Family & Social Life - Overview
Donations to the Museum have preserved irreplaceable evidence about generations of ordinary Americans. Objects from the Copp household of Stonington, Connecticut, include many items used by a single family from 1740 to 1850. Other donations have brought treasured family artifacts from jewelry to prom gowns. These gifts and many others are all part of the Museum's family and social life collections.
Children's books and Sunday school lessons, tea sets and family portraits also mark the connections between members of a family and between families and the larger society. Prints, advertisements, and artifacts offer nostalgic or idealized images of family life and society in times past. And the collections include a few modern conveniences that have had profound effects on American families and social life, such as televisions, video games, and personal computers.
"Family & Social Life - Overview" showing 7 items.
sound recording: Last Round-Up, The; Wagon Trail
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: THE LAST ROUND-UP; side 2: WAGON TRAIL (Sonora 1064). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05213
- maker number
- 1064
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Ole Faithful; Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: OLE FAITHFUL; side 2: TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE (Sonora 1065). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05214
- maker number
- 1065
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Empty Saddles; Red River Valley
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: EMPTY SADDLES; side 2: RED RIVER VALLEY (Sonora 1066). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05215
- maker number
- 1066
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Is the Range Still the Same Back Home; Home On the Range
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: IS THE RANGE STILL THE SAME BACK HOME; side 2: HOME ON THE RANGE (Sonora 1063). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05216
- maker number
- 1063
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Last Round-Up, The; Wagon Trail
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: THE LAST ROUND-UP; side 2: WAGON TRAIL (Sonora 1064). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05217
- maker number
- 1064
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Ole Faithful; Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: OLE FAITHFUL; side 2: TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE (Sonora 1065). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05218
- maker number
- 1065
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Empty Saddles; Red River Valley
- Description (Brief)
- Red River Dave. side 1: EMPTY SADDLES; side 2: RED RIVER VALLEY (Sonora 1066). from the album, "Songs of the West" (Sonora MS 464)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Red River Dave
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05219
- maker number
- 1066
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center