawsuit on her own behalf. She became for economic purposes, an individual. By 1900, every state has passed legislation modeled after this, granting married women some control over their property and earnings.

In 1870 after the Civi War, the 15th Amendment was ratified, saying, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” African-Americans could vote, but women could not.

But it was not until 1920, that the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”