This Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) cap was worn by John Doran-Donahue during organization meetings. The GAR and its counterpart, the United Confederate Veterans, were organizations in which veterans and their families joined to remember the dead and salute the living. These groups were an important facet of veteran life that supplanted wartime camaraderie.
Marcie Doll, Salvation Lass, for the Salvation Army. A blond- haired doll with a long sleeve blue dress, blue shawl with ribbon, and a blue bonnet with maroon ribbon. Shoes are black and painted on. Her green eyes open and shut. The doll is in the original cardboard box. marks: "The Salvation Army" on back of bonnet; "this is a/ Marcie/ Doll" with registered trademark on tag inside dress.
Today the Salvation Army is best known for collecting funds during the holidays. But the evangelical group began in the 1880s founding rescue missions across the nation. Although care for the poor became increasingly secular in the late 1800s with the rise of social welfare professionals, religious groups continued to play a crucial role.
A length of J.A. Migel, Inc .silk and artificial silk dress goods "Fan-Ta-Si". Novelty crepe woven with a metallic like surface effect created by narrow warpwise irregular stripes of yellow threads. Woven with a silk warp and double filling: one of tightly twisted silk, the other of artificial silk singles. The length has significant discoloration throughout the wrong side that features light yellow or pink striped splotches instead of the dark salmon color. Julius A. Migel was a younger brother of Moses Charles Migel, founder of M.C. Migel & Co., Inc, silk manufacturer, renamed H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. in 1915. Mallinson, married to Linda Migel, had taken over as the president of M.C. Migel & Co. after his brother-in-law had retired. J.A. Migel was very briefly a partner with H.R. Mallinson, but left the firm in 1915 to form his own, eponymous, silk manufacturing concern. J.A. Migel used many of the marketing tools that his brother and H.R. Mallinson had succeeded with, but his company lasted only a few years.
Basil Hirschowitz (1926-2013) was born in South Africa, attended medical school there, and spent a few years in England before moving to the United States. In 1957, working with C. Wilbur Peters and Lawrence E. Curtiss at the University of Michigan, Dr. Hirschowitz developed the first fully flexible fiber optic endoscope (aka gastroduo-denal fluoroscope). In 1960, now a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he unveiled a commercial model of this instrument developed in partnership with ACMI. A metal tag in the lid of the box for this example reads, in part: “HIRSHOWITZ GASTRO-DUODENAL FIBERSCOPE / American Cytoscope Makers, Inc.”
William Skinner and Sons wool back rayon ribbed poplin fabric length; 1946. Strong, soft flexible fabric with face of fine warp threads confining separated groups of filling threads so as to form a series of ribs across the width of the fabric with heavily napped back. Yarn sizes - warp 100/40 viscose rayon, weft 2 picks 300 denier viscose rayon, 2 picks 1/26 worsted. Fiber content by weight is 70% rayon 30% wool. Scarlet colored. Used for B-9 helmet for Army-Air Force and lining for jackets, coats and military capes.
William Skinner emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1843, finding work as silk dyer. He eventually opened his own silk manufacturing company, the Unquomonk Silk Co., making silk threads and yarns for weaving and sewing. In 1874, the mill was destroyed when the Mill River Dam gave way. Skinner moved his company a few miles away, to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and rebuilt the mill, expanding production to include woven fabrics (Skinner satins were nationally famous) and silk braids. He ran the company until his death in 1902, and the firm stayed in the family, and remained in operation in Holyoke, until 1961, when his heirs sold it to Indian head Mills, which immediately closed the Holyoke operation.
National Museum of American History. Division of Cultural History
user
Jim Henson Productions
Children's Television Workshop
Henson, Jim
maker
Henson, Jim
Jim Henson Productions
ID Number
1994.0037.01
accession number
1994.0037
catalog number
1994.0037.01
Description (Brief)
Kermit is a bright green frog who was the star and host of The Muppet Show and appears on Sesame Street. The character of Kermit is one of Jim Henson’s earliest creations, dating back to 1955 with his appearances on Sam and Friends on the Washington, D.C., NBC affiliate station. He was previously performed by Jim Henson and Steve Whitmire and is currently performed by Matt Vogel. Kermit is a calm, level-headed character who is constantly trying to keep everything together as he is surrounded by craziness. Kermit is known for singing “Bein’ Green” (also known as “It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green”) which talks about the difficulties he has had because of his color but ends with him accepting and embracing his greenness.
This original Grover hand-rod puppet was built in 1967 as one of several monsters used by Jim Henson and other performers on television variety shows and was first seen in his current design on a 1970 Christmas Eve episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. This darker, green-furred puppet appeared throughout the first season of Sesame Street as a generic monster and was named Grover by the end of the season. The character of Grover was rebuilt for season 2 and was then covered in his now signature bright blue fur. This puppet was later used as Grover’s mother in a skit about Grover having trouble sleeping because he is afraid of the dark, though in later appearances Grover’s mother has bright blue fur similar to Grover.
The character of Grover is a loveable, furry, and thoughtful monster who has many different roles and professions. He loves to help people but is sometimes frustrated by miscommunication, worries, and clumsiness. Grover has a unique voice and manner of speaking, generally avoiding contractions. Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz and is currently performed by Eric Jacobson. Grover is a hand-rod puppet which means that the performer’s dominant hand goes into the puppet’s head and operates the mouth and sometimes other facial features. The less dominant hand controls the arm rods, which are thin rods connected to the puppet’s hands.
Wooden case containing a nickel-plated aspirator (pump), hose, three nozzles and two mouth gags. This device, which could be used as a stomach pump or to administer enemas, is stamped “A. L. Hernstein / NEW YORK.” Hermann Hernstien was a German immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1841 and established a medical instrument company soon thereafter. His son, Albert L. Hernstein, took charge of the business about 1867. The purple velvet in the case suggests that this pump was made before the introduction of aseptic instruments in the early 1890s.
The practice of lavage was popular in the late nineteenth century. Stomach and enema pumps were used to wash out the stomach as well as for the administration of medicinals for every imaginable type of ailment from gastritis to consumption to cancer. Sometimes plain water was used; often various medicinals were added such as bicarbonate of soda, carbolic acid, or tincture of myrrh.
This instrument was made by Vanwyck W. Brinckerhoff of New York who was active from 1856 to 1869. The case is made of mahogany, and has a brass lock and sliding closure. The brass escutcheon on the lid is engraved "U.S.A. HOSPT DEPT". The interior of the case is lined with red velvet. The brass pump has a wooden handle, three ivory and brass nozzles, two tubes and a wooden mouth gag.
This set is similar to one illustrated in the 1889 edition of the George Tiemann & Co., surgical catalogue American Armamentarium Chirurgicum on page 293.
Calculator card, sleeve with cut-outs to expose numbers on moveable card. Printed "Allied / Chemical / FIBERS DIVISION... CONVERSION FACTORS FOR DYERS..." 1965. Allied Chemical Corporation. (NY, NY, Distributor); Perrygraf Corp. (Maywood, IL, Manufacturer). Card converts decimal to metric measurements.
ATHM Collection - # 1992.3.48; Gift of Curtis C. Allen
Textile production was a complicated business, involving hundreds of machines, and thousands of calculations, many of which had to be conducted by the weaver or loom-fixer in a few seconds of down-time to keep production moving and prevent losses from damaged goods. As the machinery grew more and more complex during the 20th century, and workers supervised more and more machines, these calculator cards provided assistance with complex calculations essential to efficient production – until the machinery was, by and large, replaced by computer-controlled equipment, in which adjustments were made in a central location. The NMAH array of calculator cards illustrates a sampling of the categories of computations that mill workers made daily, from fiber to finished cloth. They provide important context about the labor involved in running the machines they relate to.
A length of H.R. Mallinson's "Slendora Brocade" in a cross-dyed green and copper-colored jacquard patterned snakeskin design. The cross-dyed (a form of resist-dyeing) "Slendora Brocade" was Jacquard woven in copper colored rayon for the weft figure; contrasting with the green silk ground. The two dyes are in the same bath, and each fiber resists the dye meant for the other fiber (green-silk; copper-rayon) for which it has no chemical affinity, thereby enabling a two color effect in one operation. The selvage inscription on this textile length (Mallinson's Fabrics De Luxe) is the one Mallinson used for its products that were not all-silk after an early 1920s 'truth-in-advertising' furor over silk manufacturers using rayon (then artificial silk) in their products without informing consumers.
