Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1855 and 1865
This steel bayonet for a U.S. rifle-musket model 1855-1870 with 25/32” socket bore and L-pattern mortise was manufactured by Collins & Company of Collinsville, Connecticut. The donor’s father, Elisha William…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1861 and 1865
Small lapel pin made of the cross-section of a butternut nut rind, and fixed with a brass pin shaft. One end of a length of brass wire has been wrapped…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1903
Simple hand-carved maple walking stick with brass ferrule at tip. Carved lettering: S. J. READER. / MAY 29 / 1903. / NORTH TOPEKA KANS. / FLOOD AND FIELD / BIG…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1855 and 1863
This steel bayonet for a U.S. Rifle-Musket, model 1855-1870 was found at Gettysburg during the Civil War by Theodore F. Garver, a soldier with the 26th Pennsylvania Militia, Company A.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1800 and 1850
Cast iron betty lamp that has been painted gold. Circular reservoir with protruding spout and wick support. Keyhole-shaped opening on cover plate for missing swiveling cover. Iron handle arches above…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1800 and 1850
This is a pressed and pierced tin candle lantern. Half-round lantern has clear glass pane beneath pierced conical top. Hinged metal door with snap latch opens to reveal candle socket…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1870 and 1895
Small half-round leather coin purse with metal snap frame. Interior is fitted with smaller fixed purse, creating a total of three compartments. Hinged nickel-plated metal frame with brass snap lock.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1861 and 1865
Small leather wallet with wrap-around suede strap. Dark brown rectangular bi-fold wallet opens to reveal cloth-lined flap on right, accordion-fold compartment on left. Made by J.O. Jennings of San Francisco.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1889
This is a short wooden nightstick turned of a single piece of wood removed from the floor of Libby Prison. Libby was a notorious jail for Union officers operated by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1986
Blue and white quilt featuring the embroidered signatures of 24 prominent Kansans. Made by Marie Marcellus Burgett of Junction City to celebrate Kansas’ 125th anniversary of statehood, 1986. Burgett obtained…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1840 and 1865
Red and green cotton appliqué quilt made in a variation of the Rose and Tulip pattern. This quilt is atypical because its pattern typically is appliquéd rather than pieced. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1878 and 1883
Child’s cotton quilt in a unique design featuring red appliquéd hands on white ground. Made by Amanda Ziegler Garman for her daughter, Bertha. The appliqué pattern was made by tracing…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1890 and 1925
Red and blue cotton quilt made in Bear’s Paw pattern. The maker was Mary Alice Koger Nye and the quilt was used in her family’s household in Belle Plaine, Kansas.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1920 and 1949
Double Wedding Ring quilt made of a variety of printed cotton fabrics, stitched to form interlocking rings. Four-patch yellow and pink block where rings intersect. Scalloped edges and rounded corners…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1888 and 1889
Red, brown and white cotton quilt in Baby Blocks or Tumbling Blocks pattern. The quilt maker was Regina Mills Chambers, born in Ohio in 1867, who immigrated to Kansas in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1850 and 1859
Large wool shawl woven in paisley design with red ground. This shawl was wrapped around Elizabeth Ruppert as an infant when her father, Edmund, fled from Virginia to Leavenworth, Kansas…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 2001
Plywood protest sign with white painted lettering. The sign was fashioned by Topeka resident Jared Daily in response to the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church following the terrorist attacks…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1884
This crazy quilt features green and red velvet sashing that forms two large diamonds spanning the top. Sashing is embroidered with initials and a date. Quilt top’s irregular pieces are…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1940 and 1943
This child’s quilt features 15 small embroidered figures on a white cotton ground. The figures are all animals, some anthropomorphized (e.g., duck with top hat and cane). The quilt has…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1875 and 1925
This baby quilt is pieced in a derivative of the pattern Prairie Queen. It is roughly square with nine colored blocks separated by lattice strips. Backing is combination of plain…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1854 and 1856
This Album Patch quilt top is composed of multi-colored pieced calico blocks set on a white muslin ground. Inked names handwritten on the center of each block include Lyda Davis,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1895 and 1899
A presentation saber with steel scabbard. The saber has a narrow blade, etched on both sides with patriotic decorations and a gilt brass hilt with a silver grip wrapped with…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1934
Blue and yellow matted illustration of Alf Landon, who served as Kansas governor from 1933-1937. Saturday Evening Post illustrator Alan Foster created the illustration and drew Landon’s face to resemble…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: between 1970 and 1977
General Electric wall clock made of turquoise-colored plastic. “MTM” is handwritten on the back, referencing the CBS television series known as The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The show was a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Date: 1973
Washburn Alumni Association Distinguished Service Medal awarded to Mamie Williams, an African American woman who taught in Topeka, Kansas, schools from 1918 to 1960. Born in South Carolina, Williams moved…
