Miner’s Cap and Carbide Lamp
date: label: date made
content: 1930
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This cotton miner’s cap has a leather brim with a leather lamp bracket holding a carbide lamp. A small union pin that reads “United Mine Works of America 2 1934, Working Button” is attached to the side of the cap. Before head protection became mandatory in industrial workplaces, miner’s caps served as a way to mount their lamps.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The union pin on this mining cap speaks to the personal connections miner’s had with their cap. A miner chose their headgear, and took it with them to work where it was worn all day and used for decades. It wasn’t uncommon for miner’s to personalize their helmet with stickers or their caps with pins.
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Mining Helmets
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Walter Rothacker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9526B
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9526B
label: accession number
content: 277982
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, carbide, cap, mining
label: Object Name
content: cap, miners, lamp, carbide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 10.795 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm