RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
manuscript
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Manuscript
Manuscript; Documents
date made: 1771
associated dates: 1771 12 30 / 1771 12 30
user: Smith, Joseph
associated place: United States: Georgia, Savannah
Physical Description: brown, light (overall color)
paper (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 8 in x 12 in; x 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm
opened: 12 in x 15 1/4 in; x 30.48 cm x 38.735 cm
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1793
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 25.2 mm; x in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1793
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 25.1 mm; x in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1793
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 24.9 mm; x in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1793
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 19.4 mm; x 3/4 in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1797
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 35.5 mm; x 1 3/8 in
Case for Surgical Instruments
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Case
Case; Surgical Set
associated dates: 1750 10 10 / 1750 10 10, 1791 11 16 / 1791 11 16
Physical Description: wood, oak (overall material)
metal, brass (overall material)
fabric, cotton (overall material)
paper (overall material)
green (overall color)
red (overall color)
blue (overall color)
ivory (overall color)
Measurements: average spatial: 6.4 cm x 54 cm x 26.3 cm; 2 1/2 in x 21 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Rosalie F. Bailey
Topics: American Revolution (1775-1783)
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1792
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
copper (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 33.9 mm; x 1 5/16 in
George Washington Inaugural Button
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: button
medal
Button; Presidential
Date made: 1789
associated person: Washington, George
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
brass (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
metal, copper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 34.3 mm; 1 11/32 in
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George Washington Inaugural Button, United States, 1789
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: medal
button
Date made: 1789
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: copper (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
struck (overall production method)
Measurements: overall: 34 mm; x 1 5/16 in
George Washington Inaugural Button
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Button; Presidential
Date made: 1789
associated date: 1809 - 1865
associated person: Lincoln, Abraham
maker: Whitehead & Hoag Company
place made: United States: New Jersey, Newark
United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
copper (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
engraved (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 34.1 mm; x 1 5/16 in
George Washington Inaugural Button
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: medal
button
Button; Presidential
Date made: 1789
associated person: Washington, George
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
copper (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
hand engraved (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 34.1 mm; x 1 5/16 in
George Washington Inaugural Button, copy, United States, n.d.
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: medal
button
date of original: 1789
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: cast; electroplated [?] (overall production method)
lead, bronzed (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 34.1 mm; x 1 5/16 in
bell
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Bell
Date made: 1800
associated dates: 1966 10 27 / 1966 10 27
place made: United States: New Mexico, Pecos
Physical Description: metal, copper (overall material)
metal, iron (overall material)
metal, alloy (overall material)
roman catholicism (overall single or multi-hued)
spanish colonial (overall style)
hand-wrought (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 19 3/4 in x 15 in; 50.165 cm x 38.1 cm
Topics: metalworking
Missionaries
Authors
Religion
Andrew Ellicott Journal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Journal
Date made: 1797 - 1801
author: Ellicott, Andrew
associated place: United States: Pennsylvania, Meadville
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
leather (overall material)
cloth (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 21 mm x 16.5 mm x 50.1 mm; 13/16 in x 5/8 in x 2 in
overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 20.955 cm x 5.715 cm
Credit line: John E. Reynolds
Description: Andrew Ellicott kept this journal in the years 1797-1801, while he was locating the boundary between the United States and Spanish lands in Florida. It contains comments on the survey and astronomical observations. The cover is marked "And. Ellicott." This came from John E. Reynolds, a great grandson of Ellicott.
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1800
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: cast; electroplated [?] (overall production method)
lead, bronzed (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 23.2 mm; x 15/16 in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1801
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
lead (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 45.4 mm; x 1 13/16 in
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1801
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: galvano (overall production method)
bronze (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 46 mm; x 1 13/16 in
Thomas Jefferson medalet, United States, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: medal
medalet
Medal; Medalet; Presidential
date made: 1776
associated date: 1776 07 04
1743 04 02 - 1826 07 04
Associated Name: Jefferson, Thomas
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
silver (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 19.5 mm; x 3/4 in
Credit line: Mrs. F. C. C. Boyd
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1790
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
bronze (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 38.2 mm; x 1 1/2 in
Credit line: Chase Manhattan
medal
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1790
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
bronze (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 1 1/2 in; x 3.81 cm
Credit line: Chase Manhattan
Balance
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Hanging Balance (Beam)
date made: around 1800
place made: United States
Topics: Weights and measures
Description: This iron scale beam is painted black with red floral decoration, measures 24-inches long, and comes with a set of 7 disc weights. It was found in Grafton, New Hampshire, and may date from the early nineteenth century.
Molley Russell's Sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: sampler
Date made: 1776
associated dates: 1963-11-28
maker: Russell, Molley
Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Haverhill, Bradford
associated place: United States: Pennsylvania, Lower Merion Township, Rosemont
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
linen (overall material)
brown (overall color)
blue (overall color)
green (overall color)
pink (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
tan ground (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 17 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 45.085 cm x 29.845 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr
Topics: Embroidery
Alphabets
Textiles
Description: Block upper-case alphabet; letters colored alternately; no "J" or "U." Numbers 1 to 0. These rows, together with rows containing verse, all separated by narrow crossbands, including sawtooth and dentil patterns. Below verse, three wide crossbands: one of flowering plants, birds, and sheep or goats, and two wide geometric bands in patterns that appear often on eastern Massachusetts samplers, especially in Boston area. At bottom of sampler spies, from Canaan, wearing knee-breeches and flared coats, identified by letters "Ja" and "Ca" and flanked by trees, flowering plants, and small birds. Below them, 1 5/8" strip with geometric strawberry vine solidly worked in cross-stitch. Border of geometric flowering vine on top and two sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, satin, Algerian eye. THREAD COUNT: warp 38, weft 42/in.<br>
<B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
"When Stern Affliction Waves her Rod<br>My heart Confids in the my God<br>When Nature Shrinks Oppresd with woes<br>E en then in thee She finds Repose<br>Affliction flyes and hope returns<br>Her Lamp with brighter Splendor burns<br>Gay Love with all his Chearful Train<br>And Joy And peace are here again<br>
Molley Ru<i>ff</i>[ss]ell<br>Ad 12 1776"<br>
<B>Background:</B><br>
Mary (Molly) was born on June 19, 1765, to Peter and Molly Russell of Bradford, Massachusetts. Her father was a distinguished shipbuilder. She married Ephraim Emery on September 17, 1785. He enlisted as a fifer on April 19, 1775, at the Lexington alarm, and entered the service in William Rogers's Company on April 27, 1775. Ephraim was in the assault on Stony Point and the battle of White Plains. After the war, in 1799, he was appointed captain in the United States Army, 14th Regiment, which was disbanded in 1800. He served successively as captain, brigade major, and inspector in the state militia. The couple had four children—Mary, John, Thomas, and Hannah.
Mary died on March 3, 1843, in Newbury, Massachusetts.
Medicine Case
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medicine Chest
medicine case
Medicine Chest; Medicine Case
date made: 1800-1850
place made: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Physical Description: wood, mahogany (overall material)
metal, brass (overall material)
glass (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 28 cm x 29.5 cm x 18 cm; 11 in x 11 5/8 in x 7 1/16 in
overall: 11 in x 12 1/2 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 31.75 cm x 20.32 cm
Credit line: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
1790 - 1799 Esther Wheat's Wool Quilt
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: quilted counterpane
counterpanes
quilts
quilted counterpane; Counterpane; Household Textile
Date made: 1790-1799
quilter: Wheat, Esther
Physical Description: fabric, wool, cotton/wool twill (overall material)
indigo (overall color)
quilted (overall production method/technique)
wool, cotton (overall thread)
wool (overall filling)
Measurements: overall: 91 in x 93 in; 231 cm x 237 cm
Credit line: Gift of Miss Olive E. Hurlburt
Topics: Quilts
Furnishings
Textiles
Description: Esther Wheat's quilt is an example of a glazed wool fabric, not only used for bedding but also petticoats in the eighteenth century. The shiny surface of the quilt top was achieved by calendering, a process of applying heat and pressure with metal plates or rollers to a worsted fabric. In Esther's quilt the high sheen of the fabric enhanced the elaborate quilting of the large feathered heart and two pineapples surrounded by a scrolling vine with flowers. According to the donor, Esther Wheat Lee's great-great-granddaughter, the original plain weave yellow wool lining wore thin and was replaced by Esther's daughter, Olive Lee Doolittle. A thin layer of cotton fiber filling was added before the second lining of red twill weave cotton and wool was quilted to the original lining, but not through the quilt top.
Esther Wheat made this quilted indigo-blue wool bed cover for her dower chest in the 1790s. Esther, a twin, was born in 1774 in Conway, Massachusetts. She married Benjamin Lee in 1799 and died at Canastota, New York in 1847. Esther's quilt was passed down through five generations of women before being donated to the Smithsonian in 1973.
Comfort Chamberlin's Sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sampler
Date made: 1805
associated dates: 1968 01 17 / 1968 01 17
place made: United States
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
linen (overall material)
brown (overall color)
blue (overall color)
cream (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 9 in x 5 1/4 in; x 22.86 cm x 13.335 cm
Credit line: Gift of Susanne G. Swift
Description: This sampler by Comfort Camberlin, dating to 1805, is stitched in cross stitch with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 37, weft 38/ in. The inscription is: “COMFORT CHAMBERLIN 1805.” Comfort Chamberlin was born in 1787 to Samuel (1743-1821) and Sybil Thompson (ca. 1753-1837) Chamberlin in Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. She did not marry and died April 11, 1873, in Kent, Connecticut.
Charlotte Fowler's Sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sampler
Date made: 1807
associated dates: 1965 04 28 / 1965 04 28
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Westfield
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
linen (overall material)
black (overall color)
rose (overall color)
green (overall color)
rust (overall color)
tan ground (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 9 3/8 in x 12 3/4 in; x 23.8125 cm x 32.385 cm
Description: This sampler by Charlotte Fowler, dating to 1807, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 26, weft 24/in. In religion I look for comfort & in reliogion/I always find it/Charlotte Fowler born Nov 18th 1778/Westfield Oct. 12th/1807 Charlotte Fowler was born to Abner and Rhoda Dewey Fowler in Westfield, Massachusetts. On November 18, 1807 she married Henry Viets (1772-1866). They had seven children – Henry (1808 – 1894), Charlotte (1810 – 1880), William Atwater (1813 -), Margaret (1816 – 1849), Maria (1819 – 1858), Jane (1821 -), and Abner Fowler (1824 – 1825). She died May 3, 1841.
sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sampler
Date made: 1800 - 1820
associated dates: 1937 03 22 / 1937 03 22
place made: United States
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
linen (overall material)
blue (overall color)
magenta (overall color)
green (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
lavender (overall color)
cream ground (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 8 1/4 in x 12 1/8 in; x 20.955 cm x 30.7975 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Clarke Coe
5.00 Dollar
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Plate Impression for Paper Currency
issuing authority: Department of the Treasury
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: paper (overall materials)
Credit line: Treasury Department
sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sampler
Date made: 1809
associated dates: 1937 03 22 / 1937 03 22
place made: United Kingdom
made in: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
wool (overall material)
red (overall color)
blue (overall color)
green (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
black (overall color)
cream ground (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 12 7/8 in x 14 5/8 in; x 32.7025 cm x 37.1475 cm
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Clarke Coe
El Cristo
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Painting
Date made: 1800
depicted: Jesus Christ
artist: Fresquis, Pedro
Fresquis, Pedro
place made: United States: New Mexico
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
gesso (overall material)
paint (overall material)
roman catholicism (overall single or multi-hued)
painted (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 23 in x 14 in x 1 in; 58.42 cm x 35.56 cm x 2.54 cm
Credit line: Mrs. William C. F. Robards
Topics: Religion
Crucifixion
Jesus Christ
sampler
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sampler
Date made: 1806
associated dates: 1969 04 18 / 1969 04 18
maker: Southgate, Mary
place made: United Kingdom
associated place: Japan
made in: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: silk (overall material)
wool (overall material)
red (overall color)
green (overall color)
black (overall color)
purple (overall color)
blue (overall color)
cream ground (overall color)
embroidery (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 13 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in; x 33.655 cm x 34.29 cm
Topics: Adam (Biblical figure)
Religion
Angels
Eve (Biblical figure)
mug
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Mug
Date made: 1795 - 1800
place made: United Kingdom
Physical Description: ceramic (overall material)
earthenware (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 24.917 cm x 10.973 cm; 9 13/16 in x 4 5/16 in
overall: 5 7/8 in x 6 in x 4 5/16 in; 14.9225 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.95375 cm
cup, two handled
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Cup, Two Handled
Date made: 1797
place made: United Kingdom
Physical Description: ceramic (overall material)
earthenware (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 13.157 cm x 10.16 cm; 5 3/16 in x 4 in
overall: 5 1/4 in x 7 in x 4 1/8 in; 13.335 cm x 17.78 cm x 10.4775 cm
Signalling Horn
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Horn
Horn; General Collection
associated place: United States
Physical Description: horn, animal (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 18 in x 4 1/4 in; x 45.72 cm x 10.795 cm
Topics: American Revolution (1775-1783)
St. Raphael
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sculpture
Date made: 1770
associated dates: 1778 00 00 / 1778 00 00, 1779 00 00 / 1779 00 00
1778 00 00 / 1778 00 00, 1880 00 00 / 1880 00 00
1966 10 27 / 1966 10 27
1881 01 06 / 1881 01 06, 1948 00 00 / 1948 00 00
user: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
originator: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
place made: Spain
associated place: Spain
Spain
Spain
Physical Description: wood, cedar (overall material)
gesso (overall material)
paint, polychrome (overall material)
roman catholicism (overall single or multi-hued)
spanish colonial (overall style)
carved and polychromed (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 92 cm x 60 cm x 20 cm; 36 7/32 in x 23 5/8 in x 7 7/8 in
insignia
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Insignia
Insignia; Insignia; Army; Epaulette; Officer
associated place: United States
Physical Description: metal (overall material)
silver (overall color)
Measurements: average spatial: 19 cm x 24 cm; x 7 1/2 in x 9 7/16 in
overall (mounted): 12 in x 9 1/4 in x 2 in; 30.48 cm x 23.495 cm x 5.08 cm
Altar Screen Finial
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Finial, Altar Screen
Date made: 1775-1799
associated dates: 1966 10 27 / 1966 10 27
1881 01 06 / 1881 01 06, 1965 00 00 / 1965 00 00
originator: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
user: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
Physical Description: wood, cedar (overall material)
gesso (overall material)
paint, tempera (overall material)
roman catholicism (overall single or multi-hued)
spanish colonial (overall style)
carved and polychromed (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: average spatial: 17 in x 7 in x 3 in; 43.18 cm x 17.78 cm x 7.62 cm
Topics: Missionaries
Religion
Saints
Description: This European Baroque-style polychromed ornamental fragment with floral, scroll and tassle motifs carved out of locally grown cedar was originally part of the altar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Zuni (part of present-day New Mexico). It was part of the renovated decoration installed in the mission church c. 1778-1779, and one of several fragments collected for the U.S. National Museum's Bureau of Ethnology by James Stevenson and Frank Hamilton Cushing without permission from the community they were studying. On November 21, 1879, in a report addressed to J. C. Pilling, Chief Clerk of the Bureau, Stevenson reported: "I secured from the Old Church of Zuni two large images 4 ft. highand the center piece of the altarGot them in the dead of night." In the annual report of the Bureau published in 1896, Cushing reported: "A few years since, a party of Americans who accompanied me to Zuni desecrated the beautiful antique shrine of the church, carrying away 'Our Lady of Guadalupe of the Sacred Heart,' the guardian angels, and some of the bas-reliefs attached to the frame of the altar. When this was discovered by the Indians, consternation seized the whole tribe; council after council was held, at which I was alternately berated (because people who had come there with me had thus 'plundered their fathers' house'), and entreated to plead with 'Washintons' to have these 'precious saints and sacred masks of their fathers' returned to them."
spoon
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Spoon
date made: 1789
Measurements: overall: 8 1/4 in; 20.955 cm
Credit line: Mr Glenn Madison Brown
nipple shield
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: nipple shield
date made: 1805
Place Made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: metal, silver (overall material)
Measurements: average spatial: 3.4 cm x 6.2 cm; 1 5/16 in x 2 7/16 in
overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.35 cm
Description: Silver, perforated nipple shield made in England. Used to protect the nipples of women while nursing.
Lancet Set
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Lancet, Set
lancet, set
bloodletting
Lancet, Set; Bloodletting Instruments; Thumb
date made: ca mid-1700s - mid-1800s
Physical Description: tortoise shell (overall material)
metal, steel (overall material)
shagreen (overall material)
metal (overall material)
green (overall color)
Measurements: average spatial: 7.1 cm x 3.6 cm x 1.7 cm; 2 25/32 in x 1 13/32 in x 21/32 in
case: 2 7/8 in x 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 1.5875 cm x 3.81 cm
lancets: 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/8 in; .3175 cm x 5.715 cm x .9525 cm
Description: Four thumb lancets with steel blades and tortoise shell handles, in a silver and shagreen case.
The Book of Trades or Library of the Useful Arts
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Book
Book; Relief
Date made: 1807
Measurements: overall: 14.4 cm x 9.2 cm; 5 21/32 in x 3 5/8 in
Topics: Art
Occupations
Communications