VISUAL ACTIVITY The Caverly Family at Home, 1836 Itinerant amateur artists journeyed the back roads of antebellum America, painting individuals and families in standard repetitive poses. This picture of a New Hampshire family lists the names and ages at the bottom: Azariah, 44, George, 3, Sarah Jane, 7 months, and Eliza, 24. Gift of Stephen C. Clark. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Photograph by Richard Walker. READING THE IMAGE: What do you make of little George’s outfit? Are there clues within the picture that this is a male child? How are gender differences established in this image? What might the large age difference between husband and wife suggest? CONNECTIONS: How did the heightened attention to gender differences correlate with the changing economy and politics of Jacksonian America?