Many Voices, One Nation takes visitors on a chronological and thematic journey that maps the cultural geography of the unique and complex stories that animate the Latin emblem on the country’s Great Seal and the national ideal: E pluribus unum, Out of many, one.
Through almost 200 museum artifacts and about 100 loan objects, this exhibition shows how the many voices of the American people have contributed to and continue to shape the nation and its communities, from its earliest beginnings to the present. Through objects such as a painted elk hide from the Southwest, circa 1693, a Norwegian bowl brought by 19th-century immigrants, a gold miner’s trunk, symbols of union and liberty such as Uncle Sam and Columbia, and a baseball helmet used by Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski in the 1970s, the exhibition explores the never-ending process of becoming one nation.
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Eagle, around 1850
Painted Elk Hide, 1693–1710
Drinking Bowl, Norwegian, 1800s
Uncle Sam Figure, Early 1900s
Helmet used by Carl Yastrzemski, around 1970s
Retablo Devotional Image of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe, New Mexico, around 1820
Firemark, 1753
Face Vessel, African American, 1850s
African Cowrie Shell Necklace
Inlaid wood table with patriotic themes, made by Peter Glass, 1868
Car hood made by Victor’s Paint and Body Shop, Chimayó, New Mexico, 1991
Da Vinci robotic arm, developed around 2000
Immokalee Statue of Liberty, by Kat Rodriguez, 2000
Fugees soccer jersey, around 2013
