Medium: PhysicalObject
Baseball bat
Date: between 1919 and 1920
Small, dark-stained wood bat. Ione and Marie Kelly’s parents purchased the bat for the girls in Ottawa, Kansas, around 1919.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Brist boomerang
Date: 1908
Wooden Brist boomerang. The boomerang is a component of Brist, a game in which a racket is used to catch boomerangs. It was invented by Sam Bristow and manufactured by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Bowling ball
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Oak bowling ball with two pairs of holes drilled on opposite sides. It was used at Peters Brothers Pool Hall in Burlingame, Kansas, around 1900. It features two sets of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fielder’s glove
Date: between 1919 and 1920
Brown leather baseball glove. This glove belonged to Emmett Richmond. Richmond was born in 1903 and played baseball for Downs (Kansas) High School before moving to Stockton, Kansas. He graduated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Brist boomerang
Date: between 1902 and 1920
Wooden Brist boomerang. The boomerang is a component of Brist, a game in which a racket is used to catch boomerangs. It was invented by Sam Bristow and manufactured by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Brist racket
Date: between 1902 and 1920
Wooden Brist rakah (racket) with white net. The racket is a component of Brist, a game in which a racket is used to catch boomerangs. It was invented by Sam…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Baseball
Date: between 1910 and 1920
White leather baseball with red cotton stitching. Soldiers from the 139th and 140th Infantries used the ball in a game at St. Nazaire, France, in the spring of 1919. It…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Prisoner of War identification tag
Date: between 1942 and 1945
Small, rectangular metal identification tag. Safety pins at top to attach tag to clothing. Colonel James C. Hughes wore this identification tag while being held as a Japanese Prisoner of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
McCoy spoon
Date: between 1830 and 1834
This spoon belonged to Christina Polke McCoy, wife of Baptist minister and missionary, Isaac McCoy. Christina Polke was born in Kentucky in 1787. She married Isaac McCoy in 1803. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas pennant
Date: between 1917 and 1919
Red and blue wool pennant with letters spelling “KANSAS” appliqued across the center. Reverend A. Frank Johnson carried the pennant with him while working in Europe at the end of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas Draft Board sign
Date: between 1918 and 1919
World War I-era white paper sign. In 1917 the United States Government passed the Selective Service Act. It required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 (later 18…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Entrenching shovel
Date: between 1914 and 1919
World War I-era German trenching spade that was found near Les Eparges, France. Les Esparges is a village in northeastern France that experienced a fierce battle in 1915 and saw…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Handbill
Date: 1918
This anti-German handbill was distributed to residents of Barton County, Kansas, on April 18, 1918. It was directed at those of German birth or descent who were suspected of being…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Toilet Paper
Date: 1918
Single square of two-ply toilet paper. Before the time of donation, it was found in a desk drawer in the city light plant in Ellinwood, Kansas. A portrait of Kaiser…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Official Base Ball Rules
Date: between 1912 and 1919
Small paper booklet titled “Official Base Ball Rules.” The booklet was published by A.G. Spaulding & Brothers. It was used by Reverend A. Frank Johnson while working in Europe at…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Bugle
Date: between 1910 and 1916
1912 variation of the 1894 pattern B Flat Infantry Bugle. Brass bugle with steel mouthpiece. The bugle belonged to Faustino Julian Domingo. Domingo was born in the Philippines and was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Decorative Horse Figure from the Baker House, 14MO701
Date: 1862
This decorative piece was recovered during excavations in 1972 or 1973 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College, now Emporia State University. The piece represents a horse-like figure, possibly a unicorn…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Face Pipe
Date: Unknown
This yellow glazed ceramic pipe was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1984. Anthropomorphic (resembling a human form) pipes such as this one began to be popular in the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pamplin Style Pipe
Date: 1879-1972
This pipe was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1972. The pipe style, Pamplin, was named after those made originally at the Pamplin Pipe Factory in Pamplin, Virginia (1879-1952).…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Reed Stem Pipe
Date: 1800 - 1890
This ceramic reed stem pipe was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1972. It gets its name from the ribbed pattern on the bowl and stem. Pipes such as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Skull Pipe
Date: Unknown
Little is known about this pipe donated to the Kansas Historic Society in 1925. Early during the 20th century, clay pipes began to lose their appeal in favor of wooden…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Handkerchief
Date: between 1942 and 1945
Olive drab handkerchief with Japanese characters embroidered in one corner. The handkerchief belonged to Colonel James C. Hughes, whom the Japanese held as a prisoner of war during World War…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Board game set
Date: between 1942 and 1945
Portable cardboard game board for playing Chinese Checkers, chess, and checkers. Colonel James C. Hughes received the game in a Red Cross box while being held as a Prisoner of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Box part
Date: between 1942 and 1945
Part of a cardboard box that once held rations sent by the American Red Cross to Prisoners of War. Colonel James C. Hughes acquired this ration box while being held…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Scissors
Date: between 1942 and 1945
Col. James C. Hughes acquired these scissors while serving in the United States Army during World War II. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1888, Hughes served in the Mexican Border…