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The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was ...
Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
Lulu M. Hefner (sometimes spelled Heffner) was a Cherokee businesswoman from Nowata, Oklahoma who opened the first millinery store in that city. However, after learning about the excitement of oil drilling in her native state, she sold the shop and used her own funds to begin drilling on her own property, struck oil, and earned the title of "the first female oil operator in Oklahoma."
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
The old Maxwell House Coffee slogan, "good to the last drop," was never meant to be applied to oil production. But as increasing attention is paid to U.S. output, producers are taking those words ...
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Woman with a Sunflower is a 1905 oil painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC since 1963. [1] Woman with a Sunflower was among many paintings by Cassatt which were involved in a 1915 exhibition, which raised money for the suffrage campaign.