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screw drivers. Material: wood and metal. Description: These are shaped like the very first screw drivers. handle in good condition |
Calipers. Material: metal; Description: pair of winged double calipers with set screw missing. From the History Information Station: Object: Calipers with double blade system.... |
calipers. Material: metal; Description: pair of dividers |
miter square and/or bevel square. Description: wood and metal miter bevel, JDB. From the History Information Station: Object: Handmade bevel, marked "JDB" History: A... |
square. Material: wood; Color: light; Description: a wooden square stamped "A. D. Mercer" From the History Information Station: Object: Carpenter's square, stamped "A.D. Mercer... |
Pepper or salt shaker. Material: tin. Shape: round with handle. Description: Painted tin toleware. From the History Information Station: This is a tin sugar shaker. Used for lightly... |
iron. Description: iron iron, flat - sad?Cast flatiron with wooden handle. Marked "6" which means it weighed six pounds. It was heated on the stove, and women learned to tell how hot it was by... |
Goldmining pan. Sheet iron pan for "panning for gold." To use the pan, gold seekers scooped up pebbles, mud, and water from stream beds, and swirled them around in the pan. The lighter... |
Chinese box with stone inside. Period or Date: California Period - Mother Lode; Description: Carved rectangular whetstone fits inside wood box. (D. Cooper, 3/96) According to the... |
tin pitcher |
round jello mold Cake and pudding molds of stamped tin. From the History Information Station: The pudding mold is made of stamped tin. Puddings and cakes were considered a... |
oblong jello mold with bundle of wheat design Inez Brooks-Myers, August 22, 2008: This is a gelatin or pudding mold, not a Jello mold as originally catalogued. "Jell-O" is a product... |
oblong jello mold with rose design Inez Brooks-Myers, August 22, 2008: This is a gelatin or pudding mold, not a jello mold as originally catalogued. "Jell-O" is a product developed at the... |
glass bitters bottle |
Sun colored bottle bottoms from Mother Lode and 1 salt From the History Information Station Gold Rush miners often made do with what they had brought or could make. Louise Clapp described dinner... |
Cabbage cutter. Consisting of a board and knife edge over an opening From the History Information Station: Object: Slicer, wood frame with metal blade. Primarily used for shredding... |
Dough bowl. Description: wooden dough bowl. From the History Information Station: Bread was a staple food of frontier life, and housewives made all their bread at home. This large... |
Doll with china head, leather arms, blue clothes, ca. 10". Blond hair |
Platter, Thomas Hughes, Burslem From the History Information Station: Object: Ironstone platter. Made in England, purchased in the United States. Marked "Thomas Hughes, Burslem."... |
Fire bucket, black leather From the History Information Station: Object: Leather fire bucket, covered in asphaltum. History: In addition to its pumpers that forced water... |
Set of deep yellow utilitarian pottery (bowls, milk dishes, molds), 11 pieces; blue transferware platter, cake plate, and covered sugar bowl. A: batter bowl, made of yellow ceramic, with a... |
Set of deep yellow utilitarian pottery (bowls, milk dishes, molds), 11 pieces; blue transferware platter, cake plate, and covered sugar bowl. C: small bowl, flat bottom, flared sides,... |
Two simple wooden straight chairs with woven rawhide seats. From the History Information Station: Wooden chair, once painted green, with seat of rawhide. Probably manufactured in... |
Two simple wooden straight chairs with woven rawhide seats. From the History Information Station: Wooden chair, once painted green, with seat of rawhide. Probably manufactured in... |