Medium: PhysicalObject

Olympic track shoe

Date: 1952

Red and white leather track shoe made by Karhu, a Finnish sports equipment company. Brown leather outsole with black composition heel. Six metal spikes protrude from bottom layer of toe…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: between 1911 and 1916

This book was written in 1911 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1926

This book was written in 1926 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1913

This book was written in 1913 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1914

This book was written in 1914 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1917

This book was written in 1917 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1915

This book was written in 1915 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1930

This book was written in 1930 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1918

This book was written in 1918 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1912

This book was written in 1912 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1939

This book was written in 1939 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Edna Ferber inscribed book

Date: 1920

This book was written by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the 1912 Republican…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Currency

Date: 1854

Ten dollar note issued by Merchants Bank of Fort Leavenworth. White paper with black printing on front only. Cameo head of George Washington in oval flanked by fruit and flowers…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Currency

Date: 1857

Sheet of paper currency containing four bills (two $1, one $2, one $3). Printed by W.L. Ormsby, New York, and issued in Kansas Territory by the City Bank of Leavenworth.…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Baseball bat

Date: 1869

This oversized pine baseball bat was presented to Dudley C. Haskell (1842-1883) in 1869 by residents of Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell was a local shoe merchant and a member of the…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Ballot box fragment

Date: 1882

Shallow rectangular pine ballot box with irregular sides and no lid. Portion of a ballot box used at the Stafford County seat election on Apr 5th, 1882. Before the polls…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Stained glass window pane

Date: 1933

Leaded glass windowpane with stained glass depicting a man spreading seed on a farmstead. One of a set of three windows depicting farming seasons. The window originally decorated the 1933…

Medium: PhysicalObject

African American doll

Date: between 1937 and 1945

Handmade African American cotton cloth doll. The doll has short, black yarn hair, and her facial features are embroidered. She wears a simple light green cotton dress. The donor received…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey dinner plate

Date: 1953

This is a beige-colored glazed ceramic dinner plate. This plate and other similar dinnerware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas.…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey charger

Date: between 1937 and 1943

A large, heavy copper charger with gold-colored finish. This plate and other similar dinnerware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas.…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey dinner knife

Date: 1912

A silver-plated knife. This knife and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey opened this chain of…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey soup spoon

Date: 1912

This is a silver-plated spoon. This spoon and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey opened this…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey dinner fork

Date: 1912

This is a large, four-tined silver-plated fork. This fork and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Fred Harvey oyster fork

Date: 1912

This is a small, three-tined silver-plated fork. This fork and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey…

Medium: PhysicalObject

Monkey wrench

Date: between 1859 and 1988

This is a wrench with an adjustable lower jaw it is used to turn nuts of different sizes.