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 35 items.
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sound recording: Eddystone Light/Hullabaloo-Belay, The; Venezuela
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT / HULLABALOO-BELAY; side 2: VENEZUELA (Decca 23505). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- date made
- 1946
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05125
- maker number
- 23505
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Fox, The; Lolly-Too-Dum
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: THE FOX; side 2: LOLLY-TOO-DUM (Decca 23506). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05126
- maker number
- 23506
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Aunt Rhody/Saturday Night; Wake Nicodemus
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: AUNT RHODY / SATURDAY NIGHT; side 2: WAKE NICODEMUS (Decca 23507). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05127
- maker number
- 23507
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Dublin City/Cockle Shells; Old Dan Tucker/The Erie Canal
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: DUBLIN CITY / COCKLE SHELLS; side 2: OLD DAN TUCKER/ THE ERIE CANAL ( Decca 23504). from the album, " Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05128
- maker number
- 23504
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Eddystone Light/Hullabaloo-Belay, The; Venezuela
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: EDDYSTONE LIGHT; side 2: THE VENEZUELA ( Decca 23505). from the album, " Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05129
- maker number
- 23505
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Fox, The; Lolly-Too-Dum
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: THE FOX; side 2: LOLLY-YOO-DUM ( Decca 23506). from the album, " Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05130
- maker number
- 23506
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Aunt Rhody/Saturday Night; Wake Nicodemus
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: AUNT RHODY/SATURDAY NIGHT; side 2: WAKE NICODEMUS ( Decca 23507). from the album, " Ballads and Folk Songs" (Decca 407)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05131
- maker number
- 23507
- 407
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Turtle Dove; Devil's Nine Questions, The
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: TURTLE DOVE; side 2: THE NINE QUESTIONS (Decca 23965). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs - Vol. 2" (Decca 431)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05132
- maker number
- 23965
- 431
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: No Wood Fire/Ten Thousand Miles; My Good Old Man
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: NO WOOD FIRE / TEN THOUSAND MILES; side 2: MY GOOD OLD MAN (Decca 23966). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs - Vol. 2" (Decca 431)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05133
- maker number
- 23966
- 431
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Po' Boy; I'm Sad and I'm Lonely
- Description (Brief)
- Burl Ives. side 1: PO' BOY; side 2: I'M SAD AND I'M LONELY (Decca 23967). from the album, "Ballads and Folk Songs - Vol. 2" (Decca 431)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1947
- recording artist
- Ives, Burl
- maker
- Decca
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05134
- maker number
- 23967
- 431
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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