Artifacts from modern America. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Sheumaker.
• Authors: Sheumaker, Helen
• Contents: How to evaluate artifacts -- Chronology of events -- Part I. Communications -- Brownie Camera -- Eversharp Fountain Pen -- Princess Telephone -- Remington Typewriter -- Sony TR-610 Radio -- TRS-80 Computer -- Part II. Cooking, food, and drink -- Bob's Big Boy -- Cellophane -- Coffee percolator -- Kelvinator Microwave Radarange -- Telescoping shopping cart -- Part III. Entertainment -- Atari 2600 Video Game Console -- Ian Fleming paperback -- Portable Gramophone -- Superman Comic Book -- Part IV. Grooming, clothing, and accessories -- Drene Shampoo -- Lorna Doone patched blue jeans -- Maidenform Bra -- Max Factor Lipstick -- Nike Waffle Trainer -- Schick Electric Razor -- Part V. Health and medicine -- Antibiotics Penicillin Sampel -- Art Deco ashtray -- Custer Electric Wheelchair -- Enovid Birth Control Pill -- Part VI. Household items -- Air conditioner -- Hoover Vacuum Cleaner -- Moonshine still -- Refrigerator -- Part Vii. Political and civic life -- Environmental movement buttons -- Gay pride button -- Instructional voting machine -- Let Women Vote literature bag -- Rosa Parks bus -- Part VIII. Religion -- Muhammad Ali robes -- National Workmen's Jewish rights ribbon -- The Bible story -- Part IX. Tools and weapons -- Electric chair -- Fordson Tractor -- Police revolver -- World War I children's gas mask -- Part X. Transportation -- Trav-l-Coach House Trailer -- Boeing 367 Dash 80 Airplane -- Gas ration card -- Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster Bus -- Lunar Orbiter -- Pullman Car -- Schwinn Starlet Bicycle.
• Publisher Details: New York : Greenwood
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 973.9; History -- United States -- 20th Century; Material culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Architecture -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); History of the Americas; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216049784
• Related ISBNs: 9781440846823
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.