Natural Resources
The natural resources collections offer centuries of evidence about how Americans have used the bounty of the American continent and coastal waters. Artifacts related to flood control, dam construction, and irrigation illustrate the nation's attempts to manage the natural world. Oil-drilling, iron-mining, and steel-making artifacts show the connection between natural resources and industrial strength.
Forestry is represented by saws, axes, a smokejumper's suit, and many other objects. Hooks, nets, and other gear from New England fisheries of the late 1800s are among the fishing artifacts, as well as more recent acquisitions from the Pacific Northwest and Chesapeake Bay. Whaling artifacts include harpoons, lances, scrimshaw etchings in whalebone, and several paintings of a whaler's work at sea. The modern environmental movement has contributed buttons and other protest artifacts on issues from scenic rivers to biodiversity.
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The Sound of Beauty
- Description
This record was sold as a set with Elizabeth Arden beauty products. An advertisement for the James Drug Co., Inc. in The Day Newspaper, New London, Connecticut, from October 11, 1961 read:
“Listen to the Sound of Beauty
by
Elizabeth Arden””Beauty begins with Elizabeth
Arden. And everyone knows you can never begin too soon. That is
why Miss Arden has brought to-
gether all the makings of a beauty
in this pretty pink box – so they
may be the making of you. Thirteen
preparations to keep your skin
spotless, fresh and clear, and your
make-up enchanting from lips to
lashes. Listen to the little pink 33-1/3
r.p.m. record tell you what to do,
step by step, as you use each prepa-
ration. Just follow the pink record
on its rounds, and it will take you
far. On rounds of new parties with
everyone making a record play for you. Here’s what The Sound
of Beauty holds for you; The Pink Record: Ardena Cleansing
Cream, Skin Deep Milky Cleanser, Skin Lotion, Ardena Velva
Cream, Orange Skin Cream; Eight Hour Cream, Spot-Pruf
Cream; Featherlight Foundation Cream, Pat-a-Crème; Illusion
Powder, Lipstick, Rouge, and Eye-Shado, All, 5.95”
- release date
- 1961
- manufacturer
- Elizabeth Arden Inc.
- ID Number
- 1983.0393.71
- accession number
- 1983.0393
- maker number
- M70U-8662/3
- catalog number
- 1983.0393.71
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Stoneware Jug
- Description
- This salt-glazed stoneware jug was made by Israel Seymour in Troy, New York between 1824 and 1850. It features an ovoid shape with a maker’s stamp above an incised bird perched on a leaf with a small bird on its back. Like designs on many stoneware vessels made in New York in the early 19th century, the bird motif is done in cobalt, a metal oxide that does not lose its color in the heat of the kiln. This is a form of decoration long used in Central Europe. The New York potters used cobalt imported from Europe, which was expensive, but little was needed to produce the characteristic strong blue. The motifs inscribed or painted on the surface have their technical origins in the European stoneware tradition, but in America potters developed their own repertoire of designs that referred to their New World context, such as patriotic subjects of the American eagle with the flag and arrows, and naval scenes depicting the War of 1812. Common subjects are birds, including recognizable species like pigeons, doves, peahens, sandpipers, and chickens, as well as others that are entirely fanciful.
- Israel Seymour was in the pottery business in Troy before 1816, when his partnership with David F. Seborn was dissolved. Seymour came from a family of potters well known in West Hartford, Connecticut, and appears to have arrived in Troy on the Hudson via Albany. In Troy, Seymour married Sarah Church, and in 1816 his father-in-law, Nathaniel Church, became his new partner. This was the first of many partnerships in a long and successful business career for Seymour, who also made earthenware pottery alongside stoneware. In 1827 he claimed "the right of manufacturing, the patent Stone-Ware MILK-PANS" developed by a new partner, Sanford S. Perry.
- date made
- 1824-50
- ID Number
- 1979.0577.11
- accession number
- 1979.0577
- catalog number
- 1979.577.11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ice hockey goalie shin guard manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Light tan cloth guard to protect goalie’s shin. It has a white padded fabric interior and four clothstraps with metal buckle to attach to leg. The guard is somewhat padded. This model 1325 was used in the Youth and Pee Wee Hockey Leagues as goalie pads. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966-1970s
- 1964-1970s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.35
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.35
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Basketball hoop manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Orange metal basketball goal with seperate net. Directions for setting up basketball goals included in original cardboard box. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.29
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.29
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Never Trust a Woman; That's What I Like About the West
- Description
- Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage. side 1: Never Trust a Woman; side 2: That's What I Like About the West (Majestic 6021).
78 rpm. - Location
- Currently not on view
- release date
- 1947
- recording artist
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Willing, Foy
- manufacturer
- Majestic
- ID Number
- 1996.0320.25182
- accession number
- 1996.0320
- catalog number
- 1996.0320.25182
- collector/donor number
- 3841
- maker number
- 6021
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Baseball base manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Square canvas base with two straps attached on either side that contain a metal washer at the ends. A round tag attached to one strap reads $5.00. According to the Stall and Dean catalogs this was the number one baseball base used during the 1960-1970s. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960s-1970s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.27
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.27
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ice hockey goalie shin guard manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Tan cloth guard to protect goalie’s shin. It has a white padded fabric interior and four clothstraps with metal buckle to attach to leg. The guard is somewhat padded.This model 1325 of goalie shin guards was used in the Pee Wee League. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1952-1970s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.36
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.36
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Old Sturbridge Village Massachusetts
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- Unknown
- circa 1950
- maker
- unknown
- ID Number
- 2008.0090.21
- accession number
- 2008.0090
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ice hockey pants manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Hockey pants are white with white laces. There are metal grommets on each side for laces. A white belt with silver metal buckle are at front as is a white patch. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.33
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.33
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Baseball stirrup socks manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Red, white and blue striped baseball stirrup socks. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1940s-1970s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.68
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.68
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Advertising poster manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Large poster with brown and yellow predominating colors, large man with football running from smaller man behind him. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1910s-1930s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.45
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.45
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ice hockey glove manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Black and tan leather hockey glove with tag at cuff reading “552 GC” in blue ink. This model 552G is a youth model goalie glove. Marks stamped/printed in sliver on black leather. INSIST ON [/] PUCKMASTER [/] EQUIPMENT BY [/] Stall & Dean [/] 552 G. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966-1971
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.25
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.25
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Processes of producing gelatin relief plates for printing
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1875
- circa 1875
- maker
- Mumler, W. H.
- ID Number
- GA.089797.163514
- catalog number
- 089797.050
- patent number
- 163514
- catalog number
- GA*89797.163514
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Honeywell Kills People
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced
- Honeywell Inc.
- maker
- Horn Company, Philadelphia
- Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
- ID Number
- 2018.0158.316
- accession number
- 2018.0158
- catalog number
- 2018.0158.316
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Softball bat manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Dark, brown wooden softball bat with adhesive tape grip. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.14
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.14
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ice hockey knee pad manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- Black knee pad with white cloth straps to go around leg and a cloth padding interior. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- late 1950s
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.34
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.34
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Cahokia Plant Turbine Room, St. Louis, Missouri
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PG.67.88.00203
- accession number
- 270586
- catalog number
- 67.88.00203
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Sailing shorts manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
- Description (Brief)
- White, nylon sailing shorts with a small pocket on the lower right leg that buttons closed. There is a small blue, red, white, and yellow sailboat patch on the bottom of the right leg. There is suede padding attached to the back. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
- The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- retailer
- Stall and Dean
- maker
- Stall & Dean
- ID Number
- 1998.0324.73
- accession number
- 1998.0324
- catalog number
- 1998.0324.73
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Stoneware Jar
- Description
- This salt-glazed jar was made by D. Roberts & Co. at the Fayette Stoneware Factory in Utica, New York, about 1827-1828. This firm was the third to open in Utica, an important commercial center on the Erie Canal. In a busy agricultural region, Utica was a major marketing town and the most significant center for pottery production in the upper Mohawk Valley. The Fayette Stoneware Factory produced some of the best early stoneware in Utica.
- The presence of nearby stoneware clays gave rise to the New York state salt-glazed stoneware tradition that, by the early 1800s, developed in villages and towns along the Hudson River. Shipped upriver, the clay returned downstream after being transformed into useful ceramic vessels. With the Erie Canal completion in 1825, stoneware production extended its range to meet the increased flow of perishable goods from the Great Lakes region.
- Stoneware clay, when fired to a temperature of about 2100 degrees F, vitrifies into highly durable ceramic material that holds liquids and keeps perishable contents cool. Stoneware potters in America, many of them immigrants from Germany and the Netherlands, maintained their European tradition of throwing coarse salt into the kiln. The salt melts in the heat and forms a pitted glassy surface on the vessels, which would otherwise be a dull grey.
- The production of these sturdy salt-glazed containers declined following improvements in tinning and canning perishable foodstuffs. In the late 1850s, the glass Mason canning jar entered the market, after which the potteries lost much of the demand for food storage containers that sustained so much of their production.
- date made
- 1827-28
- ID Number
- 1977.0803.89
- accession number
- 1977.0803
- catalog number
- 1977.0803.89
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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No U.S. Intervention in Dineh (Navajo) and Hopi Lands Stop P.L. 93-531 Support Big Mountain Resistance
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- delete
- 1974
- Associated Date
- 1974
- Associated Name
- Navajo
- ID Number
- 2018.0158.127
- accession number
- 2018.0158
- catalog number
- 2018.0158.127
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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