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Souvenir nation : relics, keepsakes, and curios from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History / William L. Bird, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Political History.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Political History.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--History.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes).
- Americana--Collectibles--History.
- Americana.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--Catalogs.
- Americana--Collectibles--Catalogs.
- Material culture--United States--Catalogs.
- Material culture.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Political History--Catalogs.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.).
- Americana--Collectibles.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Hidden within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is an astonishing group of historical relics, many of which never before have been displayed. These seemingly ordinary objects, gathered by generations of collectors, embody sometimes humorous but often poignant stories about extraordinary moments in our shared past. Souvenir Nation presents more than fifty artifacts-from a shard of Plymouth Rock chiseled off by an overzealous nineteenth-century tourist to the magnifying glass used to examine the infamous hanging chads of the 2000 presidential election. Readers will discover the stories behind the dish towel-turned-flag of truce that ended the Civil War, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat microphones, and the chairs that seated Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy during America's first televised presidential debate-not to mention a curious pair of framed specimens known as the Hair of the Presidents and the Hair of Persons of Distinction. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The cause of freedom
- The immortal Washington
- Industrial revolutions
- Foreign guests
- Diplomacy and war
- Presidential pieces.
- Notes:
- The objects described and pictured here are from the collection of the Division of Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781616891350
- 1616891351
- OCLC:
- 802183114
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