Drop-stem Smoking Pipe
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1875
label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: user
content: Benes, Josef
notes: label: Description
content: Drop-stem smoking pipe with bowl carved into a bird's claw. According to Carol Benes Miller, the donor, "The pipe was from Montgomery Ward's as Dad worked there 27 yrs. as their gunsmith." She recalled her father, Josef Benes, smoking it from 1900 until 1915 when he passed away. Her parents had immigrated from Chocen, Bohemia in 1882 to Chicago, Illinois, where they brought up four daughters. The pipe bowl is made from <i>meerschaum</i>, a clay material whose name translates into “sea foam” in German for it is often found floating in the Black Sea. Meerschaum was a popular pipe-making material in Germany and is frequently carved with German motifs.
topic: label: Subject
content: Smoking
label: Subject
content: Immigration
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Caroline Benés Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0767.02
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0767.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0767
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pipe
label: Object Type
content: pipes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 4 cm; 9 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in