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The History Collection is the museum’s largest. Artifacts include a variety of items related to everyday life used at home and at work from the late 1800s through the 20th century: kerosene and electric lights; kitchen tools, equipment, and appliances; personal items (like razors, shaving mugs, combs); recreational items (such as games, radios, televisions); office-related objects and equipment (typewriters, adding machines, Dictaphones, pens, inkwells); telephones, musical instruments, medical instruments and equipment, signage, etc.
Also under the history umbrella, the Western Heritage Collection includes objects related to ranching: saddles, bits, spurs, tack, chuckboxes, branding irons, barbed wire, fencing tools, and other items. The Agricultural Collection includes tools and equipment used in farming during the late 1800s and through the 1920s: tractors, planters, plows, cultivators, harvesters, etc. |
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