Donations to the Collection
The Verdery Family
Porcelain doll with calico dress and leather shoes.
In memory of Madeline Traina Hewitt and James Thomas Hewitt Funds to purchase “Wounded Scout” sculpture by John Rogers, 1864.
Anonymous Donors
Cartes de Visite portraits of General P.G.T. Beauregard, General Joseph E. Johnston, and Colonel John S. Mosby. Tokens or challenge coins for 1970s Ku Klux Klan membership. Artifacts relating to public protests at the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2020. Pocket diary of Eben Andrews, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, 1864.
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Anonymous Donor
Cased image portrait of an unidentified Union soldier.
The Family of Mary Ladd Garstang.
German papier mâché doll, three cloth dolls, a bound herbarium book assembled by Anne S. Jones, 16 pieces of paper money, and several period textiles and textile samples
Amy L. Hirter in memory of Ruth Hirter
Large (240-piece) collection of letters and diaries of the Paden family of Pennsylvania and Ohio, 1856-1872 (bulk 1861-1865), including letters from and about brothers James Paden of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, Thomas Franklin “Frank” Paden of the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and William Paden of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry who was mortally wounded in May 1864, and their sister, Melissa J “Millie” Paden, who died while working in the Washington, D.C., hospital where her brother had died.
