Model of Western River Flatboat, ca. 1860-1875
date: label: date made
content: ca 1990
name: label: maker
content: Norman, James B.
notes: label: Description
content: This boat model represents a common, simple flat bottomed boat or small barge of the sort that would have been found anywhere on the American western river system around the time of the Civil War. The owners of these boats and their families lived aboard and bought, sold and transported anything they could make a profit on. They traded hardware, manufactured goods, foodstuffs, cloth and clothing, and other goods up and down the rivers until small steamboats gradually replaced them in the later part of the 19th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Scrimshaw
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James B Norman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0097.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0097.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ship model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 17.145 cm x 29.845 cm