Medium: PhysicalObject
Draw work tea towel
Date: between 1995 and 2000
White linen tea towel with draw work by Antonia A. Rocha of Topeka. Born in Mexico, her family later immigrated to Kansas where her father worked for the railroads. She…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Lace sample
Date: between 1995 and 2000
Bobbin lace sample made by Sonia Domsch (1934- ) of Atwood, Kansas. Design is a basket full of flowers. Domsch learned lace making from her great aunt, Anna Beck, as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Quilt
Date: between 1995 and 2000
Small cotton quilt pieced with 4.4 cm wide hexagons. Diamond pattern with multi-colored diamonds blocks of nine hexagons each on a solid mint green background. Georgia Ernestine (Goff) Patton (1924-2017)…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Architectural sample
Date: between 1999 and 2005
Limestone block with one face finished with sample of a “pitch-drove” surface. Prepared by the Quarra Stone Company of Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Report card
Date: between 1909 and 1910
This report card was issued to Charles Hoover when he was a student at the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, Missouri. Hoover became a general practioner who practiced medicine…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Architectural sample
Date: between 1999 and 2005
Limestone block with one face finished with sample of a “pitch-crandle” surface. Prepared by the Quarra Stone Company of Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Report card
Date: between 1908 and 1909
This report card was issued to Charles Hoover when he was a student at the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, Missouri. Hoover became a general practioner who practiced medicine…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Architectural sample
Date: between 1999 and 2005
Limestone block with one face finished with sample of a “pitch-faced” surface. Prepared by the Quarra Stone Company of Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Report card
Date: between 1907 and 1908
This report card was issued to Charles Hoover when he was a student at the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, Missouri. Hoover became a general practioner who practiced medicine…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Report card
Date: between 1906 and 1907
This report card was issued to Charles Hoover when he was a student at the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, Missouri. Hoover became a general practioner who practiced medicine…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Plaque
Date: between 1920 and 2000
Circular bronze plaque of the Kansas State Seal. Removed from the Capitol as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation and restoration project.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Doctor’s portfolio
Date: between 1900 and 1940
This portfolio belonged to Dr. C.O. Hoover, a general practioner who practiced medicine in Kansas for 55 years. After receiving a diploma from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Sash pole
Date: between 1920 and 1960
Sash pole used to open and close high windows. Used at the Kansas State Capitol building.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Board
Date: between 1940 and 1945
Square wooden panel used to line the base of the inner dome of the Kansas State Capitol. Made of two 1×12 boards nailed onto two 1×2 rails. Removed from the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Board
Date: between 1940 and 1945
Square wooden panel used to line the base of the inner dome of the Kansas State Capitol. Made of two 1×12 boards nailed onto two 1×2 rails. Removed from the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Doctor’s office sign
Date: between 1910 and 1950
This sign belonged to Dr. C.O. Hoover, a general practitioner who practiced medicine in Kansas for 55 years. After receiving a diploma from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Board
Date: 1945
Round wooden panel used to support the Foucuault pendulum suspended from the inner dome of the Kansas State Capitol. The Foucault pendulum was installed at the Capitol on November 15,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Doctor’s office sign
Date: between 1940 and 1950
This sign belonged to Dr. C.O. Hoover, a general practitioner who practiced medicine in Kansas for 55 years. After receiving a diploma from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Architectural drawing
Date: 2001
Architectural rendering of interior offices at the Kansas State Capitol. Watercolor on paper. Commissioned by Treanor Architects as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation and restoration project. WAM…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Costume
Date: between 1910 and 1930
Circus costume consisting of pants, trunks, shirt, and shoes. Worn by Rube Perkins, the stage name of Archie William Dickie (1881-1948) of Holton, Kansas. Rube Perkins toured the country as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Architectural drawing
Date: 2001
Architectural rendering of Committee Rooms 515S to 519S at the Kansas State Capitol. Watercolor on paper. Commissioned by Treanor Architects as part of the 1999 to 2014 Capitol preservation and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
105 Kansas County Quilt
Date: between 2010 and 2013
Commemorative quilt made by the Woman’s Kansas Day Club, with a separate block for every one of Kansas’s 105 counties. Each block was made by a representative from that county.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Handbill for Shaw Speedster
Date: 1924
Mailer advertising a Christmas sale on a kit to build the new 1925 Model 5C Shaw Speedster from the Shaw Manufacturing Company of Galesburg, Kansas. The Shaw Manufacturing Company was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Wedding gown
Date: 1971
Hand-made wedding gown consisting of dress (.1) and veil (.2). From the 1971 wedding of Sue Shaw to Kent Messerly at Parsons Presbyterian Church.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Postcard
Date: 1915
Postcard of the Kansas State Building at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. From the collection of Henry Ezra Dean (1867-?). Dean came to Kansas from Kentucky in…