Wooden pin dish made from David Burnes’ cottage, Washington, DC
date: label: date made
content: 1894
notes: label: Description
content: Much of the land on which Washington, D.C. was built originally belonged to David Burnes, who lived in a brick cottage near the present day intersection of 17th Street between R and S Streets, N.W. When the location of the Federal city was determined in 1790, President George Washington personally negotiated with the “obstinate Mr. Burnes,” as Washington described him, for the sale of the land. Succumbing to the pressures of development in 1894, Burnes’ cottage was taken down and demolished. Lewis James Matthews, who dismantled it, saved a piece of a rafter that he fashioned into a commemorative “pin dish” of his own design.
label: Description
content: Gift of Charles O. Matthews, Jr., Charles O. Matthews III, Kimberley A. Van Dusen, Judith C. Underhill, Richard Cunningham and in memorium Lewis James Matthews
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: National Symbols
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0075.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0075
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0075.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 in x 2 in; 3.81 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm