Women in the 19C United States of America: Hunting & Shooting & Trapping in 19th century America

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Hunting & Shooting & Trapping in 19th century America

Charles Deas (American artist, 1818-1867) Turkey Shooting 1838

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier On a Point 1855

James Goodwyn Clonney (American genre artist, 1812–1867) Which way shall we go?

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Partridge Shooting 1865

William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857) Wild Duck Shooting

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Quail Shooting 1852

John George Brown (American genre paintere, 1831-1913) Claiming the Shot - After the Hunt in the Adirondacks

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Return from the Woods

William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857) Retrieving

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Snipe Shooting 1852

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives Wild Duck Shooting A Good Day's Sport

John Whetten Ehninger (American artist, 1827-89) Turkey Shoot 1879

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives American Field Sports A Good Chance 1863

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Wild Duck Shooting

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives American Field Sports An Early Start 1863

Thompkins H Matteson (American painter, 1813-1884) The Christmas Day Turkey Shoot (see Cooper's Pioneers) 1857

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives American Field Sports A Chance for Both Barrels 1857

Fanny Palmer (American artist, 1812-1876) Published by N Currier Woodcock Shooting 1852

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives The Life of a Hunter Catching a Tarter 1861

William Tylee Ranney (American genre artist, 1813-1857) Duck Hunters on the Hoboken, NJ Marshes 1849

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives Life on the Prairie The Buffalo Hunt 1862

James Brade Sword (American artist, 1839–1915) Hunt Masters

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives Mink Trapping Fine 1862

William Tylee Ranney (American artist, 1813-1857) Wild Duck Shooting - On the Wing 1850

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (English-born American Painter, 1819-1905) for Currier and Ives American Field Sports A Chance for Both Barrels 1857

Hunters Shanty. In the Adirondacks. The, Currier and Ives 1860

Hunting on the Susquehanna. Currier and Ives

Life in the Woods Returning to Camp. Currier and Ives 1860

Life of a Sportsman. Coming into Camp. Currier and Ives 1872

Louis Maurer (German-born Amercan artist, 1832-1932) published by N. Currier, American Winter Sports Shooting Deer on the Shatagee in Northern New York 1855

Louis Maurer (German-born Amercan artist, 1832-1932) published by N. Currier, Camping Out Some of the Right Sort 1856

Louis Maurer (German-born Amercan artist, 1832-1932) published by N. Currier, Life in the Woods Starting Out 1860

Partridge Hunting Currier and Ives 1852

Shooting on the Beach. Currier and Ives

Wild Duck Shooting. On the Wing. Currier and Ives 1870

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.”