Art - Overview
The National Museum of American History is not an art museum. But works of art fill its collections and testify to the vital place of art in everyday American life. The ceramics collections hold hundreds of examples of American and European art glass and pottery. Fashion sketches, illustrations, and prints are part of the costume collections. Donations from ethnic and cultural communities include many homemade religious ornaments, paintings, and figures. The Harry T Peters "America on Stone" collection alone comprises some 1,700 color prints of scenes from the 1800s. The National Quilt Collection is art on fabric. And the tools of artists and artisans are part of the Museum's collections, too, in the form of printing plates, woodblock tools, photographic equipment, and potters' stamps, kilns, and wheels.
"Art - Overview" showing 16 items.
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A New Departure. [Print advertising.] Chicago Herald. 1886
- Summary
- Illustration: Native Americans with Uncle Sam
- Date
- 1886
- January 10, 1887
- advertiser
- Procter & Gamble Company
- Local number
- Ivorydata4 79
- 0207910069 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
A New Departure. [Print advertising.] 1883
- Summary
- Lithograph: Uncle Sam handing a huge bar of Ivory soap to Native Americans (caricature). A humorous poem is below the image
- Date
- 1883
- donor
- Procter & Gamble Company
- Local number
- Ivorydata4 35
- 0207910025 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
A Safe Ship. [Print advertising.] 1883
- Summary
- Illustration: Uncle Sam on a raft made of Ivory Soap bars
- Date
- 1883
- donor
- Procter & Gamble Company
- Local number
- Ivorydata4 41
- 0207910031 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream [advertisement]
- Summary
- Caption: "For the hands, face, skin and complexion." Color illustration showing various ethnic figures in back and foreground, including Uncle Sam (right, with an American flag in his hat), leprechauns, Asians, etc. Printer credit to Forbest Lith Co., Boston & N.Y
- Date
- 1890
- 1910
- 19th century
- advertiser
- A.S. Hinds
- printer
- Forbes Lith. Co. (Boston & N.Y.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000053 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
No More Chinese / cheap labor / Celluloid / Cuffs, Collars / & Bosoms [trade card]
- Summary
- A female figure in patriotic dress, holding a shield marked "invention," points to the "cheap labor" text, while a Chinese man at left holds his head, possibly weeping, while Uncle Sam looks on with a smile. A sign says "Gon Up / Chinese / laundry" and the caption at the bottom is: "'Othello' s occupation gone' the handwriting on the wall."
- Date
- 1880
- 1890
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Donaldson Brothers (Five Points, New York)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000079, AC0060-0000080 (AC Scan Nos.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
To cure the Chinese famine he acknowledges the "Fame In" Paragon Dried Beef [trade card]
- Summary
- On left stands an emaciated Chinese man in kuli hat with queue, behind him are two presumably dead Chinese men and a pagoda off in the distance. In the right foreground stands Uncle Sam (blue jacket, red/white striped pants) offering the Chinese man Paragon Dried Beef
- Date
- 1880
- 1900
- advertiser
- Henry Mayo & Co
- Subject
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000139 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Uncle Sam Supplying the World with Berry Brothers' Architectural Finishes. [Trade card]
- Summary
- Uncle Sam at left giving John Bull some varnish. Other nationalities in background: Holland walking away at right with can of varnish. Back text lists four kinds of varnish for sale. Possibly used at Chicago World's Fair of 1893
- Date
- 1890
- 1910
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Berry Brothers
- Subject
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000166 (AC Scan No.)
- AC0060-0000167 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
TOURISTS' GUIDE / TO POINTS IN AND NEAR THE CITY OF MEXICO / Compliments of the / SHORTEST / QUICKEST / AND MOST / PICTURESQUE / ROUTE / BETWEEN / MEXICO / AND THE / UNITED / STATES [booklet]
- Summary
- Softbound, 36 pp. Guidebook covers Monterey, Topo Chico, Catorce, Bocas, San Luis Potosi, San Miguel and Celaya, Acambaro and Toluca, Ocovocac and La Cima, Morelia and Patzcuaro, and Mexico City. Contains many small illustrations, including some in color. On front cover, an illustration of Uncle Sam shaking hands with a dark-skinned Mexican man with a moustache, sombrero, and serape. On back cover: LAREDO- / ROUTE / Mexican / National / R.R
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, 1724-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1890
- 19th century
- Local number
- AC0060-0001233.tif (AC Scan No.: front cover)
- 96-3306 (SI Photo, back cover)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Uncle Sam Supplying the World with Berry Bros. Hard Oil Finish [trade card]
- Summary
- Uncle Sam in left handing out square cans of Hard Oil Finish to various nationalities. Probably made for the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893
- Date
- 1893
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Henry Seibert & Bro
- Creator
- Berry Brothers
- Subject
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000164 (AC Scan No.)
- AC0060-0000165 (Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Melican Man he mus dlink Tea an den he get / so fat like me [caption at top of card] [trade card]
- Summary
- Uncle Sam sitting on left, fat Chinese man on right, drinking tea, with teapot next to foot. Chinese man's back to viewer, wearing red shirt. Uncle Sam, in top hat, blue cutaway coat, and plaid pants, looks nervous or apprehensive
- Date
- 1870
- 1890
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Union Pacific Tea Co
- Local number
- AC0060-0000208.tif (AC Scan No.: recto)
- AC0060-0000209.tif (AC Scan No.: verso)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
