Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1860 and 1890
Laennec-style monaural stethoscope. Wooden tube, flared at both ends. Used by James Haller (1824-1907). Haller, a doctor from Middleton, Ohio, was commissioned as an Assistant Surgeon of the 38th Regiment…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown date
Black leather doctor’s bag with brass hardware. Carried by Dr. George Campbell McKnight (1866-1942) of Hiawatha, Kansas. After graduating from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1892, he returned to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1906 and 1925
Bottle of Kurtz’s Electric Oil, a patent medicine liniment made by the Kurtz Medicine Company of Fort Scott, Kansas. Glass bottle with paper label is stopped with a cork and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1910
Public drinking glass from the Santa Fe Railway. The rounded base was designed to fit into a corresponding receptical in a communal water cooler. The Kansas State Board of Health,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1950
Flyswatter with black painted wooden handle and black screen swatter. “Swat the Fly” was one of Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine’s many public health campaigns, which also included “Bat the Rat”,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1800 and 1920
Hand-wrought communal iron drinking cup with attached chain. The cup was attached to a rock by the Sulphur Spring public spring near Fort Scott around 1800 and saw continuous use…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1904 and 1924
Clay brick with imprint, “Don’t Spit on Sidewalk.” These bricks were the brainchild of Dr. Samuel Crumbine of Dodge City, Kansas, who served as Secretary of the Kansas State Board…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1919 and 1926
Empty clear glass bottle for Seelye’s Wasa-Tusa, “For Man and Beast, Internal and External.” The A.B. Seelye Company of Abilene was established in 1890 and incorporated in 1897. It became…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1850 and 1930
Pill roller consisting of an inclined base and a two-handled paddle. Wooden with brass hardware, including a brass plate with semi-circular channels both towards the bottom of the base and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1891
Obstetrical forceps. Black wooden handles. From the medical office of Dr. Floyd E. Richmond (1872-1955) of Stockton, Kansas. Dr. Richmond practiced medicine in Stockton for thirty years, and his office…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1887 and 1920
Tonillotome for performing tonsillectomies. Steel rod with a ring at the end. Pulling back on the handle draws a guillotine-style blade across the ring to excise the tonsil. A skewer…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1907 and 1910
Paper sanitary drinking cup. Folds flat. The Kansas State Board of Health, under the leadership of Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, banned the use of common drinking cups in 1909. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1871 and 1907
Rosewood case with metal hardware. Hinged lid plus three drawers, one on the front and one on each side. Side drawers include one secondary drawer each. The case contains a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1914
These typewritten box scores document the results of games played in a baseball tournament held in Smith Center on July 15-17, 1914. Participating teams included Gaylord, Lebanon, Portis and Smith…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1930 and 1934
This paperweight, in the shape of a horned goat, was distributed as part of one or more of Dr. John R. Brinkley’s unsuccessful campaigns for the office of Kansas governor.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: Unknown
A hand fan for the Joan Finney and Jim Francisco campaign. Finney served as Governor of Kansas from 1991-1995.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1886 and 1901
Badge for E.L. Skelton, Assistant Fire Chief of Parsons, Kansas. Gold. In three sections linked by small chains. Edward Lincoln Skelton (1854-1915) had become First Assistant Chief by at least…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1891
Multi-page dance card from the Second Annual Ball of the Topeka Police Relief Association, January 22, 1891. Belonged to John W. Gardiner, who was Topeka’s Chief of Police from 1889…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1904 and 1909
Cylindrical turned mahogany nightstick with red tassels. Belonged to Frank L. Randall (1860-1909), a police officer on the Kansas City, Kansas police force.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1884
Colt Single Action nickel-plated Army Revolver with ivory handle. 45 caliber. Ornately engraved throughout. Presented to Patrick F. Sughrue by the citizens of Dodge City on December 18, 1884. Sughrue…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1899
Navy blue felt fireman’s cap with oval crown sides and flat top. Belonged to Edward Lincoln Skelton (1854-1915) of the Parsons, Kansas Fire Department. Skelton had become First Assistant Chief…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1889
Gold badge in shape of a six-pointed star. Bar and pin attached to top by three rings. Worn by John W. Gardiner who was Chief of Police in Topeka from…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1900 and 1968
Woven fire house with rubber liner and brass fittings. This hose was used by the Lucas, Kansas Rural Fire District #2 from 1945 to 1968.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1930
Fire ax with steel head and oak handle. Cast steel head has wide bit with slightly curved cutting edge. Elongated poll forms a pick. Head is painted in red enamel,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1880 and 1930
Long firehose pipe with brass nozzle. Pipe’s long tapering shaft is wrapped in cording which is painted red. The makers of this hose pipe, Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Company, operated…
