Medium: PhysicalObject
Olympic track shoe
Date: 1952
Red and white leather track shoe made by Karhu, a Finnish sports equipment company. Brown leather outsole with black composition heel. Six metal spikes protrude from bottom layer of toe…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: between 1911 and 1916
This book was written in 1911 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1926
This book was written in 1926 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1913
This book was written in 1913 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1914
This book was written in 1914 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1917
This book was written in 1917 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1915
This book was written in 1915 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1930
This book was written in 1930 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1918
This book was written in 1918 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1912
This book was written in 1912 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1939
This book was written in 1939 by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Edna Ferber inscribed book
Date: 1920
This book was written by prolific American novelist Edna Ferber (1885-1968) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. She first met William Allen White when they covered the 1912 Republican…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Currency
Date: 1854
Ten dollar note issued by Merchants Bank of Fort Leavenworth. White paper with black printing on front only. Cameo head of George Washington in oval flanked by fruit and flowers…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Currency
Date: 1857
Sheet of paper currency containing four bills (two $1, one $2, one $3). Printed by W.L. Ormsby, New York, and issued in Kansas Territory by the City Bank of Leavenworth.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Baseball bat
Date: 1869
This oversized pine baseball bat was presented to Dudley C. Haskell (1842-1883) in 1869 by residents of Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell was a local shoe merchant and a member of the…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Ballot box fragment
Date: 1882
Shallow rectangular pine ballot box with irregular sides and no lid. Portion of a ballot box used at the Stafford County seat election on Apr 5th, 1882. Before the polls…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Stained glass window pane
Date: 1933
Leaded glass windowpane with stained glass depicting a man spreading seed on a farmstead. One of a set of three windows depicting farming seasons. The window originally decorated the 1933…
Medium: PhysicalObject
African American doll
Date: between 1937 and 1945
Handmade African American cotton cloth doll. The doll has short, black yarn hair, and her facial features are embroidered. She wears a simple light green cotton dress. The donor received…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey dinner plate
Date: 1953
This is a beige-colored glazed ceramic dinner plate. This plate and other similar dinnerware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey charger
Date: between 1937 and 1943
A large, heavy copper charger with gold-colored finish. This plate and other similar dinnerware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas.…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey dinner knife
Date: 1912
A silver-plated knife. This knife and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey opened this chain of…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey soup spoon
Date: 1912
This is a silver-plated spoon. This spoon and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey opened this…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey dinner fork
Date: 1912
This is a large, four-tined silver-plated fork. This fork and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Fred Harvey oyster fork
Date: 1912
This is a small, three-tined silver-plated fork. This fork and other similar silverware were used in restaurants, called “Harvey Houses,” established in 1876 by Fred Harvey of Leavenworth, Kansas. Harvey…
Medium: PhysicalObject
Monkey wrench
Date: between 1859 and 1988
This is a wrench with an adjustable lower jaw it is used to turn nuts of different sizes.