Cultures & Communities - Overview
Furniture, cooking wares, clothing, works of art, and many other kinds of artifacts are part of what knit people into communities and cultures. The Museum’s collections feature artifacts from European Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, African Americans, Gypsies, Jews, and Christians, both Catholics and Protestants. The objects range from ceramic face jugs made by enslaved African Americans in South Carolina to graduation robes and wedding gowns. The holdings also include artifacts associated with education, such as teaching equipment, textbooks, and two complete schoolrooms. Uniforms, insignia, and other objects represent a wide variety of civic and voluntary organizations, including youth and fraternal groups, scouting, police forces, and firefighters.
"Cultures & Communities - Overview" showing 5 items.
Tex Ritter and Fans
- Description
- Henry Horenstein's photograph of this multigenerational crowd shows that fans of country music are not defined by age, but rather by choice of performers and styles of country music. Although Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter, 1905-1975) attained most of his fame as a Hollywood singing cowboy in the 1930s and 1940s, he still performed into the 1970s. Ritter won an Academy Award in 1953 for the best theme song, "High Noon," for the movie of the same name.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- negative
- 1978
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.063
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.063
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Tex Ritter and Fans
- Description
- A Tex Ritter fan holds a 45 RPM record as Ritter signs a photograph.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- negative
- 1973
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.064
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.064
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Tex Ritter and Fans
- Description
- Fans stand in line waiting for Tex Ritter's autograph.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- negative
- 1973
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.065
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.065
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Tex Ritter and Fans
- Description
- A man sells Tex Ritter photographs to fans waiting for his autograph.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- negative
- 1973
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.066
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.066
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Patron
- Description
- A man listens to music at the Hillbilly Ranch bar.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- negative
- 1972
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.067
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.067
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center