June 19 is Juneteenth, the celebration of emancipation as it reached the final enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy in 1865. It took more than two years for news of Lincoln’s […]
On a chilly day in late 2020 the Hammond-Harwood House Museum staff took a field trip to the historic Benson-Hammond House (fig. 1) in Linthicum, Maryland, headquarters of the Anne […]
By Jacqueline Mazzone I had a wonderful time at the Collectors’ Day event at the Hammond-Harwood House. The event was on Sunday, November 15, but I arrived on Saturday to […]
The Art of the Game: Cards, Horse Racing, and Tavern Life in the Early Chesapeake The fourth annual Collectors’ Day will be a virtual lecture series with an optional onsite […]
Click Here to download the PDF Dining in 18th Century America Welcome to the sixth educational blog for the Hammond-Harwood House. In the past we have looked at such topics […]
Download the PDF Silhouettes HERE Welcome to the fifth in the children’s series offered by the Hammond-Harwood House. The title, A Silhouette Duet, refers to two men and a machine […]
Download Activity PDF Shapes in Architecture One of the previous programs in our children’s series was called I Can Be an Architect. We used geometric shapes to build the Hammond-Harwood […]
I Can Be An Architect pdf Today’s program is about William Buckland who designed the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis. He was an architect. Do you know what an architect does? […]
Making a Jigsaw Puzzle of Charles Willson Peale’s George Washington at the Battle of Princeton Download the PDF with the Jigsaw Puzzle here: Activities for Jigsaw puzzle pdf This activity […]