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Ott Hardware and George (T. M.) Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1965-205

Content Description

Eight (8) objects and eleven (11) books

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Gift of Mr. Roscoe C. Lyans

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1885 - 1940

Extent

8 Item(s)

11 Volumes

Inventory

1. Tin fruit jar holder made in Ott's tin shop circa 1900 2. Attachment for kerosene lamp chimney used by Dona Selover George (T. M. George) circa 1885-1887 3. Corner tool for applying brass corners on stairways. Used by T.M. George about 1914. (Tools) 4. Sulphur Bellows - used in gardening, especially with corn. Used by T.M George 1914-1935-1940 (Tools, Household Implements) 5. Soapstone griddle - used by Mrs. T.M. George from 1895-1935. Needed no grease 6. Ott Hardware keys - used by T.M George (1916-1940 used) (Keys, S.B. Businesses) 7.Nickel babbitt ingot 1"x3" cast by Selby Smelting Works, San Francisco (Metal objects miscellaneous) 8. Telescopic drinking cup - Souvenir of New Orleans (Household implements) 9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 10. Dicken's Child's History of England by Charles Dickens 11. Narrangansett Ballads by Caroline Hazard 12. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy 13. Romola by George Eliot 14. Maid of Athens by Justin McCarthy 15. Half-Hours with Great Authors by Clark Belford & Co. 16. Our Miss Boo by M. L. Runbeck 17. Songs of the Soul by Joaquin Miller 18. The Fiar God, or The Last of the 'Tyins' by Lew Wallace 19. Lucile by Meredith Owen