Physical Description
Iron fife.
Specific History
This fife from the period of the American Revolution was unearthed on Red Bank battleground in...
Family photograph albums hold the history of generations, preserving the memories of birthdays, holidays, travels, and all general aspects of life. African...
Over the course of her 60—year career, Ella Fitzgerald (1917—1996) became known to fans and colleagues as “The First Lady of Song.” Her rise to...
The family fallout shelter represents the public policy assumptions of the atomic age, namely, that with enough preparation, the American family and with it...
Physical Description
English sea pattern pistol, .71 caliber.
Specific History
This pistol was made in Belgium for the Royal...
Physical Description
German musket, .77 caliber.
General History
King George III used German soldiers to bolster his ranks. Many of these...
La Malinche, the title of this lithograph, was the indigenous woman who translated for Cortés between Maya, Náhuatl, and Spanish during his first...
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr developed a two-cylinder gasoline engine and set up their business in...
This commercially marketed lap blanket was altered by hand to include the universal access symbol made up of stitched stars. It was sewn by disability-rights...
The American Car Company of St. Louis, Missouri, built this 4-wheel, electric motor cars built for Capital Traction Company of Washington, D.C. The car was...