Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These five buttons were among the many collected during excavations in 1972-1973 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University). Shown are two white four-hole piecrusts china buttons,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1897-1921
This aqua patent medicine bottle was recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The advertising on the bottle states that it contained “SCALP FOOD CRANITONIC…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1892-1915
These two patent medicine bottles were recovered from excavations at historic Fort Hays by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. They date to later than the fort’s occupation and may be the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
This stove leg was recovered from excavations at historic Fort Hays by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The leg was likely for a cook stove, though it could have also been…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
This brass cap box may have been used for holding percussion caps. It was recovered from excavations at historic Fort Hays by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. By the late 1860s,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1857-1863
This child’s cup was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite in Wyandotte County. The brief occupation of the Quindaro Townsite and the rapid sealing of archeological deposits help today’s…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1856-1986
These four china buttons, all with assorted colors around and on their edges, were recovered during excavations at Constitution Hall. The Hall, in Lecompton, was designated a National Historical Landmark…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1856-1986
These five buttons were collected during an excavation in 1988 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew members at Constitution Hall in Lecompton. Shown are a wooden four-hole sew through…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 2000 and 2015
Relief sculpture of a bison, carved from a roughly rectangular-shaped piece of limestone. The bison was carved by Pete Felten, a native of Hays, Kansas. Felten became interested in sculpting…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1856-1920
These four metal buttons were recovered during excavations in 1988 at Constitution Hall, in Lecompton, by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew. Three of the metal buttons have floral designs.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1856-1986
These four white buttons were recovered from Constitution Hall in Lecompton during excavations in 1988 by Kansas Historical archeologists and crew members. The buttons shown here are a child’s four-hole…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1857-1872
These four buttons were among the many that were recovered from Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas. The four black rubber buttons have back marks that read “N R CO GOODYEAR’S…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These four pipe fragments were recovered during excavations in 1972-1973 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University). Two are pipe bowls decorated in a series of vertical…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These mule and ox shoes were recovered during excavations in 1973 at the archaeological field school by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University). They were donated to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1935-1964
This gin bottle was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite, an archaeological district now part of Kansas City, KS. As the townsite dates from 1857 to 1863 this bottle…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1857-1863
This dinner plate was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite, an archaeological district now part of Kansas City, KS. The decoration on the plate was deliberately blurred, a hallmark…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1869-1950
These five dish sherds were recovered during excavations at the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Lawrence, Kansas. These dishes, associated with trash deposits within the site, are hand painted, annualarware,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This reconstructed mixing bowl was recovered during excavations in 1972-1973 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field schools. The gray and brown stoneware mixing bowl…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1932-1955
This hot sauce bottle was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite, an archaeological district now part of Kansas City, KS. A “J” inside a keystone on the base of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This suspender adjustable clip was recovered during excavations in 1973 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University). Suspenders, called braces outside North America, were used to hold…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These stoneware bottles are three of many that were excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays, in Ellis County. The bottles may have held German…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown
This locket was collected from Wabaunsee County and donated in 2018 to the Kansas Historical Society. A locket is a necklace pendant that opens, like this one, to a space…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1882-1950
The rest of the saddle bag may not have faired well, but its flap has survived with the saddler’s mark still visible. The flap was collected from the Plowboy site…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1902-1966
This brick, with the word “Buffalo” molded on one side, was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite, an archaeological district now part of Kansas City, KS. The Buffalo Brick…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1912-1979
This nearly complete stained and chipped dinner plate was recovered from excavations at the Quindaro Townsite, an archaeological district now part of Kansas City, KS. The plate, a semi-vitreous hotelware,…
