Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1920 and 1949
Iron shoe last mounted on tall cylindrical stand. This shoe last was used at Einstein’s Outdoor Outfitters in Topeka, Kansas. The original owner, Nathan Einstein (1885-1946), was a Jewish immigrant…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1910
Glass bowl on silverplate base. Exterior of bowl is turquoise with hand-painted decorations, interior is pink. Base is decorated with three cherubs working as blacksmiths to forge arrows. Maker’s mark…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1928
Unused paper bag for 10 pounds of Smoky Valley Best White Corn Meal manufactured by the Smoky Valley Flour Mills in Lindsborg, Kansas. Color illustration of a mill building beside…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1892 and 1937
Cotton sack for 24 pounds of White Star Corn Meal from the Hillsboro Roller Mills of Hillsboro, Kansas. Bag manufactured by the Bemis Company in Kansas City, Missouri. The Hillsboro…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1920 and 1929
Cotton flour sack for 24 pounds of Worth More Rye Graham Flour by the Lehigh Milling Company of Lehigh, Kansas. Bag made by the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills plant…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1875 and 1900
Painted cast iron mechical bank. Heavyset man man seated in a chair. When a coin is placed in his right proper hand, he places it in his left proper coat…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1903
Game of Pit with box and instructions. The deck of 65 cards includes eight sets of stocks, each consisting of eight identical cards, plus one Panic card. Pit is a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1905
Edison Concert wax cylinder phonograph record in round lidded box. The box reads in part, “Edison records echo all over the world. National Phonograph Co., New York, U.S.A. Concert. Made…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1906 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Harvey County Courthouse Newton, Kans.” in bowl. Handle and stem has corn design. Construction on the courthouse started in 1906, and it opened in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1910 and 1911
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Mill Light and Ice Co. Pratt, Kan.” engraved in bowl. Handle enraved with the letter “R” on the obverse and the number “12” on…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1908 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Kingman County High School Kingman, Kan.” engraved in bowl. 1908 patent date on reverse of stem.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1908
Souvenir postcard from May Day, Kansas. Obverse is framed with color lithographic image of seashells and preprinted with the words “Souvenir from.” The town’s name has been added with red…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1917
Postcard. Cartoon image of a woman on a balcony with the moon and a lake in the background. Below is the greeting “As the twig is bent, so the tree’s…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Postcard. “Scene on the Cottonwood River. Emporia, Kans. – 11.” Color photograph of rowboats tied along the river. Unused. Published by S.H. Kress & Co.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1913
Birthday postcard. Greeting on obverse reads “A Birthday Gift. I want to be an artist To paint pictures just for you, So when each birthday comes around I can send…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1910
This is a Valentine postcard. Reverse side reads “Valentine Greetings. Give me your love, – say you’ll be mine – Accept from me, this Valentine” with an image of two…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1910
Christmas postcard. Greeting on obverse reads “Wishing You A Jolly Merry Christmas” below an image of Santa Claus. Sent to Miss Iva Capps of Buffalo, Kansas from her Cousin Ed…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1904 and 1907
Poster advertising Taylor’s Perfection Flour by Gyrator Mills. Color illustration of a young boy with a flour sack. Captioned and signed by the artist, Ruth K. Welch, across the bottom.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1880
Trade card announcing a change of address for A.H. Thomspon, D.D.S. to 237 Kansas Avenue in Topeka, effective April 15, 1880. One-sided, black on white. On the reverse of the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1875 and 1876
Trade card promoting subscriptions to and advertising in the Parsons Sun, compliments of editors and proprietors Reynolds, Gifford and Winter. One-sided, four-color printing with floral decorations. The Parsons Sun was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1885 and 1900
Trade card for the Ford County Real Estate and Loan Company, located diagonally opposite the post office in Dodge City, Kansas. The partners are listed as C.M. Beeson, J.A. Arment,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1902 and 1921
Trade card wishing an Easter Greeting from Mrs. M.E. Hollcraft, florist, at 807 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. One-sided, full-color, embossed card with four chicks and a cornucopia of flowers. Mary E.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1901 and 1905
Trade card promoting pianos made by the Cable Company of Chicago for sale at the Thomas Shaw Company of Wichita. Two-sided, embossed card. Obverse is full-color and features a framed…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1885 and 1886
Trade card compliments of Kirkpatrick’s Parlor Shoe Store at 153 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. One-sided, full-color with a scene of two little girls collecting flowers in the woods. The business was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1882
Trade card advertising A. Gandy, Merchant Tailor of Topeka. One-sided, black text below a cartoon printed in blue, red, and yellow. Cartoon captioned “Which shall it be?” and depicts a…
