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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Daddy McCollough Pine Soap
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1960-1991
- maker
- House of Prayer
- ID Number
- 2005.0100.073
- catalog number
- 2005.0100.073
- accession number
- 2005.0100
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Saint Jerome
- Description
- St. Jerome: Oil painting on an oak panel attributed to/ school of Marinus van Roymerswael.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- artist
- van Roymerswael, Marinus
- depicted
- Saint Jerome
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0001.02
- catalog number
- M-06283
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 975
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Die Mondsüchtigen
- Description
- A dragon (representing Cholera?) clutches several men, some wearing spectacles. Dragon and men superimposed on a circle with Billy goats.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0011
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 969
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Cholera Præservativmann
- Description
- "Cholera Prevention Man" is dressed in an overcoat, hat, pipe and mask. He is standing in a doorway made of boxes containing herbs and spices. Behind him lurks cholera in the shape of a ghostly apparition. On the floor to his left is a clyster and a hot water bottle. To his right is a commode.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- artist
- Wunder
- printer
- Campe
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0012
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 967
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Cholera Prevention Man
- Description
- Ink and water color etching of Cholera Prevention Man dressed in a large blue overcoat, a clay pipe in one hand and a mask over his face. He is standing in a doorway surrounded by boxes containing herbs. Behind him is the ghostly apparition of cholera. The translation of the inscription is "The well stocked small house ... "
- Location
- Currently not on view
- artist
- Wundet
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0013
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 967
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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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
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Het Committe Van Algemeen Welzyn
- Description
- Though the title is in Dutch, the writing on the bottles are in French and reference the French reign of terror. The cartoon is one of a series in the book "Hollandia Regenerata" by David Hess (1771-1843), published in 1797. The images satirize the Batavian Repblic and the French relationship with the Dutch.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1800
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0042
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06266
- collector/donor number
- SAP 959
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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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
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Leonhardus Fuchsius
- Description
- A portrait of Leonhardous Fuchsius (also know as Fuchs) was born in 1501 Wemding, Bavaria. He was a physician and was the personal doctor of Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg. He taught at the University of Tübingen. He was one of the founders of botany. He died in Tublingen in 1566.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0047
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06225
- collector/donor number
- SAP 918
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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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
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