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 C. Lumsden & Son, Inc.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- C. Lumsden & Son, Inc.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_28056
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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handbill
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1970's
- ID Number
- 1977.0296.040
- accession number
- 1977.0296
- catalog number
- 1977.0296.040
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Episcopal Women's Newspaper
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1975
- ID Number
- 1977.0296.056
- accession number
- 1977.0296
- catalog number
- 1977.0296.056
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Mystic Marriage of St. Catharine
- Description
- Mezzotint after original painting by Giulio Cesare Procaccini (once attributed to his brother Camillo Procaccini), formerly at Houghton Hall, Norfolk,England. Current location of the original is State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1775
- artist attribution
- Procaccini, Camillo
- delineator
- Boydell, Josiah
- engraver
- Green, Valentine
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- original artist
- Procaccini, Giulio Cesare
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.36
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.36
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Holy Family
- Description
- Mezzotint after painting by Matteo Ponzone, once in the Cabinet at Houghton. Now in Pavlovsk Palace State Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1776
- engraver
- Green, Valentine
- delineator
- Farington, George
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- original artist
- Ponzone, Matteo
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.63
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.63
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Virgin and Infant Jesus Asleep
- Description
- Stipple engraving after painting by Sebastiano Conca once in the Cabinet at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Impressions of this print were mistakenly included in both volumes of Marsh's set. The more typical location of the print was in vol. 2 according to the order given in the checklist of the contents of the Houghton Gallery in Rubenstein (1991). For the other impression, removed from vol. 2, see 1978.0534.03.33.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1781
- original artist
- Conca, Sebastiano
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Michel, Jean Baptiste
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.02.77
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.02.77
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Prodigal Son
- Description
- Engraving from original painting by Salvator Rosa once in the Gallery at Houghton, Now in State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. This is the larger of two engravings after Rosa's painting included in the Houghton Gallery set. Claiming that the print included in volume one was “too small for such a capital picture,” the publisher introduced another larger version for volume two, engraved by Simon Ravenet. It had first appeared in Boydell’s series, A Collection of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in England, begun in 1769.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1781
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- engraver
- Ravenet, Simon Francois
- original artist
- Rosa, Salvator
- delineator
- Earlom, Richard
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.34
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.34
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden
- Description
- Stipple engraving with etching after painting by Filippo Lauri once in the Cabinet at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1787
- Associated Name
- Mary Magdalene
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- Boydell, Josiah
- original artist
- Lauri, Filippo
- graphic artist
- Simon, John Peter
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.61
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.61
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Trade catalogs from Novello & Co. Ltd.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Novello & Co. Ltd.
- Related companies
- Novello Ewer & Co. (New York, NY)
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_33470
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Prescription Label, Bei Apotheker Musset.
- 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
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1105
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1105
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Prescription Label, Apotheke zum Adler in Barmen
- 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
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1176
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1176
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Trade catalogs from National Church Goods Supply Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- National Church Goods Supply Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32852
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Prescription Label, Apotheke von W. Lehmann in Coln
- 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
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1337
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1337
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Prescription Label, Apotheke in Schwelm C. H. Petersen
- 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
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.1217
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.1217
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Trade catalogs from Meriden Silver Plate Co.
- Date
- 1800s
- Variant company name
- New York, NY
- Company Name
- Meriden Silver Plate Co.
- Related companies
- Meriden-Silver-Plate-Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_34638
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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decoration, holiday
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1936 - 1941
- ID Number
- 1987.0160.21A
- accession number
- 1987.0160
- catalog number
- 1987.0160.21A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oberammergau Passion Play Poster
- Description (Brief)
- Poster advertising The Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company’s film of the Oberammergau Passion Play. The Oberammergau Passion Play is a presentation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, including his trial, suffering, and crucifixion, that has been performed in Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany since 1634. Walter Barnsdale started a traveling moving picture show company in the early 1900s that showed feature films with the best electric lighting equipment available at the time. Barnsdale traveled around the country and brought films to people who were often unable to travel to the city to see films.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1920
- date made
- ca 1903
- producer
- Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
- maker
- Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
- ID Number
- 1987.0200.01
- accession number
- 1987.0200
- catalog number
- 1987.0200.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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You Can't Win
- Location
- Currently not on view
- affiliated union
- Congress of Industrial Organizations
- maker
- Congress of Industrial Organizations
- ID Number
- 1990.0324.17
- catalog number
- 1990.0324.17
- accession number
- 1990.0324
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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“At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
- Description (Brief)
- This sheet music for the song "At a Georgia Camp Meeting," was written and composed by Kerry Mills and published by F.A. Mills in New York, New York in 1899. The cover proclaims the song “a characteristic march which can be used effectively as a two-step, polka, or cake walk,” and shows images of blacks having a dignified party. The cake walk was often the last song at a dance and the best dancing couple was awarded a cake (the origin of the phrase “taking the cake”).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1899
- composer
- Mills, Kerry
- user
- Woodside, Lura
- publisher
- F. A. Mills
- ID Number
- 1979.1154.18
- accession number
- 1979.1154
- catalog number
- 1979.1154.18
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Engraved woodblock of an "Indian mask from the northwest coast of America"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of an “Indian mask from the northwest coast of America” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Plate XIV.23 (p.173) in an article by William Healey Dall (1845-1927) entitled “On Masks, Labrets, and Certain Aboriginal Customs with an Inquiry into the Bearing of Their Geographical Distribution” in the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1881-82. According to the annual report, the image shows a “dancing mask used by the Indians of Cape Flattery, Washington Territory” and was originally drawn by J.G. Swan (1818-1900).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1884
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Dall, William H.
- original artist
- Swan, J. G.
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1011
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1011
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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