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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Charles Linné
- Description
- Lithograph after a painting by Alexander Roslin (1775), of Carl Linnaeus Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist and is considered the father of modern taxonomy and one of the fathers of modern ecology. In 1737 Linnaeus published Critica Botanica the beginnings of a standarized nomenclature for plants.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Linne, Charles
- maker
- Langlume
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0055
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06230
- collector/donor number
- SAP 923
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Christian Gottlob Dieze
- Description
- Portrait of Christian Gottlob Dieze, apothecary
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1798
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0056
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06216
- collector/donor number
- SAP 909
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Wolffgang Stoberlein
- Description
- Etching of Wolffgang Stoberlein (1589-1646), a German apothecary.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Stoberlein, Wolffgang
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0057
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06203
- collector/donor number
- SAP 896
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Joh. Leonhardus Stoeberlein
- Description
- Engraving by Wolfgang Philip Kilian of Johhan Leonhardus Stoeberlein (1636-1696), an apothecary in Nuremberg. He was the son of Wolfgang Stoeberlein.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1700
- depicted
- Stoeberlein, Johhan Leonhardus
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0058
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06204
- collector/donor number
- SAP 897
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Paracelsus
- Description
- A portrait of Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim). Paracelsus (1493-1541), was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and reformer of therapeutics. He pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine, was the first to used the word zinc for the element zinc, is sometimes called the father of toxicology and is credited as providing the first clinical/scientific mention of the unconscious.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Paracelsus
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0059
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06233
- collector/donor number
- SAP 926
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Boutique Pharmaceutique
- Description
- An engraving by C. Le. Roy of a French apothecary dated 1637. This is the front-piece to the book "Boutique Pharmaceutique ou Antidotaire." The book was published by Nicolas Gay in Lyon in a single bound along with "Les Oeuvres Pharmaceutiques " by Jean de Renou in 1638.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1637
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0060
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06253
- collector/donor number
- SAP 946
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Die Mondsüchtigen
- Description (Brief)
- A cartoon depicting a dragon clutching a number of men in its arms. There are about 11 men in the dragons arms and one hanging on to its tail. The dragon and the men are 'spewing' German words from their mouths. There are also words printed on the dragons wings and tail. The print is hand colored with watercolors. The background is a green circle filled with goats behind the dragon. The dragon is a yellowish green with a red mouth.
- The men in the print are doctors and the words written on the print are different "cures" for cholera. They include 'vinaigre de qualre volcurs' (four thieves vinegar which was thought to ward of plague), 'pulvis doveri' (an opium mixture that is a diuretic) and kajaputöl (cajuput oil which is an anti-septic). The title of the print, die mondsuchtigen, means 'the moonstruck people' (or crazy people).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- about 1831
- maker
- Anonymous
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0062
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06276
- collector/donor number
- SAP 968
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Tire du Cabinet de M. le Brun
- Description
- Etching by Louis Claude Le Grand in 1778, of the interioir of an alchemists workshop. The image is a copy from a series of paintings by Thomas Wyck. Wyck (1616-1677), painted two pieces both titled "The Alchemist" at Ham House.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1778
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0063
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06262
- collector/donor number
- SAP 955
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Possibly a Portrait of Albertus Seba
- Description (Brief)
- Possibly a portrait of Albertus Seba. He is seated in the bottom center of the print in a large chair. He is pointing a finger on his left hand to a jar on a table beside him. In the background on the right side is an interior of a pharmacy. There is a man in the shop using a mortar and pestle. In the background on the far left there is a large house with gardens and fountain. Note the three containers on the table which have triangular paper labels tied to their necks.
- Seba was a pharmacist and collector of natural history objects in Amsterdam . He illustrated a number of his objects for a Thesaurus on the subject. Most of his collection was sold to Czar Arskine of St. Pesters. He was born in Etzel in 1665 and died in Amsterdam in 1736.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0064
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06217
- collector/donor number
- SAP 910
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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A. Beeler
- Description
- A portrait of A. Beeler who was an apothecary and chemist in Amsterdam. He was well known for his work in the field of magnetism. In 1814, Beeler wrote "Het dierlijk magnetismus", a book about animal hypnosis.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1815
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0067
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06248
- collector/donor number
- SAP 941
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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