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 91 items.
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sound recording: Cleanliness; Good and Bad
- Description (Brief)
- Fanny Brice. side 1: CLEANLINESS; side 2: GOOD AND BAD (Capitol 7-32023). from the album, "baby snooks" (Capitol DC 3081)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1949
- recording artist
- Brice, Fanny
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05059
- maker number
- 7-32023
- DC 3081
- catalog number
- 1996.0320.05059
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Crossing Streets; Table Manners
- Description (Brief)
- Fanny Brice. side 1: CROSSING STREETS; side 2: TABLE MANNERS (Capitol 7-32024). from the album, "baby snooks" (Capitol DC 3081)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1949
- recording artist
- Brice, Fanny
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05060
- maker number
- 7-32024
- DC3081
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- catalog number
- 1996.0320.05060
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Kindness To Animals; Truthfulness
- Description (Brief)
- Fanny Brice. side 1: KINDNESS TO ANIMALS; side 2: TRUTHFULNESS (Capitol 7-32025). from the album, "baby snooks" (Capitol DC 3081)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1949
- recording artist
- Brice, Fanny
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05061
- maker number
- 7-32025
- DC 3081
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- catalog number
- 1996.0320.05061
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; (He's Just a) Sentimental Gemtleman From Georgia
- Description (Brief)
- The Dinning Sisters. side 1: PLEASE DON'T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I'M GONE; side 2: SENTIMENTAL GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA (Capitol 20017). from the album, "Songs of the Dinning Sisters" (Capitol B-D 7)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Dinning Sisters
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05086
- maker number
- 20017
- B-D 7
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Aunt Hagar's Blues; Where Or When
- Description (Brief)
- The Dinning Sisters. side 1: AUNT HAGAR'S BLUE; side 2: WHERE OR WHEN (Capitol 20018). from the album, "Songs of the Dinning Sisters" (Capitol B-D 7)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Dinning Sisters
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05087
- maker number
- 20018
- B-D 7
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Brazil; Way You Look Tonight, The
- Description (Brief)
- The Dinning Sisters. side 1: BRAZIL; side 2: THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT (Capitol 20020). from the album, "Songs of the Dinning Sisters" (Capitol B-D 7)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1945
- recording artist
- Dinning Sisters
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05088
- maker number
- 20020
- B-D 7
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle; When the Bloom Is On the Sage
- Description (Brief)
- Shug Fisher. side 1: TAKE ME BACK TO MY BOOTS AND SADDLE; side 2: WHEN THE BLOOM IS ON THE SAGE (Capitol 48019). from the album, "Sing Cowboy Sing!" (Capitol AC 77)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1948
- recording artist
- Fisher, Shug
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05105
- maker number
- 48019
- AC 77
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Cowboy's Dream; Whoopee Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Dogies
- Description (Brief)
- Shug Fisher. side 1: COWBOY'S DREAM; side 2: WHOOPEE TI YI YO GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES (Capitol 48020). from the album, "Sing Cowboy Sing!" (Capitol AC 77)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1948
- recording artist
- Fisher, Shug
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05106
- maker number
- 48020
- AC 77
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Out On the Open Range; Texas Plains
- Description (Brief)
- Shug Fisher. side 1: OUT ON THE OPEN RANGE; side 2: TEXAS PLAINS (Capitol 48021). from the album, "Sing Cowboy Sing!" (Capitol AC 77)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1948
- recording artist
- Fisher, Shug
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05107
- maker number
- 48021
- AC 77
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Gonna Move This Wicked Race; Turn Your Radio On
- Description (Brief)
- Oak Ridge Quartet. side 1: GONNA MOVE THIS WICKED RACE; side 2: TURN YOUR RADIO ON (Capitol 48022). from the album, "Songs From The Grand Ole Opry" (Capitol AD 86)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1948
- recording artist
- Oak Ridge Quartet
- maker
- Capitol
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05118
- maker number
- 48022
- AD 86
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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