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Hat
Black mohair look hat. The black grosgrain ribbon around the crown is adorned with a small round ring applique. Label: For The Young Set. Stamped Fair-Tweed, Neimann-Endler, Inc., 85% wool, 15% cellulose.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll Bed Mattress
Doll bed mattress. White floral cotton stuffed with excelsior. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe. Used in doll bed 1987-0708-001. Stamped label: Reddick Folding Wire Doll Bed. Made by Michigan Wire Goods Co., Niles, Mich. No Child Labor Doll Beds oval trademark.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll Pillow
Doll pillow. Round with two ruffles. Made by the Dobberstein girls in 1880.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll Pillow
Doll pillow. White floral cotton with lace edging. Stuffed with excelsior. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe. Used in doll bed 1987-0708-001.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll Quilt
Doll quilt top. Squares of assorted colors and fabrics machine stitched into a piece quilt top. Unfinished; no backing, batting, or binding. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll Quilt
Doll Quilt. Crazy quilt of assorted colored wool and cotton fabrics with red bias tape binding. Hand stitched. Muslin backing. Donor was Dorothy Smyth of Lester Prairie, who married Dr Smyth in 1943 and had seven children. Page 570, McLeod County History book.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll blanket
Doll blanket. Tan & gray flannel with Indian blanket pattern. Buttonhole stitching around the outside edge. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll pillow
Rectangular doll pillow. Floral print on one side and three rows of alternating floral and plain yellow rectangular blocks on the other. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll pillow
Square doll pillow. Floral print. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe.
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Accessory, Doll - Doll quilt
Doll quilt. Cream color muslin with pink blanket stitching around the edges. Two Sunbonnet girls are embroidered on one side. Cotton batting. Belonged to Cecilia & Agatha Grewe.
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Accordion - Accordian
Beaver Brand single row style accordion. Ebonized wooden frame and keyboard; treble and bass panels in natural maple finish with fancy grill work on the treble side. Bellows of ten folds with metal corner protectors. Nickel plated clasps and corner trim. Ten treble keys and four bass keys with white glass buttons. Made in Germany. Found in house of the Ewald Family of Brownton, MN. A very similar instrument in the 1927 Sears, Roebuck catalog cos...
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Accordion - Button Accordion
Early button accordion with a one row, ten key treble side, a two button bass side and a single air valve button for expanding or contracting the bellows without sounding a note. Has two pull-out stops on top, decorative birds & flowers and metal corners on the wooden casing, metal clasps, twill hand strap and leather thumb strap. The bellows are made of black & gold patterned cardboard. Possibly German or Polish origin. This instrument is dia...
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Accordion - Button Accordion 1904 M. Hohner
1904 Hohner "Best Made" button accordion with a one row, ten key treble side, a two lever bass side and a single air valve lever for expanding or contracting the bellows without sounding a note. Has pearlized button levers, four pull-out stops on top, metal corners on the red & black wooden casing & bellows, leather strap clasps, leather hand strap and leather thumb strap. The bellows are made of green four leaf clover patterned cardboard. Mark...
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Adz, Carpenter's - Carpenter's ADZE
Carpenter's adze with maul head poll. Iron head, beveled on the inside; straight wood handle. From the 1800s. An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood. An adze was used with the hewing axe to make log faces as smooth as possible. Any divots, chunks, or "juggle marks" in the logs made by the hewing axe allow water to penetrate the wood, creating rot. In winter, this moisture will form ice build-up...
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Adz, Carpenter's - Carpenter's Adze
Carpenter's adze with octagonal poll for pounding. Cast iron blade with flaring square end beveled inside. Blade is at right angles to the wooden handle. From the 1800s. See p. 27 "A Museum of Early American Tools" by Eric Sloane for illustration & information.
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Adz, Carpenter's - Cast iron flared blade for a carpenter's adze
Flared blade with maul head poll for a carpenter's adze. Cast iron, beveled on the inside. From the 1800s. The adz was an axlike tool with the cutting edge perpendicular to the wooden handle rather than parallel. It was used for shaving or shaping wood. An adze was used with a hewing axe to make log faces as smooth as possible. Any divots, chunks, or "juggle marks" in the logs made by the hewing axe allowed water to penetrate the wood, creatin...
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Adz, Guttering - Gutter (guttering) Adze
Gutter (guttering) adze with "round" iron blade and straight wooden handle. It was also called a canoe or spout adze. The rounded up cutting edge formed a hollow curve and was used in hollowing out timber, for example to make troughs, wooden gutters & spouts or notchwork in log-building. The blade was ideal for hollowing out a log or forming a curve and was a useful tool for hollowing out large pieces such as a canoe. This adze does not have a ...
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Aid, Pill - Metal veterinary pill pusher/pill gun
Metal veterinary pill pusher/pill gun. Used to push pills down the throats of cattle. Large pill end & handle with three finger holes. Brass colored. Belonged to veterinarian Dr. A. J. Thompson, father of donor.
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Aid, Pill - Metal veterinary pill pusher/pill gun
Metal veterinary pill pusher/pill gun. Used to push pills down the throats of cattle. Metal with small pill end & handle with three finger holes. Belonged to veterinarian Dr. A. J. Thompson, father of donor.
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Aid, Pill - Veterinary pill pusher
Veterinary pill pusher. Used to push pills down the throats of cattle. Metal end with wooden handle.
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