Green River Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1855-1860
name: label: maker
content: John Russell Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: John Russell began manufacturing tools and cutlery in 1834 and established a new factory on the Green River in Massachusetts in 1836. His knives rivaled the quality of those manufactured in Sheffield, England, and as settlers moved West in the 1840s Russell's Green River knives moved with them. Green River knives were ubiquitous in the early American West, and the phrase "up to Green River" entered the American lexicon meaning something well constructed or very well done.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Greenfield
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Major Kenneth E. and Viola L. Harte
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0129.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0129.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0129
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Other Terms
content: knife; Edged Weapons
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel silver (overall material)