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.
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"Your War Savings Pledge / Our boys make good their pledge-- Are you keeping yours?" [Poster.] 1918
- Notes
- See also #0433.02180
- Summary
- Main image: Uncle Sam with an American soldier and civilian
- Cite as
- Princeton University Poster Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1918
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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The New Spring Drive--Buy War Savings Stamps And Help Save The Country... From Autocracy... [Poster.] 1918
- Notes
- Princeton donor number: Taber BFA3425
- Summary
- Main image: Uncle Sam is smashing Germany with a sledgehammer/pick while "Hindenberg," "Kaiser Bill," and the "Crown Prince" flee
- Cite as
- Princeton University Poster Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1917
- 1918
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Samuel Yellin Collection, ca. 1928-1930; 1971-1975
- Notes
- Yellin, born in Poland, began learning ironwork at seven. He migrated to America in 1906 and taught at the Pennsylvania Museum and the school of Industrial Art. In 1910, he built the Arch Street Metalworker's studio, which eventually employed more than 200 craftsmen. Yellin was also an avid collector of fine examples of ironwork
- The photographs were made by Richard Hofmeister on a visit with curator Richard Ahlborn to the Samuel Yellin Metalworkers factory, Philadelphia, 1 April 1975. The master's thesis and article by Davis relate to an exhibition of Yellin's work at the Dimock Gallery, George Washington University
- Summary
- Two films, one showing Yellin working; a master's thesis on Yellin and an article about him by Myra Tolmach Davis; and 86 photographs of Yellin's studio, factory, and home
- Films: (1) "The Making of Wrought Iron" produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (250 ft.), shows an artist sketching a grille and Yellin shaping a grille for a chair. (2) "The Florida Film" (175 ft., ca. 1928), shows examples of Yellin's first work as used in the Singing Tower, Mountain Lake, Florida. Both distributed by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
- Thesis: Myra Tolmach Davis, "Sketches in Iron: Samuel Yellin," to George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), for Master of Museology degree, June 6, 1971. 67 pp
- Article: Myra Tolmach Davis, "Samuel Yellin's Sketches in Iron," Historic Preservation, vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec.), 1971, pp. 4-13
- Photoprints: 86 prints from 35mm negatives by Richard Hofmeister, Office of Printing and Photographic Services, SI, April 1, 1975, with checklist, "The Samuel Yellin Metal Working Building & Collection, Philadelphia..."The photographs show SI curator Richard Ahlborn during his visit to the Yellin shop, along with Samuel Yellin's son Harvey, and the exterior of the building, library, factory, study, and collection rooms
- Cite as
- Samuel Yellin Collection,1971-1975, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1928
- 1975
- ca 1928-1930 1971-1975
- 1950-2000
- 20th century
- photographer
- Hofmeister, Richard
- author
- Davis, Myra Tolmach
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Yellin, Samuel 1885-1940
- Yellin, Harvey
- Ahlborn, Richard E
- Samuel Yellin Metalworkers
- Local number
- 75-4495 to 75-4499 (OIPP Neg.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Is Liberty Worth 25 Cents To You? Save Your Money & Your Country--Buy War Savings Stamps Now. [Poster.] 1918
- Notes
- Princeton donor number: Taber BFA3420
- Summary
- Main image: Uncle Sam is pointing to an American flag while holding a package of War Savings Stamps
- Cite as
- Princeton University Poster Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1918
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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WAR INFORMATION NO CHARGE... [Bohemian text]. [Poster.] ca. 1917-1918.]
- Notes
- See also #'s 0433.01792, 0433.01794, 0433.01795, 0433.01847, and 0433.01848
- Princeton donor number: Taber BFA3347
- Summary
- Main image: Uncle Sam in a soldier's uniform with pen in hand and next to a telephone
- Cite as
- Princeton University Poster Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1914
- 1918
- ca 1917-1918
- sponsor
- Council of Organizations for War Service
- Creator
- Baker, Ernest Hamlin
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Ming-Ju Sun Garfinckel's Fashion Drawings, 1972-2002
- Notes
- Fashion illustrator for Garfinckel's Department Store from 1972-2002. She signed her drawings with the name Amie Ambrose
- Summary
- Fashion drawings created by Ming-Ju Sun for Garfinckel's Department Store newspaper advertisements, tear sheets of the newspaper advertisements, Garfinckel's catalogs and advertisements which Ming-Ju Sun photographed
- Cite as
- Ming-Ju Sun Garfinckel's Fashion Drawings, 1972-1979, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1972
- 1972-2002
- 1970-2010
- 20th century
- donor
- Sun, Ming-ju
- artist
- Ambrose, Amie
- Subject
- Garfinckel's (Department store)
- Local number
- 2005.3072 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection, 1639-1980
- Summary
- The collection is a compilation of gifts from numerous donors, of documents relating to Judaism in numerous countries and the United States. Documents include betrothal contracts, bills of divorcement, eulogies, memorial plaques, candle labels, Jewish calendars, certificates of ritual slaughter, prayers, poems, sermons, and other types of documents
- Cite as
- Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection, 1639-1980, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1639
- 1639-1980
- 19th century
- donor
- Adler, Cyrus 1863-1940
- Ahlborn, Richard E
- Cohen, Henry Reverand
- Deinard, Ephraim
- Harris, Michael
- Hartogensis, Henry S
- Howland, S. S
- Kantrowitz, J.H
- Krauss, S Father
- Lipkowitz, Sylvia E
- Luchs, Leopold
- Marks, Cara Goldberg
- Marks, Michael Neil
- Neeman, Zipora
- Sulzberger, Mayer 1843-1923
- Sulzberger, S
- Local number
- 22338 (NMAH Acc.)
- 23610 (NMAH Acc.)
- 25362 (NMAH Acc.)
- 25711 (NMAH Acc.)
- 25771 (NMAH Acc.)
- 25878 (NMAH Acc.)
- 26121 (NMAH Acc.)
- 32757 (NMAH Acc.)
- 34414 (NMAH Acc.)
- 34508 (NMAH Acc.)
- 38989 (NMAH Acc.)
- 39535 (NMAH Acc.)
- 39909 (NMAH Acc.)
- 64944 (NMAH Acc.)
- 65066 (NMAH Acc.)
- 83695 (NMAH Acc.)
- 207992 (NMAH Acc.)
- 285049 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1978.2106 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1980.0903 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1982.0477 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.0965 (NMAH Acc,)
- 1987.0806 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1998.0465 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Jules Olitski and Mark Golden Lecture [audio tapes], 1997
- Notes
- Jules Olitski is a major figure in American painting and Mark Golden is a paint manufacturer and president of Golden Artist Colors, Inc
- Summary
- Tapes document Jules Olitski and Mark Golden delivering a lecture entitled "The Artist's View: Color, Technology, and Style in Postwar Art" as part of the Color Symposium held in the Museum Nov. 11-Nov. 16, 1997, in the Lemelson Center's New Perspectives series. Harry Rand served as moderator
- This lecture and discussion offers an unusual look at how the invention of new pigments, often at the urging of artists, together with new methods of application, advance the vocabulary and depth of painting
- Cite as
- Jules Olitski and Mark Golden Lecture, 1997, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1997
- 1940-2000
- 1990-2000
- creator
- Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
- presenter/lecturer
- Olitski, Jules 1922-2007
- Golden, Mark
- moderator
- Rand, Harry Z (NMAH curator)
- Subject
- Golden Artist Colors, Inc
- Local number
- 1998.3018 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Art (series), circa 1750-1960
- Summary
- Contains material relating to the creation, exhibition and selling of fine art; the manufacture and retailing of art reproductions; and the manufacture and retailing of art supplies. Also contains material relating to art education, art publications and art organizations, both professional and amateur. Includes an image collection covering a number of subjects, a collection of original works of art and a group of sketchbooks
- Cite as
- Art, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box ##, folder ###, digital file number ####
- Date
- 1750
- 1960
- circa 1750-1960
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Tobacco trade and industry series, circa 1781-1965, bulk 1870-1920
- Summary
- This series consists of materials related to the tobacco trade and industry and provides an extensive record of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century tobacco industry with materials for consumers, traders and distributors. Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Collection Division I: Business Ephemera and Division II: Oversize Materials
- Cite as
- Tobacco Trade and Industry series, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box X, folder XX, digital file number XXXXXXXX
- Date
- 1742
- 1965
- circa 1781-1965
- bulk 1870-1920
- 19th century
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Creator
- American Tobacco Company
- Benson and Hedges
- P. & G. Lorillard (Firm)
- Allen & Ginter
- Subject
- Allen & Ginter
- American Tobacco Company
- Benson & Hedges (Firm)
- P. & G. Lorillard (Firm)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH