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Invoice, Joseph Robbins from Ebenezer Hancock
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Sheet (Paper)
invoice
Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
date made: 1774-10-25
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: ink (overall material)
paper (overall material)
wood (frame material)
brass (hanger material)
glass (glazing material)
Measurements: overall, framed: 1 1/4 in x 9 3/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 23.8125 cm x 28.8925 cm
Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
Topics: Architecture
Hardware
Furnishings
Description: One page handwritten invoice from Ebenezer Hancock to Joseph Robbins for household goods, previously folded into quarters. Currently in mitered veneer frame with brass hanging ring at top center, glazed.
Reads: "Bought of Eben/r Hancock" by Joseph Robbins, Boston, October 25, 1774, includes household goods (2 "brass Kittle[s]", "1 Warming Pan", "1 doz. Plates", "3 3 pint Basons" "12 quart [Basons]" and "4 doz. Knives & Forks"), hardware ("½ doz. H Hinges", "½ doz. HL [Hinges]", 8 "Thumb Latches", "Brads", nails and "½ Faggott English Steel") and tools ("1 Handsaw"), totaling £9.13.18[?].
Ebenezer Hancock (1741-1819) was the younger brother of John Hancock (1737-1793), president of the Second Continental Congress, governor of Massachusetts, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Aided by a sizeable inheritance from his uncle Thomas Hancock (1703-1764), Ebenezer opened his first retail hardware shop in 1764 in partnership with Edward Blanchard, but the business failed by 1768. With John's help, however, Ebenezer established another shop and was able to secure the position of Deputy Paymaster General for the Eastern Department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He inherited a third of John's estate in 1793, including the Beacon Hill mansion known as Hancock House. The Hancock Family Papers, Mss:766 1712-1854 H234, at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, includes Series III. Ebenezer Hancock papers, 1739-1831 (bulk 1757-1815); Box 17, Folder 19, contains accounts of interest and accounts of sales of goods to Ebenezer Hancock including hardware and shoes, dated 1768-1783.
Broiler (Gridiron)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: broiler
date made: 1770 - 1820
place made: United States: Massachusetts
place used: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
Physical Description: iron, wrought (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 3 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 26.035 cm x 37.465 cm
Credit line: Gift of Alexander B. C. Mulholland
Topics: Household Tools and Equipment
kitchen
Furnishings
Food
marriage certificate or fraktur
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: certificate
fraktur
License, Marriage
certificate, marriage
certificate form, marriage
Pen and Ink
date made: 1894
1910
about 1804
associated date: 1890 - 1900
graphic artist: unknown
place made: United States: Pennsylvania
Associated Place: United States: Pennsylvania
United States: Pennsylvania
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 33.5 cm x 40.7 cm; 13 3/16 in x 16 1/32 in
Topics: Communications
Religion
Margreth Feb ... 1782
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: certificate
fraktur
Certificate
Fraktur
Drawings
date made: ca 1817
ca 1782
ca 1795
maker: unknown
place made: United States: Pennsylvania
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 25 cm x 41.9 cm; 9 27/32 in x 16 1/2 in
Topics: Communications
Overshot Coverlet; 1787; New York
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: coverlet, overshot
Coverlet
date made: 1787
place made: United States: New York, Albany
Physical Description: cotton, linen, wool (overall material)
overshot (overall production method/technique)
blue, white (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 91 in x 64 in; 231.14 cm x 162.56 cm
Topics: Furnishings
Textiles
Description: This blue and white, overshot coverlet is woven in a simple patch pattern variation. The customer’s initials, "M S" and the date “1787” are woven into the fabric at one corner. The weaver of this coverlet is unknown; however, there are several others known. There are two others in the NMAH collection. It is thought that the weaver worked in the Albany, New York areas. The earliest coverlet that is dated in the weaver was woven by this weaver. It is dated 1771 and is currently in the collection of the National Museum of the American Coverlet in Bedford, Pennsylvania. The coverlet was constructed from two panels and measures 91 inches by 64 inches.
Nathaniel Potter
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print, physician
date made: about 1810
1804
place made: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Physical Description: wood (frame material)
brass (frame material)
Measurements: frame: 4 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 3/8 in; 11.43 cm x 10.795 cm x .9525 cm
Credit line: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
Description: Nathaniel Potter (1770-1843) was a founder of and professor at the Maryland School of Medicine (later the University of Maryland). The French artist, Charles Balhazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) created this profile portrait of Dr. Potter, proably in 1804.
Bible
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Book
book
date made: 1804
owner; user: Copp, Jr., Samuel
owner: Copp Family
place made: United States: New York, Albany
place owned; place used: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 2 7/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 20.6375 cm x 24.765 cm
Credit line: John Brenton Copp
Topics: Copp Collection
Bible
Religion
Description: This Bible is one of 13 contained in the Copp Collection. The book is undated with no publisher noted.
The Copp Collection contains about 150 books of early American imprint and shows a wide range of reading matter typical of a New England Puritan family living in a port town. Literacy was expected of many New Englanders, as Puritan doctrine required everyone to read the Bible. The abundance of multiple Bibles, psalms, hymnodies, sermons, and morality tales reflects the Copp’s religious beliefs. Other highlights of the library include the works of Shakespeare, almanacs, historical and political texts, and travel narratives.
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.
andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1802-1812
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: brass (upright, legs material)
iron, wrought (billet bar material)
Measurements: overall: 12 1/8 in x 15 1/2 in x 8 in; 30.7975 cm x 39.37 cm x 20.32 cm
Credit line: T. H. Bean
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Ball-top andiron with a compressed-ball and incised-cylinder pedestal on double C-scroll cabriole legs ending in flat, stepped, spade-shaped feet; cast, stepped billet bar. Two-part upright, each part cast hollow in halves and seamed vertically. Legs join pedestal from below. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. No marks. One of a pair, DL*075355A-B.
Maker is William Tuston (d. 1812) of Philadelphia, PA, w. 1802-1812. Attribution based on presence of pointed-knee or double C-scroll cabriole legs joined to upright from below versus side; both features appear only on andirons marked by Tuston. See Fennimore, Metalwork in Early America, cat. no. 57, p. 137. Further support for this attribution comes from the fact they came from Bainbridge, PA, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia in Lancaster County.
andiron
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: andiron
date made: 1802-1812
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: brass (upright, legs material)
iron, wrought (billet bar, internal rod material)
Measurements: overall: 11 7/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 30.1625 cm x 39.0525 cm x 21.59 cm
Credit line: T. H. Bean
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Ball-top andiron with a compressed-ball and incised-cylinder pedestal on double C-scroll cabriole legs ending in flat, stepped, spade-shaped feet; cast, stepped billet bar. Two-part upright, each part cast hollow in halves and seamed vertically. Legs join pedestal from below. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. No marks. One of a pair, DL*075355A-B.
Maker is William Tuston (d. 1812) of Philadelphia, PA, w. 1802-1812. Attribution based on presence of pointed-knee or double C-scroll cabriole legs joined to upright from below versus side; both features appear only on andirons marked by Tuston. See Fennimore, Metalwork in Early America, cat. no. 57, p. 137. Further support for this attribution comes from the fact they came from Bainbridge, PA, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia in Lancaster County.
Lewis Largent ...
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: document
fraktur
Drawings
date made: ca 1785
maker: unknown
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 25.7 cm x 20.5 cm; 10 1/8 in x 8 1/16 in
Topics: Communications
John Harde (Born Oct 4th 1779) Elizabeth Harde...
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: document
fraktur
Drawings
date made: ca 1800
maker: unknown
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 25.3 cm x 20.5 cm; 9 31/32 in x 8 1/16 in
Topics: Communications
Sepolcro de Cecilia Metella
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
date made: ca 1780
ca 1750
20th century
graphic artist: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 48.6 cm x 66.9 cm; 19 1/8 in x 26 11/32 in
back: 55.8 cm x 75.1 cm; 21 31/32 in x 29 9/16 in
plate: 46.3 cm x 64.4 cm; 18 7/32 in x 25 11/32 in
Credit line: Catherine Bullowa-Moore
Topics: Communications
hook
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: hook
date made: 18th century
place made: United States
place used: United States
Physical Description: iron (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 5 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 6.6675 cm x 13.335 cm
Topics: Furnishings
Description: Wrought iron hook. J-shaped, with flattened bend. Tapered shaft appears to be broken at top, it is possible this was broken off of a trammel or some other hooked tool. No mark. Rusted.
Fragment of Pipe Stem
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: fragment, pipe, tobacco
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: cloth (component material)
horn (ferrule material)
metal (component material)
Measurements: overall: 3/4 in x 4 in x 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 10.16 cm x 1.5875 cm
Tobacco Pipe Mouthpiece
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: mouthpiece, pipe, tobacco
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: horn (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 1 in x 4 in; 1.27 cm x 2.54 cm x 10.16 cm
Tobacco Pipe Bowl Cap (Wind Cap)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: cap, pipe, tobacco
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: metal, silver (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 1 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.4925 cm
Smoking Pipe
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: pipe, smoking
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: ivory (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 1 in x 5 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 13.6525 cm x 4.445 cm
Tobacco Pipe Stem
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: stem, pipe, tobacco
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: wood, weichsel (stem material)
cork (insert material)
horn (ferrule; mouthpiece material)
Measurements: overall: 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 1 in; 1.905 cm x 17.145 cm x 2.54 cm
Tobacco Pipe Bowl
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: bowl, pipe, tobacco
date made: 1800- 1900
place made: Europe
United States
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 3.81 cm
Tile
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: tile
date made: 1780 - 1830
place made: United States: California, San Antonio
Physical Description: clay, earthenware (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 2 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 19.685 cm x 13.97 cm
Topics: Missionaries
Architecture
Alta California
Sam Walton's Hat
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: hat
Physical Description: white (overall color)
red (overall color)
plastic (overall material)
fabric (overall material)
blue (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 5 1/4 in x 8 in x 11 in; 13.335 cm x 20.32 cm x 27.94 cm
Credit line: Gift of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Publisher: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
Topics: Manufacturing industries
Industrialization
Clothing and dress
Dress accessories
Description: Sam Walton founded his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas and his first Sam’s Club wholesale store in 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Walton was known for preferring baseball caps to staid business clothes, exemplified in this trucker-style hat he wore. The hat has a white mesh back with a blue front and bill that reads “WAL-MART/Our People Make The Difference/SAM’s Wholesale Club.”
15 Shilling, Pennsylvania, 1773
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date made: 1773
date on object: 1773-10-01
maker: Hall & Sellers
place made: United States: Pennsylvania
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 9.2 cm x 6.9 cm x .01 cm; 3 5/8 in x 2 23/32 in x in
Credit line: The Stack Family
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
30 Shillings, New Jersey, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date on object: 1776-03-25
date made: 1776
maker: Collins, Isaac
place made: United States: New Jersey
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.7 cm x 10.2 cm x .01 cm; 2 1/4 in x 4 1/32 in x in
Publisher: Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
Description (Brief): One (1) 30 shilling note
Colonial America, 1776
Obverse Image: A crest in red ink and half a sun.
Obverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / NO. 3401 / THIS BILL OF THIRTY SHILLINGS PROCLAMATION, IS EMITTED BY A LAW OF THE COLONY OF NEW JERSEY, PAFFED IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJEFTY KING GEORGE THE THIRD. / DATED MARCH 25, 1776.
Reverse Image: Line of Zodiac symbols at top, leaf in center, line of swirls along sides, line of crowns beneath leaf, flower on either end of crown row.
Reverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / 'TIS DEATH TO COUNTERFEIT. / BURLINGTON IN NEW-JERSEY, PRINTED BY ISSAC COLLINS,
Description: Currency issued by governments is protected by law. Historically money has conveyed messages to people about the consequences of counterfeiting it. This American colonial note from the 1770s plainly states the punishment for falsely imitating the legal tender at the time: “‘Tis Death to Counterfeit.”
<i>An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and The Pantheon, In Commemoration of Handel</i>
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: book
date made: 1785-01-08
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
leather (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 11 in x 8 3/4 in x 1 in; 27.94 cm x 22.225 cm x 2.54 cm
overall: 7/8 in x 9 in x 11 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 22.86 cm x 28.575 cm
Credit line: Gift of Carol B. Warden and Joy Burchuk
Topics: Musical instruments
Social life and customs
Music
Family
Description: <i>An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and The Pantheon, In Commemoration of Handel,</i> May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3d, and 5th, 1784. Published by Charles Burney, Mus.D. F.R.S. in London, England. Printed for the Benefit of the Musical Fund. Sold by T. Payne and Son at the Meuse-Gate and G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row.
Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto et Basse
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: sheet music
date made: 1810
place made: Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13 3/8 in x 10 5/8 in; 33.9725 cm x 26.9875 cm
Credit line: Gift of Carol B. Warden and Joy Burchuk
Topics: Musical instruments
Music
Description (Brief): Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto et Basse, No. 306, by Pierre Rode. It was published by Breitkopf et Hartel, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1810.
hornbook
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: hornbook
hornbooks
date made: 18th Century
Physical Description: wood (overall material)
organic material (unspecified) (overall material)
paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
leather (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 10.5 cm x 5.2 cm x 1.7 cm; 4 1/8 in x 2 1/16 in x 21/32 in
Credit line: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
Topics: Education
School Plan, Braintree, Massachusetts, 1810
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: drawing, school plan
designs
date made: 1810-04-23
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Braintree
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 31.6 cm x 37.8 cm; 12 7/16 in x 14 7/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
Topics: Education
Description: To broaden their political community, Americans worked to make formal education, once the province of elite families, available to a wider population. In Virginia, Thomas Jefferson proposed a statewide system of public schooling to make sure that talented children of poor parents might contribute as citizens of the Commonwealth. In other states, proponents of a participating citizenry also promoted public schooling as essential to the nation. This plan for a school to serve the families of Braintree, Massachusetts, was drawn up in 1810. The plan shows a drawing, including dimensions, and materials required for the front and interior of the school. Also included is a proposal written and signed by Obadiah Thayer, Gideon Thayer, and Asa or Ezra Penniman to employ a building company. The building was estimated to cost $228.00.
The men mentioned were probably:
1. Obadiah Allen Thayer, born Feb 23,1772 in Braintree, the son of Eunice Allen and Noah Thayer. He married an Abigail the daughter of Rachel (Lawrence) and Thaddeus Adams in November 1794. By the time of this drawing in 1810, they had eight children. Abigail Thayer died in 1816 and Obediah Allen Thayer died in 1857.
2. Gideon Thayer (3), son of Susanna and Gideon Thayer (2), born August 21, 1763 in Braintree, and died April 23, 1841. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and father of four.
3 & 4.There were three Ezra Pennimans in Braintree during this period, but the most likely person associated with this school plan was Ezra Penniman, born 1765 in Braintree, the son of Eunice Thayer and Ezra Penniman (1739-1832) and the brother of Asa Penniman, born August 26, 1774, who died April 25, 1836 in Braintree.
The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: pamphlet
date made: 1787
copyright date: 1787
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
made at: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
gray (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm
Topics: Slavery
Books and reading
Government
Social reformers
abolitionism
Politics
Description: Quakers, evangelical Christians, and Enlightenment thinkers criticized the slave trade and slaveholding. Two dozen men founded an anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1775. The group grew and reorganized to promote the abolition of slavery in 1784. They adopted this constitution in 1787. They worried that the U.S. Constitution’s fugitive slave clause already endangered free people of color.
The Holy Family with John the Baptist
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: stipple engraving
print
engraving
Engraving
date made: 1781
publisher: Boydell, John
engraver: Michel, Jean Baptiste
original artist: Rottenhammer, Hans
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 22.75 cm x 18 cm; 8 31/32 in x 7 3/32 in
plate: 19.5 cm x 15.25 cm; 7 11/16 in x 6 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Communications
Religion
Holy Family
Description: Stipple engraving after painting by Johann Rottenhamer once in the Cabinet at Houghton. Now in Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Impressions of this print were mistakenly included in both volumes of Marsh's set. The more typical location of the print was in vol. 2 according to the order given in the checklist of the contents of the Houghton Gallery in Rubenstein (1991). For Marsh's other impression, removed from vol. 2, see 1978.0534.03.32.
Virgin and Infant Jesus Asleep
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
engraving
Engraving
date made: 1781
original artist: Conca, Sebastiano
publisher: Boydell, John
engraver: Michel, Jean Baptiste
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: sheet: 22.75 cm x 18.25 cm; 8 31/32 in x 7 3/16 in
plate: 19.5 cm x 22.75 cm; 7 11/16 in x 8 31/32 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Virgin and Child
Communications
Religion
Description: Stipple engraving after painting by Sebastiano Conca once in the Cabinet at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Impressions of this print were mistakenly included in both volumes of Marsh's set. The more typical location of the print was in vol. 2 according to the order given in the checklist of the contents of the Houghton Gallery in Rubenstein (1991). For the other impression, removed from vol. 2, see 1978.0534.03.33.
Venus Bathing and Cupids
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: print
engraving
Engraving
date made: 1775
delineator: Farington, Joseph
publisher: Boydell, John
engraver: Mason, James
artist attribution: Sacchi, Andrea
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: sheet: 32.8 cm x 40.5 cm; 12 29/32 in x 15 15/16 in
plate: 30.4 cm x 38 cm; 11 31/32 in x 14 31/32 in
Credit line: Marsh Collection
Topics: Marsh Collection
Art
Communications
Mythology
Description: Line engraving after original painting attributed to Andrea Sacchi once in the Common Parlour at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.