Pair of knit mustard yellow child-size mittens. Belonged to Lura Woodside Watkins (1887-1982).
Date: 1885-1900
Maker: unknown
Material: yarn
GUSN: 310893
Accession Number: 2015.62.187AB
Pair of knit olive green socks with plaid tops. Belonged to Lura Woodside Watkins (1887-1982).
GUSN: 310894
Accession Number: 2015.62.188AB
White waist apron embroidered with white flowers and leaves.
Date: 1890-1910
Material: cloth
GUSN: 310895
Accession Number: 2015.62.189
White, long-sleeved, button-down blouse embroidered with white flowers down bodice and at wrists.
Date: 1900-1910
GUSN: 310896
Accession Number: 2015.62.190
Child's short cape made from white-colored cotton decorated with whitework embroidery and eyelets along scalloped hem and fronts. Body of cape decorated with repeating scroll of whitework grapevine and fruit (eyelet holes form individual grapes in bunches).
Date: 1904
Maker: Thomas, Lura Burgess (Maker)
Material: cotton (textile), whitework, broderie anglaise
GUSN: 310897
Accession Number: 2015.62.191
White cotton camisole (corset cover), button-front, eyelet embroidery along top of bodice.
Material: cotton (textile)
GUSN: 310898
Accession Number: 2015.62.192
Delicate white petticoat with white eyelet embroidered at hem.
GUSN: 310899
Accession Number: 2015.62.193
Dark pewter-colored metal thimble with wavy design near opening and convex tip. Belonged to Lura Woodside Watkins (1887-1982).
Date: 1885-1920
Material: metal
GUSN: 310900
Accession Number: 2015.62.194
Size 6 metal thimble. Shiny tin with slightly concave tip. Belonged to Lura Woodside Watkins (1887-1982).
Material: tin alloy
GUSN: 310901
Accession Number: 2015.62.195
Small metal thimble. Brass color, large divets, slightly concave tip. Belonged to Lura Woodside Watkins (1887-1982).
GUSN: 310902
Accession Number: 2015.62.196
Small, fine, plain-weave cotton collar with design drawn in blue ink and floral scrolls embroidered in pink and green. Two lengths of pink tape stitched to top edges of collar for tie. Lura Burgess Woodside's (1887-1982) first handwork.
Date: 1885-1895
GUSN: 310903
Accession Number: 2015.62.197
Spic and Span brand powder cleanser in original, unopened box. Manufactured by Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Material: soap boxes, cardboard
GUSN: 310927
Accession Number: 1998.6138
Small, unopened sample size box of "La France" brand laundry whitener. Box is printed white and dark blue. Manufactured by General Foods Corporation, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Date: 1930-1940
Material: cardboard, optical brightener
GUSN: 310940
Accession Number: 1998.6139
Cast iron pestle.
Material: cast iron
GUSN: 310942
Accession Number: 1918.547
Small box of "Satina" brand starch addative. Manufactured by General Foods Corporation, New York, New York.
Date: 1940-1950
Material: cardboard
GUSN: 310943
Accession Number: 1998.6140
Bar of soap in unopened original paper wrapping. "Hand Sapolio" brand soap manufactured by Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, New York City.
Date: 1900-1920
Maker: Enoch Morgan's Sons (Manufacturer)
Material: paper (fiber product), soap (organic material)
GUSN: 310944
Accession Number: 1998.6141
"Pummo" brand glycerine-pumice soap bar in box with instruction sheet. Manufactured by N. K. Faribank Company, Chicago.
Date: 1910-1930
Maker: N.K. Fairbank Co. (Manufacturer)
Material: soap (organic material), paper (fiber product), cardboard
GUSN: 310945
Accession Number: 1998.6142
Silver tablespoon with a fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, and a pointed oval bowl.
Material: silver (metal)
GUSN: 310946
Accession Number: 1935.1538.2
Paper packet of Wood Violet (purple) colored fabric dye. Packet is printed with instructions for use is packaged inside envelop with image of woman lifting a piece of clothing from a bowl. The bowl and piece of clothing are colored purple to reflect the color the enclosed dye. Also enclosed in the ...
Date: 1924-1940
Material: paper (fiber product), dye
GUSN: 310947
Accession Number: 1998.6143
"Sunset Soap Dyes" brand fabric dye. Dye is in block form wrapped in paper and packaged inside original box with a paper pamphlet. The dye color is "Sand 6" as indicated on the side of the box. Produced by North American Dye Corporation, Mount Vernon, New York.
Date: 1915-1935
Material: dye, paper (fiber product), cardboard
GUSN: 310953
Accession Number: 1998.6144
Small, sample size bar of Lava Soap in original box. Manufactured by William Walker & Company, St. Louis, Moussouri.
Date: 1910-1920
Material: soap (organic material), cardboard
GUSN: 310954
Accession Number: 1998.6147
Paper cloth used to cover and prevent the melting of ice in ice chests. Packaged in paper envelop with sheet of instructions. Manufactured by the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Material: paper (fiber product)
GUSN: 310969
Accession Number: 1998.6003
"Kez" brand sanitary napkin packaged in original box with three paper inserts with information about the product and other products made by I. B. Kleinert Rubber Company, New York City.
Maker: Kleinert's (Manufacturer)
Material: cotton (textile), cloth, cardboard, paper (fiber product)
GUSN: 310979
Accession Number: 1998.6065
Venus brand cotton and cloth sanitary napkins packaged in cardboard box.
Maker: Venus (Manufacturer)
Material: cardboard, cotton (textile), cloth
GUSN: 310984
Accession Number: 1998.6067
Print of Madonna and Child. Block-printed and hand-colored with vibrant red and gilt detailing on a black background. Plain black frame, gray matting.
Date: 1940-1980
Maker: Crite, Allan Rohan (American painter, illustrator, 1910-2007) (Artist)
Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)
GUSN: 310716
Accession Number: 2015.62.11
Full-body portrait of Lura Burgess Woodside Watkins (1887-1982) in wedding dress and veil, holding flower bouquet. Plain black frame, cream-colored matting.
Date: 1910
Material: photographs
GUSN: 310717
Accession Number: 2015.62.12
Full-body portrait of Lura Burgess Woodside Watkins (1887-1982) in wedding dress and veil, holding flower bouquet. Arts and crafts style frame.
GUSN: 310718
Accession Number: 2015.62.13
Engraving "View of the Bridge Over the Mystic River and the Country Adjacent from Bunker's Hill." Engraving depicts bridge with hilly landscape in background and river with rowboat in foreground.
Date: 1795
Maker: Hill, Samuel, ca. 1766-1803 (Engraver)
GUSN: 310719
Accession Number: 2015.62.14
Billhead from F. Woodworth, Stone and Ronkingham Ware, Burlington, Vermont. Paper. Plain wood frame.
Date: 1875
Maker: Woodworth, F., F. Woodworth (Potter)
GUSN: 310720
Accession Number: 2015.62.15
Painting, half-length portrait of a seated woman wearing a black dress and gold chain. Paint and paper. Gilt frame.
Date: 1830-1840
Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating)
GUSN: 310721
Accession Number: 2015.62.16
Etching on paper of a harbor scene. Plain wood frame.
Date: 1917
Maker: Meyerowitz, William (American painter, 1887-1981) (Etcher)
Material: paper (fiber product), etchings (prints)
GUSN: 310722
Accession Number: 2015.62.17
Cut paper picture of a woman wearing a black dress and lace cap. Plain wood frame.
Date: 1830-1940
GUSN: 310723
Accession Number: 2015.62.18
Mug with transfer-printed design on front in black. Red painted lines around exterior of rim and base.
Date: 1805-1815
Material: earthenware
GUSN: 310724
Accession Number: 2015.62.19
A set of ten purple and white delft tiles. One depicts a swimmer, one depicts a flower, and eight depict a floral bouquet in a stemmed vase.
Date: 1760-1780
Material: delftware
GUSN: 310725
Accession Number: 2015.62.20.1-.10
Seven blue and white Delft tiles with floral, animal, and figural designs.
GUSN: 310726
Accession Number: 2015.62.21.1-.7
Stoneware jug with two handles. Cobalt around handles.
Date: 1740-1754
Maker: Possibly Parker, Grace Hall, 1697-1754 (Potter) Possibly Parker Pottery (Potter)
Material: stoneware (pottery), cobalt blue (pigment)
GUSN: 310727
Accession Number: 2015.62.22
Redware plate with orange glaze and incised designs commemorating the wedding of C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001) and Joan Jockwig Pearson (1924-2013).
Date: 1962
Material: redware
GUSN: 310728
Accession Number: 2015.62.23
Plate with transfer printed design of two children ironing and folding laundry. "Sunbonnet Babie" or "Sunbonnet Sue"
Maker: Royal Bayreuth (Manufacturer)
Material: earthenware, decals
GUSN: 310729
Accession Number: 2015.62.24
Bowl with decal design of a father, mother, and infant in stroller. "Three of Us."
GUSN: 310730
Accession Number: 2015.62.25
Partial Dinner service [12 pieces], transfer printed and enamel medallion pattern in brown and blue. Pattern name: "Cyprus".
Date: 1890-1900
Maker: William Brownfield & Sons (Manufacturer)
Material: transfer printing
GUSN: 310731
Accession Number: 2015.62.26.1-.12
White ironstone chamber pot with side handle and lid with handle. Royal Ironstone China.
Date: 1820-1840
Maker: Royal China (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 310732
Accession Number: 2015.62.27AB
Cylindrical colorless glass medicine bottle [a] with large balloon-like glass stopper that has a long tail [b].
Date: 1850-1875
Material: glass (material)
GUSN: 310733
Accession Number: 2015.62.28AB
Clear, blown glass pitcher with applied handle.
Date: 1830
GUSN: 310734
Accession Number: 2015.62.29
Green glass flask with molded images of "RAILROAD LOWELL" above horse and cart on one side and spread-winged eagle and stars on the other. Oval shape with neck, no stopper.
GUSN: 310735
Accession Number: 2015.62.30
Green glass flask with cork stopper. Molded images of a horse and cart with the phrase "Success to the railroad" on one side and a spread-winged eagle and stars on the other. Oval shape with neck.
Date: 1830-1850
GUSN: 310736
Accession Number: 2015.62.31
Clear glass decanter with wide base tapering to narrow neck. Stopper with knopt.
GUSN: 310737
Accession Number: 2015.62.32AB
Colorless glass Walnut Ketchup bottle. Original paper label features eagle and shield print. Bottle has long, cylindrical body with long, slender neck.
Date: 1860-1875
Maker: W.K. Lewis Brothers Pickle Factory (Boston, Mass.) (Manufacturer)
Material: glass (material), paper (fiber product)
GUSN: 310738
Accession Number: 2015.62.33
Small, colorless glass bottle with rectangular shaped body, short tapered neck, and folded-over lips. Made by Middlebury, Vermont Glassworks.
GUSN: 310739
Accession Number: 2015.62.34
Colorless blown glass cruet with handle, no stopper. Fluted pear-shaped body with circular base tapers to flared-lip spout.
GUSN: 310740
Accession Number: 2015.62.35
Clear glass decanter without a stopper. Glass blown into a mold. Fluted body with long tapered neck and flat lips.
GUSN: 310741
Accession Number: 2015.62.36