Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1932 and 1940
Man’s double-breasted jacket produced by Hispanic weavers in Chimayo, a New Mexican village north of Santa Fe. Wool jacket with six silver-plated disk buttons down the front. It was a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1911
Embossed Halloween postcard copyrighted by Raphael Tuck & Sons of England. Lithographed scene depicts girl and cat seated on a flying broom and poses the question, “Don’t I look like…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1952
Black and white woodcut print by Clare Leighton, depicting two workers harvesting corn by hand. Prairie Printmakers gift print for 1952. This print’s owner, Virginia McArthur, was most likely an…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1900
Wide-brimmed black felt western-style Stetson hat with satin ribbon around base of crown. Made by the John B. Stetson Company of Philadelphia. This hat belonged to Hawley Varnum Needham (1842-1932)…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1897 and 1902
Magazine camera model Vive No. 1, made by the Vive Camera Company of Chicago, Illinois. Black leather-covered wooden frame, vertical viewfinder, and fixed stop diaphragm. Used by Alice G. Sennrich,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1775 and 1805
Pair of hand-sewn silk slippers with cotton lining and leather outsole. Worn by a young woman at a ball given in honor of Marquis de Lafayette in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1871 and 1881
Pair of hand-carved wooden clogs with pointed toes. Mostly unpainted, except for gold on inside and sole. Worn at Theodore Weichselbaum’s brewery in Ogden, Kansas. Weichselbaum’s brew house opened in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1909
Small handwritten invitation to a 1909 Halloween party. All marks are handmade in black ink on rectangular white cardstock. Five jack-o’-lanterns are sketched across top and down left margin. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1987
Brass belt buckle commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Pretty Prairie Rodeo in 1987. The rodeo is held in Pretty Prairie, Kansas and is the largest nighttime rodeo in Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1915
This aluminum game piece has an image of baseball pitcher Walter “Big Train” Johnson. Johnson (1887-1946), from Humboldt, Kansas, gained fame pitching for the Washington Senators Baseball team. This game…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1931 and 1942
Six paper Little Orphan Annie Shadowettes made between 1931 and 1942. Little Orphan Annie was a daily syndicated newspaper comic strip from 1924 to 1968. The strip followed the adventures…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1905 and 1910
This Cracker-Jack clown has a jointed wooden body, molded head and hand-painted features. It was sold as an accessory set for the Humpty-Dumpty circus created by Albert Shoenhut.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1861 and 1865
Kidney-shaped metal filter canteen dating from the Civil War. Sergeant William W. Dimond used this canteen during his service with Co. G of the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Dimond had this…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This cotton sack for Kiowa Milling Company flour was embroidered and embellished with fringed braid. The sack’s printed designs are over-embroidered in the colors of the Belgian flag. This sack…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This cotton sack for Russell Milling Company flour was heavily embroidered and embellished with a linen ruffle. The printed company emblem and text have been over-embroidered, and there is a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This cotton sack for Imboden Milling Company flour was embroidered and embellished with ribbon and lace. Embroidered designs include the U.S. and Belgian flags; a French message whose English translation…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This cotton sack for Kaw Milling Company flour was embroidered and embellished with braid and silk ribbon. Embroidered designs include the Belgian flag; a French message whose English translation is…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This heavily embroidered textile is made of panels cut from cotton flour sacks and rejoined with bands of handmade lace. The text is embroidered in the colors of the Belgian…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1915 and 1916
This cotton flour sack is embroidered with satin floss and sewn to a silk backing. Embroidered designs include the flags of Belgium, United States, and France; the year 1915; a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1860 and 1865
Fragment of the crossbeam from gallows scaffold. Long rectangular pine block. The beam was part of the scaffold used to execute the conspirators of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The following individuals…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1858 and 1894
This pencil sketch on paper depicts a log cabin near a woodpile and is captioned “Candle Box Wood Pile.” During the turbulent era of Bleeding Kansas, this cabin in Lecompton…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1889
Set of 28 wooden blocks covered in lithographed paper, and stored in a box made to resemble a U.S. Mail wagon. Blocks are flat, thin, rectangular pieces of wood covered…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1950 and 1961
Woman’s “sunflower” costume dress made of synthetic fabric and cotton net. The costume includes a semi-fitted bodice, white cotton net skirt, brown net shawl with a cluster of three fabric…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1925
Set of 23 wooden alphabet blocks with impressed and printed letters and images. Each block has two opposite sides with either a raised capital letter or/and a raised image, two…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1930
Slip-on leather moccasins decorated with beadwork on the uppers. Sinew wrap closure at ankle. Used by western artist Lawrence Coffelt as a prop in his Flint Hill Studio in Emporia,…
