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 71 items.
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sound recording: Home On the Range; Cowboy's Dream, The
- Description (Brief)
- Texas Jim Robertson. side 1: HOME ON THE RANGE; side 2: THE COWBOY'S DREAM (RCA Victor 27550). from the album, ""Round the Campfire" (RCA Victor P 84)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1941
- recording artist
- Robertson, Texas Jim
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05227
- maker number
- 27550
- P 84
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: O Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie (The Dying Cowboy); In Texas For the Round-Up On the Spring
- Description (Brief)
- Texas Jim Robertson. side 1: O BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE (THE DYING COWBOY); side 2: IN TEXAS FOR THE ROUND-UP IN THE SPRING (RCA Victor 27551). from the album, ""Round the Campfire" (RCA Victor P 84)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1941
- recording artist
- Robertson, Texas Jim
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05228
- maker number
- 27551
- P 84
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Red River Valley; Border Affair, The
- Description (Brief)
- Texas Jim Robertson. side 1: RED RIVER VALLEY; side 2: THE BORDER AFFAIR (RCA Victor 27552). from the album, ""Round the Campfire" (RCA Victor P 84)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1941
- recording artist
- Robertson, Texas Jim
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05229
- maker number
- 27552
- P 84
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Ridin' Old Paint; Texas Song (A Cowboy's Lament), The
- Description (Brief)
- Texas Jim Robertson. side 1: RIDIN' OLD PAINT (AND LEADIN' OLD DAN); side 2: THE TEXAS SONG (RCA Victor 27553). from the album, ""Round the Campfire" (RCA Victor P 84)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1941
- recording artist
- Robertson, Texas Jim
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.05230
- maker number
- 27553
- P 84
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Bells Of Hawaii; Voom Coom (Moaden On the Gayden)
- Description (Brief)
- Four Aristocrats. side 1: BELLS OF HAWAII; side 2: VOOM VOOM (MOADEN ON THE GAYDEN) (Victor 20587)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Four Aristocrats
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.16322
- collector/donor number
- 3315
- maker number
- 20587
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee); Kuu Home (Native Plantation Song)
- Description (Brief)
- Hawaiian Quintette. side1: ALOHA OE (FAREWELL TO THEE); side 2: KUU HOME (NATIVE PLANTATION SONG) (Victor 18577)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- composer
- Liliuokalani Queen of Hawaii
- recording artist
- Hawaiian Quintette
- lyricist
- Montano, Mary J.
- recording artist
- Kaiawe, S. M.
- manufacturer
- Victor
- ID Number
- 2000.3053.1678
- catalog number
- 2000.3053.1678
- label number
- 18577
- nonaccession number
- 2000.3053
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Turn Off the Radio; Jammin'
- Description (Brief)
- Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. side 1: TURN OFF THE RADIO; side 2: JAMMIN' (Victor 25553)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1978.0670.404
- maker number
- 25553
- accession number
- 1978.0670
- catalog number
- 1978.0670.404
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Alexander's Ragtime Band; Riffin' At the Ritz
- Description (Brief)
- Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. side 1: ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND; side 2: RIFFIN' AT THE RITZ (Victor 25445)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1978.0670.407
- maker number
- 25445
- accession number
- 1978.0670
- catalog number
- 1978.0670.407
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Margie; Palesteena
- Description (Brief)
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band. side 1: MARGIE; side 2: PALESTEENA (Victor 18717)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1978.0670.409
- maker number
- 18717
- accession number
- 1978.0670
- catalog number
- 1978.0670.409
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
sound recording: Grabtown Grapple, The; Sad Sack, The
- Description (Brief)
- Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five. THE GRABTOWN GRAPPLE; side 2: THE SAD SACK (Victor 20-1647)
- 78 rpm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording artist
- Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five
- maker
- Victor
- ID Number
- 1978.0670.410
- maker number
- 20-1647
- accession number
- 1978.0670
- catalog number
- 1978.0670.410
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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