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Candlestick, Miner's
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wrought iron miner's candlestick with adjustable candle holder and spike for driving into the wall of a mine.
Wheel, Spinning
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black painted wooden spinning wheel. Four turned legs mortised through a horizontal bench. Two turned poles support a large wheel with turned spokes. Two bobbin holders mounted on a flat bench. Hand forged iron hardware. Wooden pegs used on mortised joints. 37" high.
Sturbridge Commons, Massachusetts
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The commons, an open area of Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, were laid out with buildings grouped around the edges.
Monta' Mower
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Monta mower. Long (48.25) inch wooden T-shaped handle attached to a metal cutting unit by one large bolt. Nine disk-shaped gears are mounted on a horizontal shaft and attached by two brackets, each with a hole for oiling. Each of the nine gears rotates with the shaft by pushing the unit along the ground. Each of the rotating gears has 15 teeth, which engage cutting teeth, wh...
French Art Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a cloth doll with blonde hair. The head is made of a cheese cloth type material and has painted features including blue eyes under black eyebrows and red lips. The long slender body is made of purple sateen as are the long arms and legs.
Yoked Oxen, G.P. Davis Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The oxen in this photograph were used to farm the prairie on the G.P. Davis Farm, McLean County, Illinois.
Bowl
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round wooden bowl. Made from a burl of a tree. Has been carved out -- not turned. There is a repair made with tin on one side which covers a crack which extends over the lip and to the base.
Cloth Soldier Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cloth soldier doll has a stiffened felt head with painted brown hair, black eyes, white teeth, and pink cheeks. The doll is costumed in a brown felt cap with a brass button in front. The brown velvet uniform also has brass buttons as well as pocket flaps and a belt with a buckle. The doll comes complete with black velvet shoes and a cloth label that reads, "Made in Engla...
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
Incan vessel with monkey motif
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Noth coast whistling pot. Single spout tanware pot with monkey motif. Flat bottom with flared spout in center of top. A scroll pattern and lines surround the base of the spout. Vertical lines are painted from shoulders to base of pot. A raised monkey head with outstretched arms are on one side of pot with curved tail and legs on opposite side.
Patsy Babyette; EffanBee Durable Patsy Dolls
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This composition doll has moveable head, arms, and legs. The head has painted dark hair. The face has painted 'googley' eyes, red lips, and pink cheeks. The doll is clothed in light blue dress that is trimmed with red and green. She also has a red scarf, and an apron of multi-colors and materials. Underneath the dress is a white slip. She also has white socks, and black pape...

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Candlestick, Miner's

Wheel, Spinning

Sturbridge Commons, Massachusetts

Monta' Mower

French Art Doll

Yoked Oxen, G.P. Davis Farm

Bowl

Cloth Soldier Doll

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Incan vessel with monkey motif

Patsy Babyette; EffanBee Durable Patsy Dolls

Candlestick, Miner's

Wheel, Spinning

Sturbridge Commons, Massachusetts

Monta' Mower

French Art Doll

Yoked Oxen, G.P. Davis Farm

Bowl

Cloth Soldier Doll

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Incan vessel with monkey motif

Patsy Babyette; EffanBee Durable Patsy Dolls