Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
G.2001.1 |
Name |
Wood, Kindling |
Description |
Collection of 17 wooden artifacts and samples: 1) 3" x 3" x 5" block of reddish wood with label # 64; 2) 3" x 2" x 2-3/4" irregularly-shaped sample with whorls on one side; label # 41; 3) 2-3/4" x 1-3/4" piece of bark, label # 42; 4) 5" x 1/2" strip of "of "red" wood, label # 33; 5) 18" x 5-1/2" x 1" cross-cut of hard wood showing growth rings, label # 81; 6) 3" x 1" x 1" block of wood with label #2 and description, "WHS: Piece of ship 'Sparrow hawk' wrecked 1626. covered by the sand at Orleans, Mass until 1863. Presented by: Augustus Bunce. Also contains newspaper article titled "Conversation Corner"; 7) 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" piece of the Cumberland, donor: M. Elizabeth Whitney, label # 31; 8) 1-3/4" x 3/4" piece of the monitor Kearsarge, donor: M. Elizabeth Whitney, label # 31; 9) 2" x 1-1/2" piece of keel of the Kearsarge which sank the Confederate cruiser, Alabama, in 1864. Wrecked in the Caribbean Sea in 1894; presented by: Charles H. Pickering; label # 131. 10) 1-1/2" x 1-1/8" wooden cross made from the old Shiloh church near where the battle was fought, April 6-7, 1862; presented by E.F. Fletcher, label # 26. 11) 3/4" x 1/2" round piece of bark of a tree that served as a flagstaff during the Revolutionary War; donor: M. Elizabeth Whitney, label # 32A. 12) 2" x 1" piece of bark from Washington Elm, Cambridge, Mass. Donor: E.F. Fletcher, label # 30 13) 6-1/2" x 1-1/2" piece of tree from which the last tie was made, laid on the Central Pacific Railroad; presented by Augustus Bunce; label #1. 14-15) relics of the Hancock house, built 1737: 5-1/2" x 1-3/4" piece of wood, label # 29; and 3-1/2" x 2-1/2" piece of wallpaper with label # 29. 16) 7-1/4" x 1" wooden peg from the ship Constitution; donor M. Elizabeth Whitney, Westford, label # 30. 17) 5-1/2" x 2" piece of bark of the Charter Oak taken by Simon Brown, March 21, 1855; label # 32. |
Date |
1626 |
Keywords |
Artifacts: Wood |