45 min
American Childhood: A Toddler's Pudding Cap Object Project
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- History
Edward Tatum, UNCW MA student and Colonial Williamsburg enthusiast, tells us all about the historical importance of the "Pudding cap." Pudding caps were toddler crash helmets whose material details offer information about its owner's class and status and about societal ideas about childhood at the dawn of the American Revolution.
Edward Tatum, UNCW MA student and Colonial Williamsburg enthusiast, tells us all about the historical importance of the "Pudding cap." Pudding caps were toddler crash helmets whose material details offer information about its owner's class and status and about societal ideas about childhood at the dawn of the American Revolution.
45 min