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 19 items.
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Prescription Label, am Markt
- Description (Brief)
- The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria. Early labels were plain and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1868
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1130
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1130
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Prescription Label, C.A. Wrede Apotheker in Bonn
- Description (Brief)
- The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria.
- Early labels were plain and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1860
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1295
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1295
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Prescription Label, Apotheke von C. Buchholly
- Description (Brief)
- The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria.
- Early labels were plain and without adornment. Later embellishments included decorative borders, images of animals such as stags, lions, or elephants associated with the name of the apothecary.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1862
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1334
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1334
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
“Rock Me to Sleep Mother” Sheet Music
- Description (Brief)
- This sheet music is for the song “Rock Me to Sleep Mother.” The song’s lyrics were written by Florence Percy (the pen name for Elizabeth Akers Allen) and the music was composed by John H. Hewitt. The sheet music was published by Julian A. Selby of Columbia, South Carolina in 1861. The song expresses a desire to give up the sorrows of life and go back to being a child, being rocked to sleep by mother.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1861
- lyricist
- Percy, Florence
- composer
- Hewitt, John H.
- composer; lyricist
- Lady of Richmond, Virginia
- publisher
- Selby, Julian A.
- ID Number
- 1983.0365.03
- accession number
- 1983.0365
- catalog number
- 1983.0365.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Prayer Book
- Description
- Physical Description
- Bound printed paper.
- Specific History
- The Army and Navy Prayer of the Confederate States, printed in Richmond in 1865.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1865
- associated date
- 1861 - 1862
- ID Number
- AF*1860 [dup1]
- catalog number
- 1860
- accession number
- 17461
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
“Glory, Hallelujah” Sheet Music
- Description (Brief)
- This sheet music is for the song “Glory, Hallelujah” published by the Oliver Ditson Company in 1861. The cover calls it “The popular refrain of Glory Hallelujah,” otherwise known as the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and the tune had many lyrics written to it during the Civil War. The lyrics of this song read, “John Brown’s body lies a mould’ring in the grave” as well as verses about pet lambs, hanging Jefferson Davis, and being a soldier in the Army of the Lord. The cover notes that the sung was “sung by the Federal Volunteers throughout the Union.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1861
- lyricist
- Howe, Julia Ward
- composer
- Steffe, William
- publisher
- Oliver Ditson & Co.
- ID Number
- 1983.0235.03
- accession number
- 1983.0235
- catalog number
- 1983.0235.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- No Image Available
Religion : stereographs, ca. 1870s-1880s
- Summary
- Religious subjects and connections, including holidays, all concerning Christian beliefs: 2 views of camp meetings(?), one by D. W. Butterfield, the other unidentified; 2 views of leaf and flower arrangements surrounding photographs; one of the Passion Play by Ingersoll, 7 by C. H. Graves, "First Communion" from the Popular Series, and 6 views relating to Christmas
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1870
- 1890
- ca 1870s-1880s
- 1870-1890
- 1900-1950
- 1850-1900
- 1880-1900
- photographer
- Graves, C. H
- Ingersoll
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Religion (series title), circa 1728-1950
- Summary
- Consists primarily of books, periodicals, publications, programs, leaflets, announcements, invitations, reports, circulars, letters, cards, photographs, engravings and illustrations relating to religious education, religious organizations and the dissemination of a great variety of religious viewpoints. Includes a substantial amount of colorful printed material, especially in card form. The bulk of the material dates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Cite as
- Religion, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box ##, folder ###, digital file number ####
- Date
- 1728
- 1950
- circa 1728-1950
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Merklin & Cie]
- Date
- 1800s
- Company Name
- Merklin & Cie
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_30806
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
Massachusetts (series), circa 1823-1962
- Summary
- A significant part of this series deals with Boston. The General subseries is largely concerned with colonial history
- Cite as
- Massachusetts, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box X, folder XX, digital file number XXXX
- Date
- 1823
- 1962
- circa 1823-1962
- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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