Mother and Child Conservatory Research 2

Put your artifact in context with what is happening in the world.  What is going on during the time that your artifact was created?

Do some research and find out about the people, places and things that were important during that time period.  Museum brochure info

 

Events in the time period

-Some events that happened in the 1900's was: 

• 2,500 people die from an earthquake in San Francisco
• An animated cartoon is created
• Teddy Roosevelt becomes the first president to leave the country

 

 

 

Discoveries

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Important people

-Theodore Roosevelt was the president.

 

 

 

 

Artist Background

-Mary Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh. She was born into favorable circumstances: her father, Robert Simpson Cassat (later Cassatt), was a successful stockbroker and land speculator, and her mother, Katherine Kelso Johnston, came from a banking family. The ancestral name had been Cossart. Cassatt was a distant cousin of artist Robert Henri. Cassatt was one of seven children, of which two died in infancy. Her family moved eastward, first to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then to the Philadelphia area, where she began schooling at age six.

 

 

 

 

 

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Bibliographical Information (Cites used)