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| Catalogue # | Title | Type | Subject | Description | |
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| 1000.180.1322 | Antique sewing machine from the Moorfield Storey house |
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| Sewing Machine, hand/foot-operated "A & S" sewing machine on cast iron stand with three drawers and wooden work surface table and matching wooden box-like cover; the right drawer is loose and not attached to the base; all three drawers are filled with sewing notions; the sewing machine is from the Moorfield Storey household. | 
Description: Sewing Machine, hand/foot-operated "A & S" sewing machine on cast iron stand with three drawers and wooden work surface table and matching wooden box-like cover; the right drawer is loose and not attached to the base; all three drawers are filled with sewing notions; the sewing machine is from the Moorfield Storey household. |
| 2014.298.2052 | Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant |
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| Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant from Selim house with circle for the stovepipe of a Glenwood N cooking stove cut out of center. Deep red wallpaper with floral design. Pertinent to the early 19th-century cape house study underway 2014 (part of the parsonage house shoes project (see 2015.304.2062). The house was moved across Cranberry Road from its early 19th-c location ca.1944. Plasterboard/drywall with paper on both faces with no felt layers began ca. 1910-1930 in U.S. Mickey Macfarlan recalls this house was dragged and winched with a capstan using a big tree stump. Charles "Bunny" Storey worked all summer relocating the house and dynamiting the new site. He could hear the rock debris falling down. | 
Description: Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant from Selim house with circle for the stovepipe of a Glenwood N cooking stove cut out of center. Deep red wallpaper with floral design. Pertinent to the early 19th-century cape house study underway 2014 (part of the parsonage house shoes project (see 2015.304.2062). The house was moved across Cranberry Road from its early 19th-c location ca.1944. Plasterboard/drywall with paper on both faces with no felt layers began ca. 1910-1930 in U.S. Mickey Macfarlan recalls this house was dragged and winched with a capstan using a big tree stump. Charles "Bunny" Storey worked all summer relocating the house and dynamiting the new site. He could hear the rock debris falling down. [show more] |
| 2014.288.2043 | Straw whisk broom |
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| Straw whisk broom with metal and string binding, tag reads "Gift from Ladies Aid Society, ca. early 1900. | 
Description: Straw whisk broom with metal and string binding, tag reads "Gift from Ladies Aid Society, ca. early 1900. |
| 1000.0.1361 | Ornate metal picture frame |
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| Frame. Ornate Metal Picture Frame for 4" to 6" pictures | 
Description: Frame. Ornate Metal Picture Frame for 4" to 6" pictures |
| 1000.0.1365 | Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase |
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| Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase. Labeled : Ada Rice Set | 
Description: Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase. Labeled : Ada Rice Set |
| 2013.214.1846 | Steamer trunk |
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| Steamer trunk with metal bottom with inset wheels, reinforced metal corners and edges, wooden slats on all sides including top and bottom to protect the exterior sides, a leather handle on each short side (one handle broken), with remains of two paper shipping labels: on the bottom, RECEIPT COLLECT 353551 WAYBILL LABEL BOSTON MASS AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS NOV ??? 18; on the short side, unreadable; written inside on the bottom: C.M. Gott |
Description: Steamer trunk with metal bottom with inset wheels, reinforced metal corners and edges, wooden slats on all sides including top and bottom to protect the exterior sides, a leather handle on each short side (one handle broken), with remains of two paper shipping labels: on the bottom, RECEIPT COLLECT 353551 WAYBILL LABEL BOSTON MASS AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS NOV ??? 18; on the short side, unreadable; written inside on the bottom: C.M. Gott |
| 2012.13.1532 | Clothes iron set |
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| Iron. Clothes iron set consisting of two flat irons, detachable wooden handle (one), and base stand. Irons are cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILA PA, NO 50", and are intended to be heated on a stove. Handle is interchangeable between both irons, so one iron can be used to press clothes while the other iron is being heated without a handle. Stand is cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILADELPHIA" |
Description: Iron. Clothes iron set consisting of two flat irons, detachable wooden handle (one), and base stand. Irons are cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILA PA, NO 50", and are intended to be heated on a stove. Handle is interchangeable between both irons, so one iron can be used to press clothes while the other iron is being heated without a handle. Stand is cast iron with writing "ENTERPRISE MFG CO, PHILADELPHIA" |
| 1000.0.1302 | Wooden laundry stirrer |
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| Art, carved wooden laundry stirrer, made by Sam Chapman |
Description: Art, carved wooden laundry stirrer, made by Sam Chapman |
| 1000.0.1190 | Lampshade with roses |
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| Lampshade, 8 oval panels of taut waxy paper with lace applique roses on each, all fringed. From a GCI home. |
Description: Lampshade, 8 oval panels of taut waxy paper with lace applique roses on each, all fringed. From a GCI home. |
| 1000.0.1337 | Bird nest under a glass bell-like jar |
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| Bird nest. Real bird nest under a glass bell-like jar, with smaller than official size paper Hitty in the nest (no crows). Nest probably a prop collected by Wini Smart. |
Description: Bird nest. Real bird nest under a glass bell-like jar, with smaller than official size paper Hitty in the nest (no crows). Nest probably a prop collected by Wini Smart. |
