RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
Letter to Mary and Esther Copp from Samuel Copp
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1806-11-13
originator (author or composer, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
recipient: Copp, Mary Esther
Copp, Esther
originator (author, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 5/8 in x 12 1/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 31.115 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Mary and Esther Copp from Samuel Copp
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1806-12-27
recipient: Copp, Mary Esther
Copp, Esther
originator (author, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 5/8 in x 12 5/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 32.0675 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Mary and Esther Copp from Samuel Copp
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1807-01-22
originator (author or composer, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
recipient: Copp, Mary Esther
Copp, Esther
originator (author, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 5/8 in x 12 3/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 31.4325 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Samuel Copp from Clarissa Hartland
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1807-02-23
recipient: Copp, Jr., Samuel
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 24.765 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Mary and Esther Copp from Sarah Rathbone
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1807-03-12
originator (author or composer, etc.): Rathbone, Sarah
recipient: Copp, Mary Esther
Copp, Esther
originator (author, etc.): Rathbone, Sarah
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 31.75 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Samuel Copp from Esther Copp
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1807-03
originator (author or composer, etc.): Copp, Esther
recipient: Copp, Jr., Samuel
originator (author, etc.): Copp, Esther
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 5/8 in x 12 7/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 32.7025 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Letter to Esther Copp from Samuel Copp
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1807-03-16
originator (author or composer, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
recipient: Copp, Esther
originator (author, etc.): Copp, Jr., Samuel
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in; 19.685 cm x 25.0825 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Communications
Description: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Spectacles
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: spectacles
spectacles
date made: ca 1790
place made: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: iron (frame material)
glass (lenses material)
Measurements: overall: 7/8 in x 4 in x 1 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 10.16 cm x 3.4925 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: The Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut used these steel spectacles around 1790. The spectacles are hinged at the temple and halfway down the stem, with round loops for the earpiece that is typical for late 18th-century glasses. The spectacles are missing one lens and one earpiece.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Spectacles
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: spectacles
spectacles
date made: ca 1750
owner; user: Copp Family
place made: United Kingdom: England
place owned; place used: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: iron (frame material)
glass (lens material)
Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; .9525 cm x 12.065 cm x 3.4925 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Clothing and dress
Optics
Dress accessories
Eyeglasses
Description: The Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut used these steel spectacles around 1750. The spectacles are hinged at the temple with round loops for the earpiece which was typical for mid-18th century glasses. The spectacles are missing one lens and one earpiece.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Crayon Holder
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: holder, crayon
date made: ca 1795
place made: United States: New England
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
colonial (overall style)
Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 13.0175 cm x 1.27 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Education
Furnishings
Description: This is a homemade crayon holder belonging to the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut. The wooden holder could have been used for holding either typical wax crayons or chalk. Crayon holders were used during scholastic work to write on slates as well as color and draw.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Prayer Beads
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: beads, prayer
date made: ca 1800
place made: Israel: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
place used: United States: New England
Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 1 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 2.54 cm x 4.445 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: These prayer beads were used by John Brenton Copp during the early late 19th century. The six wooden beads on a silk skein beads were made in Jerusalem around 1800. While often associated with the Catholic rosary, prayer beads have a long history across religions to help adherents focus on their prayers.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Pocket Shrine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: shrine, pocket
date made: ca 1800
place used: United States: New England
Physical Description: ivory (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 2 1/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 1.5875 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This ivory pocket shrine contains a carved representation of the Madonna and child. The shrine was owned by John Brenton Copp during the late 19th century, who converted to Catholicism later in his life.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Flight into Egypt
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Fireback
date made: 18th century
Physical Description: metal, iron (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 25 in x 25 in x 1 in; 63.5 cm x 63.5 cm x 2.54 cm
overall: 40 in x 38 in x 29 in; 101.6 cm x 96.52 cm x 73.66 cm
Credit line: Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
Topics: Art
Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4 in x 5 1/8 in; 10.16 cm x 13.0175 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 3 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 12.3825 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 in; 11.43 cm x 12.7 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 9.8425 cm x 11.43 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait is belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4 1/4 in x 5 in; 10.795 cm x 12.7 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Silhouette Portrait, Valentine
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: silhouette
Silhouette; Pictures
date made: 1800
place made: United States: Connecticut
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 13.0175 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This small unframed hollow-cut silhouette portrait belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the early 19th century. The subject of the silhouette is unknown, as it was given as a valentine to a member of the Copp family.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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Jonathan Copp's death announcement
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: clipping, newspaper
Newspaper Page; Printed
Date made: 1772
maker: New London Gazette
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13 in x 19 in; 33.02 cm x 48.26 cm
overall: 13 1/4 in x 18 3/4 in; 33.655 cm x 47.625 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
The American Coast Pilot
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: book
date made: 1798
date of bookseller's advertisement: 1798-07-30
date new beacon placed: 1798-08-18
user: Copp Family
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
place used: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: leather (binding material)
gilt (spine decoration material)
pasteboard (covers material)
paper, laid (textblock material)
ink (text material)
thread (binding material)
Measurements: overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 13.6525 cm x 20.955 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Books and reading
Navigation
Ocean
Valentine Card
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: valentine
Sheet; Manuscript
date made: 1800 - 1840
place made: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
place owned: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 1/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; .15875 cm x 8.89 cm x 9.2075 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: This is a Valentine card that belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th century. Both sides of the card have rhyming couplets of verse professing love.
Side One: Even so my heart with lovesick pain/Sore wounded is and broken twain/That heart that you do none behold/Will break when you these lines unfold.
Side Two: To say that I falselines have pen’d/No power of envy can pretend/I write the passions of my love/On the outside sweet turtle love.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
To say that I false lines have pens
1 On the outside sweet tittle love
No power of envy can pretend
I write the passions of my love
Sore wounded is and brekein Iwain
Evinn so my Heart with lovesick Pain
2 The Heart that you do more bleeds
Will break when you these lines unfeels