Empire 120 Box Camera
date: label: Date made
content: unknown
name: label: maker
content: Emmerling and Richter Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This Empire 120 box camera was made by the Emmerling and Richter Co. of Berlin, Germany during the 1930s. Flossie Haggard used this camera to document the family’s trip from Oklahoma to California during relocation of home by car and trailer via Route 66, 1935. Once in California, the Haggards and their children, Lillian and James Lowell, made their home near Bakersfield, and James found work with the Santa Fe Railway. Another son, Merle, was born in Bakersfield and began his singing career there.
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James Lowell Haggard, Jr., Merle R. Haggard and Lillian Haggard Hoge
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0183.04
label: accession number
content: 2003.0183
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0183.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 in x 5 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm