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2010.191.1400Weaving loom
  • Object, Loom
Loom. Wooden Weaving Loom. Given to McShea Family by Weinrich Family. History unknown. With two skeins of thread and off-white thread on loom. Perhaps from Bea Weinrich's home when she lived across from the Parsonage house on GCI. (Barely used if ever, perhaps a teaching tool or model.)
Description:
Loom. Wooden Weaving Loom. Given to McShea Family by Weinrich Family. History unknown. With two skeins of thread and off-white thread on loom. Perhaps from Bea Weinrich's home when she lived across from the Parsonage house on GCI. (Barely used if ever, perhaps a teaching tool or model.)
2013.241.1967Hammer with wood handle and metal head
  • Object, Woodworking
Tool. Hammer, wood handle inserted into a metal head.
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Tool. Hammer, wood handle inserted into a metal head.
2013.248.1951Popcorn popper with rectangular wire basket
  • Object, Cooking Vessels
Tool. Popcorn popper. Rectangular wire basket with lid that opens, wooden handle.
Description:
Tool. Popcorn popper. Rectangular wire basket with lid that opens, wooden handle.
1000.0.1342Tin oil can for sewing machine
  • Object, Needlework Machine, Sewing Machine
Tool, Tin Oil Can for Sewing Machine
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Tool, Tin Oil Can for Sewing Machine
2014.275.2013Baby Quilt
  • Object, Art, Needlework, Quilt
Quilt, modern, infant size, made by Beverly Sanborn. Gold borders and gold horizontal and vertical panels with four-piece squares of multi-colored patterns and solid pastels. Reverse of quilt is aqua, edged with white patterned binding on four sides. Polyester fill.
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Quilt, modern, infant size, made by Beverly Sanborn. Gold borders and gold horizontal and vertical panels with four-piece squares of multi-colored patterns and solid pastels. Reverse of quilt is aqua, edged with white patterned binding on four sides. Polyester fill.
2010.190.1398Ladies 19th century shoes
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
Shoes. Ladies Shoes- 19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (See also 2009.11.1942 for possible shoes.)
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Shoes. Ladies Shoes- 19th Century-Macfarlan Family. (See also 2009.11.1942 for possible shoes.)
2013.214.1921Golliwog doll
  • Object, Doll
Doll, Golliwog, a miniature cloth person in blue shirt with red and white striped pants, black face, black curly hair, big red lips, whites of eyes prominent. Anti Black Caricature prominent in the early 20th century.
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Doll, Golliwog, a miniature cloth person in blue shirt with red and white striped pants, black face, black curly hair, big red lips, whites of eyes prominent. Anti Black Caricature prominent in the early 20th century.
2015.306.2065Butter churn
  • Object, Dairy Tool, Butter Worker
Butter churn (a.k.a. box or barrel churn), wooden with red stenciled lettering "No. 3 Improved" and faded red stenciled cow on one side of barrel. Red stenciled lettering "Boston, Amesplu_ _ _, New York" on the other side. Wood and steel handle on one side turns the slatted wooden paddle wheel inside. (B) Wooden spatula. Wooden top. Probably late 19th century. "It was small enough to stand on a table; used for small-scale production of butter in a farmhouse dairy. It would about 70 pints of mile to produce enough cream to make just 18 oz (500gms) of butter. Complete with interior paddle wheel to agitate cream, lid, peg for the drain hole, and handle to rotate paddle wheel. The cream was poured into the opening at the top of the barrel and the handle turned. This would rotate the slatted wooden panels and agitate the cream. There was a small inspection hole in the top of the lid to allow the operator to check the progress of the butter without opening the churn. It would take about an hour and a half to turn the cream to butter. The whey was poured off and either drunk or used as pig food. The butter was then removed from the churn and was washed repeatedly in cold water. It was then beaten with wooden butter beaters or kneaded by hand to remove the excess moisture." http://www.objectlessons.org/work-and-innovation-victorians/barrel-butter-churn-victorian-original/s64/a930/
Description:
Butter churn (a.k.a. box or barrel churn), wooden with red stenciled lettering "No. 3 Improved" and faded red stenciled cow on one side of barrel. Red stenciled lettering "Boston, Amesplu_ _ _, New York" on the other side. Wood and steel handle on one side turns the slatted wooden paddle wheel inside. (B) Wooden spatula. Wooden top. Probably late 19th century. "It was small enough to stand on a table; used for small-scale production of butter in a farmhouse dairy. It would about 70 pints of mile to produce enough cream to make just 18 oz (500gms) of butter. Complete with interior paddle wheel to agitate cream, lid, peg for the drain hole, and handle to rotate paddle wheel. The cream was poured into the opening at the top of the barrel and the handle turned. This would rotate the slatted wooden panels and agitate the cream. There was a small inspection hole in the top of the lid to allow the operator to check the progress of the butter without opening the churn. It would take about an hour and a half to turn the cream to butter. The whey was poured off and either drunk or used as pig food. The butter was then removed from the churn and was washed repeatedly in cold water. It was then beaten with wooden butter beaters or kneaded by hand to remove the excess moisture." http://www.objectlessons.org/work-and-innovation-victorians/barrel-butter-churn-victorian-original/s64/a930/ [show more]
1000.0.1323Small cast iron clothes iron
  • Object, Furnishings, Other Household Accessories
Tool, clothes iron, small cast iron, with "6" molded into the handle. Wire mesh holder below.
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Tool, clothes iron, small cast iron, with "6" molded into the handle. Wire mesh holder below.
1000.167.1188Victrola record player
  • Object, Phonograph, Record Player
Artifact, hand cranked console Victrola (record player). Returned to donor.
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Artifact, hand cranked console Victrola (record player). Returned to donor.
1000.0.1362Light brown umbrella
  • Object, Umbrella
Light brown parasol with brown tassels (silk?) It is possible that this parasol goes with item #1180 on Accession # 11 per Bruce Komusin
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Light brown parasol with brown tassels (silk?) It is possible that this parasol goes with item #1180 on Accession # 11 per Bruce Komusin
1000.154.1121Triangular pointed boatbuilding tool
  • Object, Woodworking, Boatbuilding
Tool, triangular pointed boatbuilding tool apparently for making small holes
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Tool, triangular pointed boatbuilding tool apparently for making small holes
1000.0.1120Rasp tool
  • Object, Woodworking
Tool, rasp, two-sided, flat and curved; makers mark: (worn away) USA
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Tool, rasp, two-sided, flat and curved; makers mark: (worn away) USA
1000.154.1127Caulking iron
  • Object, Woodworking, Boatbuilding
Tool, caulking iron, used to drive fiber caulking into the seam between planks on a boat
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Tool, caulking iron, used to drive fiber caulking into the seam between planks on a boat
2015.307.2066Buoys used by Victor White
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Buoy
Fishing gear. Buoys,wood, painted orange and white - Victor White's colors. (A) Long bullet shaped, and (B) rounded with wooden handle inserted on one end.
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Fishing gear. Buoys,wood, painted orange and white - Victor White's colors. (A) Long bullet shaped, and (B) rounded with wooden handle inserted on one end.
1000.0.1254Metal coffee grinder
  • Object, Food Grinding Tool, Food Grinder
Tool, kitchen, metal coffee grinder
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Tool, kitchen, metal coffee grinder
1000.0.1250Metal meat grinder
  • Object, Food Grinding Tool, Food Grinder
Tool kitchen, metal meat grinder, molded with "ENTERPRISE FOOD CHOPPER", "ENTRPRISE MF'G CO, PHIL, USA", AND "JCO 303", and on wooden handle "226"
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Tool kitchen, metal meat grinder, molded with "ENTERPRISE FOOD CHOPPER", "ENTRPRISE MF'G CO, PHIL, USA", AND "JCO 303", and on wooden handle "226"
1000.0.1259Pulley perhaps for pulling lobster traps
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
Tool, pulley, round, very open and wide rope surface, probably an outboard pulley for lobster trap pulling
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Tool, pulley, round, very open and wide rope surface, probably an outboard pulley for lobster trap pulling
1000.176.1238Wooden level on brass plate
  • Object, Woodworking
Tool, wooden level, on brass plate "STANLEY / RULE & LEVEL CO / NEW BRITAIN CONN USA / PAT 6-2-91 6-2-96"; on the bubble level inserts "STANLEY ADJUSTABLE PATENTED MAR 25 90"
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Tool, wooden level, on brass plate "STANLEY / RULE & LEVEL CO / NEW BRITAIN CONN USA / PAT 6-2-91 6-2-96"; on the bubble level inserts "STANLEY ADJUSTABLE PATENTED MAR 25 90"
2002.20.1242Shoemaker's last, approx. 10"
  • Object, Last, Shoe Last
Tool, Shoemaker's Last, approx. 10". Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old. (See also items 1240-1245.)
Description:
Tool, Shoemaker's Last, approx. 10". Found in the old Lewis Ladd barn, a.k.a. Spurling home, and Freeman home (across from donor's home). Lewis Ladd died in 1912 at 88 years old. (See also items 1240-1245.)
2013.217.1851Lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling ca. 2000
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
Boots. Black rubber lobsterman's fishing boots, size 11, tops folded over, heavily spattered with red and blue paint, found and recovered by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin from the town dump, and later identified by Steve Spurling as being his own boots that he threw away ca. 2000
Description:
Boots. Black rubber lobsterman's fishing boots, size 11, tops folded over, heavily spattered with red and blue paint, found and recovered by Wini Smart & Bruce Komusin from the town dump, and later identified by Steve Spurling as being his own boots that he threw away ca. 2000
2013.241.2038Boots of lobersterman Steve Spurling
  • Object, Clothing, Shoe
Boots. Pair of rubber lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling. Size 10, black with yellow along foot and white soles.
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Boots. Pair of rubber lobsterman boots belonging to Steve Spurling. Size 10, black with yellow along foot and white soles.
2016.377.2140Six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers" (decoys)
  • Object, Model
Decoys. Set of six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers". Each pair of decoy ducks is attached by a wood slat, then the whole set is attached by strings. Used for luring coot ducks when hunting. Set the decoys on the water, then row off in a boat, and shoot whatever ducks are attracted. Lightweight wood with metal fasteners.
Description:
Decoys. Set of six pairs of hand carved wood "tollers". Each pair of decoy ducks is attached by a wood slat, then the whole set is attached by strings. Used for luring coot ducks when hunting. Set the decoys on the water, then row off in a boat, and shoot whatever ducks are attracted. Lightweight wood with metal fasteners.
2013.256.1984Grappling hook with ring from Victor White's old garage
  • Object, Fishing, Fishing Equipment
Tool. Grappling hook with ring: metal, 4-pronged with hole in handle and ring through hole, from Victor White's old garage, summer 2013.
Description:
Tool. Grappling hook with ring: metal, 4-pronged with hole in handle and ring through hole, from Victor White's old garage, summer 2013.
2000.38.1847Model lobster boat made by George Savage
  • Object, Model
Model, wooden lobster boat, black hull with red hull bottom, white deck, gray cabin, rudder missing, no name; handmade by George Savage.
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Model, wooden lobster boat, black hull with red hull bottom, white deck, gray cabin, rudder missing, no name; handmade by George Savage.