RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
The Prodigal Son
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
line engraving
Engraving
date made: 1775
publisher: Boydell, John
delineator: Earlom, Richard
engraver: Michel, Jean Baptiste
original artist: Rosa, Salvator
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 28.3 cm x 22 cm; 11 5/32 in x 8 21/32 in
plate: 25.7 cm x 19.3 cm; 10 1/8 in x 7 19/32 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Communications
Religion
Description: Line engraving from original painting by Salvator Rosa once in the Gallery at Houghton, now in State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.This is the smaller of two engravings after Rosa's painting included in the Houghton Gallery set; it was delineated by Richard Earlom and engraved by J. B. Michel.
Claiming that this print in volume one was “too small for such a capital picture,” the publisher introduced another larger version for volume two, also delineated by Earlom but engraved by Simon Ravenet. It had first appeared in Boydell’s series, A Collection of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in England, begun in 1769.
Europa
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
line engraving
Engraving
date made: 1776
engraver: Browne, John
Bartolozzi, Francesco
delineator: Farington, Joseph
publisher: Boydell, John
original artist: Bril, Paul
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Measurements: overall: 32.3 cm x 41.4 cm; 12 23/32 in x 16 5/16 in
plate: 29 cm x 37.9 cm; 11 13/32 in x 14 29/32 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Landscapes
Animals
Communications
Description: Line engraving from original painting by Paul Bril once in the Gallery at Houghton. Now in Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Also known as Landscape with Nymphs at Rest. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. The figures in Bril's painting are attributed to Domenichino; the figures were engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. Joseph Farington delineated the painting for the engravers to follow, and John Browne engraved the landscape.
Africa
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
line engraving
Engraving
date made: 1775
publisher: Boydell, John
engraver: Browne, John
delineator: Farington, Joseph
artist attribution: Bril, Paul
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Measurements: overall: 31.9 cm x 40.9 cm; 12 9/16 in x 16 3/32 in
plate: 28.9 cm x 37.8 cm; 11 3/8 in x 14 7/8 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Landscapes
Animals
Communications
Description: Line engraving from original painting by Paul Bril once in the Gallery at Houghton, Now in State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and attributed to the circle of Paul Bril. Also known as Landscape with Exotic Beasts. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.
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Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
map
Etching
date made: 1783
graphic artist: Jagen, Jan van
publisher: Bachiene, Willem Albert
original artist: Bowen, Emanuel
place made: Europe
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 17 in x 19 in; 43.18 cm x 48.26 cm
Foot Warmer (Foot Stove)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: warmer, foot
date made: ca 1775
place made: United States
Physical Description: oak, white (sides material)
paint (decoration material)
iron, wrought (handle material)
iron, wire (pulls material)
leather (interior lining material)
iron, tinned sheet (brazier or pan material)
maple (top material)
pine (sides; door material)
Measurements: overall: 6 7/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in; 17.4625 cm x 23.8125 cm x 19.685 cm
Credit line: Gift of Preston R. Bassett
Topics: Heating
Furnishings
Description: Red-painted wooden foot warmer or stove with an ogee-molded, overhanging rectangular top and square bottom, three sides carved with pinwheel motifs, and an inset door with single heart mounted on wooden pegs at left; top, sides and door are perforated with drilled holes. A wrought bail handle hooks through wire loops on top and a wire loop door pull and pivot closure are at right. Contains a wire-rimmed, cylindrical brazier or pan for holding the heat source, made of two pieces with folded seams; a roughly circular piece of thick leather lines top. Top is a repurposed 8-by-8 checkerboard (flipped over), while bottom underside is partially carved with pinwheel design and back interior with heart; nailed construction. No marks.
Flagon
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: measure
date made: 18th century
place made: France: Grand Est, Strasbourg
Austria: Salzburg, Salzburg
Physical Description: pewter (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 10 7/8 in x 8 in x 2 3/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 20.32 cm x 6.0325 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Strasbourg Type II tapered cylindrical, lidded and spouted flagon or pichet on domed base, engraved below the inset, V-shaped, curvilinear spout "G•R•H" inside a pomegranate shape with pendant bellflower. Low-domed lid with raised center has an upturned triangular cover for the spout. S-scroll strap handle has a beaded-edge, curved thumb piece, stepped thumbrest, and ball-and-disk lower terminal; five-knuckle hinge with blind hinge lug. Interior with plouk or pimple and single incised line below rim indicating capacity level. Top of lid scratched with a Roman numeral "III" at front and illegible script at center; thumb piece bears "9" above a crossed circle. Face of handle stamped with three marks, "1763" above a partial, upside-down circular mark of a castle labeled "SALZB:" and the letters "PM". Inside of lid struck "PM / 1790" and inscribed "P.46".
Basin
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: basin
date made: ca 1775
user: Copp Family
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
place used: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: pewter (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 2 1/2 in x 12 in; 6.35 cm x 30.48 cm
rim width: 1/2 in; 1.27 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Furnishings
Description: Gallon-size circular basin or bowl with narrow flat rim, rounded tapering sides and flat well; no foot ring. Partial, faint marks on underside of well include possible touchmark of a ducal coronet with element below and secondary marks of a crowned Tudor rose to right and traces of letters in a curved banner below. Probably used as an eating bowl or as a waste or slop bowl when serving tea; larger basins functioned as wash basins.
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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Teakettle
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: teakettle
date made: 18th century
ca 1770-1780
place made: United States: New England
Physical Description: iron, cast (kettle, cover material)
iron, wrought (handle material)
Measurements: overall: 7 1/8 in x 12 in x 9 in; 18.0975 cm x 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Onion-form teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout and cast-in arched ears for the mushroom-shaped strap bail handle, rectangular in section; three D-section feet. Low-domed, molded cover with wire loop handle. Both pieces are hollow cast: cover has gate mark on top; kettle has horizontal and vertical seams on body and spout with a single gate mark on bottom exterior. No additional marks.
Perkins Metal Tractors
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: tractors
therapeutic device, fraudulent
date made: ca 1800
Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm
Description: Elisha Perkins (1741-1799) was an American physician who, in 1796, obtained a patent for metal “tractors” that promised to cure such ailments as inflammation and rheumatism.
Ref: Jacques M. Quen, “Elisha Perkins, Physician, Nostrum-Vendor, or Charlatan?” <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> 37 (1963): 159-166.
Hand Carder (Cotton Card)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: carder, hand
date made: late 19th century
1804 - 1813
user: Copp Family
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Leicester
place used: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: beech (board; handle material)
leather (carding cloth; tacking strips material)
wire, steel (teeth material)
Measurements: overall: 9 1/2 in x 9 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 25.0825 cm x 3.175 cm
carding surface (across teeth only): 3 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 22.225 cm x .635 cm
Credit line: Gift of John Brenton Copp
Topics: Quakers
Copp Collection
Household Tools and Equipment
Textiles
Description: This is a wool carder owned by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The carding process is part of preparing wool for spinning into yarn. Wool is brushed between two hand carders (see DL*006833.02) to align fibers in the same direction. The wool is rolled off the carder into a rolag and then spun.
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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Massachusetts, 1 Dollar, 1807 (Counterfeit)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date made: 1807
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.1 cm x 14.9 cm x .01 cm; 2 13/32 in x 5 7/8 in x in
Publisher: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
Description: This is a counterfeit note modeled on one issued by the Union Bank of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1807. The note was counterfeited by Stephen Burroughs. The original notes reads “The President and Directors of the Union Bank promise to pay [illegible] or bearer ONE DOLLAR on demand. Boston, 16 Feb, 1807.” The note is signed by Burroughs as the cashier, with another name listed as president. The note has been stamped twice with the label “COUNTERFEIT. L. G. Cash’r Union Bank, Boston.” Burroughs was a notorious scoundrel, well known among many New Englanders in the early 20th century. He was a man of such notoriety that upon his death in 1840, his phrenology profile was published in the <i>American Phrenological Journal</i> and his lack of brain development in the regions of “Veneration” and “Conscientiousness” was held up as proof of phrenology’s scientific basis.
Stephen Burroughs capitalized on the lack of a standard U.S. currency by counterfeiting paper money, which at the time was issued by local banks and had many different designs. He began his career as a counterfeiter by passing debased silver dollars in 1785. He was imprisoned in Massachusetts and escaped (and was recaptured) three times before he was finally released. Writing in his 1798 memoir, he painted his exploits as pranks rather than crimes. As the “real” banks continually failed, his crimes seemed all the more benign and in many places he was viewed as a folk hero. After his release from prison, he went to Canada in 1804, and began counterfeiting paper notes in Shipton and Stanstead. Burroughs was a man of exceptional wit and facility, which allowed him to repeatedly evade capture and eventually garner a pardon from Canadian Governor-General James Craig in 1811. After his pardon, Burroughs converted to Roman Catholicism and lived the rest of his days peacefully in Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Coca Cola Glass
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: glass, soda
Measurements: overall: 4 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 12.065 cm x 7.3025 cm
Plate
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: plate
date made: 1800s
place made: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: ceramic (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in; 26.035 cm
overall: 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 26.035 cm
Credit line: Ellouise Baker Larsen Collection
Topics: Furnishings
Larsen Ceramics
British Flintlock Fusil
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: fusil
musket, flintlock
date made: ca 1772
ca 1790
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Measurements: overall: 58 in x 2 1/2 in; 147.32 cm x 6.35 cm
overall: 7 in x 56 in x 2 3/4 in; 17.78 cm x 142.24 cm x 6.985 cm
Socket Bayonet for British Fusil
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: bayonet
bayonet, socket
date made: ca 1772
ca 1790
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Measurements: overall: 2 3/4 in x 18 1/2 in x 1 in; 6.985 cm x 46.99 cm x 2.54 cm
overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 18 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 6.985 cm x 46.6725 cm
worm
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: worm
date made: ca 1800
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Physical Description: copper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 20 1/8 in x 17 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 51.1175 cm x 44.45 cm
Credit line: John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Spirits
Beverages
chair
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: chair
date made: 18th century
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
paint (overall material)
brass (plaque material)
Measurements: overall: 43 1/2 in x 19 1/4 in x 14 1/4 in; 110.49 cm x 48.895 cm x 36.195 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Warren Kelsey
Topics: Furnishings
Multiplication Table
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: page, workbook
date made: ca 1780
place made: United States: New Jersey, Raritan
Physical Description: ink, iron gall (image material)
watercolor (image material)
wood (frame material)
paint (frame material)
glass (glazing material)
Measurements: overall: 17 3/4 in x 14 in x 5/8 in; 45.085 cm x 35.56 cm x 1.5875 cm
Credit line: The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
Tinderbox
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: tinderbox
date made: 1800 - 1900
place container and firesteel made: United States
United Kingdom: England
place dark gray flint made: United Kingdom: England
place 3 light brown flints made: France
Physical Description: iron, tinned sheet (container; damper material)
paint (container exterior material)
iron, wrought (firesteel material)
flint (flints material)
Measurements: overall, box: 2 in x 5 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 13.6525 cm x 11.1125 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Caroline E. Bates
Balance Scale
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: scale, balance
date made: 18th century
place made: United States
Physical Description: iron, wrought (beam material)
wire, iron (hooks; hanging loop; rims in pans material)
brass (pans material)
cotton (cord material)
Measurements: overall: 1 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 22.225 cm x 14.605 cm
Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
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Still
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: still
date made: ca 1800
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Physical Description: metal, copper (overall material)
metal, brass (overall material)
metal, pewter (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 37 in x 36 1/2 in x 30 in; 93.98 cm x 92.71 cm x 76.2 cm
Credit line: John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Spirits
Beverages
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chair, side
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: chair, side
date made: 18th century
place used: United States: New England
Physical Description: wood (frame material)
rush (seat material)
Measurements: overall: 37 in x 18 in x 14 1/2 in; 93.98 cm x 45.72 cm x 36.83 cm
Credit line: Gift of Florence Bushee
Topics: Furnishings
Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
andirons
date made: 1780 - 1830
place made: United States
Physical Description: iron, wrought (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13 1/8 in x 9 in x 14 in; 33.3375 cm x 22.86 cm x 35.56 cm
Credit line: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Gooseneck andiron with polyhedron finial and faceted rectangular shaft flared at shoulders on square, arched legs with tab feet. "(R. R.?) WILDER" is stamped incuse in serif letters sideways on both facets near top. Upright is tenoned through the legs. Billet bar tenoned through plinth of upright. One of a pair, 1982.0090.92A-B.
Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
andirons
date made: 1800-1830
place made: United States: Massachusetts
United States
Physical Description: iton, wrought (upright and legs, billet bar material)
brass (finial material)
Measurements: overall: 36 in x 19 1/8 in x 21 in; 91.44 cm x 48.5775 cm x 53.34 cm
Credit line: Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Knife-blade andiron with a sharp-edged knop finial on rounded, high-arched legs ending in penny feet. Hollow-cast, vertically-seamed finial and thin, square support are peened on top of the baluster-shaped upright which is made as one piece with the legs. Stepped billet bar tenoned through lower part of upright. No marks. One of a pair, DL*388200A-B.
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Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1785-1825
place made: United States
United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: iron, wrought (upright, billet bar material)
brass (finial material)
Measurements: overall: 21 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in x 15 3/4 in; 54.61 cm x 25.7175 cm x 40.005 cm
Credit line: Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Two-piece, gooseneck, ball-and-spear or "steeple-top" andiron with an angled-back upright supported by a stepped billet bar tenoned through it that is split into two, flat, horizontal feet at back. Hollow-cast finial with vertical seam. No marks. One of a pair, DL*388202A-B.
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Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1806 - 1829
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: brass (upright, legs, log stop, billet bar cover material)
iron, wrought (billet bar, internal rod material)
Measurements: overall: 18 1/2 in x 12 3/8 in x 22 3/4 in; 46.99 cm x 31.4325 cm x 57.785 cm
Credit line: John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Banded-ball-and-multiknopped andiron with small ball finial and pulvinated hexagonal pedestal on compressed-ball base atop lapped and spurred cabriole legs ending in creased snake feet on platforms; cast brass billet bar cover ends in scallops behind the matching log-stop. Two-part upright, both parts hollow cast and vertically seamed. Hollow-cast legs are unfinished on back. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. Billet bar cover stamped behind log-stop "JOHN MOLINEUX" in incuse serif letters. One of a pair, 1978.0939.256-.257.
Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1803 - 1828
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: brass (upright; legs; log stop; billet bar cover material)
iron, wrought (billet bar; internal rod material)
Measurements: overall: 18 1/4 in x 11 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in; 46.355 cm x 28.2575 cm x 46.0375 cm
Credit line: John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Ball-and-spear or "steeple-top" andiron with hexagonal pedestal on circular base atop spurred cabriole legs ending in creased snake feet on platforms; brass strip on top of billet bar extends to matching log-stop. Two-part upright, both parts hollow cast and vertically seamed . Hollow-cast legs are unfinished on back. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. Brass strip stamped incuse at end behind log-stop "J. DAVIS / BOSTON" in serif letters. One of a pair, 1978.0939.250-.251.
Andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1803 - 1828
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: brass (upright, legs,billet bar cover material)
iron, wrought (billet bar, internal rod material)
Measurements: overall: 18 1/4 in x 10 7/8 in x 17 1/4 in; 46.355 cm x 27.6225 cm x 43.815 cm
Credit line: John Paul Remensnyder
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Ball-and-spear or "steeple-top" andiron with hexagonal pedestal on circular base atop spurred cabriole legs ending in creased snake feet on platforms; brass strip on top of billet bar extends to matching log-stop (missing). Two-part upright, both parts hollow cast and vertically seamed . Hollow-cast legs are unfinished on back. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. Brass strip stamped incuse at end behind log-stop "J. DAVIS / BOSTON" in serif letters. One of a pair, 1978.0939.250-.251.
Portrait of a Lady
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: painting
date made: 1800-1825
place made: United States
Physical Description: watercolor (overall material)
paper (overall material)
wood (frame material)
glass (frame material)
wire (frame material)
metal (frame material)
Measurements: overall: 17 7/8 in x 14 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 45.4025 cm x 37.7825 cm x 2.8575 cm
Credit line: The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
Architectural Fantasy in Philadelphia Setting
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: drawing
date made: late 18th or early 19th century
date image made: ca 1805
date frame made: ca 1860
place made: United States
Physical Description: watercolor (image material)
graphite (image material)
paper (image material)
pine, white (frame, backboard material)
gilt (frame material)
Measurements: overall: 22 in x 28 in x 1 3/4 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm x 4.445 cm
Credit line: The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Book
book
date made: 1798
Associated Date: 1817-03-30
1898
place published; place printed: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
place used: United States: Massachusetts, Norwood
United States: Nebraska, Omaha
United States: Rhode Island, Potter Hill
United States: Rhode Island, Ashaway
Physical Description: leather (binding material)
pasteboard (binding material)
gilt (spine decoration material)
thread (binding material)
paper, laid (textblock material)
ink (textblock material)
Measurements: overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 11.1125 cm x 18.415 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. H. B. (Clara Babcock) Blackmar
Topics: Quakers
Missionaries
Books and reading
Religion