On 4/25/99, Jeen Ruff <[email protected]> wrote: >I am new to the list and I was wondering if there were any actual pictures >of Rebecca and Francis Nurse. Farmers like the Nurses were highly unlikely to have portraits painted in those days (and photography wasn't invented in the early 1800s). None are known to exist of any of the Salem Villagers involved in the trials except for an undated miniature of Reverend Parris. It is reproduced in color ("courtesy Massachussets Historical Society") as the frontispiece of The Sermon Notebooks of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694, James F.Cooper Jr. & Kenneth P. Minkema, Eds. [Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1993]. I have seen black-and-white versions reproduced in other books. I have put a scan of it at http://www.ogram.org/17thc/images/index.shtml because the host for this list service filters out attachments, HTML, and styled text. Cheers, Margo Margo Burns, Webweaver [email protected] http://www.ogram.org Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." -- Chomsky