Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1892 and 1900
Palmer Cox Brownie paper doll. Part of a series distributed as a promotional item with Lion Coffee from the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio. The doll’s head and body…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1892 and 1900
Palmer Cox Brownie paper doll. Part of a series distributed as a promotional item with Lion Coffee from the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio. The doll’s head and body…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1885 and 1887
Trade card for Bernheimer & Levi, the Trade Palace, located at 211 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. One-sided, full-color card with an image of a girl in blue and white dress seated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1888 and 1891
Trade card for the Burlington Carriage Works, located on South Third Street in Burlington, Kansas and under the proprietorship of H.L. Rehkoph. Black text over a green illustration of an…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: 1882
1882 trade card celebrating the 20th anniversary of J.A. Polley’s Topeka Carriage Factory. One-sided. Pre-printed in brown with flowers and a photographic image of an infant. Stamped in black with…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1881 and 1886
Trade card advertising holiday goods at the Barnes & Sim drug store, 181 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. One-sided multi-color card in the shape of a leaf. Arthur E. Barnes and Coler…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1885 and 1891
Trade card for W.R. Fish’s China Tea Store, located at 106 6th Avenue East, Topeka. One-sided, full-color card in the shape of a fish. William R. Fish, Senior (1843-1891) established…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1882 and 1883
Trade Card for A.D. Robbins & Company Dry Goods, located at 225 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. One-sided with a color illustration of two children dancing with an organ grinder in the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Trade card
Date: between 1905 and 1915
Business card for L.A. Carlson of the Bison Milling & Elevator Company located in Bison, Kansas and under the proprietorship of Ben Rein. One-sided, blue and red text on white.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Rookwood pitcher
Date: 1882
Rookwood Pottery pitcher with Japanese-inspired bird decorations by Albert R. Valentien. The base of the pitcher is marked with an anchor, the initials “A.R.V.”, “Rookwood 1882 R”, and “182-1”. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Topeka Milling Company hand mirror
Date: between 1900 and 1913
Compact circular hand mirror advertising Ralston Pancake Flour manufactured by the Topeka Milling Company. The Topeka Milling Company advertised Ralston Pancake Flour from at least 1900 to 1913, although ads…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Saber
Date: between 1860 and 1875
Non-regulation Civil War era officer’s saber and scabbard. The base of the blade is marked “Solingen” on one side and F.A.H.” [Friedrich Herder Abraham Sohn] on the other. Half-basket guard…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pillow shams
Date: between 1880 and 1910
Pair of white cotton pillow shams embroidered in fushia-red. The first features a female figure in repose and reads “I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.” On the second…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “City Hospital. Independence, Kan.” engraved in bowl.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Woman suffrage ribbon
Date: 1912
Small, triangular-shaped piece of gold-colored linen. Small, round political button pinned to the top center. This ribbon may have belonged to Lilla Day Monroe. Monroe was a journalist and lobbyist,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Building blocks
Date: between 1880 and 1900
Richter’s Anchor [Anker] Box Containing Building Stones. Box No. 13. Contains 259 cast stone building blocks in three colors. Also includes wooden box with sliding lid and lift-out tray and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “High School. Chanute, Kans.” engraved in bowl. The name “Bea” is engraved in the obverse of the handle.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Cigar Factory Marysville, Kans.” engraved in bowl. Charles F. Pusch founded his cigar factory in Marysville in 1872, and by 1887 they were the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Christian Church Utica, Ks.”engraved in bowl. Obverse of the handle bears the State Seal.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “State Normal [School]. Emporia, Kans.” in bowl. Handle bears the State Seal on the obverse and an image of the State Capitol on the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
I.M. Yost Milling Company paperweight
Date: between 1878 and 1895
Glass paperweight advertising the I.M. Yost Milling Company of Hays City, Kansas. Isaac M. Yost (1848-1944) assumed operations of the mill in Hays City in 1878. Over the course of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Moundridge Milling Company paperweight
Date: between 1890 and 1910
Glass paperweight advertising the Moundridge Milling Company in Moundridge, Kansas. The Moundbridge Milling Company first opened November 1, 1877. They continued operations at least through 1946.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of “St. John’s Military Academy Salina, Kans.” in bowl. Handle and stem bear the State Seal and Kansas on the obverse and a tipi and canoe…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Commemorative spoon
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Sterling commemorative spoon. Scene of the “Soda Ash Plant. Hutchinson, Kans.” in bowl. Handle bears the State Seal on the obverse and an image of the State Capitol on the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Ice tongs
Date: between 1900 and 1940
Cast iron ice tongs. Red handle. From the home of Fred Needham (1875-1963) of Tonganoxie, Kansas.