"Gold Washers" Snuff Box
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1860
notes: label: Description
content: This snuff box was made in London and used around 1860. The box’s lid is painted with an image four men—two white, and two African-Americans—working a stream for gold with the text “Gold-washers in California” below. Both slave and free African Americans participated in the gold rush as laborers and gold washers. A snuff box carried a powdered tobacco called snuff that was pinched and inhaled nasally.
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Migration
label: Subject
content: Occupation, general
label: related event
content: California Gold Rush
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.294083.01
label: catalog number
content: 294083.01
label: accession number
content: 294083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: snuff box
label: Object Name
content: box, snuff
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper mache (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: composition board (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 9.2075 cm