Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1896-1927
This shell casing was recovered from excavations at the Plaster House site, a dugout in Gray County. The casing has a head stamp of “Winchester No. 10.” The occupants of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1944
Membership card for the Royal Order of the Deep Domain and the Region of the Golden Dragon, presented to Marion Dale Wells. Wells was born in Onaga, Kansas, in 1913.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1929-1948
This Iron was collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The Plowboy site was home to the Kansa, the Potawatomi,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1853-1918
These coins were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The Plowboy site was home to the Kansa, the Potawatomi,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1849-1869
Wagon Bed Springs was a camp site in Grant County along the Cimarron cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail. This minie ball, donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1961,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1866-1955
These hoof nippers were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. Nippers were used to trim the hoof wall and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1901-1909
This pipe bowl fragment was collected from a multicomponent (multiple occupations) site overlooking the Missouri River in Leavenworth County. The pipe, either American or French made, depicts the lower bust…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1845-1905
This brown transferware dish sherd is printed on both sides with a landscape scene. It was recovered from excavation at the Iowa Sac and Fox Mission in Doniphan County. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1854-1956
This fragment of an earthenware bottle was collected from an Early Ceramic camp site in Montgomery County, with intrusions of Historic period artifacts. The bottle was donated to the Kansas…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1850-1900
This small porcelain doll was collected at an Early Ceramic period camp site with intrusions of historic material. The artifacts from the Montgomery County site were donated in 1975 to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1829-1900
This stove or range door was recovered from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The Plowboy site was home to the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1920-1939
This dish was collected in three fragments from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The donor reconstructed the depression glass dish…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1850-1950
These four marbles were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. All four are glass marbles with swirl patterns. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1850-1900
This pipe fragment was collected from a multicomponent site in McPherson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2004. Most of the artifacts from this site dated to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1920-1950
This cup, among other artifacts, was collected from a historic dump in Johnson County that was being undercut by the Kaw River. It was donated to the Kansas Historical Society…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
This rifle barrel was excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. Still present was the barrel, part of the front sight, and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1840-1930
This regular horseshoe was collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. This horseshoe style is called “regular” and is what…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1840-1930
These three horseshoes were among the many that were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee county and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. Horseshoes are what most…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1840-1900
These dish sherds were collected from the Plowboy site in Shawnee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The floral and scenic motifs shown on these sherds…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1865-1867
Butcher knives were designed primarily for butchering animal carcasses. Though deteriorating rapidly, this butcher knife is essentially complete. It was recovered from Camp Fletcher in Ellis County that was abandoned…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1864-1869
These two rifle barrel pin plates were excavated during the 1969 Kansas Archeological Training Program field school, a joint project undertaken by Kansas Historical archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown
These three items were collected from a multicomponent site in Johnson County with occupations in both the prehistoric and historic time periods. These artifacts were from the later time period.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1864-1869
This butt plate from a Sharps rifle was excavated during the 1969 Kansas Archeological Training Program, a joint project undertaken by Kansas Historical archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers at…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
Shown are two buttons excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists from historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. Both buttons were manufactured by the Novelty Rubber Company of New…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
These three buttons are just a few examples of the many buttons collected during excavation in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays. On the far left…
