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. Two blue stripes encircle the cap. Canvas caps provided minor protection from bumps, but mainly allowed the miner to hang a lamp from the cap, insuring a portable light source close to the work.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Y. & O. Coal Co. Hopedale, Ohio
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-7730
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-7730
- accession number
- 234625
- Object Name
- cap, miner's
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 7 in; 11.43 cm x 29.21 cm x 17.78 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Mining Helmets
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_871872
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-f2ec-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
