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Object Story: The Steamboat "Peter Crary"

A highly-detailed “ship portrait” of a steamboat pulling another vessel.

Object Story: Federal Tall Case Clock

A seven-foot tall grandfather clock from around 1820 with inner gears and clockworks made of wood.

Object Story: Lamp

A brass lamp with two burners made for burning oil.

The Industrial Revolution: Embrace It or Stick With What You Know?

Understanding Context: Different Ways to Make Sense of an Object

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.

Object Story: Basket

An ash splint basket created by a Mohegan artisan, a Native American tribe from the Northeastern woodlands region of North America.

Activity: Twenty-First Century Object

Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.

Object Story: A Short History of Lighting

Examine a range of lighting implements from candles and rushlights to oil burning lamps.

Activity: Candle Math

Explore the relationship between candle light and contemporary lighting from incandescent and fluorescent lamps.