Antidiluvian Oak from bog near Killarney, Ireland

Description

The objects seen here are souvenirs collected by Abby Knight McLane and her husband Allen McLane. The well-traveled couple is thought to have personally gathered the collection, which represents the kind of curio-cabinet collecting that occupied many Americans in the late 1800s.

Though each piece is unique, McLane’s souvenir collection is a typical mix of found objects and items with historical associations: a piece of a cedar doorpost from Government House in St. Augustine, Florida; a stone in the shape of an arrowhead from Mount Pony, near Culpeper, Virginia; “antediluvian oak” from a bog near Killarney, Ireland; a small white stone from the ruins of Pompeii, Italy; and a round metal fragment of the HMS Great Eastern, the ship used in the laying of the Atlantic Cable.

Bequest of Abby Knight McLane, 1919

Credit Line

The Hussey-Knight-McLane Collection presented by Mrs. Allan McLane

ID Number

PL.033956

catalog number

33956

accession number

63786

Object Name

wood fragment

Physical Description

wood, oak (overall material)

associated place

Ireland: Kerry, Killarney

National Museum of American History

subject

Souvenirs

Record ID

nmah_514462

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-2ca7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa