Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1864 and 1866
Model 1865 Spencer repeating carbine by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company of Boston. Serial number 13834. The Spencer carbine was a favorite weapon of the cavalry from the Civil War…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1926
“Goldsmith Trophy Awarded Dr. J.R. Brinkley, Milford, Kansas, owner Brinkley’s Goats, Winners Base-Ball Championship, Rocky Mountain News Times, Denver 1926.” The Goats won six of seven games during the tournament,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Leather, metal, and glass driving goggles. The goggles likely belonged to Aron Treger, who was a jeweler and optometrist in WaKeeney, Kansas, in the 1910s, and in Independence, Kansas, from…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1810 and 1825
Silver, sliding-temple eyeglasses with a small metal storage case. The glasses belonged to Robert Simerwell, a Baptist minister, educator, and blacksmith. Simerwell and his wife, Fannie, began working as missionaries…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1930
Pair of leather, gauntlet-style driving gloves. Driving gloves of this type were worn from around the 1890s to the 1930s. They were meant to keep the hands clean, protect the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1893 and 1900
Desktop electric fan using Knapp’s No. 2 Motor by the Knapp Electric and Novelty Co. of New York. Wooden base with brass and cast iron body. Pully mounted behind the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1920
Wooden wastebasket. Decorated with wood-burning floral design. From the home of Harriet Evelyn “Hattie” Mack (1875-1954) of Wilsey, Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1920
Silver plate rectanglular trinket box. Box has removable lid and wire handle with grape sprig at top. Box lined with felted paper. Meriden Britannia Company maker’s mark and the number…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1895 and 1905
Child’s lounge with carved wooden frame and plush textured burgandy upholstery. Given to Sarah Ellen “Saraleen” Curtis (1892-1989) as a child by her father, Robert M. Curtis (1841-1903), to furnish…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1910
Oak high chair with cane seat and metal wheels. With the flip of a latch, the chair can be lowered and the legs spread to convert it to a stroller.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1898 and 1900
Rocking chair made of longhorn horns. Wooden rockers. Seat and narrow back upholstered in brown and white cowhide. Made by Charles A. (1873-1975) and Nancy Ellen “Ella” (1875-1979) Calwell shortly…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown date
Cast iron manual water pump from the Red Jacket Manufacturing Company of Davenport, Iowa. 2″ pipe. Painted red with manufacturer’s decal on base.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown date
This wooden chair belonged to Charles Smith. In 1856 Smith settled on a farm in Brown County, Kansas with his wife and three children. Located on the Lane Trail, their…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1870 and 1915
Small fretwork wall cabinet. Hinged doors depict a figure with a dog. Lined with textured gold paper. Made by Josiah Thomas Genn, who came to Kansas from Maine in 1857…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1875
Crazy quilt with green velvet border. Green velvet sashing also used to form two diamond shapes that span the quilt. The sashing is embroidered with the initials “A.A.S.” and “S.M.S.”…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1876
Jacquard woven bedspread in red, green, and white. Title blocks in two corners read, “Made by H. Adolph. Clinton, Kansas. 1876.” French born Henry Adolph (1815-1907) immigrated to Ohio around…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1990 and 2000
Emil Joseph Kapaun was born on a farm near Pilsen, Marion County, Kansas, in 1916. His parents were Czech immigrants. At the end of World War II, Kapaun served as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1930
Gilded sheet metal replica of a 1920’s radio microphone atop base. Two looped handles on upper sides with ovoid opening in top center of microphone. Awarded to KFKB by Chicago’s…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1918 and 1930
Parcheesi, Popular Edition. First trademarked by the Selchow & Righter Co. of New York in 1874, and registered in 1890 and 1918. Includes a folding game board as well as…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1964 and 1985
This was one of 300 voting machines purchased by Shawnee County in 1964. It was used through April 1985.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1883 and 1910
Blue glass grenade-style fire extinguisher by the Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Company of Chicago. 1871 and 1883 patent dates and paper label with instructions for use. Sealed with cork…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1910
Green glass grenade-style fire extinguisher by the Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Company of Chicago. Embossed with a star logo. Paper label with instructions for use around neck. Sealed with…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1800 and 1870
Left half of a pair of oxshoes. Large shoe is made of hand-wrought iron. AThis shoe was found on the Santa Fe Trail west of Council Grove, Kansas.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1903 and 1936
Coal pick from the Blue Rapids Lumber Company. The sides of the pick head are embossed with the company’s name and phone number. The Blue Rapids Lumber Company was founded…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1884 and 1897
Trade card advertising the Jackson Corset Company’s corset-waist, for sale by Miss Katie Breen of Horton, Kansas. The front of the card is a color lithograph of a corseted woman…
