Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1896
Sheet music for the Twentieth Century Woman, a two-step march written by Alfred W. Norris and dedicated to Isadore Rush. The cover is printed with Rush’s picture and signature. Published…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1880
Bill of Fare for the Clifton Hotel at Florence, Kansas, dated February 22, 1880. Small, rectanular-shaped piece of paper. Print appears on front only; reverse is blank.The Clifton Hotel was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1800 and 1870
Right half of a pair of oxshoes. Small shoe is made of hand-wrought iron. This shoe was found on the Santa Fe Trail west of Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1886 and 1895
Trade card for the Golden Belt Town Company with general offices in Peabody, Kansas. One-sided, black on white. The Golden Belt Town Company was incorporated in 1886 to buy and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1885 and 1905
Trade card for Dr. J.A. DeMoss of Thayer, Kansas. One-sided, black on white. Photograph of the doctor on the left side of the card. Dr. DeMoss (1859-1943) was practicing in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1930
Brass Winchester Bushel suspended balance scale. Decal on bucket from Fairbanks-Morse & Company, located at 13th and Liberty in Kansas City, Missouri. 1877 patent date. Used by Levi “Lee” Reichart…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1895 and 1905
Wooden tall case clock. Octagonal wooden-face wall clock with brass numbers and pedulum mounted at top. Open shelf at center of case and glass-front cabinet at bottom. Made by John…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1897 and 1899
Eastman Kodak No. 2 Falcon box camera. Belonged to Alice G. Sennrich, a well-known professional photographer in Valley Falls, Kansas. She entered the business in 1902, purchasing the studio of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1912
1912 cash register manufactured by the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio. Model number 442 and serial number S193881K. The ornate brass register sits on an oak base with…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1852 and 1855
Brass and steel surveying chain. Albert D. Searl used this chain to survey town sites in Kansas Territory. He came to Kansas from Massachusetts in 1854. He apparently was associated…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1917 and 1940
Hemostatic forceps. Made by Kny-Scheerer, Germany. Belonged to John R. Brinkley (1885-1942). Brinkley first established his medical practice in Milford, Kansas in 1917. He gained national fame as a “goat…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1917 and 1940
Medical hammer. Nickel-plated with red rubber head. Belonged to John R. Brinkley (1885-1942). Brinkley first established his medical practice in Milford, Kansas in 1917. He gained national fame as a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1885 and 1900
Bissell wooden carpet sweeper. “Furniture Protector” stenciled in gold on front and back. Faint “Bissell” stencil visible on top.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1910 and 1915
Feeny Vacuum Cleaner made by the Feeny Manufacturing Company of Muncie, Indiana. The upper cylinder houses a plunger and is pumped up and down by hand to create suction, drawing…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1910
Silver plate fish knife with mother-of-pearl handle. Illegible hallmarks on reverse. Belonged to Mary E. Delahay (1844-1931), daughter of early Kansas Free State activists Mark William Delahay and Mary Hanks…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1920
Lidded clear pressed glass compote in the Westward Ho pattern. Sides of dish decorated with log cabin, deer, and buffalo. Large finial on lid in the form of a kneeling…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1883 and 1900
Cast iron cherry pitter. Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Philiadelphia, Model No. 1. Patent April 24, 1883. Hand crank. Clamp for mounting to countertop. From the household of Timon Covert (1883-1960).…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1940
Cast iron apple peeler by the Sinclair Scott Company of Baltimore. Hand crank. Clamp for mounting to countertop.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Tin disk button with a glossed white paper face. “Votes For Women” refers to the decades-long struggle women underwent to secure the right to vote. Women in Kansas began campaigning…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1898 and 1910
Enterprise Manufacturing coffee mill, patent date 1898. The cast iron mill is painted red and decorated with numerous decals. It sits on a wooden base with a drawer. This mill…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1888 and 1920
Meat grinder. No. 10 by the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. Patent dates of June 5, 1888 and April 13, 1886. Cast iron housing with steel blades and wooden handle.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1870 and 1890
Dog-powered butter churn. Plunger-style churn powered by an inclined treadmill made of wood and cast iron. The treadmill is embossed “Wheeler & Melick Co., Albany, N.Y. U.S.A.” on the front…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1871
Deluxe model 1866 Winchester rifle, serial number 80,362. Presented by Samuel J. Crawford to Nehemiah Green in 1871. Crawford served as Kansas Governor from 1865 to 1868. Green served as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1864
Henry repeating rifle by the New Haven Arms Company. Multiple historic repairs. Used by L.A. McLoughlin, one of George A. Forsythe’s men, at the Battle of Beecher Island. His initials…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1868 and 1869
Winchester model 1866 center-fire repeating carbine. Serial number 79311, manufactured around 1868 to 1869. Belonged to George Allen, who established a homestead for his family in 1870 about three miles…
