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![Oil painting of the profile of a steamship on the water in front of green hills; the boat is flying an American flag and towing a sloop with a tall mast, the sloop's back half cut off from view by the edge of the canvas.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/L2015-41-175v2%20-%20frame%20cropped%20out%20to%20use%20as%20Object%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=Cr8zwggO)
Object Story: The Steamboat "Peter Crary"
A highly-detailed “ship portrait” of a steamboat pulling another vessel.
![Tall grandfather-style clock in a wooden case painted to resemble different types of wood grains.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-07/L2015-41-23v2.jpg.webp?itok=vIfYx1rr)
Object Story: Federal Tall Case Clock
A seven-foot tall grandfather clock from around 1820 with inner gears and clockworks made of wood.
![Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/noun_creative_2713097.png.webp?itok=ToUd_4vR)
Activity: What Can a Basket Tell Us
Explore different features of Indigenous baskets to understand the lives of people from different times, places, and cultures.
![Oval-shaped woven basket with lid and movable handles, with indigo and red splints interwoven throughout.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/36207.jpeg.webp?itok=VxsEv3y8)
Object Story: Basket
An ash splint basket created by a Mohegan artisan, a Native American tribe from the Northeastern woodlands region of North America.
![Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/noun_creative_2713097.png.webp?itok=ToUd_4vR)
Activity: Twenty-First Century Object
Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.
![Tin candle lamp with wire stem topped with finger or hanging loop; a tin tray holds the two candle holder and slides up and down the stem.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-05/33809.jpeg.webp?itok=rHgjGqUK)
Object Story: A Short History of Lighting
Examine a range of lighting implements from candles and rushlights to oil burning lamps.
![Woodblock print featuring a black and white bird sitting on a fruiting branch and eating a small orange fruit.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-10/32784.jpeg.webp?itok=sbHoRepL)
Ten Bamboo Studio Manual
Walk through a printed garden.