The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson — John Shaqi
The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
On the Walls:
1. Bronze bust of General Jackson by Belle Kinney.
2. Battle of New Orleans. Presented by C. F. Gunther, of Chicago,
Endicott & Co., Lithographers, published by T. Yeager, Race
Street, Philadelphia.
3. Print of General Jackson at New Orleans.
4. Portrait of Jackson.
5. Engraving of the Hermitage. This is not correctly drawn. (Francis
Strickland, Architect, Lith. of Endicott & Co., N. Y.).
6. Engraving of Jackson.
7. Picture of Jackson at the Hermitage, 1830. Given by J. McGavock
Dickinson.
9. Land Grant signed by President Jackson. Given by J. McGavock
Dickinson.
10. Appointment of Chas. A. Anderson as secretary to the French
Court by Jackson, 1836. Presented in memory of Ewin Lamar
Davis by his wife.
11. Illustrated Map of Nashville 1832.
12. Certificate of Major-General Andrew Jackson’s membership in the
Hibernian Society, March, 1819.
13. Three pictures of Uncle Alfred, colored servant, born 1803 and
died in 1901. He lived in the log house back of the mansion
and is buried in the garden next to the Jacksons’ tomb. Given
by Dr. Harry Vaughan and Mrs. Paul E. DeWitt.
14. Equestrian Statue of Jackson. This picture hung in President
James K. Polk’s room at the White house. Presented by Mrs.
George William Fall.
14A. Engraving of General Jackson from a painting by Thomas Sully.
15. Death of Pakenham. Presented by C. F. Gunther, of Chicago,
Endicott & Co., Lithographers, published by T. Yeager, Race
Street, Philadelphia.
16. Blueprints showing the battlefield of Chalmette at New Orleans.
Presented by Hon. John Wesley Gaines.
17. Drawing by Norman Marsh of original Hermitage. Copy of print
from the collection of Mrs. Samuel Heiskell, now at the
University of North Carolina.
18. Engraving of Andrew Jackson given by Mr. and Mrs. Whitefoord
Cole, Jr., in memory of his mother.
Case No. 1
1. Engraving of General Jackson.
2. Clothing worn by General Andrew Jackson: dressing gowns and
slippers, wool socks used when riding in winter weather; night
shirts, pen marked, “Andrew Jackson,” and numbered in
indelible ink.
3. Account books used in stores owned by Jackson—Gallatin, 1803;
Hunter’s Hill, 1804; Clover Bottom, 1805.
4. Picture of “Aunt Hannah,” Mrs. Jackson’s personal maid, who was
with her at her death.
5. Writing case inscribed “Presented to Andrew Jackson, President of
the U. S., from the State of New Hampshire.”
Case No. 2
British uniform (coat and waistcoat) taken at the Battle of New
Orleans. Loaned by Andrew Jackson Lawrence, grandson of Andrew
Jackson, Jr.
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