Cradle
date: label: Date made
content: 1775-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Few of us today would look at the cradle and think of death as well as life. But 18th-century families had to expect many children to die in infancy, and for them a cradle may have evoked feelings of both joy and loss. A Virginian wrote in 1786, "Our Dear babey just lived with us long Anuf to make us love him and began to play and be company for us and them was taken from us."
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: Artifact Wall
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary F. and Robert L. Raley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0026.08
label: accession number
content: 1980.0026
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0026.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cradle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: walnut (wood material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 40 3/4 in x 28 in; 57.15 cm x 103.505 cm x 71.12 cm