American Artifacts Blog

Stories behind the most interesting objects in U.S. and Canadian #museums . Moderated by @archeoanalytics

#archaeology #history #culture

[American Artifacts Blog @USArtifacts]

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[American Artifacts Blog @USArtifacts]

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[American Artifacts Blog @USArtifacts]

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[Museum of the City of NY @MuseumofCityNY]

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Formed in the Bronx in 1978, the groundbreaking hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five gained a following performing at local parties before they skyrocketed to mainstream success with their hit single “The Message.”

[NCPTT - Archived @ncptt]

Happy #STEMDay! Today, we celebrate and recognize the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. See this video clip of Seibel House Kitchen from Historic Columbia! Made using @PREVU3D for virtual tours of 3D Models! #WIPwednesday #workinprogress

[Ohio History Connection @OhioHistory]

Don't forget to vote tomorrow! Here is a ballot for the 1910 Ohio state election featuring Democratic, Republican, Socialist, Prohibition, and Socialist Labor parties. To learn more, visit https://t.co/md69AxZVLm. #OhioMemory #OhioHistory #Election #Vote

[SEARCH @SEARCH_Inc]

#FridayFinds – A Late Archaic/Transitional Archaic base corner-tang knife from #Texas whose centered tang made skinning animals a bit of a challenge.

#StoneTools #Archaeology

[The Archaeological Conservancy @tac_org]

Yellow Jacket Canyon in SW Colorado consists of a mesatop village, rock alignments, and the remains of cliff dwellings & kivas. Pueblo II pottery sherds are found at the site.
Visit our website to help us preserve sites like this one! http//buff.ly/2ZuGpwW

[Nova Scotia Museum @NS_Museum]

Day 3 #Museum30 theme is #Landscape - Dig into our blog posts about Archaeology at Fort Saint Louis National Historic Site, a seventeenth-century fur trade post situated in an Mi'kmaq coastal landscape. https://t.co/PvDR61UsBB

[UGA Laboratory of Archaeology @UGAArchaeolab]

#UGAArchaeoLab Undergraduate employee Moss Joslin illustrated this replica Swift Creek Complicated Stamp vessel. ✏️⚱️

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

A fear of dolls does have a proper name, pediophobia, classified under the broader fear of humanoid figures and related to pupaphobia, a fear of puppets. https://t.co/w822V8FZoG

[PC Archaeology @PCArchaeology]

This wooden diorama depicts French explorer Jacques Cartier’s ships ⛵ arriving in North America in 1534. Carved by Médard Bourgault, a self-taught Quebec sculptor, it is 1 of approximately 4,000 works created throughout his lifetime! 🤯 #OurVaults 🗝

[USS Constitution Museum @USSConstMuseum]

We were contacted by James, who grew up in Lexington, MO, and climbed on the 1909 Replica @USSConstitution cannon in the town park. This Museum blog post gave him more info. There are 33 replica guns in communities across the nation. Have you seen one?

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[Monticello @TJMonticello]

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was an African American intellectual who challenged Jefferson's views on race through a series of letters in 1791.

Hear more about Banneker's remarkable life and correspondence with Jefferson from our new podcast episode: https://t.co/iOMAAfkHFV

[Museum of the City of NY @MuseumofCityNY]

Inspired by that one person coughing a lot on the commute in today, we give you a 19th-century traveling pharmacy.

Owned by politician Rufus King, who lived in Queens, this medicine case contained a range of remedies at a time when disease spread across the city

[Vermont Historical Society @vermonthistory]

Another entry for #CreepyDollWeek: 2010.25.153! It's a miniature plastic human baby inside a cotton drawstring bag. It was owned by Betsy Evans Isham in Burlington.

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

A new collection of works by and about Phillis Wheatley includes a rare handwritten manuscript of the poet's 1773 poem titled "Ocean." https://t.co/DSPU6XEARM

[PA Historical & Museum Commission @PHMC]

.@OldEconomyVil tells the story of the Harmony Society, a 19th century religious group which sought to create a utopia inhabited by German Lutheran separatists. Search the site's artifacts 👉https://t.co/wk6UUB6A1z

[Vermont Historical Society @vermonthistory]

Here's 2006.18.2a-e! This is Trooper Hooper, a ventriloquist's dummy used by Robert W. Stillinger for his TV show Trooper Yancy. The show was produced by WVNY-TV ABC 22 in Burlington. He's wearing a BSA shirt with navy pants, a yellow neckerchief, and black leather boots.

[Nebraska State Historical Society @nehistorical]

Today, pageant events such as baking, ironing, and housekeeping probably don’t come to mind. However, that’s exactly what happened in the 1956 Mrs. America pageant. Ramona Deitemeyer of Lincoln won that year—the only Mrs. Nebraska to do so. #ArchivesMonth