National Museum of American History
Lura Woodside Watkins: Cultural Historian, 1897-1982
January 19, 1984 – April 2, 1984
Lura W. Watkins was an innovative scholar, studying 18th- and 19th- century artifacts in order to discover their importance in everyday life. See objects from the collections of the Divisions of Domestic Life and Ceramics and Glass, which she contributed to the Smithsonian. Included are dolls, toys, a small child's furniture, stoneware, and examples of her many publications.
