Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This canvas miner’s cap has a leather brim, with a leather and metal lamp bracket attached to the front. The lamp bracket could have held either an oil-wick lamp or a carbide lamp. The leather part of the bracket is stamped with the text “PATENTED LAMPHOLDER/”DOUBLE SAFETY”/GUARDS FOREHEAD.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Paul Weir
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8218
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8218
- accession number
- 241803
- Object Name
- cap, miner's
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 8 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 21.59 cm x 29.21 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Mining Helmets
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_871931
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-d195-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
