Miner’s Cap
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The miner’s cap is made of canvas with a metal and cardboard lamp bracket attached to the front. The lamp bracket likely would have held an oil-wick cap lamp. The small paper label attached to the bracket reads MINING AND / METALLURGY DEPT. / LAFAYETTE COLLEGE / EASTON, PA." The National Museum of American History received many objects in its mining and metallurgy collection from Lafayette College.
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: Board of Trustees of Lafayette College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8783
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8783
label: accession number
content: 265669
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 in x 12 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm x 30.48 cm