Backpack used by Earl Shaffer while hiking the length of the Appalachian Trail
date: label: Date made
content: 1948
name: label: user
content: Shaffer, Earl V.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Green canvas backpack with two green straps with metal buckles and a metal back support. This was used by the donor, Earl Shaffer, during his hike of the Appalachian Trail in 1948. This was the first of three times Shaffer was said to have walked the entire length of the 2,180 miles of the Trail. He hiked thru again in 1965 and 1998. The Appalachian Trail is one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world traveling through fourteen states along the Appalachian mountain range from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the Trail’s northern end in Katahdin, Maine. The trail—completed in 1937 thanks to the cooperation of government agencies, private partners, and volunteers—continues to be sustained by public-private partnerships.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Hiking
label: level of sport
content: recreational
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Earl V. Shaffer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0189.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0189
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0189.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: backpack, hiking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 46 cm x 54.5 cm; 8 1/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 21 7/16 in