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- Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1987 - Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- 1987
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1987
Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- Visitors in Horse-Drawn Carriage, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan, 1952 -
- 1952
- Collections - Artifact
Visitors in Horse-Drawn Carriage, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan, 1952
- Electric Chandelier, 1906 - This chandelier came from a house at 67 East Kirby Street, Detroit, now the Hellenic Museum of Michigan. The Flemish Renaissance house was designed by architect John Scott and commissioned by Emory Leyden Ford. Unrelated to the Dearborn Fords, Emory Ford made his fortune in the chemical and cement business. Married in 1905, he built this house in 1906. By 1912 he relocated to Grosse Pointe.
- 1906
- Collections - Artifact
Electric Chandelier, 1906
This chandelier came from a house at 67 East Kirby Street, Detroit, now the Hellenic Museum of Michigan. The Flemish Renaissance house was designed by architect John Scott and commissioned by Emory Leyden Ford. Unrelated to the Dearborn Fords, Emory Ford made his fortune in the chemical and cement business. Married in 1905, he built this house in 1906. By 1912 he relocated to Grosse Pointe.
- Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1987 - Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- 1987
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1987
Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- Coca-Cola Chandelier, Used in Eurich's Ice Cream Parlor, circa 1900 - This chandelier originally hung in an early 20th-century Detroit area store -- one that probably sold ice cream and fountain drinks and sodas. The glowing light was a perfect way to advertise Coca-Cola -- a drink available at the store's counter. And the Tiffany-inspired glass shade would have evoked a high-quality status to the store it graced.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Coca-Cola Chandelier, Used in Eurich's Ice Cream Parlor, circa 1900
This chandelier originally hung in an early 20th-century Detroit area store -- one that probably sold ice cream and fountain drinks and sodas. The glowing light was a perfect way to advertise Coca-Cola -- a drink available at the store's counter. And the Tiffany-inspired glass shade would have evoked a high-quality status to the store it graced.
- Fox Hound Weathervane, 1875-1885 - Weathervanes point into the direction of the wind. This helped viewers anticipate weather changes before local forecasts became common after 1920. Functional weathervanes required a basic pointing device and directional arms, but manufacturers added decorative elements, or ornaments, to appeal to consumer interests. Domestic and wild animals in motion, as if running or jumping through the air, were popular.
- 1875-1885
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Fox Hound Weathervane, 1875-1885
Weathervanes point into the direction of the wind. This helped viewers anticipate weather changes before local forecasts became common after 1920. Functional weathervanes required a basic pointing device and directional arms, but manufacturers added decorative elements, or ornaments, to appeal to consumer interests. Domestic and wild animals in motion, as if running or jumping through the air, were popular.
- Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Souvenir Patch, 1982 - Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- 1982
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Souvenir Patch, 1982
Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1985 - Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- 1985
- Collections - Artifact
Greenfield Village Muzzle Loaders Festival Participant Button, 1985
Greenfield Village hosted an annual Muzzle Loaders Festival for more than thirty years, from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. The event attracted hundreds of participants, recreating activities from 1830 to 1865. Visitors could see black powder shooting demonstrations and competitions, mid-1800s craft presentations, costume contests, parades, and other ceremonies.
- Vase, 1942 -
- 1942
- Collections - Artifact
Vase, 1942
- Vase, 2016 - Glass artists in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford created this murrini vase. Glass canes with multiple layers of color inside, known as murrine, are sliced at cross-sections to create the decoration on this vase. The murrini slices are applied to a molten core of glass to form the decoration on this vessel.
- 2016
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Vase, 2016
Glass artists in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford created this murrini vase. Glass canes with multiple layers of color inside, known as murrine, are sliced at cross-sections to create the decoration on this vase. The murrini slices are applied to a molten core of glass to form the decoration on this vessel.