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0000.1 - Bottle
Pepsi bottle; clear glass bottle with paper label; red, white, and blue PEPSI logo; 16oz
Record Type: Artifacts
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1983.1.3 - Headdress
A heavy headdress; headdress hosts blue beads; multicolored pom-poms; clear beaded fringe; all on a wooden frame; a gold leather band supports the headdress on the head; interior is padded and lined with red silk; part of a theatrical costume. Finley Elder (b. Apr. 11, 1902, d. Feb. 9, 1991. Married to Donald B. Gracey) wore this headdress as part of her costume during the Texas Cotton Palace Exposition in Texas in 1924. She was chosen to re...
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1983.1.6 - Necklace
Necklace; brown carved wooden beads with four large blue glass beads evenly spaced along length; hanging from one blue bead is black ribbon with has a flat oval shape piece of glass attached at center of ribbon.
Record Type: Artifacts
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1983.2.12 - Sheller, Corn
Cornhusker; red with 'Made by Root-Heath Mfg. Co. Plymouth O. USA 4' embossed on reel; wooden handle. In 1904, the Root Brothers Co. became the Root-Heath Mfg. Co., and began building hardware items such as corn shelters, grist mills and lawn mower sharpening machines, in addition to the cobbler’s tools. The company was based in Plymouth, Ohio. In 1919, the Root-Heath company merged with the J.D. Fate Co., becoming the Fate-Root-Heath Co.
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1984.1.30 - Kit, Sewing
Sewing kit box; wooden; an implement card lined in purple fabric; an ivory needle holder; an ivory fid; a star shaped ivory tool; key to the box. Although the sewing machine was created in 1755, it would take more than a century to enter households. Given this, sewing kits were an essential tool for repairing clothing, uniforms, and so on in the mid 1800s.
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1984.1.11 - Holder, Thread
Sewer's helper in the shape of a bird with spring clamp; spring clamp used for holding material; C clamp at bottom with design shaped handle for adjusting. Sewing birds were clamped to a table, helping individuals to keep fabric taut as they sewed. These birds helped individuals sew and hem by hand. Wealthy women often acquired highly detailed and ornamented bird clamps to showcase their social status. Sewing clamps lost their popularity as s...
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1984.1.21 - Button, Collar
Button, collar; brass plated with round eye; 'Milligan Rolled Plate' etched on facing, 1.2cm in length
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1984.1.3 - Rest, Iron
Iron rest; tin, 3 indentations in each corner for stability, 'Enterprise 8397 Mfg. Co. Phila. PA. USA', pressed into base, 15.2cm in length.
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1984.10.2 - Box, Cigarette
Cigarette box; tax stamp on front dated Aug. 5, 1909, camel on the front, series of 1910, blue bottom, manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Salem, NC, USA,
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1984.10.35a-b - Piece, Game
A planchette is a small, usually heart-shaped flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled castors and a pencil-holding aperture, used to facilitate automatic writing. The use of planchettes to produce mysterious written messages gave rise to the belief that the devices foster communication with spirits as a form of mediumship. Label on reverse" The Scientific Planchette/ From the Original pattern first made in 1860/ IMPROVED/ How to work Planche...
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1984.10.36 - Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope; toy; tube; decorated in maroon and gold. The Ancient Greek of Kaleidoscope translates to "observation of beautiful forms." A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection.
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1984.10.56 - Horn, Powder
A large powder horn with leather covering. Tip has one brass band and top has 2 brass bands.
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1984.108.27 - Bottle
Bottle, medicine; clear glass; 'S.B. Stewart Pharmacists Clarksville' embossed. The Steward Drug Store was housed in Clarksville, TN.
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1984.108.40 - Goblet
Goblet, glass water; ‘Compliments of N.V. Gerhart's Sons Clarksville, Tenn.', printed in white on side, 15cm in length, 8cm across top. Nathaniel Gerhart (1827-1896) operated a dry goods store on Franklin Street in Clarksville
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