Religion
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.
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Trade catalogs from Thomas Parry's Sons Co.
- Date range
- 1800s-0000s
- Company Name
- Thomas Parry's Sons Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_28887
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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St John Preaching in the Desert
- Description (Brief)
- Engraving by Heinrich Guttenberg after a painting by Abraham Bloemart in the Duc d’Orleans gallery. St John the Baptist preaching in the desert. The picture occupies the top half of the print with lengthy text below describing the painting, the whole within a decorative engraved border. Text engraved in cursive script by Niquet fme [femme?] de L'Epine.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- original artist
- Bloemaert, Aabraham
- engraver
- Guttenberg, Heinrich
- designer
- Borel, Antoine
- ID Number
- 2015.0197.60
- accession number
- 2015.0197
- catalog number
- 2015.0197.60
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Creation of Adam
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1927
- Artist
- Miller, Benjamin
- Associated Name
- Bernard, Allen W.
- maker
- Miller, Benjamin
- ID Number
- 2016.0084.041
- accession number
- 2016.0084
- catalog number
- 2016.0084.041
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Salome Asks for Head of John the Baptist
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1927
- Artist
- Miller, Benjamin
- Associated Name
- Bernard, Allen W.
- maker
- Miller, Benjamin
- ID Number
- 2016.0084.052
- catalog number
- 2016.0084.052
- accession number
- 2016.0084
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Diary
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1841-1857
- maker
- Nadal, Bernard H.
- ID Number
- 2015.0109.01
- accession number
- 2015.0109
- catalog number
- 2015.0109.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Portrait of a man wearing glasses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2017.3133.0049
- catalog number
- 2017.3133.0049
- nonaccession number
- 2017.3133
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Chalice
- Description
- Handleless inverted bell-shaped cup with single-reeded everted rim on flared pedestal base with incised ball knop and circular foot with flat outside edge; incised bands around lower part of bowl, top and bottom of stem, and foot. No marks. One of a pair, DL*388310B-DL*388310C; spacing of their incised bands differs.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1830
- ID Number
- DL.388310C
- catalog number
- 388310C
- accession number
- 182022
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Fables of Flora
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date published
- 1844
- inscribed date
- 1846-12-25
- ID Number
- DL.59.0303
- catalog number
- 59.0303
- accession number
- 222949
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Good Tree or Hieroglyphics of a Christian
- Description
- Colored print of a tree labeled "Hope" and "Love" growing from soil marked "Faith" and "Repentance". Above the tree the word "Grace" appears. There are angels at the front foot of the tree. One is pushing away the devil who carries an axe; the other is watering the tree from a watering can. The tree bears fruit labeled with various Christian virtues such as justice, chastity, goodness, industry, purity and so forth.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1846
- distributor
- Needham, D.
- Kelloggs & Thayer
- maker
- E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
- Kellogg, E.B. and E.C.
- ID Number
- DL.60.2919
- catalog number
- 60.2919
- accession number
- 228146
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Way of Good & Evil
- Description
- Color print; image is circular and depicts the divergent paths of good and evil. One path leads from the House of God to Eternal Life. The other path leads from the House of Sin to destruction and Everlasting Punishment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1862
- maker
- Hailer, John
- ID Number
- DL.60.2955
- catalog number
- 60.2955
- accession number
- 228146
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Waiting in Vain for the Worshippers' Tread (Calpurnia)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1880
- maker
- Blum, Robert Frederick
- ID Number
- GA.00065
- catalog number
- 00065
- accession number
- 20108
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Crucifixion
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1860s
- described
- Bien, Julius
- maker
- Morvan, Arthur G.
- ID Number
- GA.03769
- catalog number
- 03769
- accession number
- 23155
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Madonna and Child with Saints
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- nineteenth century
- original artist
- Overbeck, Johann Friedrich
- publisher
- Dopter
- graphic artist
- unknown
- ID Number
- GA.14233.19
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14233.19
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Saint Paul Preaching at Ephesus
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- nineteenth century
- original artist
- Le Sueur, Eustache
- graphic artist
- Morelli, Stanislao
- ID Number
- GA.14233.27
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14233.27
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Jesus and disciples
- Location
- Currently not on view
- original artist
- unknown
- graphic artist
- unknown
- ID Number
- GA.14233.30
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14233.30
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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St John the Baptist Preaching
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1808
- original artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- ID Number
- GA.14951
- catalog number
- 14951
- accession number
- 94830
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Hussiten-Predigt
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- nineteenth century
- original artist
- Lessing, Karl Friedrich
- graphic artist
- Hoffmann, August
- printer
- Schulgen-Bettendorf
- Publisher
- Lithographisches Institut von Arnz & Co
- ID Number
- GA.15092
- catalog number
- 15092
- accession number
- 94830
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Covenanters' Marriage
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- fourth quarter, nineteenth century
- nineteenth century
- original artist
- Johnston, Alexander
- graphic artist
- Lightfoot, Peter
- maker
- Johnston, Alexander
- Lightfoot, Peter
- ID Number
- GA.15122
- catalog number
- 15122
- accession number
- 94830
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Joseph Justus Scaliger
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- unknown
- ID Number
- GA.15833
- catalog number
- 15833
- accession number
- 94830
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Latin manuscript
- Location
- Currently not on view
- maker
- unknown
- ID Number
- GA.162081.04
- accession number
- 1942.162081
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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