Medium: PhysicalObject
Dryden vase
Date: between 1946 and 1956
This rose-colored vase was made by Dryden Pottery in Ellsworth, Kansas between 1946 and 1956. Founded by A. James (Jim) Dryden in 1946, the pottery made ceramics that were considered…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pull toy
Date: between 1920 and 1926
Rectangular-shaped tin frame base with wooden balls painted to look like a person, with black hair and a red body. When pulled the oval frame flips upside down and the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Wooden dachshund pull toy
Date: between 1920 and 1926
The dog is segmented into three pieces, and is hinged with nails just behind the front legs and just in front of the back legs with wooden wheels at the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Security Benefit Association serving bowl
Date: between 1920 and 1930
This serving bowl, made by the Warwick China Company, has the seal of the Security Benefit Association. In 1892, the Security Benefit Association formed in Topeka, Kansas as a fraternal…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Republican elephant stuffed toy
Date: 1936
Blue stuffed elephant wearing a silk 1936 G.O.P. banner. This elephant belonged to Alfred Mossman Landon, Kansas governor from 1933 to 1937, and 1936 Republican U.S. presidential nominee.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Chinese vase
Date: between 1920 and 1986
Made in the 20th century, this ceramic vase resembles an amphora of the Tang Dynasty and has a glaze similar to Jun ware of the Song Dynasty. The Vice Governor…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Majolica pitcher
Date: between 1880 and 1890
This majolica pitcher was likely produced in England in the 1880s. The “Gurgling fish” style was popular, so named because of the gurgling sound it made while pouring. This pitcher…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pie bird
Date: between 1939 and 1950
The Shawnee Pottery Company in Zanesville, Ohio produced this pie bird likely as a premium for the Pillsbury Flour Company. Pie birds were placed in the center of a pie…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Hand-painted vase
Date: between 1897 and 1898
The Ceramic Art Company produced this vase between 1897 and 1898 in Trenton, New Jersey. The company, now known as Lenox, began in 1889 as a partnership between Walter Scott…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Child’s bowl
Date: between 1914 and 1921
This child’s porcelain bowl on three feet is hand painted with a repeating pattern of a crouching bunny in a rust-colored jacket. Marked Noritake / Nippon, this bowl was made…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Pie bird
Date: between 1939 and 1950
The Shawnee Pottery Company in Zanesville, Ohio produced this pie bird likely as a premium for the Pillsbury Flour Company. Pie birds were placed in the center of a pie…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Toy jeep
Date: between 1947 and 1960
This brightly colored toy jeep was made in Japan after World War II, either during or shortly following U.S. military occupation. Toys such as this were produced for export to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Toy International Harvester Pickup Truck
Date: between 1952 and 1955
Green plastic model International Harvester Pickup Truck. It has a chrome-plated bumper, rubber tires on metal axels, and red plastic tire rims and steering wheel. It was made by the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Toy Mobilgas car
Date: between 1950 and 1963
Mattel produced this tin racer with a promotional Mobilgas logo in several colors. The Socony Mobil Oil Company changed its tradename from “Mobilgas” to “Mobil” in 1963.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Timely Turnabout toy car
Date: between 1950 and 1960
Timely toys, Inc. produced the Timely Turnabout car in the 1950s. This futuristic car has a clockwork key mechanism. A fifth wheel in the the car’s center causes it to…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Mattel’s Dream Car
Date: 1953
Mattel made this “Dream Car” in the 1950s. According to the Mattel catalog of 1953, the car was available in four futuristic colors of Red Blaze (pictured), Chartruese Dreamliner, Black…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Majolica plate
Date: between 1883 and 1900
Villeroy & Boch, Niederlassung Schramberg produced this majolica plate between 1883 and 1900.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Child’s dish
Date: between 1886 and 1892
Whittaker & Company produced this child’s plate in Hanley, England. It is part of their Nursery Rhyme series, produced between 1886 and 1892. The transfer printed image depicts the nursery…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Strother Army Air Field plate
Date: between 1942 and 1945
The Sterling China Company produced this ceramic plate for the officer’s mess at Strother Army Airfield in Kansas. Built in 1942 and located between Arkansas City and Winfield, Kansas, Strother…
Medium: PhysicalObject
“City of Kansas City” plate
Date: between 1965 and 1970
This plate in the Winged Streamliner pattern was part of a complete place setting given to the Kansas Historical Society by the Union Pacific Railroad. The setting was presented in…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Hull Vase
Date: between 1950 and 1960
This 7 1/2″ Woodland vase comes from Hull Pottery’s Royal line. It is turquoise in color with a speckled look and black shading. The line started in the 1950s and…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Toy shotgun
Date: between 1950 and 1970
Double barrel shotgun made of tin. It has a plastic mock wood grain rifle-butt. Two corks in each barrel. It was made by Gun-Master in Japan between 1950 and 1970.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Stellar dominoes
Date: between 1870 and 1920
This set of wooden dominoes, made by The Embossing Company of Albany, New York, dates between 1870 and 1920. The Embossing Company specialized in wooden toys.
Medium: PhysicalObject
Dresden dish and saucer
Date: between 1887 and 1915
This Dresden dessert dish and saucer from the Ambrosius Lamm studio was produced between 1887 and 1915. Each piece is decorated in the Viennese style with raised gold paste work…
Medium: PhysicalObject
World War I toy soldier
Date: between 1914 and 1925
This figure represents a World War I soldier carrying a rifle with a bayonet. Made of lead, he is part of a set of toy soldiers dating from 1914 to…