Medium: PhysicalObject
Blood lancet
Date: between 1820 and 1880
This brass lancet with wooden case was made by Wiegand and Snowden of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sometime between 1820 and 1880. The brass lever on its side releases the blade. The…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Necklace
Date: between 1915 and 1919
Pendant necklace of blue and gold steel beads woven together to form a pendant. Purchased by Ellen Nixon Hair in France during World War I. Hair was working as a…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Serving spoon
Date: between 1862 and 1864
A German silver dinner spoon in the plain tipped handle pattern, dating from between 1862 and 1870. Manufactured by Hall & Elton of Wallingford, Connecticut. The donor’s father, Winfield Scott…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Dinner fork
Date: between 1862 and 1864
A German silver dinner fork in the plain tipped handle pattern, dating from between 1862 and 1870. The donor’s father, Winfield Scott Chapman, served with Company F of the 16th…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Hand carved ring
Date: between 1862 and 1864
Albert A. Newbold used his pocketknife to carve this ring from a laurel or rhododendron root while he was in Tennessee during the Civil War. Newbold served in the 38th…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Ceres statue
Date: between 1889 and 1901
Blue and yellow painted plaster statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, intended for the dome of the Kansas statehouse. As the statehouse neared completion, officials considered a statue…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station logo
Date: between 1975 and 1985
Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station corporate insignia designed by artist Blackbear Bosin. Completed in 1985 after years of debate over nuclear power, the Wolf Creek Generating Station is located near…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Purple Heart
Date: 1932
Purple Heart military medal awarded to George Robb for wounds received during WWI. Originally from Assaria, Kansas, Robb trained as a teacher at Park College in Missouri and attended Columbia…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Harry Truman’s Panama hat
Date: 1950
Panama hat worn by U.S. President Harry Truman. Photos of Harry Truman wearing a Panama hat appeared in the press during the summer of 1950. These images were seen by…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Symphony in the Flint Hills banner
Date: between 2006 and 2010
This large, off-white colored nylon banner was used at performances of Symphony in the Flint Hills. The banner is screen printed with a drawing of bluestem prairie grass, which was…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Kansas state banner
Date: 1955
This Kansas state banner was donated by the office of Governor Mark Parkinson following renovations of the Statehouse. This version of the State Banner, designed by Adjutant General Joe Nickell,…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Thunder Over the Flint Hills
Date: 2002
Pastel painting entitled Thunder Over the Flint Hills. The artist, Kimberly Casebeer, grew up in rural Southeast Kansas and studied art at Kansas State University until 1992. She later established…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Key overalls
Date: between 1960 and 1970
Dale McKale (1916-2002) was a wheat and livestock farmer in Longford, Kansas. He purchased these Key brand denim overalls in Clay Center, Kansas in the 1960s. Key Industries, Inc. began…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Carry Nation’s dress
Date: 1909
Ivory-colored wool dress worn by Carry A. Nation, an internationally recognized leader in the Temperance movement. A resident of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Nation was known to enter alcohol-serving establishments and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Carry Nation souvenir pin
Date: between 1901 and 1911
This is a gold-plated and mother-of-pearl souvenir hatchet pin has a rhinestone mounted at the center and is pinned to its original paper card. Carry A. Nation, a nationally recognized…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Alfred Landon campaign button cap
Date: 1936
Beige cap covered with campaigns buttons promoting the 1936 Presidential campaign of Alfred Landon and William Knox. Landon served as governor of Kansas from 1933-1937.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Eagle wheat weaving
Date: 1986
Wheat weaving artist Joyce Banbury presented this eagle to Governor John Carlin in Topeka on August 18, 1986. The weaving was given on behalf of the Kansas Wheat Commission (KWC)…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Bottle of turkey red wheat
Date: 1974
Glass bottle containing turkey red variety of wheat seed. Charles Goebbel, of Burlingame, Kansas, purchased this bottle in 1974. That year residents of Goessel, Kansas, sold these bottles to commemorate…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Sunflower quilt
Date: 1935
Yellow and brown cotton quilt pieced and appliquéd in pattern known as Sunflower, Missouri Daisy, or Star Dahlia. Quilt is made up of 42 blocks separated by sashing. Each block…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Stained glass window
Date: 1924
This wheat-themed stained glass window came from the second floor of the West Side Christian Church in Topeka, Kansas. Formed in 1909, the congregation was originally named the Auburndale Christian…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pants fragment
Date: 1892
These fragments of clothing were taken from members of the Dalton Gang who were killed in a shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892. J.J. Rambo, a newspaper editor…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Oztoberfest banner
Date: 2005
This vinyl banner advertised the first annual Oztoberfest in Wamego, Kansas in 2005. Oztoberfest is an annual community festival sponsored by the Oz Museum in Wamego. The festival celebrates the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Amelia Earhart Christmas card
Date: between 1931 and 1936
Christmas card from Amelia Earhart and George Putnam. Printed in black on off-white colored paper. The donor’s family knew Earhart and Putnam, and the couple stayed with the family when…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Amelia Earhart Christmas card
Date: between 1931 and 1936
Christmas card from Amelia Earhart and George Putnam. Printed in black on off-white colored paper. The donor’s family knew Earhart and Putnam, and the couple stayed with the family when…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Amelia Earhart Christmas card
Date: 1933
Christmas card from Amelia Earhart and George Putnam. Printed in black on off-white colored paper. The donor’s family knew Earhart and Putnam, and the couple stayed with the family when…