Religion - Overview
One hallmark of the American experience captured in the Museum's collections is the nation's broad diversity of religious faiths. Artifacts range from Thomas Jefferson's Bible to a huge "Sunstone" sculpture carved for a Mormon temple in Illinois in 1844 to a household shrine from the home of a Pueblo Indian in the 1990s. Furniture, musical instruments, clothing, cooking ware, and thousands of prints and figures in the collections have all played roles in the religious lives of Americans. The most comprehensive collections include artifacts from Jewish and Christian European Americans, Catholic Latinos, Protestant Arab Americans, Buddhist and Christian Asian Pacific Americans, and Protestant African Americans. One notable group is the Vidal Collection of carved figures known as santos and other folk religious material from the practice of Santeria in Puerto Rico.
"Religion - Overview" showing 7 items.
The Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah. [Active no. 12701 : stereo photonegative.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.1.9 [38]
- Similar to RSN 7146. Orig. no. 88-4
- Date
- 1900
- 20th century
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 1306
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
The Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake. City. [Active no. 12701 : stereo interpositive.]
- Notes
- Similar to RSN 1306
- Currently stored in box 1.2.8 [5]
- Cancelled by scratching
- Date
- 1895
- 1921
- 20th century
- 1890-1920
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 7146
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, "Homosexual, Servant of God", December, 1960 [periodical]
- Summary
- Cover has image of three Magi
- Cite as
- Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection, 1953-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1960
- 1950-1980
- Local number
- AC1146-0000017.tif (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Side view of Mormon Tabernacle and Temple. Active no. 8325 : stereo interpositive.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.25 [202]. Orig. no. 6581
- Date
- 1895
- 20th century
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 22569
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Grace Concert Band, House of Prayer [acetate film photonegative], 1947
- Summary
- "Ansco Safety Film" imprint on edge
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1947
- 1940-1950
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- Local number
- 618ns0178846pg.tif (AC Scan)
- Freezer box 30
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Program in African American Culture Collection, 1979-1986
- Notes
- Collection created by the Program in African Amerian Culture at the Smithsonian Institution from 1979-1986
- Summary
- Audio and video documentation of concerts, lectures, seminars, and colloquia on African American historical and cultural topics including gospel music, African American religion, jazz music, and the civil rights movement
- Photographs: Are primarily documentation of the programs, rather than earlier, historic images
- Cite as
- Program in African American Culture Collection, 1979-1986, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1979
- 1979-1986
- 1980-2000
- Creator
- Smithsonian Institution Program in African American Culture
- collector
- Maltsby, Portia
- Local number
- 1993.3044 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Eleanor Dickinson Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection, 1967-1977
- Notes
- Eleanor Dickinson, artist, produced several exhibits as well as a book on Pentecostal worship in the South entitled "Revival!" She documented Pentecostal and Baptist ceremonies using videotape, audiotape, line drawings and velvet painting
- Summary
- Videotapes of Pentecostal ceremonies, such as snake handling, laying on of hands, baptisms, foot washing, casting out of devils, dancing in ecstasy; a video interview with Brother Harrison Mayes at his home in Middleburg, Kentucky; and an audiotape of revival meetings
- Videotape # 1: Ampex U-Matic cassette: Interview with Brother Harrison Mayes, 1977, copy recorded 4/5/86?
- Videotape # 3 : "Revival," 1977, a recording in 3 sections: (1) serpent handlers, 30 min.; (2) healing and casting out devils, 20 min.; (3) Appalachian music, 10 min
- Audiotape : 7" open reel, 1800 ft., 1-7/8 IPS, 6 hrs. playing time, quarter track stereo. 100 selections from tapes of Suthern Pentecostal and Baptist revival meetings in eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia, 1968-1973
- Cite as
- Eleanor Dickinson Pentecostal Videotape and Audiotape Collection, 1967-1977, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist
- Date
- 1967
- 1967-1977
- 1940-1980
- donor
- Dickinson, Eleanor 1931-
- interviewee
- Mayes, Harrison
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
