Glass Hatchet, "Carrie Nation Wyer", 1913
date: label: Date made
content: 1913
label: associated date
content: 1913
notes: label: Description
content: By her own account, temperance reformer Carry A. Nation used rocks, a sledgehammer borrowed from a blacksmith, and a bar room billiard ball to destroy five Kansas saloons—before she took up a hatchet to destroy a Wichita, Kansas, saloon on December 27, 1900. Saloons were illegal under Kansas state law, but tolerated by officials. Explaining her choice of weapon, Nation recalled that the state’s “liquor interests” had nothing to fear from the usual temperance advocates, “but they were not prepared for a furious woman and a hatchet.” Her saloon smashings became known as “hatchetations”—a play on words coined by the publicity-savvy Nation.
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's History
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0520.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.0520
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0520.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hatchet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: colorless (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, transparent (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 3/8 in; 8.255 cm x 15.875 cm x .9525 cm