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 50 items.
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sound recording: You Did It So Well - So Do It Again; Back To Back
- Description (Brief)
- Ed Durlacher and The Top Hands. side 1: YOU DID IT SO WELL-SO DO IT AGAIN; side 2: BACK TO BACK (Sonora 1124). from the album, "Country Dances" (Sonora MS 479)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1946
- recording artist
- Ed Durlacher and The Top Hands
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05096
- maker number
- 1124
- MS 479
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Please Don't Take My Baby; Hang Yor Head In Shame
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY BABY; side 2: HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME (Sonora 1113). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05157
- maker number
- 1113
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Somewhere a Heart Is Breaking; Hello My Baby
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: SOMEWHERE A HEART IS BREAKING; side 2: HELLO MY BABY (Sonora 1114). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05158
- maker number
- 1114
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Bury My Heart Beneath the Roses; When It's Reveille Time In Heaven
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: BURY MY HEART BENEATH THE ROSES; side 2: WHEN IT'S REVEILLE TIME IN HEAVEN (Sonora 1115). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05159
- maker number
- 1115
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Our Hearts Beat Together; Out Of My Mind
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: OUR HEARTS BEAT TOGETHER; side 2: OUT OF OUR MIND (Sonora 1116). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05160
- maker number
- 1116
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Please Don't Take My Baby; Hang Your Head In Shame
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY BABY; side 2: HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME (Sonora 1113). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05161
- maker number
- 1113
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Somewhere a Heart Is Breaking; Hello My Baby
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: SOMEWHERE A HEART IS BREAKING; side 2: HELLO MY BABY (Sonora 1114). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05162
- maker number
- 1114
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Bury My Heart Beneath the Roses; When It's Reveille Time In Heaven
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: BURY MY HEART BENEATH THE ROSES; side 2: WHEN IT'S REVEILLE TIME IN HEAVEN (Sonora 1115). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05163
- maker number
- 1115
- MS-477
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Our Hearts Beat Together; Out Of My Mind
- Description (Brief)
- Fred Kirby. side 1: OUR HEARTS BELONG TOGETHER; side 2: OUT OF MY MIND (Sonora 1116). from the album, "Hillbilly Tunes" (Sonora MS-477)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- recording artist
- Kirby, Fred
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05164
- maker number
- 1116
- MS-477
- 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
- maker
- Sonora
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05212
- maker number
- 1063
- MS 464
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center