Artifacts Collection: Victorian Age

BOX Pt.1

Books
Age of Progress: Great Ages of Man
Age of Steel (American Heritage, Volume 10)
The American House: Styles of Architecture
Daily Life in a Victorian House
Early Pleasures and Pastimes
Early Settler Children
Food for the Settler
Fun and Games of Long Ago
The Gilded Age (American Heritage, Volume 11)
Grandma Trooley’s Old Fashioned Picture Book for Boys and Girls
Montgomery Ward Catalogue (1922)
A World Power (American Heritage, volume 12)
Teacher’s Booklet

Pictures
Antique American automobiles (placemat)
Barney Oldfield
Christmas in New England
Early Automobiles (5)
1. The Ford Machine Shop as it was in 1893…
2. Horseless truck, horses on either side
3. Picture of horseless carriage (also 2 carriages w/horses)
4. Picture of picnic (4 cars, 8 people)
5. Two Early Automobiles (1, on top; 1, on bottom)
Georgian library
Horse-drawn milk wagon (sepia photo)
Opera House at Central City
Our Memory Album / Road of Memories (graphophone and cylindrical records, poem on back)
The Robert E. Lee & The Natchez
The Tom Thumb- American Transportation
Stereoscope and stereoscope cards (3) (2, mounted & laminated; 1, laminated)
Victorian parlor

Realia
Antimacassars for chairs (3) (macassar oil used on hair)
Bootjack (metal, shaped like a cricket)
Child’s everyday dress
Gas Iron
Infant’s christening dress
Lady’s dress and cape (black)
Lady’s dress purses (black) (2)
Lady’s kid (goatskin) gloves (1 pair)
Lady’s kitchen apron
Lady’s parasol (black)
Lady’s slip and blouse (black)
Stereoscope and 5 stereoscope cards (bag w/cards enclosed in bag w/stereoscope)

BAG Pt.2
Posters
An Age of Gilded Opulence
A feeling for fancy furniture
Collage: Victorian grandeur; patent desk; cottage organ; Victorian bedroom
Eye-filling creations in colored glass
Inventions for livelier living
Shapes of the new auto age
Spreading out, stretching up
Vigor Expanded Victorian Taste

Realia
Carpet Beater

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