Metal fragment from "The Great Eastern" ship that lay the Atlantic Cable
notes: label: Description
content: The objects seen here are souvenirs collected by Abby Knight McLane and her husband Allen McLane. The well-traveled couple is thought to have personally gathered the collection, which represents the kind of curio-cabinet collecting that occupied many Americans in the late 1800s.
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content: Though each piece is unique, McLane’s souvenir collection is a typical mix of found objects and items with historical associations: a piece of a cedar doorpost from Government House in St. Augustine, Florida; a stone in the shape of an arrowhead from Mount Pony, near Culpeper, Virginia; “antediluvian oak” from a bog near Killarney, Ireland; a small white stone from the ruins of Pompeii, Italy; and a round metal fragment of the HMS Great Eastern, the ship used in the laying of the Atlantic Cable.
label: Description
content: Bequest of Abby Knight McLane, 1919
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Souvenir Nation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Hussey-Knight-McLane Collection presented by Mrs. Allan McLane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.033957
label: catalog number
content: 033957
label: accession number
content: 63786
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron ship piece
label: Object Name
content: piece of ship
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)