{"id":7705,"date":"2018-01-02T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2018-01-02T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:00:12","slug":"ada-brewster-civil-war-nurse-traveler-and-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/01\/02\/ada-brewster-civil-war-nurse-traveler-and-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Brewster: Civil War Nurse, Traveler, and Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7706\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/doc-08-0006-brews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7706 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/doc-08-0006-brews.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch captioned &quot;Cow Boy from Arizona,&quot; dated April 19, 1885\" width=\"510\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cow Boy from Arizona, April 19, 1885<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ada Brewster, born in Kingston on May 25, 1842, lived a fascinating life. She served as a nurse at Lovell General Hopsital in Rhode Island during the Civil War; worked at the U.S. Mint in Carson City, Nevada\u00a0during the production of the first trade dollar coined by the federal government; studied art at the Lowell Institute in Boston and the California School of Design (now the San Francisco Art Institute); opened her own art studio and became known as a portraitist, illustrator, china-painter, and teacher; and moved all over the country before returning home to Kingston in 1919. Stop by to learn more in this month&#8217;s Local History exhibit, featuring a selection of Ada&#8217;s sketches from her time out West.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: This sketch comes from the Ada Brewster Collection (MC24).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ada Brewster, born in Kingston on May 25, 1842, lived a fascinating life. She served as a nurse at Lovell General Hopsital in Rhode Island during the Civil War; worked at the U.S. Mint in Carson City, Nevada\u00a0during the production of the first trade dollar coined by the federal government; studied art at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/01\/02\/ada-brewster-civil-war-nurse-traveler-and-artist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ada Brewster: Civil War Nurse, Traveler, and Artist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,298,292],"tags":[27,296,283],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lhc","category-past","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-artists","tag-people","tag-wild-west"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}