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- A.B. & W.T. Westervelt Catalog, "Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Copper Weather Vanes, Bannerets, and Finials," 1883 - A.B. & W.T. Westervelt manufactured weathervanes in a wide variety of shapes in the last decades of the 1800s. Customers could choose from an assortment of farm animals--horses, cows, pigs, and chickens--and other animals such as dogs, deer, fish, and even lions. The company also produced weathervanes depicting patriotic symbols and others suited for commercial businesses or governmental buildings.
- 1883
- Collections - Artifact
A.B. & W.T. Westervelt Catalog, "Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Copper Weather Vanes, Bannerets, and Finials," 1883
A.B. & W.T. Westervelt manufactured weathervanes in a wide variety of shapes in the last decades of the 1800s. Customers could choose from an assortment of farm animals--horses, cows, pigs, and chickens--and other animals such as dogs, deer, fish, and even lions. The company also produced weathervanes depicting patriotic symbols and others suited for commercial businesses or governmental buildings.
- Finial, Presented to Thomas Leighton of New England Glass Company, 1846-1849 -
- 1846-1849
- Collections - Artifact
Finial, Presented to Thomas Leighton of New England Glass Company, 1846-1849
- Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- circa 1961
- Collections - Artifact
Table Lamp Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.