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 14 items.
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Melanie Hahnemann
- Description
- Portrait of Melanie Hahnemann, the second wife of Samuel Hahnemann the founder of Homeopathy.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Hahnemann, Melanie
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0026
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 939
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
I.G.R. Andreae, in Hannover
- Description
- Engraving of Johann Gerhard Andreae by Johann Phillip Ganz. Andreae (1724-1793) was a chemist and a corut apothecary. He corresponded with Benjamin Franklin and sent him a book on chemistry.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1786
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0045
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 914
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Andreas Planer
- Description
- A portrait of Andreas Planer. Planer (1546-1607), was a professor of philosophy and medicine at the university in Tübingen where Johannes Kepler was one of his students.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1590
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0049
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06234
- collector/donor number
- SAP 927
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Charles Linné
- Description
- Lithograph after a painting by Alexander Roslin (1775), of Carl Linnaeus Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist and is considered the father of modern taxonomy and one of the fathers of modern ecology. In 1737 Linnaeus published Critica Botanica the beginnings of a standarized nomenclature for plants.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Linne, Charles
- maker
- Langlume
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0055
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06230
- collector/donor number
- SAP 923
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Christian Gottlob Dieze
- Description
- Portrait of Christian Gottlob Dieze, apothecary
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1798
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0056
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06216
- collector/donor number
- SAP 909
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Joh. Leonhardus Stoeberlein
- Description
- Engraving by Wolfgang Philip Kilian of Johhan Leonhardus Stoeberlein (1636-1696), an apothecary in Nuremberg. He was the son of Wolfgang Stoeberlein.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1700
- depicted
- Stoeberlein, Johhan Leonhardus
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0058
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06204
- collector/donor number
- SAP 897
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Paracelsus
- Description
- A portrait of Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim). Paracelsus (1493-1541), was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and reformer of therapeutics. He pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine, was the first to used the word zinc for the element zinc, is sometimes called the father of toxicology and is credited as providing the first clinical/scientific mention of the unconscious.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Paracelsus
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0059
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06233
- collector/donor number
- SAP 926
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Possibly a Portrait of Albertus Seba
- Description (Brief)
- Possibly a portrait of Albertus Seba. He is seated in the bottom center of the print in a large chair. He is pointing a finger on his left hand to a jar on a table beside him. In the background on the right side is an interior of a pharmacy. There is a man in the shop using a mortar and pestle. In the background on the far left there is a large house with gardens and fountain. Note the three containers on the table which have triangular paper labels tied to their necks.
- Seba was a pharmacist and collector of natural history objects in Amsterdam . He illustrated a number of his objects for a Thesaurus on the subject. Most of his collection was sold to Czar Arskine of St. Pesters. He was born in Etzel in 1665 and died in Amsterdam in 1736.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0064
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06217
- collector/donor number
- SAP 910
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
A. Beeler
- Description
- A portrait of A. Beeler who was an apothecary and chemist in Amsterdam. He was well known for his work in the field of magnetism. In 1814, Beeler wrote "Het dierlijk magnetismus", a book about animal hypnosis.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1815
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0067
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06248
- collector/donor number
- SAP 941
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Bildnus des Philipus Theophrasti von Hohenheim
- Description (Brief)
- Portrait of Paracelsus. Half figure facing to the left. He is holding a sword in his hands. There is a shield in the upper left corner.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted (sitter)
- Paracelsus
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0071
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06232
- collector/donor number
- SAP 925
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center