Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1840-1902
This Infantry button was recovered from the Ritchie House in Topeka during excavations in 1997. This style of button was used on enlisted men’s uniform from the 1840s to the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These military buttons were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972 and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These picture frame fragments were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These glass bottle fragments were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These toys were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972 and donated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These dishes were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972 and donated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1879-1905
This glass bottle stopper was recovered from an archeological site in Butler County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists in 1994. Bottle stoppers were essential to close sealed bottles to the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This glass bottle stopper with a tapered shank was recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These hole-in-top can fragments were collected during excavations in 1972 by the Kansas State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) field school. The tin can was filled through a large…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1856-1869
These transferware bowl fragments were collected from the Hyatt Townsite in Anderson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2007. The landscape scene was decorated using a method…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
These whale baleen corset fragments were recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This doorknob was recovered from the Baker house in Morris County by the Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in 1972. The knob shows a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This stone, either structural or foundational, fragment was recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1862
This gold gilt gaming token was recovered during excavations at the Baker house in Morris County, undertaken by Emporia State Teacher’s College (now Emporia State University) archeological field school in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1800-1860
These ammunition remnants were intrusive (not of the same time period) at a Late Ceramic period archeology site in Barton County. They were donated to the Kansas Historical Society in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown
This pendant or ornament was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1934 by a donor who found it on a street in Topeka. In addition to the phrase “READY…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
This glass egg was excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. Called nest eggs, this type of object was used to encourage chickens to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
These brass cartridge cases were excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County in 1966. From left to right is are casings for a .44…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
These buttons were excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County in 1966. Glass buttons such as these were mass produced after the 1850s. One…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1892
These brass shotgun headstamps were recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. Shown are a Winchester Repeater No. 12 (gauge) and a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
This friction primer was recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. A twisted wire within the primer (copper tubes filled with gunpowder)…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These buttons were recovered at Fort Hays, in Ellis County, during excavations by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. All were manufactured of brass. Shown is a General Service button, an Infantry…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
This primer case containing primer caps was recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. Primers were used to ignite the gunpowder in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1869
This shield nickel was recovered from excavations at the Iowa and Sac and Fox Mission in Doniphan County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers in 1994.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1845-1905
These ceramic marbles were recovered from excavations at the Iowa and Sac and Fox Mission in Doniphan County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers in 1994.…
