Miner's Cap
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This canvas miner’s cap has a leather brim, with a leather and metal lamp bracket attached to the front. The lamp bracket could have held either an oil-wick lamp or a carbide lamp. Two blue stripes encircle the cap. Canvas caps provided minor protection from bumps, but mainly allowed the miner to hang a lamp from the cap, insuring a portable light source close to the work.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Natural Resources
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content: Mining Helmets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Y. & O. Coal Co. Hopedale, Ohio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-7730
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-7730
label: accession number
content: 234625
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap, miner's
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 7 in; 11.43 cm x 29.21 cm x 17.78 cm