Artifact of the Month Archive

Flour Bin

This flour bin came from the Dave and Nina Cowan homeplace southeast of Greenland (Washington County).

Guy Howard and his friend Ralph Miller made these chess pieces in the mid-1900s in Howard’s home workshop in Springdale.

This needlework was sold as a ready-to-make kit. Sears and Roebuck listed similar items in their 1902 catalog as “sofa cushion covers.”

This hand-cranked machine was used to apply dry pesticide such as Paris Green (an arsenic compound) to garden plants.

A forerunner of today’s virtual reality viewers, this circa 1925 viewer made still images appear in 3-D.

Before store-bought fabric became common, many a pioneer woman had a loom where she made cloth for her family’s needs.