New Additions to Our Collections

July - December 1997

Three quilts by Josephine Hunter Craig of Emporia, Kansas. "The Garden" (pictured), made in 1933, won numerous prizes in national contests.

Gasoline-powered lawn mower manufactured by the B-M Mower Company of Blue Mound, Kansas during the late 1940s / early 1950s.

Coast Guard uniform worn by Topekan J. David Rasure during World War II. Rasure was Quartermaster aboard an ice-breaker ship in the North Atlantic.

Unused glassine bread wrappers from the Jordan Baking Company of Topeka, dating from the 1930s-1960s.

Statehouse mural studies by artist John Steuart Curry, done in preparation for the Kansas Capitol murals he completed in the late 1930s.

Radiation detection equipment, including survey meters (pictured) and detectors, used by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in the 1940s-1960s. Medical training and drug testing kits also were part of this donation.

Embalming tables, temporary grave markers, and other embalming equipment used by Ervin and Alice Moore in the Argonia Mortuary, the Buhler Mortuary, and other Kansas funeral homes from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Badge worn by a delegate to the National Suffrage Convention in St. Louis, 1919.

World War II ammunition belts, a canteen, and duffle bag from Billy B. Henderson of Beloit, Kansas. Henderson served with the 76th Infantry.

Several toys belonging to Herbert Huff, born in 1921 in Mulvane, Kansas. Toys include a Steiff donkey (pictured), and metal car, tractor, and plow.

Sheet music--The Topeka Daily Capital March--published by John B. Marshall in 1897. Marshall's Band of Topeka, organized in 1884, is still active.

Band uniform made for the Hutchinson Community Band by the Fruhauf Uniform Company of Wichita. Also included in the donation were a poster and sales packet.

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