RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
Microscope
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: microscope
date made: 18th century
place made: United Kingdom: England
Measurements: overall: 1 in x 2 7/16 in x 4 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 6.19125 cm x 11.7475 cm
Credit line: Annette F. Braun and Emma Lucy Braun
Topics: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science
Mathematics
Microscopes
Description: In this simple device, a brass column with lens holder and stage folds into a small wooden case and pops up when the lid is opened. Annette Braun, an accomplished American entomologist, and her sister, Emma Lucy Braun, a botanist, gave it to the Smithsonian in 1966. The paper attached to the inside of the lid—reading “Botanical microscope owned by Thomas Willym of Hereford, England, A.D. 1770”—probably refers to the bishop and prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. The date is obviously in error, as this form was first described by William Withering, an English botanist, in 1796.
Ref: William Withering, <i>An Arrangement of British Plants</i> (Birmingham, 1796), vol. 1, plate XII. This “Represents the Botanical Microscope in its present improved state.”
R. J. Rowbury, “William Withering of Birmingham and the Botanical Microscope,” <i>Microscopy</i> 34 (1981): 244-253.
Microscope
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: microscope
date made: 18th century
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
cardboard (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 33.655 cm x 12.065 cm x 13.0175 cm
Credit line: American Pharmaceutical Association
Topics: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science
Mathematics
Microscopes
Description: Small compound monocular with push-pull focus, cardboard tubes covered with fishskin, wooden fittings, and brass pole that stands on a wooden box.
50 Dollars, Continental Congress, 1778
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: paper currency
note
date on object: 1778-09-26
date made: 1778
maker: Continental Congress
Hall & Sellers
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 70 mm x 92 mm; 2 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
Engine Jack
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: engine jack
date made: 1800
maker: unknown
place made: United States
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
iron (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 20 in x 6 in x 2 in; 50.8 cm x 15.24 cm x 5.08 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
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Engine Jack "No. 1"
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: engine jack
date made: 1782
maker: unknown
place made: United States
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
iron (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 21 in x 6 in x 2 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 15.24 cm x 6.35 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
Black Silk Bobbin Lace Edging Fragment
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: lace, border, fragment
date made: 1785 - 1795
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
Associated Place: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
black (overall color)
bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 12 in x 3 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 8.255 cm
Credit line: Bequest of the Misses Long
Topics: Lace and lace making
Textiles
Black Silk Bobbin Lace Edging Remnant
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: lace, border, fragment
date made: 1790 - 1800
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
Associated Place: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
black (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 4 7/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 12.3825 cm x 31.75 cm
Credit line: Bequest of the Misses Long
Topics: Lace and lace making
Textiles
CORNU CERVIUS
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: jar
Pharmaceutical Container
Date made: 1775 - 1799
date made: ca 1800
place made: Germany
Physical Description: ceramic (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 16 cm x 10.2 cm; 6 5/16 in x 4 in
Credit line: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Topics: Art
Pharmacy
European Apothecary
Health & Medicine
Description: This early 19th-century ceramic apothecary jar bears the label <i>CORNU CERVIUS</i>. It would have contained which is Latin for Deer Horn. Calcium phosphate from stag horns was used in spirits or tinctures as a general tonic, diaphoretic, sedative, antispasmodic, or antacid. The text is surrounded by a yellow oval which is decorated with a garland of flowers at the top and a green wreath at the bottom.
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A View of Ohiopyle Falls in Pennsylvania
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
Etching
date made: c. 1800
publisher: T. & J. Swords
Associated Place: United States: Pennsylvania
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: plate: 12.1 cm x 20 cm; 4 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in
overall: 12.5 cm x 21 cm; 4 15/16 in x 8 1/4 in
Credit line: Gift of Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
Topics: Geography
Ecology
Etching
Apothecary Jar
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: jar
date made: 18th century
Measurements: overall: 7 in x 5 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 13.97 cm
Credit line: Gift of Bristol-Myers Company, through Lee H. Bristol, Jr., Director, Public Relations; Accession 217935 (1958)
The Storm Increased, Plate 2
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: aquatint
date made: 1787
maker: Dodd, Robert
Measurements: overall w/ frame: 28 1/8 in x 23 1/2 in; 71.4375 cm x 59.69 cm
overall w/o frame: 21 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 41.91 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
The Ramillies Waterlogged with her Admiral and crew quitting the wreck, Plate 3
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: aquatint
date made: 1787
maker: Dodd, Robert
Measurements: overall w/o frame: 21 1/4 in x 16 1/2 in; 53.975 cm x 41.91 cm
overall w/frame: 28 1/8 in x 23 1/2 in; 71.4375 cm x 59.69 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
The Ramillies destroyed, Plate 4
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: aquatint
date made: 1787
maker: Dodd, Robert
Measurements: overall w/o frame: 21 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 41.91 cm
overall w/frame: 28 1/8 in x 23 1/2 in; 71.4375 cm x 59.69 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
The Chesterfield Packet
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: aquatint
date made: 1795
maker: Pocock, Nicholas
Measurements: overall w/frame: 31 1/2 in x 24 in; 80.01 cm x 60.96 cm
overall w/o frame: 25 in x 18 1/2 in; 63.5 cm x 46.99 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
land deed
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: land deed
date made: 1781
referenced: United States: Massachusetts
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
black (overall color)
white (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 11 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 29.845 cm x 20.0025 cm
Credit line: Marcia Kass
Topics: Princeton Posters
Description: A land deed dated 1781, County of Plimouth from Richard Cooper to Thomas Cooper.
Friedrich Schiller Commemorative Medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: medal
date made: ca 1805
depicted: von Schiller, Friedrich
maker: Scovill Manufacturing Company
place made: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
Physical Description: brass (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 2.2 cm; 7/8 in
Credit line: Scovill, Inc.
Topics: Manufacturing industries
Scovill Manufacturing Collection
Industrialization
Description (Brief): This commemorative medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1805. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and commemorative medals.
Obverse: Bust of Friedrich Schiller facing right. Legend reads: FRIED.von SCHILLER.
Reverse: Two branches wreath the bottom, with a central image of a bell. The legend reads: MORTUOS PLANGO/NATUS 1759/OBIT 1805.
Birth and baptism of Naemi Williams
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: document
fraktur
Drawings
date made: ca 1784
maker: unknown
place made: United States: Pennsylvania
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 31.7 cm x 38.5 cm; 12 15/32 in x 15 5/32 in
Topics: Communications
Prescription Label, Bei Apotheker Musset.
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: prescription label
date made: 18th century
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 17.2 cm x 4.7 cm; 6 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in
Credit line: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Topics: Art
Pharmacy
Religion
European Apothecary
Description (Brief): The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria. Early labels were plain and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
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Prescription Label, Bei Apotheker Musset.
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: prescription label
date made: 18th century
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 17.4 cm x 4 11/16 in; 6 7/8 in x 11.938 cm
Credit line: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Topics: Art
Pharmacy
Religion
European Apothecary
Description (Brief): The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria. Early labels were plain and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
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Apothecary Jar
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: jar, apothecary, syrup
date made: 1797
Measurements: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 3/16 in x 4 1/8 in; 21.59 cm x 13.1445 cm x 10.4775 cm
Credit line: Gift of Bristol-Myers Company, through Lee H. Bristol, Jr., Director, Public Relations; Accession 217935 (1958)
Apothecary Jar
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: jar, apothecary, syrup
date made: 1797
Measurements: overall: 8 5/8 in x 4 in x 5 in; 21.9075 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm
Credit line: Gift of Bristol-Myers Company, through Lee H. Bristol, Jr., Director, Public Relations; Accession 217935 (1958)
And Good Reason Why
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: magazine cover
maagazine cover
cartoon
date made: 1890-05-14
1800-05-14
copyright date: 1890-05-14
maker: Keppler & Schwarzmann
place made: United States: New York, New York City
made at: United States: New York, New York City
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
brown; grey; red (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 13 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 34.29 cm x 26.035 cm
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass
Topics: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Newspapers
Political Caricatures
Apothecary Label
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: label
date made: 18th Century
Credit line: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Topics: Art
Pharmacy
Religion
Description (Brief): The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria.
Early labels were plane and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
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55 Dollars
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: check
date made: 1799-08-17
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.4 cm x 11.5 cm; 2 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
600 Dollars
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: check
date made: 1795-04-16
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.8 cm x 18 cm; 2 11/16 in x 7 1/16 in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
1 Dollar, Derby Fishing Company, Connecticut, United States, 1808
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: obsolete paper money
date made: 1808-09-01
Place Made: United States: Connecticut, Derby
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 66 mm x 163 mm; 2 5/8 in x 6 7/16 in
10 Dollars, Derby Fishing Company, Connecticut, United States, 1808
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: obsolete paper money
date made: 1808-09-01
Place Made: United States: Connecticut, Derby
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.6 cm x 17.8 cm; 2 19/32 in x 7 in
5 Dollars, Derby Fishing Company, Connecticut, United States, 1808
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: obsolete paper money
date made: 1808-09-01
Place Made: United States: Connecticut, Derby
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.9 cm x 16.5 cm; 2 23/32 in x 6 1/2 in
1/2 Dollar, Continental Congress, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: paper money
note
date made: 1776
date on object: 1776-02-17
maker: Hall & Sellers
Continental Congress
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7.7 cm x 6.3 cm x .01 cm; 3 1/32 in x 2 15/32 in x in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
5 Dollars, Continental Congress, 1775
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: paper money
note
date made: 1775
date on object: 1775-05-10
maker: Hall & Sellers
Continental Congress
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7.2 cm x 9.4 cm; 2 27/32 in x 3 11/16 in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
4 Dollars, Continental Congress, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: paper money
note
date made: 1776
date on object: 1776-02-17
maker: Hall & Sellers
Continental Congress
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7.3 cm x 9.5 cm x .01 cm; 2 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
bill of exchange
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: bill of exchange
date made: 1800-1-15
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13.7 cm x 19.8 cm; 5 3/8 in x 7 13/16 in
Credit line: Marcia B. Kass in memory of Herbert J. Friedman
12 1/2 Cents
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: obsolete paper money
date made: 1799
Place Made: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
Measurements: overall: 47 mm x 67 mm; 1 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in
25 Cents
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: obsolete paper money
date made: 1799
Place Made: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
Measurements: overall: 47 mm x 67 mm; 1 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in
Benjamin Willard Tall Clock
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: finials
clock, tall case
date made: 1775 - 1780
Measurements: overall: 86 in x 18 in x 9 1/2 in; 218.44 cm x 45.72 cm x 24.13 cm
pendulum: 43 in x 4 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 109.22 cm x 10.795 cm x 1.905 cm
finial #1: 5 13/16 in x 2 in; 14.732 cm x 5.08 cm
finial #2: 5 1/2 in x 2 in; 13.97 cm x 5.08 cm
finial #3: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm
case key: 1 3/4 in x 3/4 in x 3/32 in; 4.445 cm x 1.905 cm x .254 cm
weight #1: 8 1/2 in x 3 in; 21.59 cm x 7.62 cm
weight #2: 8 1/2 in x 3 in; 21.59 cm x 7.62 cm
movement: 16 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 5 13/16 in; 41.91 cm x 34.29 cm x 14.732 cm
hood: 25 3/4 in x 18 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 65.405 cm x 46.99 cm x 24.13 cm
case: 81 1/2 in x 16 13/16 in x 8 3/4 in; 207.01 cm x 42.672 cm x 22.225 cm
"s" hook: 1 3/4 in x 1 in x 3/32 in; 4.445 cm x 2.54 cm x .254 cm
clock movement, tall case
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: clock movement, tall case
date made: 1792
Measurements: overall: 9 in x 6 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 22.86 cm x 15.875 cm x 7.9375 cm
overall: 16 1/2 in x 12 in x 7 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 30.48 cm x 19.05 cm
Washington Piece
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: die
date made: ca 1792
maker: Getz, Peter
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 40 mm x 34 mm; 1 9/16 in x 1 11/32 in
Credit line: Mrs. Hugh F. Smith
Washington's Triumphal Entry Into New York November 25, 1783
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: lithograph
Associated Name: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr
depicted: Washington, George
depicted: United States: New York, New York City
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 41 in x 55 in x 1 3/4 in; 104.14 cm x 139.7 cm x 4.445 cm
Topics: Art
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Washington and his Generals
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: lithograph
publisher: Seitz, Emile
depicted: Washington, George
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 35 1/2 in x 45 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 90.17 cm x 115.57 cm x 3.175 cm
Topics: Art
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Dental Hammer
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: hammer
surgical instrument
mallet, dental
date made: ca 1800s
Physical Description: bone (overall material)
horn (overall material)
wood (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 11 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 13.97 cm x 3.81 cm
overall: 1 5/8 in x 11 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.1275 cm x 29.21 cm x 13.97 cm
Credit line: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
Creamer, 1774
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: jug, cream
pot, milk
date made: ca 1774
maker: Dupuy, Daniel
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Measurements: overall: 11.5 cm x 11 cm x 6.5 cm; 4 17/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 2 9/16 in
Topics: Tea Drinking
American colonies
Liberty Cap
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Beverages
Description: The East India Company was the wealthiest private corporation of the day. Parliament gave its stockholders a bailout by giving the company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade in 1773. They also kept a tax on the tea. Patriots in nearly every colony blocked sale of the tea, either reshipping it back to England or forcibly storing it in locked warehouses. Boston was the first city to destroy East India Company tea, in December 1773. This silver creamer reminded tea drinkers not to indulge.
Britons take back your liberty You Won Shall make a Slave of
1774
Britons take back your baneful tea - You Ne'er Shall make a Slave of me
1774
To which your baneful love Shall make a Slave of me
1774
sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: sampler
date made: 1788
place made: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: wool (overall ground)
silk (overall thread)
Measurements: overall: 16 3/8 in x 12 1/8 in; 41.5925 cm x 30.7975 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Murray
canteen
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: canteen
Measurements: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 18.415 cm x 8.89 cm
Water Main Section
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: section, water main
date made: 1799-1802
maker: unknown
place made: United States
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 17 3/4 in x 14 in; 45.085 cm x 35.56 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
Small Hand Hatchet, "Union"
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: hatchet, small hand
date made: early 1800s
maker: unknown
place made: United States
Physical Description: iron (overall material)
wood (part: handle material)
Measurements: overall: 16 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 21.59 cm
Credit line: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
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Thermometer
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: thermometer
date made: ca 1797
Physical Description: glass; organic material (unspecified); wood; leather; brass (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 16.2 cm; 6 3/8 in
case, closed: 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 17.4625 cm x 4.7625 cm
case, opened: 2 1/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 5.23875 cm x 17.4625 cm x 5.715 cm
thermometer: 5/16 in x 6 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; .79375 cm x 15.875 cm x 3.81 cm
Description: Mercury-in-glass thermometer of the sort associated with James Currie (1756-1805), a physician in Liverpool, England.
Ref: Memoir of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of James Currie, M.D., F.R.S. (London, 1831).
letter
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
date made: 1801/09/12