Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
These four buttons were excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. Button such as these of black glass were mass produced after…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1837-1882
These two buttons were excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays, in Ellis County. Both buttons are manufactured of black glass and are faceted balls.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These four buttons were excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays, in Ellis County. Left to right they are a white two hole sew through…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1864-1869
Shown are two buttons recovered from Fort Zarah during the 1969 Kansas Archeological Training Program field school, a joint project undertaken by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These five buttons were recovered in 1966 from excavations at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County by archeologists from the Kansas Historical Society. All six buttons are bone four hole…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1898-1933
This jug was excavated in 1991 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists during investigations at the Johnson/Palmore Restaurant site in Manhattan, Kansas. The site was at various times home to a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These four shell buttons were excavated in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. Two are small four hole sew through buttons, one of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1879
The medicinal jar was excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists in 1966 during work at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County. The jar has the wording “U.S.A. Hosp Dept” embossed…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1870-1889
This curious round bottom bottle was so designed that it would have to be stored on its side. It was excavated in 1966 from Fort Hays, in Ellis County, by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
These four military buttons were recovered at Fort Hays, in Ellis County, during excavations in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. All four were manufactured of brass and each has…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1882
Ginger beer brewing began in England in the 1700s, and was popular in the United States into the early 20th century. It is marked with the bottle maker’s mark of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
Shown here are United States Regulation Letters and Numbers, two musician’s insignia, and the Arms of the United States insignia, recovered from excavations in 1966 at Fort Hays in Ellis…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
These four marbles are just a few of those excavated from Fort Hays, in Ellis County, in 1966 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. All of the marbles have seen hard…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1867-1889
This Officer’s brass epaulette was recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays, in Ellis County, by Kansas Historical Society archeologists in 1966. An epaulette is an ornamental should piece used…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1850-1900
These four buttons were collected from the Hog Pen site, in Johnson County, a multicomponent site with occupations in the Middle Ceramic period and again in the Historic period. Shown…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1864-1869
This gilt button was excavated during the 1969 Kansas Archeological Training Program, a joint project undertaken by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and Kansas Anthropological Association volunteers at Fort Zarah. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1889-2007
This milk glass jar was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school excavations at 14GH102, the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout in Graham County. The embossing on the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1915
This canning jar was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school excavations at 14GH102, the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout site, in Graham County. The jar’s front is…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1877-1920
This bottle was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program excavations at 14GH102, the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout site, in Graham County. The Leisy Brewing Company opened in 1894…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1855-1912
This bowl or sauce dish was recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1880-1910
This beer bottle was recovered from the Fort Scott National Historic Site during excavations conducted there between 1968 through 1972 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. When Fort Scott was built…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1870-1889
This nearly complete sewing machine oil was excavated at Fort Hays in Ellis County. The bottle held Sperm Whale Oil, traces of which remain, that was used to lubricate fine…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1943 and 1946
“A Good Skate” Mutoscope brand pin-up card. Belonged to Private First Class John Lee Meyer, Jr. Meyer, a native of Phillipsburg, Kansas, was drafted into the Army in 1943. He…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1855-1912
This brass trigger guard was recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair Cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas. Trigger…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1855-1912
These dish fragments show just a few of those that were recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and…
