REG 250th 2024
A Family Record
Name/Title
A Family Record
Lexicon
Description
Slye Family Record. A calligraphy record of names, births, marriages, and deaths of the Slye family of Bennington County. The record begins with James Slye, born Sept. 1760, and ends with Salome B. Slye, born August 3, 1804. The paper is decorated with pen and ink and watercolors. The art work has been affixed to a paper backing. The family record is set in a wooden frame with glass; the guilded frame is of molded wood with mitered corners. The back of the frame has pencil handwriting with more family records: Martha Slye m.__?__ Wheelock 1824/ Their daughter __?__ m. H.C. Simmons 1880/ and Their son __?__(maybe Fredreck) m. Marjorie Sq____?__ 1922. The back board of the frame is smooth on the interior side and rough sawn on the exterior side.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.31
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Entry/Object ID
2010.31.18
A Scene Near Woodstock
Name/Title
A Scene Near Woodstock
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil painting on board showing a green field. There are trees on the right, and hills and mountains in the background. There is a sketch of a woman on the back of the board.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Marble, John Nelson (1855-1918)
Artist
Date made
1916-1918
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.345
Context
JOHN NELSON MARBLE (1855-1918), sketch artist and painter, was a Woodstock native, one of 12 children of Liberty Bates Marble and Elizabeth Woodward Marble. He spent his youth in and about Woodstock, and even at a young age showed a great aptitude for painting. At age 18, he was enrolled at the Normal Art School in Boston, and from there was one of the first students to attend the Art Students’ League in New York, in 1875, where he also kept a studio for a number of years. He later studied at the Academie Julian in Paris and spent the summer of 1900 in Florence, Italy, where he visited the studio of famous Woodstock sculptor Hiram Powers.
He spent most of his adult life in Santa Barbara, California, for his health, and enjoyed exploring the surrounding foothills on horseback, delighting in the splendid opportunities for outdoor life. It was while living in California that he became known as a colorist and produced most of his landscapes. But he is best known for his prolific facial renderings which reveal a remarkable and engaging study of character.
Mr. Marble returned to the East Coast in 1916 to complete a commission to paint perhaps his most famous work, a life-size portrait of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, which today hangs in the historic Statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire. In Woodstock, he painted portraits of many prominent locals: Frederick Billings, Frederick Billings, Jr., Mrs. Frederick Billings, Rev. Moses Kidder, and A. B. Wilder, among many others. He cordially welcomed visitors to his studio here, where there was much interest in both his charm and his canvases, and he was known for his “gentle, dignified presence.” He died in 1918 as a result of pneumonia, at the Marble family homestead in Woodstock (the current site of Cabot Funeral Home), having never married.
-- From Woodstock History Center
He spent most of his adult life in Santa Barbara, California, for his health, and enjoyed exploring the surrounding foothills on horseback, delighting in the splendid opportunities for outdoor life. It was while living in California that he became known as a colorist and produced most of his landscapes. But he is best known for his prolific facial renderings which reveal a remarkable and engaging study of character.
Mr. Marble returned to the East Coast in 1916 to complete a commission to paint perhaps his most famous work, a life-size portrait of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, which today hangs in the historic Statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire. In Woodstock, he painted portraits of many prominent locals: Frederick Billings, Frederick Billings, Jr., Mrs. Frederick Billings, Rev. Moses Kidder, and A. B. Wilder, among many others. He cordially welcomed visitors to his studio here, where there was much interest in both his charm and his canvases, and he was known for his “gentle, dignified presence.” He died in 1918 as a result of pneumonia, at the Marble family homestead in Woodstock (the current site of Cabot Funeral Home), having never married.
-- From Woodstock History Center
Web Links and URLs
Abenaki Doll
Name/Title
Abenaki Doll
Lexicon
Description
Doll - needs description
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Willette, Lee
Artist
Date made
2005
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.85
Admiral George Dewey
Name/Title
Admiral George Dewey
Lexicon
Description
Silver-painted portrait bust of Admiral George Dewey. He has a large mustache, and his hair is parted in the center. He is wearing a double-breasted military coat with rectangular epaulets. The round base is molded with a flying eagle and architectural decorative elements.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject Person
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.23
Alfred Randall
Name/Title
Alfred Randall
Lexicon
Description
Full length profile portrait of a young man in pen and ink with watercolor highlights. The man faces left and has his left hand on his hip. He holds a tall beaver hat in his right hand. He is dressed in black pants, a black cutaway jacket, a cream colored vest, a white shirt with stand-up collar, and and a white cravat. Pinned to the cravat is a gold chain with a brooch. A blue and red watch fob with metal ornament drapes from his right front hip area. The man's hair is cut short, swept forward in front of the ears and forward, and into a wave at the forehead. There is stylized grass and rocks in foreground, and written in ink on left side of portrait is the inscription, "Alfred Randall/ Portland/ County of Cumberland/ State of Maine" Written in ink on right side of portraid is, "A Compliment to his/ afectionate Mother/ Resident Derby V.T."
Acquisition
Accession
1985.7
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor, Ink
Subject Person
Randall, Alfred (1803-1879)
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1830
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1985.7.4
Context
Alfred Randall was from Greensboro, Vermont
Animal Tag
Name/Title
Animal Tag
Lexicon
Description
(a) Pair of metal dog tags on a ring. "Dog tag 97/ Morristown, Vermont/ 1970" and "Vaccinated against rabies/ Dumas Veterinary Hospital, Waterbury, VT"
(b) Dog license #97. document describing the dog and recording its rabies vaccination certificate number. Signed by owner and town clerk.
(b) Dog license #97. document describing the dog and recording its rabies vaccination certificate number. Signed by owner and town clerk.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.4
Relationships
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
1970
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1978.4.3a-b
Apothecary Bottle
Name/Title
Apothecary Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass apothecary bottle with a round, glass stopper and a square base. A plastic label is inset into the front of the bottle and reads, "Pepto Bismol / Indegestion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhea / Norwich".
Acquisition
Accession
2010.72
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cecchini Pharmacy
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2010.72.9a-b
Context
Used at the Cecchini Pharmacy in Barre, Vermont
Apron
Name/Title
Apron
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Apron
Textile Details
White
Blue
Color
Taffeta
Fabric
Silk
Clothing Sex
Male
Description
Masonic apron consisting of white interior ground bearing several symbolic Masonic images. The symbols include the all seeing eye, a sun, a moon, the ark, a five-pointed star, a comet, a bush, a scale, the altar of knowledge, an anchor, a coffin, an hourglass, a heart, and various masonry tools. The apron is edged in blue, and the top flap is edged in black.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Robinson, Lewis (1793-1871), Freemasons
Related Places
Place
Reading
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1957.4.22
Context
Owned by Lewis Robinson of Reading, VT.
Armband
Name/Title
Armband
Lexicon
Description
Armband consisting of a white plastic square and black elastic. The elastic attaches to the plastic on two sides, creating a loop. The plastic is printed with the Civil Defense logo (the red initials CD on a white triangle in a blue circle) with the words, "RADIOLOGICAL VERMONT".
Acquisition
Accession
2022.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Abair, Joseph George (1894-1975), Federal Civil Defense Administration
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Emeloid
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic, Elastic
Entry/Object ID
2022.37.1
Context
Worn by Joseph George Abair of Montpelier, Vermont
Arrow
Name/Title
Arrow
Lexicon
Description
Wooden arrow with conical iron point. Fletching replaced
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.69
Arrowhead
Name/Title
Arrowhead
Lexicon
Description
Brass arrowhead
Use
Used in Addison County Vermont
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1700
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.36
Context
The hole drilled in the arrowhead is both for hafting it to the arrow-shaft, as well as stringing them in bundles for sale.
Arrows
Name/Title
Arrows
Lexicon
Description
Wooden dowels with conical wooden heads
Use
Waterfowl arrows
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.48a-e
Ashtray
Name/Title
Ashtray
Lexicon
Description
Milk glass ashtray shaped like a pipe. The bowl is the pipe is hand painted with simplistic pink flowers with green leaves and the inscription, "SOUVENIR OF PLAINFIELD, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Plainfield
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.106
Austine School Foam Finger
Name/Title
Austine School Foam Finger
Lexicon
Description
Green felt foam finger outlining hand and pointer finger pointing upwards. "AUSTINE SCHOOL" inscription encircling a ball with a northwest pointing arrow piercing it.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Length including pointing finger (see note)
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.1
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattelboro, VT
Ax Handle
Name/Title
Ax Handle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden handle
Use
Felling and splitting wood
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1970
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.156
Context
The axe handle snowshoe frames (L2024.3.157a-b) descended in a Missisquoi Abenaki family from Fonda Junction.
Baby Spoon
Name/Title
Baby Spoon
Lexicon
Description
Metal baby spoon in cardboard and plastic packaging. The top of the cardboard packaging has a back-to-back double “R” in a ribbon design with baby blue and navy coloring, and the word “Reddy” printed in red underneath. On the top right, an image of a mother and baby embracing is printed in a blue monochromatic style. The metal spoon is encased in plastic and is a yellow latex covered bowl and a vine and rose decoration on the metal handle. The alternating dark blue and light red print reads, “Sof-tee / THE ORIGINAL / SOFT SPOON / FOR BABY / Harmlessly absorbs baby’s / bites. / Safe and comfortable for / baby’s tender gums and / emerging teeth. / Extra long handle reaches / the very bottom of the baby / food jars. / Sanitary finish. / Unconditionally / Guaranteed. / Petal soft Latex / covered bowl / Coated in U.S.A. / THE REDDY CO. INC., MONTPELIER / VERMONT 05602 / NO. S-49.”
Acquisition
Accession
1997.44
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1970
Manufacturer
Reddy Company, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1997.44.5
Badge
Name/Title
Badge
Lexicon
Description
Olive green ribbon with a faded gold seal of the Christian Endeavor Society in the center and underneath the words "Twenty-first Annual Convention, Bennington, October 22-24, 1906."
Acquisition
Accession
1999.36
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Christian Endeavor Society
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Synthetic
Entry/Object ID
1999.36.3
Context
(From Encyclopedia Britannica)
"The Society of Christian Endeavor was founded in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark in Maine. He served as president until 1927. Members of the society pledged to try to make some useful contribution to the life of the church. Other churches soon organized Christian Endeavor societies, and the movement grew rapidly in the United States.
Francis Edward Clark, (born Sept. 12, 1851, Aylmer, Quebec, Can.—died May 26, 1927, Newton, Mass., U.S.), Congregational churchman and writer who founded and led Christian Endeavor.
Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. He was pastor of churches in Portland, Maine (1876–83), and South Boston (1883–87). In 1881 he founded the United Society of Christian Endeavor, an autonomous interdenominational organization of young people. Its members pledged to lead a Christian life, to pray to God and read the Bible every day, and to participate actively in the work of the church. In 1887 he resigned his pastorate to serve as the organization’s president.
Clark became president of the World Christian Endeavor Union in 1895 and traveled around the world five times in the interests of its work. Clark also edited The Christian Endeavor World (1887–1919) and wrote many books on religious themes for young people."
"The Society of Christian Endeavor was founded in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark in Maine. He served as president until 1927. Members of the society pledged to try to make some useful contribution to the life of the church. Other churches soon organized Christian Endeavor societies, and the movement grew rapidly in the United States.
Francis Edward Clark, (born Sept. 12, 1851, Aylmer, Quebec, Can.—died May 26, 1927, Newton, Mass., U.S.), Congregational churchman and writer who founded and led Christian Endeavor.
Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. He was pastor of churches in Portland, Maine (1876–83), and South Boston (1883–87). In 1881 he founded the United Society of Christian Endeavor, an autonomous interdenominational organization of young people. Its members pledged to lead a Christian life, to pray to God and read the Bible every day, and to participate actively in the work of the church. In 1887 he resigned his pastorate to serve as the organization’s president.
Clark became president of the World Christian Endeavor Union in 1895 and traveled around the world five times in the interests of its work. Clark also edited The Christian Endeavor World (1887–1919) and wrote many books on religious themes for young people."
Badge
Name/Title
Badge
Lexicon
Description
White button with the logo for the Society of Christian Endeavor -- an E within a C -- printed in red and an attached red ribbon. Printed in silver on the ribbon is: "35th annual Vermont Christian Endeavor Convention, Burlington, Oct. 10-12, 1922.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.36
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Christian Endeavor Society
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Synthetic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1999.36.12
Context
(From Encyclopedia Britannica)
"The Society of Christian Endeavor was founded in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark in Maine. He served as president until 1927. Members of the society pledged to try to make some useful contribution to the life of the church. Other churches soon organized Christian Endeavor societies, and the movement grew rapidly in the United States.
Francis Edward Clark, (born Sept. 12, 1851, Aylmer, Quebec, Can.—died May 26, 1927, Newton, Mass., U.S.), Congregational churchman and writer who founded and led Christian Endeavor.
Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. He was pastor of churches in Portland, Maine (1876–83), and South Boston (1883–87). In 1881 he founded the United Society of Christian Endeavor, an autonomous interdenominational organization of young people. Its members pledged to lead a Christian life, to pray to God and read the Bible every day, and to participate actively in the work of the church. In 1887 he resigned his pastorate to serve as the organization’s president.
Clark became president of the World Christian Endeavor Union in 1895 and traveled around the world five times in the interests of its work. Clark also edited The Christian Endeavor World (1887–1919) and wrote many books on religious themes for young people."
"The Society of Christian Endeavor was founded in 1881 by Francis Edward Clark in Maine. He served as president until 1927. Members of the society pledged to try to make some useful contribution to the life of the church. Other churches soon organized Christian Endeavor societies, and the movement grew rapidly in the United States.
Francis Edward Clark, (born Sept. 12, 1851, Aylmer, Quebec, Can.—died May 26, 1927, Newton, Mass., U.S.), Congregational churchman and writer who founded and led Christian Endeavor.
Clark graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1876. He was pastor of churches in Portland, Maine (1876–83), and South Boston (1883–87). In 1881 he founded the United Society of Christian Endeavor, an autonomous interdenominational organization of young people. Its members pledged to lead a Christian life, to pray to God and read the Bible every day, and to participate actively in the work of the church. In 1887 he resigned his pastorate to serve as the organization’s president.
Clark became president of the World Christian Endeavor Union in 1895 and traveled around the world five times in the interests of its work. Clark also edited The Christian Endeavor World (1887–1919) and wrote many books on religious themes for young people."
Badge
Name/Title
Badge
Lexicon
Description
Silver-toned shield-shaped pin that reads, "P.A.L. 30 Barre, Vermont". [Police Athletic League] that adheres above the left breast pocket of uniform jacket 2014.60.1280.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1280b
Context
Issued to employees of the Barre City Police.
Badge
Name/Title
Badge
Lexicon
Description
2 collar buttons
1 badge
1 hat badge
box
1 badge
1 hat badge
box
Acquisition
Accession
2022.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2022.16.1
Context
Worn by Archie Ray Bruce as a firefighter in Montpelier, VT
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Paper gift bag. The bag is a long and thin light brown paper bag with vertical bands of either green or red stripes, with either color grouped into six stripes of different thicknesses. The opening of the bag is a small overhanging flap that is longer than the serrated edge at the top of the front panel. The words “THE MAYPOLE/ 88 State St., Montpelier, Vt./ Candy-Gifts-Greeting Cards" are stamped in black ink in the center of the front panel.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.3
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.3.1
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Beaded trinket bag. Primarily blue, white, and yellow beaded in quatrefoil shape surrounded by zig-zag band. Yellow beaded loops around edge of bag.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1860
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.133
Context
This small quatrefoil beaded design pouch with its beaded loop fringe is an important piece. This pouch employs larger, more colorful beads not as well sewn down as in the previous items in the beadwork collection. This is probably a decorative piece for sale to the settlers, and shows the potential of the quatrefoil design in early Abenaki tourist art. These little bags were made in huge numbers throughout the Northeast. Most are attributed to the Seneca (Haudenosaunee) but the quatrefoil is pure Wabanaki and commonly seen in the American Abenaki area with the zigzag motif, also in evidence on the pouch.
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Paper bag from Frost & Sigsbee, Brattleboro. Beige paper with black lettering and a graphic which shows objects found in a drygoods store at the time: barrel, bags of rice, soap, coffee, and bottles. Top edge is scalloped and stamped: Full size / 5 / and weight.
Wording on the front of the bag: Frost & Sigsbee / No. 8 Crosby Block, Brattleboro, Vt. / wholesale and retail grocers / foreign and domestic / fruits, nuts, canned goods, &x. / flour, produce / wooden ware, grass seed, fertilizers, &c. / fine goods a specialty.
Also text on the back (see photo)
Wording on the front of the bag: Frost & Sigsbee / No. 8 Crosby Block, Brattleboro, Vt. / wholesale and retail grocers / foreign and domestic / fruits, nuts, canned goods, &x. / flour, produce / wooden ware, grass seed, fertilizers, &c. / fine goods a specialty.
Also text on the back (see photo)
Acquisition
Accession
1992.71
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Frost & Sigsbee
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1992.71.2
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
White paper prescription bag. The top of the bag has “Prescriptions” in black cursive print and a graphic of an enclosed green shelving shadow box with blue outlined objects. These white objects with blue outlining include pills, a caduceus, a measuring glass half filled with liquid, a mortar and pestle, the Rx symbol, a scale, and capped bottle. Below this graphic, it reads, “SEIVWRIGHT PHARMACY / 28 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont / PHONE 223-5448” in black print. At the bottom, a black oval encases the words “Select Care,” and has the words “FOR HEALTHCARE VALUE” printed underneath. The back side of the bag, it reads “DID YOU FORGET?/ Convenient One Stop/ Shopping At Your/ Friendly Pharmacy" in black script. Additionally, it provides the information, "1-800-526-9032/ Cardinal Bag/ Mahwah, NJ 07430/ (recycle symbol) Recyclable Package/ M.O. 2-95/ NO. 12."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Seivwright Pharmacy
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Cardinal Bag
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.35
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Paper bag. The front is printed with an illustration of 2 cows in a green pasture beneath a blue sky. The words, "BEN & JERRY'S" run up the left edge, and at the bottom is a round logo showing a line drawing of 2 men and the words, "BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM". The back shows a continuation of the cow illustration.
Acquisition
Accession
1992.78
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waterbury
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Jackson, Woody
Artist
Date made
1992
Manufacturer
Bagcraft
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1992.78.2
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Plastic bag for carrots. The plastic bag is a rectangular shape and made from see-through plastic. Four holes are pierced into the front of the bag and a thick black line with the number “984” at the end, and a triple-R on the back, extends from the bag’s opening. The bag has tightly compressed printed orange lines, “Vermont Carrots” in bold green and black lettering, and a stamp-like oval containing images of fruits and the words “FRUITS & / Vermont / VEGETABLES/ good ‘n fresh.” Two green parallel lines frame the black write that reads, “NET WT. 16 OZ. (1LB.) 454g / PRODUCE OF U.S.A. / GROWN & PACKED BY / LEWIS CREEK FARM ? STARKSBORO, VERMONT 05487,” above the bottom seam.
Acquisition
Accession
1985.33
Made/Created
Date made
1985
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1985.33.1
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Heavy brown paper bag advertising "Brosseau's Super Market/ Hyde Park / Johnson / Morrisville / Choice Meats/ The store where you can really save with personal service and a smile." Also "Double strong extra heavy bag/ no double bagging needed."
Acquisition
Accession
1978.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Brosseau's Super Market
Person or Organization
Related Places
, ,
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1978.4.1
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
A white, 12-ounce bag for chocolate chips produced at the Van Houten & Zoon plant in St. Albans, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.53
Relationships
Related Places
Place
St. Albans Town
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
C.J. Van Houten & Zoon
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1991.53.2
Context
An article from United Press International in 1982 said that Comet Confecionery of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, planned to open a chocolate chip plant in St. Albans beginning in 1983. It would be called C.J. Van Houten & Zoon. The Van Houten family got into the chocoate business in 1815 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
From https://www.vanhoutenchocolates.com/vanhouten/vanhouten/en_ph/about.html
Among the chocolate brands available today, few can claim a legacy that goes back over 180 years. Van Houten has been manufacturing cocoa powder since 1828, when its founder, Coenraad Van Houten, pioneered a process to manufacture cocoa in Amsterdam, Holland. The result was a tastier and more soluble cocoa powder which spurred the growth of the hot chocolate drink industry.
Cocoa mass was treated with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is called “Dutch process” chocolate. Today, this process is known as “Dutching”. The final product, Dutch chocolate, has a dark color and a mild taste.
Riding on its success, Van Houten expanded rapidly and by the end of the 19th century, it had expanded into the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany. By then, the Van Houten name was synonymous with high quality cocoa powder.
Van Houten’s discovery, also paved the way for the subsequent manufacture of the chocolate bar. This eventually made volume production of chocolates possible and also made chocolates affordable, a fact that Chocolate lovers today are blissfully unaware of – as they can indulge in chocolates so easily whenever they like. and had expanded and opened a branch operation in New York in 1890.
From https://www.vanhoutenchocolates.com/vanhouten/vanhouten/en_ph/about.html
Among the chocolate brands available today, few can claim a legacy that goes back over 180 years. Van Houten has been manufacturing cocoa powder since 1828, when its founder, Coenraad Van Houten, pioneered a process to manufacture cocoa in Amsterdam, Holland. The result was a tastier and more soluble cocoa powder which spurred the growth of the hot chocolate drink industry.
Cocoa mass was treated with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is called “Dutch process” chocolate. Today, this process is known as “Dutching”. The final product, Dutch chocolate, has a dark color and a mild taste.
Riding on its success, Van Houten expanded rapidly and by the end of the 19th century, it had expanded into the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany. By then, the Van Houten name was synonymous with high quality cocoa powder.
Van Houten’s discovery, also paved the way for the subsequent manufacture of the chocolate bar. This eventually made volume production of chocolates possible and also made chocolates affordable, a fact that Chocolate lovers today are blissfully unaware of – as they can indulge in chocolates so easily whenever they like. and had expanded and opened a branch operation in New York in 1890.
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Gold, red and brown package for chocolate chips -- 12 ounce --
C. J. Van Houten and Zoon, Inc. ; St. Albans, VT
C. J. Van Houten and Zoon, Inc. ; St. Albans, VT
Acquisition
Accession
1991.53
Relationships
Related Places
Place
St. Albans Town
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
C.J. Van Houten & Zoon
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1991.53.3
Context
An article from United Press International in 1982 said that Comet Confecionery of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, planned to open a chocolate chip plant in St. Albans beginning in 1983. It would be called C.J. Van Houten & Zoon. The Van Houten family got into the chocoate business in 1815 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
From https://www.vanhoutenchocolates.com/vanhouten/vanhouten/en_ph/about.html
Among the chocolate brands available today, few can claim a legacy that goes back over 180 years. Van Houten has been manufacturing cocoa powder since 1828, when its founder, Coenraad Van Houten, pioneered a process to manufacture cocoa in Amsterdam, Holland. The result was a tastier and more soluble cocoa powder which spurred the growth of the hot chocolate drink industry.
Cocoa mass was treated with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is called “Dutch process” chocolate. Today, this process is known as “Dutching”. The final product, Dutch chocolate, has a dark color and a mild taste.
Riding on its success, Van Houten expanded rapidly and by the end of the 19th century, it had expanded into the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany. By then, the Van Houten name was synonymous with high quality cocoa powder.
Van Houten’s discovery, also paved the way for the subsequent manufacture of the chocolate bar. This eventually made volume production of chocolates possible and also made chocolates affordable, a fact that Chocolate lovers today are blissfully unaware of – as they can indulge in chocolates so easily whenever they like. and had expanded and opened a branch operation in New York in 1890.
From https://www.vanhoutenchocolates.com/vanhouten/vanhouten/en_ph/about.html
Among the chocolate brands available today, few can claim a legacy that goes back over 180 years. Van Houten has been manufacturing cocoa powder since 1828, when its founder, Coenraad Van Houten, pioneered a process to manufacture cocoa in Amsterdam, Holland. The result was a tastier and more soluble cocoa powder which spurred the growth of the hot chocolate drink industry.
Cocoa mass was treated with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is called “Dutch process” chocolate. Today, this process is known as “Dutching”. The final product, Dutch chocolate, has a dark color and a mild taste.
Riding on its success, Van Houten expanded rapidly and by the end of the 19th century, it had expanded into the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany. By then, the Van Houten name was synonymous with high quality cocoa powder.
Van Houten’s discovery, also paved the way for the subsequent manufacture of the chocolate bar. This eventually made volume production of chocolates possible and also made chocolates affordable, a fact that Chocolate lovers today are blissfully unaware of – as they can indulge in chocolates so easily whenever they like. and had expanded and opened a branch operation in New York in 1890.
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
White plastic shopping bag. A printed plastic bag with forest green lettering and is made in a rectangular shape and gussets on either side of the front and back panels. The handles are rectangular with a square cut at the opening. “Paul’s” is written in slanted letters above the words “HOME / BAKE SHOP / & / Cake Decorating Store” which alternates cursive and bold printed script. At the bottom of the bag, it reads, “MONTPELIER / PHONE 223-2485” and “BARRE / PHONE 476-7781,” that are printed side by side. A graphic of a green rectangular bag with the words “hanal / tote” as a negative space, using the white plastic bag.
Acquisition
Accession
1988.24
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Paul's Home Bake Shop
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1988.24.1
Context
This bag came from "Paul's Bakery" of Montpelier and Barre.
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Brown paper bag printed with the logo for the Vermont Bicentennial. The logo consists of a simplistic line drawing of a church set into hills with fireworks in the sky.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.4
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont Bicentennial
Event
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1991
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1989.4.1
Context
Produced for the Vermont Bicentennial celebration in 1991.
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Wirthmore grain sack, St. Albans Grain Co.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.71
Made/Created
Manufacturer
St. Albans Grain Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1989.71.1
Bag
Name/Title
Bag
Lexicon
Description
Small cotton drawstring bag. The top of the bag has an undecorated drawstring. The body is a rectangular shape with rounded edges and shows some discoloration from age. The center of the front panel has “The Best Shoes / For / BOYS AND / CHILDREN / at / ORLEANS / SHOES STORE” printed in black lettering.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.4
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Orleans
Village
Barton
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1990.4.2
Context
Made for Orleans Shoe Store in Orleans, Vermont
Ballot Box
Name/Title
Ballot Box
Lexicon
Description
Small wooden ballot box. The box consists of two parts: a four-sided base and a slide-out top. One side of the base of the shorter than the rest, and the top slides through the gap and into a groove cut into the interior of the remaining three sides. There is a large slot in the center of the top piece, and a light rectangle where a label used to be.
Acquisition
Accession
1959.53
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Waterford
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1860
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1959.53.7e
Context
Used in Waterford, Vermont
Ballot Box
Name/Title
Ballot Box
Description
Ballot box used by members of the Upper Valley Community Grange #581. The rectangular box has a slight overhang for the top and base, and the top is divided into two hinged lids with a center pinned section to secure them. The vertical sides have mitered and pinned corners. The front section has two hinges connecting it to the center joint, and the lid lifts with interior curved sides and the front vertical panel to reveal a shallow compartment. There are wire stops on either side to hold this section open. There is a vertical divider between the front and back sections of the box with a round hole cut in the middle of it for placing a vote through anonymously. The back section of the ballot box has a flat hinged lid to cover it that rests on the vertical sides. There is a turned handle pinned to the middle of the back of the ballot box.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Upper Valley Community Grange 581
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall, closed
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2024.4.1
Banjo
Name/Title
Banjo
Lexicon
Description
Open-backed Bacon Professional Banjo, manufactured between 1910 and 1915. Five-stringed banjo with star inlay on headstock and neck. Neck is made of rock maple wood, with an ebonized maple fingerboard inlaid with pearl position marks. Fingerboard bound with white celluloid. Rim is also made of rock maple, with inlaid diamond marquetry along the bottom edge. S-shaped carvings on the rim cap. Nylon strings. Floating bridge manufactured by Grover. Manufacturers' markings on reverse of head and rim (see "Inscription" for specifics on markings).
Banjo was acquired by the donor at an online auction with the intention of donating it to the Vermont Historical Society.
The Bacon Professional Banjo Company was founded in 1906 by Frederick J. Bacon. Bacon was a professional travelling musician before he founded the company. His first factory was in Forest Dale, VT, where he was a resident. While it is thought that he contracted some early instruments with the Vega company in Boston, there are pictures of Bacon Banjo craftsmen in Forest Dale from 1910. Still, the instruments may not have been manufactured but simply assembled in Forest Dale.
Many of the Bacon Banjos had Vermont maple wood in their construction. Early models were five-string banjos, and pricing for these banjos ranged from $40 to $125. While the Bacon products were considered well-made banjos, they were nowhere near the caliber of instruments made by companies such as Vega. One of Bacon's contemporaries referred to his banjos as either "axe-handle" or "shoe-polish" banjos.
However, the demand for Bacon Banjos was enough that Bacon expanded his factory in 1913 and, in 1915, the Bacon Banjo Company was incorporated in Groton, Connecticut. There, Bacon developed his manufacturing and was joined by David L. Day from the Fairbanks banjo company. The instruments manufactured in Groton have a manufacturer's mark of "B&D" for Bacon and Day. The factory remained there until 1938, when a hurricane destroyed most of the manufacturing space. Since the popularity of banjos had declined by then, Bacon and Day decided to sell the remainder of their company to the Gretsch Company. Gretsch continued to make banjos under the Bacon name until the mid 1960s. Bacon spent the rest of his life teaching music and repairing instruments, as well as occasionally performing before his death in 1948.
Banjo was acquired by the donor at an online auction with the intention of donating it to the Vermont Historical Society.
The Bacon Professional Banjo Company was founded in 1906 by Frederick J. Bacon. Bacon was a professional travelling musician before he founded the company. His first factory was in Forest Dale, VT, where he was a resident. While it is thought that he contracted some early instruments with the Vega company in Boston, there are pictures of Bacon Banjo craftsmen in Forest Dale from 1910. Still, the instruments may not have been manufactured but simply assembled in Forest Dale.
Many of the Bacon Banjos had Vermont maple wood in their construction. Early models were five-string banjos, and pricing for these banjos ranged from $40 to $125. While the Bacon products were considered well-made banjos, they were nowhere near the caliber of instruments made by companies such as Vega. One of Bacon's contemporaries referred to his banjos as either "axe-handle" or "shoe-polish" banjos.
However, the demand for Bacon Banjos was enough that Bacon expanded his factory in 1913 and, in 1915, the Bacon Banjo Company was incorporated in Groton, Connecticut. There, Bacon developed his manufacturing and was joined by David L. Day from the Fairbanks banjo company. The instruments manufactured in Groton have a manufacturer's mark of "B&D" for Bacon and Day. The factory remained there until 1938, when a hurricane destroyed most of the manufacturing space. Since the popularity of banjos had declined by then, Bacon and Day decided to sell the remainder of their company to the Gretsch Company. Gretsch continued to make banjos under the Bacon name until the mid 1960s. Bacon spent the rest of his life teaching music and repairing instruments, as well as occasionally performing before his death in 1948.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.13
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1915
Manufacturer
Bacon Professional
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Celluloid, Nylon
Entry/Object ID
2017.13
Bank, Still
Name/Title
Bank, Still
Lexicon
Description
A bank in the shape of a "Vermont (transit)" bus. The bus is white with a three color green roadway on each side and a fully sprinting greyhound dog. "VERMONT" in dark green is toward the back of the bus. A U.S. flag is at the very front below the drivers window and on the door. "MADE IN CHINA" on the bottom just in front of the round porthole opening allowing owner to retrieve their money.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.17
Made/Created
Date made
2007-2008
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2008.17
Banner
Name/Title
Banner
Lexicon
Description
Stamped square flag pennant designed by Dierdra Michelle. The pennant has a decorative heart in the center with a spray of flowers and is surrounded by the words "WE LOVE BARRE" and an orange, pink, and yellow painted rainbow border. Printed in black on the bottom is #LOVEYOUBARRE. The pennant has a taupe grosgrain ribbon sewn into the seam and a label on the back upper right corner for Dierdra Michelle Studio Arts with an Instagram QR code. The remaining three edges of the pennant are raw without hems.
This flag pennant was one of several designed and made by Michelle to support flood recovery efforts after the devastating July 2023 flooding.
This flag pennant was one of several designed and made by Michelle to support flood recovery efforts after the devastating July 2023 flooding.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.15
Relationships
Related Events
2023 Flood
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dierdra Michelle Studio Arts
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Artist Information
Dierdra Michelle Studio Arts
Artist
Date made
2023
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2024.15.1
Bark Cone
Name/Title
Bark Cone
Lexicon
Description
Cone fashioned of birchbark
Use
Holding or molding maple sugar
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920-circa 1980
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.57
Context
These quickly twisted bark cones, usually found in Canada, were meant to hold maple sugar. This one has a good Southern Quebec, Eastern Townships It does not seem old at all, so it may be a revival piece from the 1970’s or later.
Bark Container
Name/Title
Bark Container
Lexicon
Description
Folded and stitched bark Container. Square base and round top. Marked on bottom, "K" and "1830."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1830
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.108
Context
This is, perhaps, the largest and most stereotypically native bark container from Vermont. It is a folded bark form; with square bottom and circular rim called a “Makuk” (a Great Lakes area term) in the trade. Maine examples are usually much more tapered toward the top than this one. The 1830 date seems a bit early for the level of oxidation and patination of the bark.
Barre Academy
Name/Title
Barre Academy
Lexicon
Description
"Barre Academy," by James Franklin Gilman, 1873. Charcoal and white gauche on brown paper. Depicts building with mansard roof and a smaller. Greek Revival building. Right center-many people clustered around it. The left center shows a large gabled house or top of a hill. There is a road which runs betwee the rwo buildings, several horses and carriages on the road.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Spaulding, Jacob
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Charcoal, Gouache, Paper
Subject
Barre Academy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Date made
1873
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1314
Type of Drawing
Context
This drawing by itinerant artist James Gilman depicts the Barre Academy (1852-1885) and boarding house. This private school was removed from the site to make way for Spaulding Graded School, the city's new public school, which opened in 1892. The new graded school was named after Jacob Spaulding (1811-1880), the longtime principal of Barre Academy. Spaulding Graded school became Spaulding High School and later middle school - ultimately closing in 1995. It's now the home of the Vermont History Center. Spaulding Graded School was built on the site of the boarding house seen to the right composition and the academy site is now the front lawn and approach to the institution.
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s or early 1890s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church found Mary Baker Eddy. He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to a lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty.
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s or early 1890s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church found Mary Baker Eddy. He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to a lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty.
Web Links and URLs
Baseball Bat
Name/Title
Baseball Bat
Lexicon
Description
Miniature wooden baseball bat printed at one end with logos for the Mountaineers and the Times Argus. The bat is round and narrows toward one end. The Mountaineers' logo consists of an animal wearing hiking accessories stepping onto a double peaked mountain above the word, "MOUNTAINEERS". The Times Argus logo consists of the company name with the Vermont State House dome between the two words. The words "Presenting Sponsor" is above the State House dome.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.17
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Mountaineers, Times Argus
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2021.17.1
Context
The Vermont Mountaineers is a collegiate summer baseball team based in Montpelier, Vermont
Baseball Mitt
Name/Title
Baseball Mitt
Lexicon
Description
Leather baseball mitt. The mitt is padded on the palm side and left open on the back, securing at the wrist with a buttoned strap. The outer fabric and the lining are whipstitched together at the opening.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.28
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Rowley, William Reginald (1909-2005)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Richford
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1934-1941
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather
Entry/Object ID
2006.28.3
Context
Used by William "Dig" Rowley as pitcher for the Richford Rabbits, Richford, Vermont
Basin Harbor
Name/Title
Basin Harbor
Type of Painting
Description
Landscape image of dirt lane, trees, water and a mountain backdrop. A child is depicted in the foreground with a fishing pole and brace of fish. A small, white building with brown roof is in the middle ground. A small dory or other such watercraft is in front of the building. A large steam-powered vessel sits on blocks, partially obscured by the building. The boat has a fairly large hull with red and white paint. A small pilot house sits forward of a steam engine and black funnel. A wooden, hand-operated winch or windlass is located on the ground near the bow of the steamboat. The painting is signed in the lower left by artist Custer Ingham. Painted on board, the back of the work has the artist's name in pencil as well as the date 1916.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.7
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Ingham, Harvey Custer (1863-1931)
Artist
Date made
1916
Entry/Object ID
2023.7.1
Context
Born during the Civil War and named for General George Armstrong Custer, Ingham began in the 1880s to paint scenes of daily life in the Champlain Valley, including Lake Champlain’s Westport Sail Ferry, a baseball game on the banks of Otter Creek, and the family farm. The falls and the basin below on Otter Creek were favorite topics.
Early in his career, Ingham studied at the National Academy of Design in New York for two years; later, a brief visit to Europe in 1914 was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. Although he chose a realist approach, many of Ingham’s works demonstrate his interest in experimenting with the artistic movements of his era, evoking the trompe l’oeil paintings of William Harnett, landscapes of the Barbizon and Hudson River schools, and the colors and atmospheric effects of the Impressionists.
Early in his career, Ingham studied at the National Academy of Design in New York for two years; later, a brief visit to Europe in 1914 was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. Although he chose a realist approach, many of Ingham’s works demonstrate his interest in experimenting with the artistic movements of his era, evoking the trompe l’oeil paintings of William Harnett, landscapes of the Barbizon and Hudson River schools, and the colors and atmospheric effects of the Impressionists.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Vasiform ash splint basket, with radial start, intact bail, and rim affixed with clinched nails. Marked "Daisey."
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.60
Context
Occasionally the Sweetsers made exquisite small, vase-shaped baskets. This one found in Essex Junction, Vermont, was made with extraordinary precision in the splints, the weaving, and the distinctive clinched nail rim, and can be considered a piece of Art.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round basket with lid. Woven of black ash splints. Both basket and lid are decorated with three horizontal bands of twisted splints. Lid has small, integral bail.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Larocque, Jesse James (b. 1961)
Artist
Date made
2000
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.100a-b
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round basket and lid woven from split and plaited sweetgrass. The Lid is woven in alternating sections of black-dyed weavers and plaited sweetgrass with six splint loops at the center. The basket is made of black-dyed splint weavers at the bottom and plaited sweetgrass at the top.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.18
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dole, Sylvia Johnson (1940-2008)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Plainfield
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Sweetgrass, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2004.18.1a-b
Context
Owned by the Martin or Johnson families of Plainfield, Vermont
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round basket, daub dyed blue, radial start and thin weavers
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.99
Context
This basket style is much more common in Maine, while the more westerly examples tend to have square bottoms formed by the rectilinear pattern of the weavers. It may be an import from further east but is good for comparative purposes.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Square basket woven of ash splints with varying width weavers. Select splints are dyed on the exterior surface blue or red.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1860
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.74
Context
This large utility basket from the Northeast Kingdom has varying width weavers; with some of them “daub-dyed” with Prussian blue and red ochre. You can see that the dye only appears on the outside faces of the splints. Although the color is similar to the much more common round “Penobscot” radial-start baskets, their construction technique, based on a checkerboard start is regionally distinctive.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round, open-work, ash splint basket with attached ash handles. Radial start with bound rim. Mostly narrow natural splints with two wide bands near rim. Bands dyed yellow and blue.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.103
Context
This early open work basket from Morrisville, VT with the two loop handles was produced in prodigious quantities if surviving examples are any indication. This one is illustrated because it not only has the usual Prussian blue daub- dye but applied red [don't see red in photo] and a rare yellow pigment as well.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round woven basket and lid constructed of ash splints and sweetgrass.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Notes
The Vermont Gypsies were a well-known part of life along old Route 15 before WWII (there is 1990’s testimony from Abenaki gypsy descendants that the lifestyle subsided in the early 1930’s because of the Eugenics Survey). They would arrive in town in a couple horse drawn wagons and set up camp on a friendly farmer’s field. They traded their labor and craft arts for feed for their horses as well as food and cash. Horse feed seemed to be their most important economic need.
Information from a 1990s Johnson State College oral history project includes:
Although their main product was the “Indian Basket,” people along Rt. 15 did not think of them as Indian, but a few described them as mixed blood. Two people reported that the women wore more scarves than anyone they had seen and one thought that was the main characteristic of gypsies. There were no reports of beads or jewelry except small crucifixes, one report of a man wearing a silver religious medal. The horses and the wagons were in good shape and there were sometimes well behaved “camp dogs.” present. One elderly informant from Johnson, Vermont told of “sneaking off to hang out with the Gypsies” in the 1920’s and gave a bit of detail, including 1.) they spoke another language but English in camp; 2. Their food smelled different than “Vermont food;” 3. They were very friendly and respectful, when not doing chores, everyone around camp was working on crafts, even the older children. There were a few other impressions, not negative, but nevertheless would be considered inappropriate today such as body odor and assumed sexual conduct. The men helped with farm work and did minor repairs such as blade sharpening and repairing pots and pans with little tin and aluminum patches. One man from Jeffersonville said that his family only rarely sharpened its farm tools and kitchen knives because the gypsies could put an amazing edge on a chisel or knife without “cheap and wearing the blade.” A person in Jericho reported seeing snowshoes for sale, and a miniature pair of snowshoes was sold in Jericho, the only example of a tourist miniature being sold. We have story of a “wolf fur” coat sold by the gypsies in Jericho and one of the set of small “porch chairs” chairs the men made by hand in back of the Smuggler’s Notch Inn in Jeffersonville. There were no reports of them selling herbal medicines, but they did collect herbs in the woods and on the Lamoille and Gihon River riverbank. They were said to have wintered in the pine woods in Burlington where the airport is now and traveled as far east as Danville (this was confirmed by Don Stevens, whose ancestors did the route 15 circuit).
Professor Jim Petersen of the University of Vermont, in conversation regarding his mother’s sweetgrass basket, said that she bought it from the Gypsies when they passed through Salisbury, VT (Rt. 7) before WWII, and she told Jim that she always knew that the Gypsies were Indian.
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1925
Materials
Material
Sweetgrass, Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.91a-b
Context
This little ash splint and sweetgrass “fancy basket,” along with L2024.3.92a-b), are very important because they were sold to Mrs. Waterman of Johnson, Vermont in the 1920’s or early 30’s by "Gypsies" who camped on a farm to the west of town. Almost all ash and sweetgrass fancy baskets lack such documentation and could have been made anywhere and brought back to Vermont as souvenirs. There are interesting interview notes on what the people of Johnson thought of the "Gypsies" at the time.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Open-work, ash splint basket. Varying width splints alternating blue dyed and natural. Square base with round top. Slightly Vasiform.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.105
Context
This basket is the archetype of the late 1800’s Vermont Abenaki basket. It is classed as an “open work basket,” and is the most commonly found basket with good Vermont Native provenance, although this one’s origin is a bit less secure. Although it is now missing the two loop handles, the rest of it is in great shape. One thing that is interesting is that the dye is not just on the outside, like other work baskets such as L2024.3.103, but it also stains the inside of the splints, as can be seen in the illustration. One of the defining separations between 19th and 20th century baskets is the fact that 20th century splints were submerged in the dye which stains both sides. This may be a transitional basket using a dark, non-fugitive pigment like earlier baskets, while dipping rather than daubing on the dye -- like later basketry examples.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Round basket with square base woven of ash splints. Select splints are dyed on the outer surface either blue or red.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1840-1860
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.75
Context
This small utility basket from central New Hampshire has varying width weavers with select splints “daub-dyed,” dyed on one surface only, with Prussian blue and red ochre. These small baskets are uncommon.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Ash splint basket made in the Sweetser style. Round form with bound rim and bent-wood bail.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Washburn, Newton Everett (1915-2011)
Artist
Date made
circa 1980
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.61
Context
Newt Washburn tourist basket
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Small, round, lidded trinket basket woven of sweetgrass and ash splints. Band of decorative, twisted splints around midline of basket.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Notes
The Vermont Gypsies were a well-known part of life along old Route 15 before WWII (there is 1990’s testimony from Abenaki gypsy descendants that the lifestyle subsided in the early 1930’s because of the Eugenics Survey). They would arrive in town in a couple horse drawn wagons and set up camp on a friendly farmer’s field. They traded their labor and craft arts for feed for their horses as well as food and cash. Horse feed seemed to be their most important economic need.
Information from a 1990s Johnson State College oral history project includes:
Although their main product was the “Indian Basket,” people along Rt. 15 did not think of them as Indian, but a few described them as mixed blood. Two people reported that the women wore more scarves than anyone they had seen and one thought that was the main characteristic of gypsies. There were no reports of beads or jewelry except small crucifixes, one report of a man wearing a silver religious medal. The horses and the wagons were in good shape and there were sometimes well behaved “camp dogs.” present. One elderly informant from Johnson, Vermont told of “sneaking off to hang out with the Gypsies” in the 1920’s and gave a bit of detail, including 1.) they spoke another language but English in camp; 2. Their food smelled different than “Vermont food;” 3. They were very friendly and respectful, when not doing chores, everyone around camp was working on crafts, even the older children. There were a few other impressions, not negative, but nevertheless would be considered inappropriate today such as body odor and assumed sexual conduct. The men helped with farm work and did minor repairs such as blade sharpening and repairing pots and pans with little tin and aluminum patches. One man from Jeffersonville said that his family only rarely sharpened its farm tools and kitchen knives because the gypsies could put an amazing edge on a chisel or knife without “cheap and wearing the blade.” A person in Jericho reported seeing snowshoes for sale, and a miniature pair of snowshoes was sold in Jericho, the only example of a tourist miniature being sold. We have story of a “wolf fur” coat sold by the gypsies in Jericho and one of the set of small “porch chairs” chairs the men made by hand in back of the Smuggler’s Notch Inn in Jeffersonville. There were no reports of them selling herbal medicines, but they did collect herbs in the woods and on the Lamoille and Gihon River riverbank. They were said to have wintered in the pine woods in Burlington where the airport is now and traveled as far east as Danville (this was confirmed by Don Stevens, whose ancestors did the route 15 circuit).
Professor Jim Petersen of the University of Vermont, in conversation regarding his mother’s sweetgrass basket, said that she bought it from the Gypsies when they passed through Salisbury, VT (Rt. 7) before WWII, and she told Jim that she always knew that the Gypsies were Indian.
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1925
Materials
Material
Sweetgrass, Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.92a-b
Context
This little ash splint and sweetgrass “fancy basket,” along with L2024.3.91a-b, is very important because they were sold to Mrs. Waterman of Johnson, Vermont in the 1920’s or early 30’s by "Gypsies" who camped on a farm to the west of town. Almost all ash and sweetgrass fancy baskets lack such documentation and could have been made anywhere and brought back to Vermont as souvenirs. There are interesting interview notes on what the people of Johnson thought of the "Gypsies" at the time.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Green splint basket with curlicues and sweetgrass edging. One row of curlicues on the lid and one on the side of the basket. The weavers are narrow, 1/16" wide, except for row with curlicue. The rim of the basket is banded on the outside by dark green splint and on the inside by natural color splint and wound with green (no breaks). The lid is banded on the outside with sweetgrass and the inside by green splint and wound with green splint (no breaks).
Acquisition
Accession
2011.9
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Splint, Sweetgrass
Entry/Object ID
2011.9.1a-b
Context
Owned by Cora C. Calderari
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Incomplete strawberry basket with mold
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1930
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.73a-b
Context
Wiseman comments: This was purchased from an antique dealer, who I trust, bought it from a yard sale in Barnstead, NH. No more is known of the provenance. The red basket preform is an obvious incomplete “strawberry” basket sill tightly clinging to its softwood mold. It was an important purchase in that there are scores of these in-progress baskets on their mold from better known Haudenosaunee and Wabanaki basket making areas, and this one was at least in the American Abenaki area for a long time.
Basket
Name/Title
Basket
Lexicon
Description
Open-work, ash splint basket. Square base and round rim.
Use
Herb collection and drying
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900-circa 1930
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.106
Context
Wiseman comments: This is a questionable find that I am adding to the mix because of the associated oral history. They are one of the more common types of baskets found in new England despite their terrible fragility. I had learned long ago, when I began antiques collecting, that these were “cheese baskets,” often made in prodigious numbers by the Shakers. Ever since, I ignored them completely even though the rims looked identical to Native New England baskets. In 1999, Billie Largy, a Nulhegan elder told me that these were herb drying baskets, and five years (I think) later at the “Antiques Collaborative” group in Quechee, I found another that was sold as an Abenaki Herb basket from Vermont. I personally could not tell it from a cheese basket, but it was not expensive, so I bought it to reinforce Billie’s historical narrative. I later got in touch with the dealer, who I learned, seemed quite familiar with the Abenaki Basketmakers in the area and said that this was made by the “Bernard” family of Basketmakers in Windham County. I know that the Bernards are indigenous in NW Vermont and in Quebec, so the story seemed plausible. I got in touch with Billie and she told me that the basket was used to dry raspberry leaves and other herbs (didn’t write them down) to make tea. So this is an interesting little basket that was made and used along a totally different trajectory than the mainstream cheese versions.
Basket Gauge
Name/Title
Basket Gauge
Lexicon
Description
Wooden hand-tool with carved shoulders and teeth.
Use
Stripping ash splints to a specific size
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1880-1900
Materials
Material
White Pine
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.149
Context
This white pine basket gauge is from a Troy, Vermont family of Indian basket makers, almost certainly Abenaki, although this was not stipulated by the seller. It is almost identical in construction to Odanak and Penobscot gauges in the collection.
Basket Mold
Name/Title
Basket Mold
Lexicon
Description
Softwood basket mold
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.120
Basketball
Name/Title
Basketball
Description
Orange-brown basketball with traditional black lines and numerous inscriptions. From top around: "Presented to Daryl Wetzel
MacGregor (r)
for 1,000 POINTS
OFFICIAL (within circle) LAST BILT
1/31/'78
at Austine vs Whitingham
X10 L
MOISTEN NEEDLE INFLATE TO 9 LBS. USA"
MacGregor (r)
for 1,000 POINTS
OFFICIAL (within circle) LAST BILT
1/31/'78
at Austine vs Whitingham
X10 L
MOISTEN NEEDLE INFLATE TO 9 LBS. USA"
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Ball itself and maker details are all in rubber while the later handwritten inscriptions appear in black permanent marker.
Material
Rubber
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.21
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Daryl Wetzel was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 and was presented this ball for his winning of the 1,000 points in his junior year in Spring, 1978. He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
Daryl Wetzel was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 and was presented this ball for his winning of the 1,000 points in his junior year in Spring, 1978. He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
Web Links and URLs
Basketball Uniform
Name/Title
Basketball Uniform
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Textile Details
Nylon
Fabric
Description
Green and white basketball uniform. The green tank top (a) has two white stripes down each side of the jersey and "Austine" in stylized lettering in an arc across the chest. The number "12" is stitched below the school name in white block numbers. A larger number 12 is stitched in white on the back.
The shorts (b) are the same shade of green as the top with a jersey waistband and matching pair of white vertical strips down the sides of the legs.
Daryl Wetzel wore the number 12 jersey throughout his basketball career at Austine, including when he earned his place in the 1,000 points club in January of 1978 during his junior year.
The shorts (b) are the same shade of green as the top with a jersey waistband and matching pair of white vertical strips down the sides of the legs.
Daryl Wetzel wore the number 12 jersey throughout his basketball career at Austine, including when he earned his place in the 1,000 points club in January of 1978 during his junior year.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.53a-b
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
12 was the number of Daryl Wetzel who was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 was inducted into the 1,000 points club in his junior year in Spring, 1978. (see photo in archives) He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
12 was the number of Daryl Wetzel who was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 was inducted into the 1,000 points club in his junior year in Spring, 1978. (see photo in archives) He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
Web Links and URLs
Basswood Fiber String
Name/Title
Basswood Fiber String
Lexicon
Description
Fine string made from basswood bark wound over a pasteboard tube
Use
Probably as fishing line or to make nets
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.78
Basswood Fiber String
Name/Title
Basswood Fiber String
Lexicon
Description
Large bundle of string made from basswood bark
Use
Probably for fishing line or nets
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.80
Basswood Fiber String
Name/Title
Basswood Fiber String
Lexicon
Description
Fine string made from basswood bark. Wound over a bark strip.
Use
Probably used for fishing line or net
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.79
Basswood Fiber Twine
Name/Title
Basswood Fiber Twine
Lexicon
Description
Double-strand twine or heavy string made from basswood bark.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.81
Basswood Fiber Twine
Name/Title
Basswood Fiber Twine
Lexicon
Description
Twine made from basswood bark - untreated
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1995
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.82
Context
Made as a student project at Johnson State College
Beaded Bag
Name/Title
Beaded Bag
Lexicon
Description
Black, velvet bad with cord strap. Decorated with blue, purple, and brown beads in floral forms.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Notes
Kahnawake
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.128
Context
Possibly Kahnawake or Abenaki
Beaded Bag
Name/Title
Beaded Bag
Lexicon
Description
Black velvet bag with predominantly blue beaded design. Three-leaf flowers, thistles, and tiered flower. Red binding ribbon, mostly worn away.
Ethnography
Notes
Kahnawake
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.126
Context
Probably produced for the tourist trade.
Beaded Boot Pillow
Name/Title
Beaded Boot Pillow
Lexicon
Description
Beaded boot in the Niagara style
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.95
Beaded Crown
Name/Title
Beaded Crown
Lexicon
Description
Niagara-style "Princess Crown." Brown fabric with buff tape. Beaded central flower/star flanked by stems and leaves.
Use
Produced for the Degree of Pocahontas social organization, may have been worn by Wabanaki woman.
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.141
Context
This Niagara-style beaded “princess crown” labeled “Central NH,” on the tag, was produced in large quantities as costume for the Degree of Pocahontas woman’s social organization. However, we also have photos of them worn by Wabanaki women as well. The main evidence for Native use is its condition. Every piece of Degree of Pocahontas costuming I have seen is in pristine condition, except when later used as Halloween costuming, which rapidly detaches the bead-work. This example shows continual, not episodic use wear consistent with years of careful use.
Beaded Glengarry Cap
Name/Title
Beaded Glengarry Cap
Lexicon
Description
The cap is in excellent shape, made of black velvet with a dark tan polished cotton lining and beaded with a mix of opaque and transparent clear and colored 11/0 beads. It has a damaged golden eagle feather pendant on the back. The design focus is a large six-pointed polychrome design intermediate between a flower and star with a central sequin. It is flanked by pinnate designs, with beaded and metallic sequin space fillers. Sequins are usually a good indicator of pre-20th century use. Gold ricrac and braided cotton tape edge trim completed the decorative design of the hat.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.124
Context
Though apparently handed down in an Abenaki family, this item was thought to be an Iroquoian object. Upon further research into beadwork, Wiseman feels that it fits better into the Natural Style than the “Late Niagara.” This may indeed be Abenaki rather than Iroquois.
Beaded Pouch
Name/Title
Beaded Pouch
Lexicon
Description
Beaded pouch with flower and thistle design. Yellow, looped bead-work fringes the edges of the bag.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.143
Context
This pouch exhibits three of the most diagnostic bead-work style motifs, very similar to two moccasin fragments with a Waterville, Vermont provenance.
Beaded Whimsey
Name/Title
Beaded Whimsey
Lexicon
Description
Six-pointed star, beaded ornament. Glass beads of red, white, blue, and green. Designs include leaves at the point of each star, a Central dove holding an olive branch, the number 1900, and two American flags.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.94
Context
Beaded in the Niagara style
Beer Can
Name/Title
Beer Can
Lexicon
Description
Promotional beer can with a round logo on one side and an illustration of a man (Bernie Sanders) on the other. The logo is blue on the top and red on the bottom with the words, "Bernie / Weisse", and the date 2016. There is a black bird in the center and the inscription, "A slight sour and forward-thinking Berliner Weisse", at the bottom. The words "ZERO GRAVITY" are in a blue band at the top. The reverse is printed with an illustration of a man leaning against a barrel and holding up a beer glass. He has spiky, white hair, and is wearing a plaid shirt and suspenders. The bottom of the can is printed with the words, "FREEDOM AND UNITY" in place of the expiration date.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sanders, Bernard (b. 1941)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2016
Manufacturer
Zero Gravity Craft Brewery
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2021.37.1
Context
Made by Zero Gravity Craft Brewery in Burlington, Vermont, to support Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.
Bell
Name/Title
Bell
Lexicon
Description
Small bell on leather strap with buckle. Bell says "Ring for Coolidge". Bell is brass colored, strap is medium brown color.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.17
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1924
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1976.17.8
Context
Produced for the presidential campaign of Calvin Coolidge of Plymouth, Vermont
Bell
Name/Title
Bell
Lexicon
Description
Small metal bell with a ship's wheel as a handle. The handle consists of a red-stained wooden disc with a hole in the center, and five turned handles spaced equidistant around the edges.
Acquisition
Accession
2020.22
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1935-circa 1945
Manufacturer
Newton & Thompson Manufacturing Company
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2020.22.34
Context
Made by Newton & Thompson Manufacturing Company in Brandon, VT
Bell, School
Name/Title
Bell, School
Lexicon
Description
School bell from Braintree Hill School, Braintree, Vt. Wooden handle. Iron clapper attached to bell with chain. Bell is brass. Handle is 5" tall with decorative bands around it.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Made/Created
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Brass, Leather
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.9
Belt
Name/Title
Belt
Lexicon
Description
Black leather with a gold and black striped fabric on one side with a brass buckle and a brass hook hanging from belt, with matching straps hanging from each side of belt.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.59
Relationships
Related Events
World War I
Event
Related Person or Organization
Mayo, Henry Thomas (1856-1937)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1916-1920
Materials
Material
Leather, Brass, Metallic thread
Entry/Object ID
2007.59.1.3
Belt Buckle
Name/Title
Belt Buckle
Lexicon
Description
Belt buckle consisting of a round central medallion and rectangular side loops. The medallion is bordered with a laurel wreath and shows an eagle sitting on top of a horizontal anchor. The back is inked with the inscription, "MOBILE BAY AUG. 5TH 1864".
Acquisition
Accession
1921.10
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Clark, Charles E. (1843-1922)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Brass
Entry/Object ID
1921.10.5a-b
Context
Worn by Charles E. Clark of Bradford, Vermont, during the Civil War.
Bennington Battle Moument
Name/Title
Bennington Battle Moument
Lexicon
Description
Colored lithographic print showing the Bennington Battle monument, which is a large, gray obelisk with a series of five long, vertical windows in the center in a series of two rows the upper being longer than the lower and each row capping with a protruding gray ledge. There are several groupings of people on the ground beneath the monument, their shadows reaching towards the central structure. They are shown in fields and amongst trees as if in a park with light greenish-blue mountains in the background and a light blue sky with layers of fluffy grayish, yellowish clouds evaporating into a golden mist over the mountains. The print itself is a portrait-based image with a round top. Filling in the upper corners of the general print is a continuation of the light yellow, linear border into two delicate double and mirrored curling vine designs. Underneath the image but inside of the light, yellow, linear border in very small, black single-stroke lettering from left to right, "PUBLISHED BY WELLS & COVERLY, TROY, N.Y. COPYRIGHT 1891. BURLEIGH LITHO EST TROY, N.Y."
Under the print is the title, "BENNINGTON BATTLE MONUMENT" in empty serifed lettering delineated by stylistic, black outlining, an advertisement for a clothing store in Troy, New York, and details about the monument. Bearing inscriptions, "PUBLISHED BY," in small serifed lettering, "WELLS & COVERLY," in much larger, thin serifed lettering. Underneath in thick, dark, simplistic lettering, "The People's Popular CLOTHIERS," and below that in very thin and smaller, mono linear writing, "336-338 RIVER ST.,/13-15-17 FOURTH ST.," to the left in taller, darker, serifed lettering, "TROY, N.Y."
On either side of the main body are smaller paragraphs of inscriptions:
On the left in italicized, semi-cursive, serifed lettering, "Bennington Battle Monument Associa-/tion chartered 1853./Corner stone laid Aug. 16, '87/Cap stone placed Nov. 25th, '89/Dedicated Aug. 19, '91."
On the right side in taller, typewriter style, squarish lettering, "DIMENSIONS." Underneath in the same small, italicized, semi-cursive, serifed writing, "Base 37 ft. square./Height 301 feet." Again in taller typewriter style lettering, "COST." Undenerth in the same italicized, "Monument and grounds 117,000./Designed by J. Ph. Sinm, Boston."
Under the print is the title, "BENNINGTON BATTLE MONUMENT" in empty serifed lettering delineated by stylistic, black outlining, an advertisement for a clothing store in Troy, New York, and details about the monument. Bearing inscriptions, "PUBLISHED BY," in small serifed lettering, "WELLS & COVERLY," in much larger, thin serifed lettering. Underneath in thick, dark, simplistic lettering, "The People's Popular CLOTHIERS," and below that in very thin and smaller, mono linear writing, "336-338 RIVER ST.,/13-15-17 FOURTH ST.," to the left in taller, darker, serifed lettering, "TROY, N.Y."
On either side of the main body are smaller paragraphs of inscriptions:
On the left in italicized, semi-cursive, serifed lettering, "Bennington Battle Monument Associa-/tion chartered 1853./Corner stone laid Aug. 16, '87/Cap stone placed Nov. 25th, '89/Dedicated Aug. 19, '91."
On the right side in taller, typewriter style, squarish lettering, "DIMENSIONS." Underneath in the same small, italicized, semi-cursive, serifed writing, "Base 37 ft. square./Height 301 feet." Again in taller typewriter style lettering, "COST." Undenerth in the same italicized, "Monument and grounds 117,000./Designed by J. Ph. Sinm, Boston."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.69
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Troy
City
New York
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject
Bennington Battle Monument
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2006.69.8
Context
Planning started for a monument to the American Revolution victory at the Battle of Bennington in the 1850s. Local officials and philanthropists hoped for the structure to be completed for the 100th anniversary of the victory in 1877. Design changes, funding difficulties, and construction delays led to a dedication in 1891, the centennial of Vermont statehood. The monument anchors the colonial neighborhood of Old Bennington in Vermont's Southwest corner. The monument, originally built and maintained by the Bennington Historical Association (now Bennington Museum), is now a state historic site.
Web Links and URLs
Bentwood Box
Name/Title
Bentwood Box
Lexicon
Description
Painted bentwood box with lid. Stitched and pegged. Lid shows evidence of painted double-scroll design, mostly worn away.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.87a-b
Context
This box is an important piece of the period and shows diagnostic Northeastern Native sewn and pegged construction. It had a painted lid with double scroll design at one point, but the design is almost completely obliterated.
Bentwood Box
Name/Title
Bentwood Box
Lexicon
Description
Round, bentwood Box with lid. Basswood sides and pine pine bottom. Lid has ash splint sides and white pine top. Sides of both box and lid sewn with wood splints and pegged to top/bottom.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880-circa 1900
Materials
Material
Basswood, Ash Splint, White Pine
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.114a-b
Context
This large bent wood box from southern Quebec in Nulhegan Tribal Territory, is constructed from one of the widest splints taken from a tree that I have ever seen. It looks so much like an early 20th century cheese box that it sat on an antique dealer’s shelf for many months. It is beautifully made, and it seems to be of relatively recent make due to the absence of significant oxidation on the outside of the splint.
Bentwood Box
Name/Title
Bentwood Box
Lexicon
Description
Painted bentwood box with lid. Lid top made of tulip poplar and box bottom made of pine, sides of basswood with splint stitching. a. box b. lid
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1860
Materials
Material
Basswood, Tulip Poplar, Pine
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.88a-b
Context
This is an exquisite, black-stained splint box. It is entirely standard in form and material, except for the lid top which is made from a piece of commercially surfaced tulip (Liriodendon tulipifera) wood. The basswood sides are carefully cut down to a standard thickness with numerous strokes of the crooked knife (visible in the image to the right) rather than the cabinet scraper of the Euroamerican craftsman. The top panel must have been crafted from a piece of planed wood destined for a piece of regional furniture. Also tulip reaches its northern limits in Vermont, so it an uncommon wood anyway. An interesting example.
Birch Bark Picture Frame
Name/Title
Birch Bark Picture Frame
Lexicon
Description
Heart-shaped, birch bark object with square void in the middle. Two layers of birch bark stitched together with wood splint binding.
Use
Picture frame
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.117
Context
This piece of tourist art is probably a minor art form from the Highgate Springs Indian basket camps three miles to the south in the USA, since it employs both ash splint sewing and sweetgrass borders. The idea is that a photograph can be slid between the bark front and back and show in the ash and sweetgrass rimed window. It is one of the few examples of birchbark work that shows the white outside of the bark, probably catering to the tourists’ need to have something “woodsy” hanging on the wall.
Birchbark Box
Name/Title
Birchbark Box
Lexicon
Description
Large, round birchbark box etched/inscribed with double scroll motif on lid and rectilinear motif on body.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1840-1880
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.83a-b
Context
This large etched birch bark box from the east side of Lake Memphremagog has beautiful “double scroll” designs on the lid, a rarity in the American Abenaki area. Although the size and manufacture is similar to the much more common mid-Maine “Penobscot” bark boxes, its construction technique is more delicate and regionally distinctive.
Birchbark Canoe
Name/Title
Birchbark Canoe
Lexicon
Description
Birch bark canoe. The canoe is curved with a flat base and tapers into points on either end. The exterior is a natural brownish red with slightly darker central section. A single band of bright red runs just below the gunwales. The entirety of the opening’s edges are lined with an additional thin piece of wood. Three wooden thwarts span across the inside of the canoe. The exterior is supported by curved wooden ribs.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Birch, Birch (Wood)
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.187
Context
It is a southern Quebec piece, from the Lake Memphremagog Basin area in the Nulhegan Tribal homeland. It is large and totally native in all aspects.
Birchbark Doll
Name/Title
Birchbark Doll
Lexicon
Description
Birchbark doll
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.56
Context
For the tourist trade
Birchbark Panel
Name/Title
Birchbark Panel
Lexicon
Description
Incised birchbark Panel with symbol of Wabanaki Confederacy
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood
Subject
Wabanaki Confederacy
Made/Created
Artist Information
York, Aaron (b. 1973)
Artist
Date made
2005
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.102
Context
This panel was created for Fred Wiseman as the cover art for his 2005 publication "Reclaiming the Ancestors."
Black and Red Bugle Bead
Name/Title
Black and Red Bugle Bead
Lexicon
Description
Black and Red Bugle style bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1650-1700
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.200
Blanket Chest
Name/Title
Blanket Chest
Lexicon
Description
Grain painted, three-drawer blanket chest. Appears to have five drawers, the top two are false and disguise a lift-top chest. Appears to be of mostly pine with joined construction. Drawer rails are nailed, but may have been added later. The chest shows evidence of bracket feet, now missing. The drawer fronts and sides are grain-painted to look like book-matched veneer. The remaining surfaces, save the back, are sponge painted in the same brown and yellow coloration. The drawers all show evidence of two-pin pulls, later replaced with the wooden knobs. Under the lid, there are small areas of surface that have plain red paint. The holes for the original pulls have been filled and the grain painting applied over. It's probable that the piece was originally plain red and later modified with the wooden pulls and elaborate grain painting.
Acquisition
Accession
1988.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wheelock, Abijah
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1760-1780
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall dimension
Entry/Object ID
1988.6.1
Context
According to family history, this chest was brought to Calais, Vermont, by Abijah Wheelock in 1789. One of the earliest European families to settle in this area, objects associated with the Wheelocks held a certain colonial allure. It's evident that this chest went through a fair amount of modification. It was probably painted plain red, sported bracket feet, and simple brass pulls. At some time the feet were removed or broke off. The spectacular grain painting was added at a later date, perhaps as early as the 1820s. Vermont had a great tradition of grain painting - transforming plain furniture forms of soft woods into something akin to high style mahogany, curly maple, or figured fruit wood examples from prosperous cities.
Blender
Name/Title
Blender
Lexicon
Description
A hand mixer, made into a 'blender' of sorts. The body of the piece is a Kerr, straight sided, canning jar. Into the screw lid is placed the neck (of the beater) of a single blad hand mixer. To the blade is soldered a piece of tin with another piece soldered perpindecularily to the first. The tin pieces are rectangular and would produce a better mixing action than the single beater of the original mixer. To the top of the screw lid is soldiered a tin stabilizer around half the circumrerence of the lid. The mixer gear has a patent date on it of Feb. 9, 1904.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.25.1a-b
Blotter
Name/Title
Blotter
Lexicon
Description
Desk blotter with figure of 3 monkeys glued to top layer. 3 monkeys represent "Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil" The first wears a coat of red, the second a coat of green, and the third a coat of blue. Coats are visible only from back. Blotter pad on which they rest is made up of 4 7-sided layers, the bottom being a green blotter which is mostly torn away; the next two layers are blue and red felt, and the top layer is leather, which has a scroll design around border and printed in ink in center: "Don't Monkey/ With Anything/ on This Desk" The layers are pinked around the edges and are stapled together, with the staple being out of sight under the monkeys.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.72
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Souther, A. Fern (1907-2004)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Composition, Wool, Leather
Entry/Object ID
2004.72.17
Blue Translucent Bead
Name/Title
Blue Translucent Bead
Lexicon
Description
Blue translucent bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1625
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.202
Bobbin
Name/Title
Bobbin
Lexicon
Description
Bobbin from a spinning wheel.
Acquisition
Accession
1955.8
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Linen
Entry/Object ID
1955.8.1b
Bobbin
Name/Title
Bobbin
Lexicon
Description
Turned wooden bobbin wound with linen thread.
Acquisition
Accession
1962.35
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Linen
Entry/Object ID
1962.35a-c
Context
The thread was raised and processed in Duxbury, Vermont.
Bolton Falls, Winooski
Name/Title
Bolton Falls, Winooski
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. View from top of Falls, rocket stream bed, water rushing from lower left to frothy area center foreground. Calm stream/river center middle ground. Trees and rocks left and right edge. Camel's Hump in background.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Publications
James Franklin Gilman
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Subject
Camel's Hump and Bolton Falls
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Date made
1889-1891
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-259
Context
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. Her father decline to let the couple married due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion. His diary indicates this composition was made during a trip he and Mary took to Bolton.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. Her father decline to let the couple married due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion. His diary indicates this composition was made during a trip he and Mary took to Bolton.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
Book
Name/Title
Book
Lexicon
Description
Big Little Book - "Sequoia, the story of a strange friendship beween a mountain lion and a deer" "Thrilling Wild A(m)imal Adventures" 156 pages. Photographs. Printed on heavy paper (like construction paper).
Cover pictures teenage girl holding fawn
Cover pictures teenage girl holding fawn
Use
Donor
Acquisition
Accession
2003.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Balham, Jean Louise Goodall (1925-2016)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1935
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
2003.12.16
Bootjack
Name/Title
Bootjack
Lexicon
Description
Wooden boot jack consisting of a board with rounded ends. One end of the board has a small, round hole, presumably for hanging, while the other has a very large round hole. A smaller block of wood is secured near the large hole.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.94
Relationships
Related Places
Place
East Calais
Village
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1960.94.1
Context
Likely used by the George family in East Calais, Vermont
Boots
Name/Title
Boots
Lexicon
Description
Brown leather hiking boots with rubber soles. The boots reach above the wearer's ankle and lace up the center front over a fully attached tongue.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.28
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hagerman, Robert, Green Mountain Club
Related Places
Place
Morrisville
Village
Morristown
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1974
Manufacturer
Dunham's Duraflex
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather
Entry/Object ID
1977.28a-b
Context
Owned by Robert Hagerman in Morrisville, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Square green glass bottle with molded designs and a paper label. The sides are each molded with a different design: three stars and the dates 1776-1976, an adaptation of the Vermont state seal, and an outline of a maple leaf. The fourth side is molded with four stars and has a paper label explaining the bottle in green text.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.49
Relationships
Related Events
US Bicentennial Celebration
Event
Made/Created
Artist Information
Cole, Charles Henry (1938-2017)
Artist
Date made
1976
Manufacturer
Vermont Glass House, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1977.49
Context
Made of recycled Heineken bottles by Vermont Glass House, Inc, in Cabot, VT, 1976.
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Green glass wine bottle with gold foil on the neck. The bottle has a paper label showing a winter sugaring scene with the label "Vermont Wineries / Vermont State Maple Wine" in large green and gold lettering. The bottom of the label reads, "Chill Before Serving / MADE AND BOTTLED BY / VERMONT WINERIES, INC. / DANBY, VERMONT 05739 / ALCOHOL 12% BY VOLUME" in dark green lettering. The base of the bottle is stamped from the mold, "4/5 QUART" four times around the bottom edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.48
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Vermont Wineries, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1976.48.3
Context
Made by Vermont Wineries, Inc. in Danby, Vermont
Bottle
Interpretative Labels
Label
Panther Breath Bottle, c. 1885
Made by William Miller
Montpelier, VT
Glass
William Miller of Montpelier started his bottling business in 1886 and produced ginger ale, birch beer, and tonic beer. He frequently skirted Vermont’s prohibition laws by brewing beer and distilling a moonshine nicknamed “panther breath.” His bottling business, inn, and saloon were raided frequently. He made several appearances in court, earning fines but never any other serious consequences.
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass drink bottle with the molded inscription, "Wm. MILLER/ MONTPELIER/VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1981.10
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
William Miller
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
William Miller
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1981.10.2
Context
William Miller bottled beer and "panther breath" during Prohibition.
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Small, clear glass bottle with cork stopper and paper label. The label reads, "Extract/Vanilla/For Ice Cream, Puddings, Pastry &c./Warranted PUre/Prepared by Burlington Drug Co. Wholesale Druggists Burlington, Vermont."
Acquisition
Accession
1986.28
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Burlington Drug Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1986.28.1
Context
Made by Burlington Drug Company in Burlington, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Soda bottle, clear glass with a gold metal screw top. Label features a "juke box" at the left. Colors are teal, coral, yellow, black and white. Juke box has a central name plate "CHELSEA ROYAL DINER". To the right is: "CHELSEA/ROYAL/DINER/ Rt. 9, West Brattleboro, Vt./802-254-8399/ Open Daily 6 a.m. til 9 p.m./ Old Fashioned/ BLACK CHERRY" Nutritional label to the right also "INGREDIENTS", VT 5c 12FL OZ/ 355ML. Distr. by PRIVATE LABEL BEVERAGE/KEENE, NH 03431"
clear
clear
Acquisition
Accession
1997.31
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Chelsea Royal Diner
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1997
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.31
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Unused wine bottle. 4" x 9" double sided, color flyer is in VHS Library- copy of flyer is with worksheet. Small Bside / Fruit / 2003
Wine bottle made of green glass- label is white with a stylized snowflake central that is superimposed over the profile of the state of VT. Each "arm" of the snowflake is an amimal shape. Below snowflake reads: "SNOW FARM WINERY / Vermont Reisling - (lower left corner)- Grown, produced and bottled/ by Snow Farm Winery, LLC/ South Hero, Vermont. (lower right corner) Table Wine/ Contains sulfites/ 750 milliters" Along edge is the wording from the "Government Warning...." Small oval label over main label reads: "2002"
Wine bottle made of green glass- label is white with a stylized snowflake central that is superimposed over the profile of the state of VT. Each "arm" of the snowflake is an amimal shape. Below snowflake reads: "SNOW FARM WINERY / Vermont Reisling - (lower left corner)- Grown, produced and bottled/ by Snow Farm Winery, LLC/ South Hero, Vermont. (lower right corner) Table Wine/ Contains sulfites/ 750 milliters" Along edge is the wording from the "Government Warning...." Small oval label over main label reads: "2002"
Acquisition
Accession
2003.50
Made/Created
Date made
2002
Manufacturer
Snow Farm Winery, LLC
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2003.50
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Glass soda bottle. Reads on face: "GOLDEN DOME/ DeRond's/GOLDEN DOME/ BEVERAGES." On back: (in cursive) "Golden/Dome"/BOTLED BY/DERONDE & CO./ MONTPELIER, VERMONT/ CONTENTS 7 FL. OZ."
clear with green printing
clear with green printing
Acquisition
Accession
1995.19
Made/Created
Manufacturer
DeRonde & Co.
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1995.19
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Small brown bottle with black screw top. Label is off white with black lettering and golden brown details. It reads in part: "Green Mountain/Flavors/PURE/ VANILLA/ EXTRACT/ NET 2 oz./59ml" and at the side: "Within the Green Mountains of Vermont, we have created the finest all natural gourmet flavors available....Green Mountain Flavors/ Chester, VT 05143" and "INGREDIENTS: Vermont Spring Water, Grain Alcohol (37%), Vegetable Glycerine, Vanilla Bean Extractives..."
brown glass
brown glass
Acquisition
Accession
1997.45
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1995
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Flavors
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1997.45
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
A "longneck" soda bottle from Pepsi. One side panel reads: "1996 NY-PENN/LEAGUE/VERMONT/Expos/CHAMPIONS" Stamped with "REFUND 5c CT-NY/MA-VT-ME-DE" Blue ink near "shoulder" of bottle "MAR 09 (blurred)/ 1001BV60497"
clear with red/white/blue
clear with red/white/blue
Acquisition
Accession
1998.7
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Expos
Person or Organization
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1998.7
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
White plastic water bottle with a green and black spouted lid. The lid is molded with the label, "California Springs Duo Flow Made in U.S.A." Imprinted in black around top section of the bottle is a row of silhouettes of people on bicycles and the label, "www.vtbikeped.org". Imprinted below on one side is an image of bicycle and a cyclist against a mountain backdrop labeled "Founded 1993", with the words, "VERMONT BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN COALITION Human Powered", printed around it in a circle. The other side of the bottle is printed with the words, "VERMONT BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN COALITION Your voice for better bicycling and walking in Vermont."
Acquisition
Accession
2003.39
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2003
Manufacturer
California Springs
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2003.39.1
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Vanilla bottle, green glass - Henry & Johnson, Burlington. Color paper label on the front; blank on the back; cork stopper; lip on top of neck at the opening.
Wording on label: Concentracted extract / vanilla for flavoring sauces, jellies, custards, &c / prepared by Henry & Johnson / Burlington, VT
Wording on label: Concentracted extract / vanilla for flavoring sauces, jellies, custards, &c / prepared by Henry & Johnson / Burlington, VT
Acquisition
Accession
1992.71
Made/Created
Date made
1870-1880
Manufacturer
Henry & Johnson
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Cork
Entry/Object ID
1992.71.1
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
A brown soda bottle with a bright colorful label and a gold colored twist off cap. The paper label reads: "CHELSEA/ ROYAL/ DINER/ Rt. 9 West Brattleboro, Vt./ 802-254-8399/ Open Daily 6 a.m. til 9 p.m./ Old Fashioned/ ROOTBEER" To the left of the writing is a stylized juke box with diners name across its front. Colors are bright bubble gum pink, bright turquoise blue and bright yellow. Nutrition facts, ingredients, labeling info. and returnable stamp are all to the right of the text. A raised " _6_ " is stamped on the bottom of the bottle.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Chelsea Royal Diner
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1998-1999
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1999.22.1
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass in shape of small milk bottle. Raised letters read "CONTENTS/HALF PINT/100%/VERMONT/MAPLE SYRUP/FROM/VERMONT TREES"; and on other side "FOR/MAPLE SYRUP/ONLY/PACKED BY/ VERMONT/MAPLE COOP./INC/BURLINGTON, VT." Maker's mark on bottom seems to be an "E" with a "3" on each side.
Acquisition
Accession
1961.51
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Vermont Maple Coop., Inc.
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1961.51
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass bottle with a white and red label showing a man with a long white bear and the words, "You'll love it! Frostie Old Fashion ROOT BEER".
Acquisition
Accession
1996.16
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Frostie Root Beer
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Burke Mountain Soda Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1996.16.7
Context
Made by Burk Mountain Soda Co. in West Burke, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Straight-sided clear glass bottle with the molded inscription, "Crystal Spring Bottling Co. Barnet, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1996.16
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Crystal Spring Bottling, Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1996.16.15
Context
Made by the Crystal Spring Bottling Co. in Barnet, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass bottle with the word, "CHAMPLAIN" printed twice on the neck, and a white, shield-shaped label with the red inscription, "Champlain Carbonated Beverages Burlington, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1996.16
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Champlain Carbonated Beverages
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1996.16.19
Context
Made by Champlain Carbonated Beverages in Burlington, Vermont.
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Dried Peas in a Bottle.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.118
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.118.6
Context
Found on the John Morrill Farm in Marsheifld, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
A "longneck" 12-oz. soda bottle from Pepsi. One side panel reads: "1996 NY-PENN/LEAGUE/VERMONT/Expos/CHAMPIONS" Stamped with "REFUND 5c CT-NY/MA-VT-ME-DE" Blue ink near "shoulder" of bottle "MAR 09 99( blurred)/ 1234BV060497"
clear with red/white/blue
same as 1998.7
clear with red/white/blue
same as 1998.7
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Expos
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1996
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.7
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Milk bottle with white plastic cap from Stafford Organic Creamery, Stafford, Vt.
a= White plastic cap with black and white label with logo (a milk delivery man with horse drawn milk wagon). Also address, "SKIM MILK", weight, and "Grade A". Label is partly obscured by a store "dairy" label.
b= 32 fl. oz. bottle has imprinted on one side in dark red lettering "STAFFORD ORGANIC CREAMERY at Rockbottom Farm, Stafford, Vermont 05072/ Grade A/ Certified Organic Milk/ from our cows,/ bottled on our farm/ in Strafford, Vermont./ 'Know Better Milk'" Below is seal of "Vermont Organic Certified", 32 fl. oz/ Plant # 50-28" and at bottom: "Wash & Return for Deposit"
a= White plastic cap with black and white label with logo (a milk delivery man with horse drawn milk wagon). Also address, "SKIM MILK", weight, and "Grade A". Label is partly obscured by a store "dairy" label.
b= 32 fl. oz. bottle has imprinted on one side in dark red lettering "STAFFORD ORGANIC CREAMERY at Rockbottom Farm, Stafford, Vermont 05072/ Grade A/ Certified Organic Milk/ from our cows,/ bottled on our farm/ in Strafford, Vermont./ 'Know Better Milk'" Below is seal of "Vermont Organic Certified", 32 fl. oz/ Plant # 50-28" and at bottom: "Wash & Return for Deposit"
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
2013
Materials
Material
Glass, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.8a-b
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
a= Clear glass wine bottle with brown/tan paper label. Front of label reads: "DUE NORTH/ Highland White/ 750 ml 2012 11% ALC/VOL." with a compass symbol in center. Printed on back is information re "Vermont Vineyard & Winery" with details concerning the wine flavoring. At bottom: "Produced and Bottled by:/ Due North Vineyard/ 129 Winery Drive, Franklin, VT 05457" Printed along side of label is government warning re sale in Vermont. Also attached is orange price sticker: "15.00"
b= Cork
b= Cork
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
2012-2013
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Plastic, Cork
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.10a-b
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Bottle of cranberry sparkling water produced by Vermont Cranberry Company of E. Fairfield, VT and Boyden Valley Winery, Cambridge, VT, for 2003 Governor's Inaugural Ball. Unique paper label, printed by Creative Labels of Vermont, Inc., features an image of the state house in a circle at top, then "2003 Governor's Inaugural Ball/ January 11, 2003/ Governor James H. Douglas/ Norwich University/ Cranberry Sparkling Water" with logos for Vermont Cranberry Company on left side and Boyden Valley Winery on right side. Bottle is unopened and sealed with green plastic over top and neck.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Douglas, James H. (b. 1951)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2003
Materials
Material
Glass, Plastic, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.13
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass soda bottle. Both the body and neck of the bottle are labeled, "SEAL'S SPARKLING " with a logo of a seal balancing a soda bottle on its nose in front of mountain peaks.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.29
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Seal's Soda Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2006.29.2
Context
Made by Seal's Soda Company in Barre, Vermont
Bottle
Interpretative Labels
Label
Catamount Ale Bottle, 1987
Distributed by Catamount Brewing Company, 1984-2000
White River Junction, VT
Glass, paper
Gift of William Osgood,1987.6.1
Founded in 1984 by partners Stephen Mason, Alan Davis, and Stephen Israel, the Catamount Brewing Company was among the pioneers of craft beer on the East Coast. Their Catamount Gold, the bottle featured here, won a gold medal at the 1989 Great American Beer Festival. They expanded quickly and opened a huge new brewing facility in Windsor in 1996, but their meteoric rise was matched by an equally quick fall, and they closed in April 2000. The Windsor facility was purchased and is still occupied today by the Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company, makers of Harpoon. In 2020, Harpoon begin brewing under the Catamount label once again.
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass beer bottle with a metal cap. The bottle has two paper labels, one around the neck and one around the body. The lower label has an illustration of a mountain lion (catamount) with the title, "CATAMOUNT GOLD".
Acquisition
Accession
1987.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Catamount Brewing Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
White River Junction
Village
Hartford
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1987
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1987.6.1a
Context
Distributed by Catamount Brewing Company in White River Junction, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
H.R. Thompson / Winooski, Vt. cream bottle. Raised lettering on front: "HALF PINT LIQUID/ H.R. THOMPSON/ MILK/ &/ CREAM/ WINOOSKI and along bottom in front: "REGISTERED" and along bottom in back: "SEALED B BX" Small decorative raised dots around neck of bottle
Acquisition
Accession
2014.43
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2014.43.2
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Green glass soda bottle molded with the inscription, “H. J. DWINELL DWINELL'S NERVE TONIC MORRISVILLE VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Made/Created
Manufacturer
H. J. Dwinell
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.110
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass soda bottle molded with the inscription, “CRYSTAL SPRINGS BOTTLING CO. BARNET, VT." on one side and a shield-shaped paper label on the other side that reads, "Bottled by CRYSTAL SPRINGS BOTTLING CO. / GINGER ALE / "PURITY" TRADE MARK / BARNET, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Crystal Spring Bottling, Co.
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.125
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown beverage bottle with a metal cap and a paper label. The label is cinnamon color and identifies this as BENT HILL BREWERY of Braintree, VT. The flavor is MONTPELIER MOCHA CHOCOLATE COFFEE STOUT and indicates that is 1 pint 6 oz.. Another label, white and smaller has a bar code. The bottle is empty.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.3
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Small, dark green bottle with cardboard case. The bottle has a screw-on metal cap and a paper sticker label that reads, "Vermont Ice / VERMONT Dessert Wine". There is a gold circle at the center bottom of the label that reads, "Ice Wine 13% ALC-VOL 50 ML", in the center and, "PRODUCED AND BOTTLED BY BOYDEN VALLEY WINERY OF CAMBRIDGE VERMONT" around the edge. The cardboard tube is printed with the same label. There is a round metal cap that closes the top of the tube.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Manufacturer
Boyden Valley Winery
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Cardboard, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.8a-d
Context
Made by Boyden Valley Winery in Cambridge, Vermont
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown, 1 pint glass bottle with a white label identifying it as LAWSON'S FINEST LIQUIDS/DOUBLE SUNSHINE IPA/Hand Bottled, Fresh,,Local, Unpasteurized & Unfiltered Beer...Lawson's Finest Liquids, LLC, Warren, VT 05674 - WWW.LAWSONSFINEST.COM.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.9
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass 22 fluid ounce bottle with a tan,red, and brown paper label. The label states: "CITIZEN CIDER/UNIFIED PRESS/VERMONT HARD CIDER/ 22 FL OZ (650 ML) ALC 6.8% BY VOL." One side of the label has a government warning. The other side of the label has a brief bio of the company, a list of the ingredients, and the address: CITIZEN CIDER, LLC/60 Laurette Drive, Essex, VT 05452.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.10
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass1 pint 6 oz. bottle with a white label indicating: "LAWSON'S FINEST LIQUIDS/CHINOOKER'D IPA". "Chock-full of Chinook hops, bursting with pine & grapefruit goodness, layered on a hearty base of pale ale, carapils, and caramunich malts. Watch out, you might get schnocker'd! 6.9% alc./vol." Down the left side of the label in a government warning. Dow the right side : "Hand bottled, unfiltered, unpasteurized, fresh local beer! VT deposit $0.05/Lawson's Finest Liquids, LLC, Warren, VT..."
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.11
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown 12 fluid ounce glass bottle with a white and black label. The label states: "Hooker Mountain Farm, Cabot, Vermont/Rock Maple Root Beer/ preservative free fresh soda- keep cold." The label also lists the ingredients and "Made and bottled at Hooker Mountain Farm, 1193 Lovely Road, Cabot, Vermont/www.hookermountainfarm.com."
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.12
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
12 fluid ounce brown glass bottle with a paper label stating: "Copper Ale/Otter Creek Brewing/ Handcrafted in Middlebury, Vermont/ Amber Ale." A smaller label around the neck of the bottle has the government warning and a brief bio of the brewery.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.13
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
12 ounce brown glass bottle with a gray,red, and green label. The label states: " Naturally Gluten Free/LOCAL NECTAR/Made with 100% Vermont Apples/Hard Cider/6.9% ALC/VOL/12 oz.." There is a small logo on the label; Woodchuck Hard Cider/ Est. 1991".The label on the back has the government warning, the nutrition facts,and a short bio of WOODCHUCK CIDERY, Middlebury, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.17
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Tall, dark green glass wine bottle with a cork. The label states Shelburne Vinyard Cayuga White Dry and "The Cayuga White grape is grown within 300 miles of our Vermont winery. Upon harvest in September, the grapes are rushed to us here in Shelburne where we process them to retain their balance of sugar and acidity..." The year is 2012.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2012
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Cork
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.19
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Dark green glass bottle with a kick-up bottom and with a black label edged in copper colored foil. The label states: "eden SPARKLING CIDER-DRY-" The back label states:"Bottle-conditioned, naturally sparkling cider fermented in French oak puncheons. Made from a blend of traditional and heirloom apple varieties grown within 200 miles of our cidery..." The Eden Ice Cider Company is located in West Charleston, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.20
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Tall brown glass hard cider bottle from Citizen Cider. See item 2014.52.10 for a similar bottle from the same company but with a different label. The label on this 22 oz. bottle states: WIT"S UP". This was crafted and bottled by Citizen Cider of Burlington, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.21
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
This tall 22 ounce brown glass bottle without a cap has a paper label stating: " Citizen Cider/ Vermont Hard Cider/The Flagship Cider/Unified Press/Cider for the People/Made by the People". Other parts of the label indicate that the product is naturally gluten-free, include the government warning, a list of the ingredients, a brief history of the company, and the company's address: Citizen Cider/ 316 Pine Street, Suite 114,Burlington, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.23
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
A Blanchard & Blanchard salad dressing bottle from a product produced in Norwich, Vt. The clear bottle has a blue label reading from top to bottom: Low Fat, Low Calorie, Cholesterol Free, See back panel for nutritional information, Blanchard & Blanchard, Made in Vermont, Spa Dressing, Russian Tomato, 8 Fl. Oz, All Natural, 237 ml.
The other side has detailed ingredients and a nutritional fact chart.
The other side has detailed ingredients and a nutritional fact chart.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.4
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Blanchard & Blanchard, Ltd.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic, Glass
Entry/Object ID
1996.4.1
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Single "Otter Creek Copper Ale" beer bottle (with screw on cap) and a paperboard 6-pack holder. "CRAFT BREWED IN VERMONT" Paper label on brown glass bottle. Label has an oval (vertical) logo "OTTER CREEK BREWING FINE ALES MIDDLEBURY VERMONT" "-FOR A QUART OF ALE IS DISH FOR A KING" "BREWED WITH CLEAR VERMONT WATER. THE FINEST DOMESTIC MALTS & HOPS AVAILABLE. OUR OWN TOP-FERMENTING YEAST & NOTHING ELSE." Center in the logo is a streetscape/bridge of the brewing complex.
Acquisition
Accession
1994.47
Made/Created
Date made
1994
Manufacturer
Otter Creek Brewing
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard, Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1994.47a-b
Bottle
Name/Title
Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Ceramic bottle in the shape of a man. The bottle has a mottled brown glaze. The man is shown wearing a long, full cloak, clutching it closed in the front. Above the closure he is holding a round mug. He is wearing a brimmed hat.
Acquisition
Accession
1959.23
Made/Created
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1959.23.13
Bottle Opener
Name/Title
Bottle Opener
Lexicon
Description
Bottle opener from Zan's Purity Sodas in Barre, other side shows a nude woman standing in water. The bottle opener portion is at the feet.
Zan's Sodas Inc. are listed in the 1938 Barre Directory. "Zan's Sodas Inc., soda mfrs 4 Prospect pres-tres Charles Zanleoni Jr. see p 16" Also listed is "Zan's Beverage Corp./ beer and wine distributors 2 Prospect pres-tres Charles Zanleoni Jr. see p 16"
Zan's Sodas Inc. are listed in the 1938 Barre Directory. "Zan's Sodas Inc., soda mfrs 4 Prospect pres-tres Charles Zanleoni Jr. see p 16" Also listed is "Zan's Beverage Corp./ beer and wine distributors 2 Prospect pres-tres Charles Zanleoni Jr. see p 16"
Acquisition
Accession
2001.18
Made/Created
Date made
1938
Manufacturer
Zan's Sodas, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2001.18.2
Bottle Opener
Name/Title
Bottle Opener
Lexicon
Description
Metal bottle opener stamped "C.H. Eddy & Co. Brattleboro, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1976.40
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
C. H. Eddy & Co.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
1976.40.1
Bottle Opener
Name/Title
Bottle Opener
Lexicon
Description
Metal and wooden bottle opener. Inscribed "The Wilson / Second Class License / James A. Kelley / 187 Church Street / Burlington..."
Acquisition
Accession
1976.40
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Wilson
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1976.40.2
Bottle Opener
Name/Title
Bottle Opener
Lexicon
Description
Metal bottle opener. The handle is stamped with the label, "BARR'S BETTER BEVERAGES / HARDWICK, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1975.25
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Hardwick
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1950
Manufacturer
Barr's Better Beverages
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1975.25.3
Context
Made by Barr's Better Beverages in Hardwick, Vermont
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Jackson Dairy of Barre, VT tab for glass milk bottle; X-tra -Rich Milk Pasteurized.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.13
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Jackson Dairy of Barre, VT tab for glass milk bottle;[pasteurized milk.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.14
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Lid for bottle containing pasteurized heavy cream from Jackson's Dairy, Barre, VT. Includes a staple at the tab base.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.15
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Jackson Dairy (Barre, VT) tab for pasteurized light cream with a staple at the tab base.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.16
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Jackson Dairy milk tab for pasteurized milk; has a staple at the base of the tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.18
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Milk bottle lid. Blue lettering states: "FOR A FRESHER COMPLEXION! drink 3 glasses MILK daily". There is a metal staple at the base of the tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.26
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Milk bottle lid with blue lettering that states: :SLEEP BETTER ! drink 3 glasses of MILK daily". A metal staple is at the base of the tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.27
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Milk bottle lid with blue lettering that states: " A GOOD HEALTH Habit! drink 3 glasses MILK daily". There is a metal staple at the base of the tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.28
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Milk bottle lid with blue lettering that states: "A GOOD HEALTH Habit! drink 3 glasses MILK daily". There is a staple at the base of the tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.29
Bottle tab
Name/Title
Bottle tab
Description
Tab lid for a light cream bottle from Jackson Dairy of Barre, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.17
Bottle, Food-storage
Name/Title
Bottle, Food-storage
Description
Dragonfly Sugar Works clear glass maple syrup bottle with a rubber and plastic stopper which is attached to a metal hinge for closure. Printed on a clear plastic label on front of bottle: "dragonfly (image of dragonfly) Sugar Works/ 100% PURE/ VERMONT/MAPLE/ SYRUP/
Huntington, Vermont/ 802.434.6502/ dragonflysugarworks.com" On back of bottle, near bottom, small round gold label imprinted: "Vermont/ Medium/ Amber" On bottom of bottle is "Italy 5 ?"
Huntington, Vermont/ 802.434.6502/ dragonflysugarworks.com" On back of bottle, near bottom, small round gold label imprinted: "Vermont/ Medium/ Amber" On bottom of bottle is "Italy 5 ?"
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
2013
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Plastic, Rubber
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.6
Bottle, Food-storage
Name/Title
Bottle, Food-storage
Description
Maple syrup bottle a=bottle b=cap
a= Glass maple syrup bottle with handle on right side and paper label on front with sugar house scene, "Pure maple syrup" across top and "16.9 FL. oz. (500 ml)" across bottom.
On back at bottom, gold paper label with green lettering reads: "VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL, INC./ P.O. Box 255/ St. Albans, VT 05478"
b= White plastic screw-on cap has gold label with green lettering on top which reads: "Vermont Fancy Grade"
a= Glass maple syrup bottle with handle on right side and paper label on front with sugar house scene, "Pure maple syrup" across top and "16.9 FL. oz. (500 ml)" across bottom.
On back at bottom, gold paper label with green lettering reads: "VERMONT MAPLE FESTIVAL, INC./ P.O. Box 255/ St. Albans, VT 05478"
b= White plastic screw-on cap has gold label with green lettering on top which reads: "Vermont Fancy Grade"
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
1998-2002
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.31a-b
Bottle, Food-storage
Name/Title
Bottle, Food-storage
Description
Clear glass quart size milk bottle, square sides, round neck and lip. Blue lettering states: City View Farm/R.N. Tucker/ Barre, VT" on opposite sides of the bottle.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.5
Bottle, Food-storage
Name/Title
Bottle, Food-storage
Description
Clear glass Vermont maple syrup bottle with a small "jug" handle and a black plastic screw top. The front paper label is tan with the a sketch of a tapped maple tree and the words: "Land of Joseph/ Vermont Pure Maple Syrup/ Grade A Medium Amber/ 8 FL OZ (236 mL)". The back label includes nutrition facts, ingredients, and "Land of Joseph/ 1673 Dairy Hill Road/ South Royalton, VT 05068."
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Plastic, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.22
Bow
Name/Title
Bow
Lexicon
Description
Wooden, probably ash, bow with gut bowstring. Bow stave is rectangular with decorative groove and red painted stripes.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1760
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.96
Context
The heavily oxidized bow is made from ash (CHECK THIS), rectangular in cross section, with a decorative groove incised on the sides and red ochre painted stripes. Structurally, the bow is in perfect shape complete with its original gut bowstring. It is stylistically different than other known bows from the region, and the only indicator of age is the gut bowstring, which probably phased out of use in the early 19th century in favor of Euroamerican vegetal cord. It is the only known really old Native style bow found in Vermont.
Bow
Name/Title
Bow
Lexicon
Description
Ash bow with bowstring through the bowstave
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.97
Context
1890’s Southern Quebec “through the Bowstave” bow. This type of bow occasionally shows up in old lithographs and antique shops from Maine to Vermont. It is a strange arrangement, and it is unknown if it actually is more efficient than a regular recurved bow.
Bowl
Name/Title
Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Bowl fashioned from folded and stitched birchbark. The rim of the bowl is made from cut and bent wood and bound with spruce root.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780-circa 1830
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.68
Context
This small, heavily oxidized bark bowl from southern Maine exhibits many early traits including the rectangular cut & shaved rim base and the careful spruce root wrapping that is almost all gone from years of hard use, evidence of native use rather than an early example of tourist art.
Bowl
Name/Title
Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Footed bowl printed in blue on one side with a scene of a city street line with commercial building. The image is labeled, "PORTLAND ST. MORRISVILL, VT." The interior rim of the cup is printed with a floral border. The bottom is marked "ADAMS SOUVENIR SERIES Made in England for A. R. Campbell. Morrisville, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2009.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
A. R. Campbell
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Morrisville
Village
Morristown
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1915-1916
Manufacturer
William Adams & Sons
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2009.4.3a
Context
Sold by A. R. Campbell in Morrisville, Vermont
Bowl
Name/Title
Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Large hand blown green glass bowl. The glass bowl has thick sides and wide rim, with a slight slant to one side. The heavy base is convex and arches upwards into the bowl.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.20
Made/Created
Artist Information
Attributed to
Attribution
Date made
circa 1830
Manufacturer
Champlain Glass Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2009.20.1
Context
Made at the Champlain Glass Company in Burlington, Vermont.
Bowl
Name/Title
Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Birchbark bowl with geometric lines and zigzags
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.67
Context
I have never seen a bark container from our area with the type of variable length spruce root rim lashing like this example. The advantage of this is said to not have all the lashing holes in the bark in a line, so that the bark will not separate along the weakened axis of the holes. I have only seen one or two bark containers separate this way, so I doubt that this is an important structural element but seems rather a decorative one. This casts a measure of doubt on the local origin of this artifact. However, given the fact that nobody has studied bark containers from the American Abenaki area, it is important to archive it for future researchers. The sawtooth etched design has affinities to the Cambridge basket, possibly supporting a local origin.
Bowl
Name/Title
Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Large earthenware mixing bowl with mottled brown glaze. The sides flare outward toward the top, and the lip curls downward to form a rim. The bottom is stamped with the mark, "Lyman Fenton and Co."
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Date made
1849
Manufacturer
Lyman, Fenton & Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Earthenware
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.64
Context
Made by Lyman, Fenton & Co. in Bennington, Vermont
Bowling Game
Name/Title
Bowling Game
Lexicon
Description
Boxed toy bowling game. The game consists of 10 wooden bowling pins with red heads, and a red wooden ball. The pins and ball fit into shaped cutouts within a cardboard inset in the cardboard box. The lid of the box is printed with an illustration of a bowling alley with a ball striking 5 pins and the inscription, "LUCKY STRIKE BOWLING GAME".
Acquisition
Accession
1981.37
Made/Created
Manufacturer
George F. Adams & Co., Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1981.37.1a-o
Context
Made by George F. Adams & Co., Inc. in Moscow, Vermont
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Round birchbark box with incised "petroglyph" designs. Lid has rim reinforced with bent wood and spruce root sewing/binding.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.65a-b
Context
This small etched birch bark box from Lyme, New Hampshire has primitive “petroglyph” style designs on the lid, and on the sides. Frederick Wiseman states, "The size and manufacture is similar to the much more common, mid-Maine “Penobscot” bark boxes and may actually be an import from the east. However, I have never seen a box with these designs published as Penobscot work. The spruce root sewing on the lid is unique."
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Printed cardboard box for a paper doll set. The box has short sides, and the back secures with tabs similar to an envelope. The front is printed with the image of a boy in a fancy dress costume with leggings, boots, and a wide-brimmed hat. The top has the label, "LORDLY LIONEL". To the right of the boy is in the label, "The PRINCE AND PRINCESS SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS PATD. FEB 20TH 1894." At the bottom is the label, "Raphael Tuck & Sons. LONDON : PARIS : NEW YORK PUBLISHERS TO Her Majesty The Queen. DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE McDONALD."
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2k
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
One piece, collapsible box. Printed on top: "Vermont/ Natural Creamery/ Butter/ Lightly salted/ 4 quarters/ Net Wt. 16 oz. (l lb.)/ State's Pride/ Mfg. by Cabot Farms Coop. Creamery Co., Inc., Cabot, Vermont 05647" Originally used in exhibition "200 Years of Making a Living in Vermont".
Acquisition
Accession
1976.51
Made/Created
Date made
1970-1976
Manufacturer
Cabot Farmers Co-op, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1976.51.3
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Round cottage cheese container. Printed on top: "Rosedale Brand Cottage Cheese 4% Milkfat min. Net Wt. 16 oz. (l lb.)" Originally used in the exhibition "200 Years of Making a Living in Vermont"
Acquisition
Accession
1976.51
Made/Created
Date made
1975
Manufacturer
Cabot Farmers Co-op, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1976.51.4a-b
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Printed cardboard box for maple candy. The box is printed with a dark red background and features a cartoon figure with short brown hair, puckered lips, and a bright red sweater with white bands around each upper arm and a large turquoise "D" on the front. Beside the figure are the words, "PURE MAPLE / SAP SUCKERS" in white and yellow/orange lettering. There are additional words about the weight and contents of the candy inside below the main text and on the back of the box.
Acquisition
Accession
1984.16
Made/Created
Date made
1984
Manufacturer
American Maple Products Corp.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1984.16.1
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Cardboard box. This rectangular box has a black printed frame border and an image of a horse mostly in silhouette contained in a circle. The words “Kendall’s / SPAVIN CURE” in large black printed lettering and frame the horse image. In small print, the words “Registered in the Patent Office, Washington, in the year 1876, by Dr. B.J. Kendall, of Enosburg Falls, Vt.” underline the central image and larger printed lettering. The cardboard is empty and has no added coloring besides the black printed lettering on all sides.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.27
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Dr. B. J. Kendall Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.27.2
Context
This box previously contained a small glass bottle for Kendall's Spavin Cure, 1986.27.4.
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
One pound butter carton and wrappers from Cabot Farmers' Coop. Creamery, Inc. in Cabot, Vt. Rosedale brand. Carton is white and green with a red rose just under the words "Rosedale Brand." The lid is a and the base of the box is b.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.10
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Manufacturer
Cabot Farmers Co-op, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1977.10.1a-b
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Cross Vermont cracker box. Red, white and black. Front has clear cellophane window and image of a horse and sleigh. Contained crackers in plastic bag. Last cracker disposed of on May 21, 2002. Recipes on back.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.10
Made/Created
Manufacturer
C. H. Cross & Son
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Cellophane
Entry/Object ID
1977.10.4
Box
Name/Title
Box
Lexicon
Description
Tea box. Round white cardboard box. Printed on front: "Tummy tea/ Aminzade Herb Tea Co., Plainfield, VT" Also a list of ingredients and a hand-drawn picture of a person in bed. Impressed in cover: "FONDA" indicating it was made at Fonda Container of St. Albans, VT. Sample in plastic bag in box.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Aminzade Herb Tea Co.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Plainfield
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Manufacturer
Fonda Container Co.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1978.4.2
Box, Foodstuff
Name/Title
Box, Foodstuff
Lexicon
Description
A rectangular (waxy) box that contains the original product, "Vermont Curry/ Curry Sauce mix with apples and honey." On the front of the box there is a photo of a "serving suggestion" with a green salad as well as three apples grouped in the lower left. This box is "MILD" flavor and net wt. 125 g (4.4 oz.) The box is printed in both English and Japanese. On the end: "Date Manufactured 1990.3.7"
bright yellow/red/black/brown
bright yellow/red/black/brown
Acquisition
Accession
1999.4
Made/Created
Date made
1990
Manufacturer
House Food Industrial Company, Ltd.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1999.4
Box, Foodstuff
Name/Title
Box, Foodstuff
Lexicon
Description
Cross Cracker box. Bright red with semi-gloss finish. Has a tab close top. Printing is mostly black with some white lettering: "CROSS/ Vermont/ CRACKERS/ Originated in Vermont in 1828" On front is a drawing (top) of a couple in a sleigh (in black) and 3 crackers in center (in yellow). 8 oz. package. Recipes on the back of box and a history on the sides. The company went out of business in early 1981.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.8
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
C. H. Cross & Son
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1981.8
Box, Foodstuff
Name/Title
Box, Foodstuff
Lexicon
Description
This is a LOCAL NECTAR hard cider six-pack carring box. Local Nectar was established in 1991 and is handcrafted in Middlebury, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
1991-2015
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.42
Bracelet
Name/Title
Bracelet
Lexicon
Description
Friendship bracelet for Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's mayoral campaign in the City of Burlington. The bracelet has multiple shades of blue beads alternating, with one yellow and turquoise bead on each side of letter block beads spelling out "EMMA 4 MAYOR."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.5
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington. Friendship bracelets experienced a resurgence in popularity during the musician Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, related to the lyrics for one of her songs, and became especially popular in campaigning for female candidates in 2024. This bracelet was a gift to Mulvaney-Stanak from a young supporter.
Bracelet
Name/Title
Bracelet
Lexicon
Description
Light blue "rubber" bracelet with the words: " Stop the F-35/Save our skies." This came in the original cello-packaging.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.32
Made/Created
Date made
2012
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Rubber, Synthetic
Entry/Object ID
2013.32.20
Context
Mission statement from the organization that produced this bracelet.
"Our mission is to cancel the basing of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter at the Vermont Air National Guard Station located at the Burlington, Vermont International Airport. We oppose the basing in order to protect the over 6,600 people living around the airport from the dangers associated with its basing. Some of these include adverse health impacts on children and adults, cognitive impairment in children, reduction in property values, classification of thousands of affordable homes as being unsuitable for residential use, disproportional negative impacts to minorities and people with low incomes, risk of loss of life from crashes, and nuclear threats from and to Vermont."
From the Associated Press in September of 2019 - "The first two of an eventual 20 F-35 jets arrived Thursday at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, the first Guard unit to receive the next-generation fighter. "
"Our mission is to cancel the basing of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter at the Vermont Air National Guard Station located at the Burlington, Vermont International Airport. We oppose the basing in order to protect the over 6,600 people living around the airport from the dangers associated with its basing. Some of these include adverse health impacts on children and adults, cognitive impairment in children, reduction in property values, classification of thousands of affordable homes as being unsuitable for residential use, disproportional negative impacts to minorities and people with low incomes, risk of loss of life from crashes, and nuclear threats from and to Vermont."
From the Associated Press in September of 2019 - "The first two of an eventual 20 F-35 jets arrived Thursday at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, the first Guard unit to receive the next-generation fighter. "
Broadax
Name/Title
Broadax
Lexicon
Description
Iron and wood broadax. The head of the ax is bell shaped with a triangular lug, a beveled cutting edge, and resembles a hewing ax. On one side of the ax’s head, a symbol of eight dots that encircles a central, large dot is punched into the iron. The wooden handle is thickest at the shoulder of the ax and becomes rectangular down the belly and grip, with the entire handle slightly curved toward the blade.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Schoppe, Winfield Scott (1850-1924), Connecticut Valley Lumber Company
Related Places
Place
Canaan
Town
Essex County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1978.15.3
Context
Owned by Winfield Scott Schoppe in Canaan, Vermont. Schoppe was woods boss of a logging crew in Canaan for The Connecticut Valley Lumber Co., and was rear boss on the last river drive in 1915.
Brooch
Name/Title
Brooch
Lexicon
Description
Oval mourning brooch. The brooch contains a woven medallion of blonde hair edged with a narrow plait beneath a clear glass window. It is surrounded by 2 gold bands and a black enamel band.
Acquisition
Accession
1983.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Blodgett, Hannah Converse
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Hair
Entry/Object ID
1983.19.5
Context
Contains the hair of Hannah Converse Blodgett
Brush Holder
Name/Title
Brush Holder
Lexicon
Description
Ash splint and sweetgrass basket
Use
Brush holder
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Ash Splint, Sweetgrass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.118
Bumper Plaque
Name/Title
Bumper Plaque
Lexicon
Description
251 Club car bumper plaque. The piece is is made up of a 5"h. x 4"w. piece of enameled metal that is screwed to a wooden base at the bottom two corners. The metal is green with white lettering: "Vermont / "251" / CLUB" The corners of the metal are rounded. The wooden base is made up of two stained (dark brown) pieces of wood (3 7/8" l. x 1 7/8"d. x 7/8"thick) nailed together. The lower edge of the metal is slightly bent and screwed to the edge of the top board with a flat head screw and a washer behind it. There residue paper on the bottom where it had been glued. The back right edge has a white brush mark from painting white.
Use
by donor's father
Acquisition
Accession
2011.41
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lindner, Erwin Schaffer (1915-1980)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1960-1965
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2011.41.5
Burlington Harbor, ca. 1895
Name/Title
Burlington Harbor, ca. 1895
Lexicon
Description
This painting portrays a white steamboat positioned in the water, situated near the shore adjacent to a large two-story building that extends into the water. The scene is depicted from a viewpoint on the water, looking towards the shore. The land is represented as a flat strip positioned below the center line of the composition, adorned with numerous trees and buildings painted in shades of tan, red, and white. The steamboat itself features distinctive elements, including a black smokestack and a water wheel positioned on its side. It has two deck levels. The wheel cover of the water wheel bears the label "Chateaugay," while a blue flag with the same label is seen flying from the boat. At the stern, an American flag is displayed, while the bow exhibits the Vermont flag. The sky above is depicted as a blue expanse, embellished with scattered white clouds.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.45
Relationships
Related Publications
Celebrating Ernest Haas
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Acrylic
Subject
Steamboat Chateaugay
Made/Created
Artist Information
Haas, Ernest J. (b. 1927)
Artist
Date made
2006
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2006.45.1
Context
Born in Albany, New York in 1927, Ernie Haas showed an early aptitude for drawing. After serving in the Navy at the end of WWII he enrolled at Paul Smith College for a year before transferring to the School of Practical Art in Boston. He was called back into service during the Korean War and was assigned to the Naval Photo Center where he produced art for training materials.
He worked for a time as an artist agent in New York before going back to school at Southern Connecticut College for a degree in history. He taught in Connecticut schools until retirement in 1984. At that time he and his wife relocated to South Burlington, Vermont.
Haas became involved as a volunteer with the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and was encouraged to rediscover his love of painting by then director Art Cohn. Haas created original artwork for museum exhibitions and publications as well as stand-alone works of early sidewheelers and historical events.
The steamboat Chateaugay was built in 1887 at Shelburne Harbor and launched by the Champlain Transportation Company as a state-of-the-art excursion vessel. It operated for 37 years as an excursion boat before being stripped down and converted into a car ferry in 1925. The boat is depicted in its heyday departing the Lake Champlain Yacht Club in Burlington Harbor.
He worked for a time as an artist agent in New York before going back to school at Southern Connecticut College for a degree in history. He taught in Connecticut schools until retirement in 1984. At that time he and his wife relocated to South Burlington, Vermont.
Haas became involved as a volunteer with the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and was encouraged to rediscover his love of painting by then director Art Cohn. Haas created original artwork for museum exhibitions and publications as well as stand-alone works of early sidewheelers and historical events.
The steamboat Chateaugay was built in 1887 at Shelburne Harbor and launched by the Champlain Transportation Company as a state-of-the-art excursion vessel. It operated for 37 years as an excursion boat before being stripped down and converted into a car ferry in 1925. The boat is depicted in its heyday departing the Lake Champlain Yacht Club in Burlington Harbor.
Burning Glass
Name/Title
Burning Glass
Lexicon
Use
Used in SW Maine
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1750
Materials
Material
Glass, Steel, Copper
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.35
Context
These were widely traded to native peoples as fire starters, it is not known whether they were used by the Abenakis, but it comes from the upper Connecticut River.
Bushhammer
Name/Title
Bushhammer
Lexicon
Description
This heavy hand bush hammer was used in the Barre granite industry. It's handle is wooden
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bianchi, Remo J. (1903-1974)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Iron, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.85
Butter Churn
Name/Title
Butter Churn
Lexicon
Description
2-gallon stoneware butter churn with blue slip decoration showing the logo for the Vermont Bicentennial. The churn has one jug handle and one lip handle. The logo consists of a primitive depiction of fields, trees, a barn, a church, and fireworks above the inscription, "1791 1991 VERMONT BICENTENNIAL". The bottom of the crock is incised with the inscription, "1/250 LTD." The interior is brown glazed. The churn has a small, round lid that fits into the upper rim. At the center is a round, circular handle with a hole for the dasher. The underside of the lid is glazed pink.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.28
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont Bicentennial
Event
Related Places
Place
Wallingford
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1991
Manufacturer
Salmon Falls Stoneware
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1991.28.1a-b
Context
Made for the Vermont Bicentennial celebration.
Butter Mold
Name/Title
Butter Mold
Lexicon
Description
Wooden butter mold. The mold consists of a rectangular box frame, a closely-fitted rectangular insert, and 4 square presses, or stamps. The frame is held together at the corners with box joints, and there are 2 wooden bars running horizontally across the base. The bottom is left open. There is an oval hole on each side end. The insert has slightly flaring sides and is held together with screws. 1 end piece has been replaced, as have all but 2 screws. There are 3 dividers across the insert, separating it into 4 pieces. The four square stamps are each carved with a different floral design: a branch with 3 berries and several leaves; a tied sheaf of wheat; a branch with 3 acorns and 3 leaves; a thorned stem with a rose, a bud, and 3 leaves. Each stamp has a chip carved border. The stamps are not attached, but holes in both the stamp pieces and the insert indicate that they were originally attached.
Use
Used to decoratively mold butter
Acquisition
Accession
2022.65
Made/Created
Artist Information
Varnum, John Hand (1871--1948)
Artist
Attributed to
Attribution
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2022.65.1a-f
Context
Attributed to John Hand Varnum of Peacham, Vermont.
Butter Mold
Name/Title
Butter Mold
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1967.121
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Rutland Women's Reformatory
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Rutland
City
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.121.2
Butter Paddle
Name/Title
Butter Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden paddle. The paddle is made from a single piece of wood and has a rectangular paddle and short, narrow handle. There is a hole drilled through the top of the handle.
Acquisition
Accession
1953.32
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wright, Medad, Jr. (1812-1892)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1953.32.4
Context
Used by a member of the Medad Wright family in Calais, Vermont
Butter Plate
Name/Title
Butter Plate
Lexicon
Description
White, round butter plate with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.3
Context
Owned by the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Button
Name/Title
Button
Lexicon
Description
Button from the 2010 Northfield Labor Day celebration. The button has a bearded wizard in the center of the button holding up his wand. A 4-pointed star is at the tip of the wand and a swirl is coming off the star. The wizard's back is to us, we see his profile. He is wearing a white garment and has a hood draped down his back. Around the edge of the button reads: "www.northfieldlaborday.org 2010" And starting at the top by the wand is: "Hocus Pocus - Bring out your magic!"
Acquisition
Accession
2010.59
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Northfield
Town
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2010
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2010.59.2
Context
Donor said the button cost $3.00. Button was designed by Emily Dumas, 16, of Northfield.
She was the 2010 button design contest winner.
She was the 2010 button design contest winner.
Button, Political
Name/Title
Button, Political
Lexicon
Description
A green and white button with the image of a flower emerging over the words Green Up, which is an annual clean up event in Vermont in the spring.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.51
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2015.51.1
Context
The first Green Up Day was held on April 18, 1970. In a letter written in 1984, former Gov. Deane Davis explained the origin for the now annual event. Robert Babcock, reporter for the Burlington Free Press, came to Davis after being appalled at the roadside litter that appeared as the snow melted in March 1969. He suggested to Davis that the state should sponsor a clean-up day. Davis liked the idea and set up a planning committee. Rather than rush to hold the event in 1969, the committee scheduled it for 1970. Babcock got a leave from the newspaper to work full-time on planning the event. For the first event, the interstate was closed from 9 a.m. to noon.
Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Name/Title
Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Lexicon
Description
Linocut print. The central focus of the image is a building with slanting (pitched), shingled roof and wooden exterior with shuttered windows surrounded by 4-5 horse-drawn wagons. These wagons are being loaded with milk cans from the open doorway of the building with horses in front of each wagon waiting. Alongside wagons are pairs of farmers. In the back, right is a pair with dark coats and hats and in the front right is another pair in overalls with their sleeves rolled up and bean bag caps. Two women sit atop their wagons, one along the side of the building, by the further window, and one in the lower right hand side facing us. In the background, there are figures of animals grazing peacefully in the fields with a winding fence along the left hand side and a small, barn in the distance with a smaller building attaching to its front facade. Below the image, there is the title, "CABOT FARMERS/ COOPERATIVE CREAMERY" in simplistic, thick, single stroke styled lettering and positioned to the right of it, there is the "Rosedale Brand" logo with gothic-style lettering, which features a rose blossom. Below the title, there is a statement that reads: "Vermonters working together / Since 1919" in stylized, casual, semi-thick semi-thin writing. The print is mounted on light beige paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cabot Farmers Co-op, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Cabot
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject
Cabot Creamery
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2008
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.2.4
Context
In 1919, the Cabot Village Creamery (built in 1893), incorporated under the co-op model as Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery. 94 farms formed the original company which turned their excess milk into butter for the commercial market under the Rosedale name. In 1934, Cabot expanded into cheese production as well. The number of co-op members peaked at approximately 600 Vermont farms in 1960. At this time the company dropped the Rosedale name and marketed cutter and cheese as Cabot.
With the steady decline of dairy farming in Vermont, Cabot merged with Agri-Mark, a co-op representing farmers throughout the northeast, in 1992. Today, Agri-Mark represents about 700 farms in New York and New England. In addition to the Cabot dairy plant, they also operate plants in Massachusetts and New York. Consumer brands include Cabot and McCadam. Bulk whey and dairy protein commercial products are branded as Agri-Mark.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
With the steady decline of dairy farming in Vermont, Cabot merged with Agri-Mark, a co-op representing farmers throughout the northeast, in 1992. Today, Agri-Mark represents about 700 farms in New York and New England. In addition to the Cabot dairy plant, they also operate plants in Massachusetts and New York. Consumer brands include Cabot and McCadam. Bulk whey and dairy protein commercial products are branded as Agri-Mark.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Camel's Hump From A Point Of View In Berlin, VT.
Name/Title
Camel's Hump From A Point Of View In Berlin, VT.
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. 2 trees upper left center, view from rise into valley. lower left, rock surrounded by vegetation, path leading from lower right into middleground. 2 children at right. Forested hillside to Camel's Hump in background. Small scene lower left. Man and woman in sleigh being pulled by white horse.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Publications
James Franklin Gilman
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Subject
Camel's Hump
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Date made
1889
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-262
Context
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin, the location of this image. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. The small vignette in the lower left depicts James and Mary in a sleigh. A short love poem is in the composition above. Her father declined to let the couple marry due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin, the location of this image. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. The small vignette in the lower left depicts James and Mary in a sleigh. A short love poem is in the composition above. Her father declined to let the couple marry due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
Camel's Hump from the Pasture in November
Name/Title
Camel's Hump from the Pasture in November
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. Stream lower left, dropping off (out of sight) into valley. Large trees upper center to right, rocks lower right center, meadows and forested area and Camel's Hump in background, bird formation upper center
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Publications
James Franklin Gilman
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Subject
Camel's Hump
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Date made
1890
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-261
Context
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin, the location of this image. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. Her father declined to let the couple marry due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church founder Mary Baker Eddy. From 1889 to 1891 he boarded at the Perrin farm in Berlin, the location of this image. He supposedly fell in love with Mary Perrin, a daughter in the household. Her father declined to let the couple marry due to Gilman's occupation as an itinerant painter and his newfound religion.
He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to this lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts in 1891. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty, passing away in 1929. Mary Perrin remained on the family farm, never married and died at the age of 72 in 1932.
Camera
Name/Title
Camera
Lexicon
Description
Glass plate camera that folds into a box. When folded, the camera resembles a small carrying case, completely covered in highly textured leather with a short carrying strap on the top. The back side (b) detaches at both the top and the bottom with metal protrusions that slide into clasps. Additionally, a hinged door is placed in the center of the back piece allowing access to the glass plate. The front opens by pressing two concealed buttons at the top of the case. Once open, the lens and its attached purple leather bellows can be slid onto an extendable wooden track. A marker on the proper left indicates the focal distance, and there is a level on the proper right. A perioscopal viewfinder sits to the proper left of the lens, and a wider viewfinders sits on top of the case. A small plaque under the lens bears in the inscription, "TELE-PHOTO CYCLE-POCO C/ROCHESTER OPTICAL & CAMERA CO."
Acquisition
Accession
2020.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bosworth, George Ranney (1868-1915)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Berlin
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1890-1915
Manufacturer
Rochester Optical & Camera Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather, Glass, Brass, Cardboard, Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2020.4.2a-b
Context
Used by George R. Bosworth in Berlin, VT
Campaign Badge
Name/Title
Campaign Badge
Description
Part of a campaign badge - probably hung on a ribbon originally. Reads "Taft and Sherman 1908"
Acquisition
Accession
1971.46
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Taft, William Howard (1857-1930), Sherman, James Schoolcraft (1855-1912)
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1971.46
Context
According to Encyclopedia Britannica online, "(Outgoing President Theodore) Roosevelt threw his support behind William Howard Taft in early 1907. Taft was Roosevelt’s secretary of war and a trusted adviser, and the two had similar political ideas. Having been handpicked by the president, Taft easily won the Republican nomination on the first ballot when the Republican convention met in June 1908 in Chicago, defeating, among others, Vice Pres. Charles W. Fairbanks , Speaker of the House Joe Cannon , and Sen. Robert La Follette . New York Congressman James S. Sherman was chosen as his running mate." Taft defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan on Nov. 3, 1908 to become President.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Campaign button, "For Governor/ Percival W. Clement" with black & white photo in center. Reverse side has a paper backing which reads: "The Whitehead & Hoag Co./ Newark, N.J./ Allied Printing/ Newark, N.J./ Patented July 17, 1894/ April 14, 1898/ July 21, 1898"
Acquisition
Accession
2006.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Clement, Percival W.
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1902-1918
Manufacturer
The Whitehead & Hoag Co.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2006.12.16
Context
Percival W. Clement of Rutland, Vermont, ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1902 and 1906. He ran successfully in 1918.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular campaign pin that reads: VoTe (in an oval at the left) with "CLINTON/DEAN/RACINE 96" to the right. Note the V and T in vote are larger than the o and e and are in dark blue block letters.
red, white, blue
red, white, blue
Acquisition
Accession
1997.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946), Dean, Howard Brush (b. 1948), Racine, Douglas (b. 1952)
Made/Created
Date made
1996
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1997.13.2
Context
Democratic campaign button for presidential candidate Bill Clinton, Vermont gubernatorial candidate Howard Dean and Vermont lieutenant governor candidate Doug Racine. Clinton was running for re-election and so was Dean. This was Racine's second try for lieutenant governor, having lost to Republican Barbara Snelling in 1994. He would go on to win re-election three more times, as would Dean, both leaving these offices in 2003.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Button with light blue/gray sky background with a bald eagle swooping down in flight. Around perimeter is: "2004 Presidential Announcement / HOWARD DEAN / MON JUNE 23 2003 / BURLINGTON / VT"
Acquisition
Accession
2004.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dean, Howard Brush (b. 1948)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2003-2004
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.9.2
Context
A button from Howard Dean's campaign for president in 2004. Dean, a Democrat, was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002. From the Encyclopedia Britannica, "Dean began his political career in 1982 as a state representative in the Vermont House of Representatives. He was then elected lieutenant governor in 1986. Dean became Vermont’s governor on August 14, 1991, after the death of Gov. Richard Snelling."
"On May 30, 2002, Dean mailed the FEC papers establishing Dean for America, a presidential campaign committee. Dean for America is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont. The campaign started in a small office in Montpelier, moved to offices in downtown Burlington at the beginning of September 2002, and moved to other offices in Burlington in early May 2003." (Source: http://p2004.org/dean/deanorg.html)
He withdrew from the presidential race in February of 2004 after a series of disappointing finishes in early caucuses and primaries.
"On May 30, 2002, Dean mailed the FEC papers establishing Dean for America, a presidential campaign committee. Dean for America is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont. The campaign started in a small office in Montpelier, moved to offices in downtown Burlington at the beginning of September 2002, and moved to other offices in Burlington in early May 2003." (Source: http://p2004.org/dean/deanorg.html)
He withdrew from the presidential race in February of 2004 after a series of disappointing finishes in early caucuses and primaries.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with safety clasp and the blue inscription, "VERMONT RIGHT WITH READY/By Baraba Cummings, Springfield, Vt." At the center top is an image of a waving United States flag.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.50
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Cummings, Barbara
Artist
Date made
1980
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2012.50.23
Context
Produced for the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Red with white letters "Kunin!"
Acquisition
Accession
2000.32
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kunin, Madeleine May (b. 1933)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1979
Manufacturer
Votes Unlimited
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.32.27
Context
"MADELEINE M. KUNIN was born in Zurich, Switzerland. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1956 and received a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1957. She earned another master’s degree from the University of Vermont, and worked as a journalist, author, and college professor. She was first elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1972, and was selected Democratic Whip in her second term. In her third term, she chaired the Appropriations Committee. She was elected lieutenant governor in 1978 and won reelection in 1980. During the spring of 1983, she taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Governor Kunin also taught at Middlebury College and St. Michael’s College. She was elected the first woman governor of Vermont in 1984. (serving through 1991) During her tenure, she focused on education and the environment and chaired the New England Governors’ Association. She founded the Institute for Sustainable Communities and served as its first board chair from 1991 to 1993. During the presidential administration of Bill Clinton, she served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. From 1996 to 1999, she was U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland. Kunin went on to become a Distinguishing Visiting Professor at the University of Vermont and St. Michael’s College."
Source: National Governors Association
Source: National Governors Association
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white metal collar button consisting of a large metal circle with a tab ending in a small metal circle. The large circle is printed with the blue inscription, “Leahy For U.S. Senator”, surrounded by outlines of the word “Leahy”.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.32
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Leahy, Patrick Joseph (b. 1940)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1974
Manufacturer
Graphic Comunications International Union
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.32.29
Context
Produced for one of the senatorial campaigns of Patrick Leahy.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round campaign button with the inscription, "BEV MAJOR VERMONT SENATE", over an illustration of green hills and a blue sky.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Major, Beverly B. (1935-2020)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Westminster
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1990
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2022.5.9
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round red button with the white inscription, "Amestoy ATTORNEY GENERAL".
Acquisition
Accession
2013.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Amestoy, Jeffrey Lee (b. 1946)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1985-1997
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.13.1
Context
Made for one of Jeffrey Amestoy's campaign for Attorney General of Vermont.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round red button with a yellow stripe across the center and the red inscription, "GARLAND".. Printed along edge in yellow letters is the label "Garland for Senate Campaign Committee Horn Co., Phila., PA 19126"
Acquisition
Accession
2013.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Garland, Margaret P. (1922-2003)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Horn Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.13.3
Context
Made for the senatorial campaign of Margaret "Peg" Garland. Margaret P. Garland was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1980, and lost to Democrat Madeleine Kunin.
Web Links and URLs
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round orange pin with the black inscription, "Fred for U.S. Senate from Vermont". A maker's mark is stamped on the back and reads, "BADGE-A-MINIT 1-800-223-4103".
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Tuttle, Frederick Herman (1919-2003)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1998
Manufacturer
Badge-a-Minit
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.1
Context
Made for the campaign of Fred Tuttle for US Senate in 1998.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
A campaign pin for Thomas P. Salmon, Democrat. The background of the button is light green with black text reading, "Tom Salmon." It has a small company symbol along the rim below the text. It is made of steel with a copper pin.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Salmon, Thomas Paul (b. 1932)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1965-1976
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Steel, Copper, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2005.9.3
Context
Tom Salmon was governor of Vermont from 1973-1977.
From https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-p-salmon/
"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, THOMAS P. SALMON graduated from Boston College in 1954 and received a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1957 and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1958. He went on to serve on the Rockingham, Vermont Town Counsel from 1959 to 1972 and as a Municipal Court Judge in Bellows Falls from 1963 to 1965. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970, serving as Minority Leader for two years. As governor, he chaired the New England Governors’ Conference for two years and was a member of the National Governors Association’s Executive Committee. In 1976, he made an unsuccessful bid for a U.S. Senate seat, but went on to become president of the University of Vermont."
From https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-p-salmon/
"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, THOMAS P. SALMON graduated from Boston College in 1954 and received a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1957 and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1958. He went on to serve on the Rockingham, Vermont Town Counsel from 1959 to 1972 and as a Municipal Court Judge in Bellows Falls from 1963 to 1965. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970, serving as Minority Leader for two years. As governor, he chaired the New England Governors’ Conference for two years and was a member of the National Governors Association’s Executive Committee. In 1976, he made an unsuccessful bid for a U.S. Senate seat, but went on to become president of the University of Vermont."
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
A campaign button for Richard A. Snelling. The button has white background, and in small blue text, "Dick", immediately below that in much larger red text is "Snelling." At the bottom of the button in small blue text reads, "...working for Vermont's future." The button also has a nearly illegible maker's mark in blue, on the side of the button below the text. The button is steel with integral brass pin.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Snelling, Richard Arkwright (1927-1991)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Steel, Brass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2005.9.10
Context
In 1986, Richard Snelling, a Republican, challenged the Democratic incumbent, Patrick Leahy, for his U.S. Senate seat and lost. Snelling is best known as a former Vermont governor. Below is his bio from https://www.nga.org/governor/richard-a-snelling/
"RICHARD A. SNELLING was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s degree in government and economics from Harvard University in 1948. He was in the U.S. Army Infantry in Europe from 1945 to 1946. He founded Shelburne Industries, Inc., and chaired several companies. His business affiliations include the Young Presidents’ Association, the Chief Executives Organization, and the World Business Council. He was director of Ski Industries of America and Associated Industries of Vermont and was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. He served six terms in the legislature, where he was the majority leader from 1975 to 1976. He also served on the Governor’s Commission on the Environment, and the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, and chaired the Vermont Aeronautics Board. He was first elected as Governor of Vermont in 1976 and served four consecutive terms. He was appointed to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations by President Jimmy Carter and was reappointed by President Ronald Reagan. He chaired the National Governors Association (1981-1982), the New England Governors’ Conference, and the Republican Governors Association. Snelling won an unprecedented fifth term as governor in 1990 but died suddenly eight months after taking office."
"RICHARD A. SNELLING was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s degree in government and economics from Harvard University in 1948. He was in the U.S. Army Infantry in Europe from 1945 to 1946. He founded Shelburne Industries, Inc., and chaired several companies. His business affiliations include the Young Presidents’ Association, the Chief Executives Organization, and the World Business Council. He was director of Ski Industries of America and Associated Industries of Vermont and was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. He served six terms in the legislature, where he was the majority leader from 1975 to 1976. He also served on the Governor’s Commission on the Environment, and the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, and chaired the Vermont Aeronautics Board. He was first elected as Governor of Vermont in 1976 and served four consecutive terms. He was appointed to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations by President Jimmy Carter and was reappointed by President Ronald Reagan. He chaired the National Governors Association (1981-1982), the New England Governors’ Conference, and the Republican Governors Association. Snelling won an unprecedented fifth term as governor in 1990 but died suddenly eight months after taking office."
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
This is a campaign button for James M. Jeffords, Republican/Independent, in his race for the seat as Vermont's Representatives in the House of Representatives. The button is white with blue text reading, "for Congress...Jeffords." The button is steel and the pin is copper.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Jeffords, James Merrill (1934-2014)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1974-1986
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Steel, Copper, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2005.9.15
Context
Produced for Jim Jeffords' congressional campaign.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
A campaign pin for Richard W. Mallary, in the race for United States Senate of 1974. The button's upper half has a white background with blue lettering that reads, "I say what I think." The lower half of the button has a red background with white text that reads, "Mallary for Senate." On the lower edge of the button in white text is the maker's name. The pin was made by Votes Unlimited of Ferndale, NY. The button itself is steel with a copper pin.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mallary, Richard W. (1929-2011)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1974
Manufacturer
Votes Unlimited
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Steel, Copper, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2005.9.16
Context
Richard Mallory, (1929-2011)
He was a graduate of Bradford Academy and Dartmouth College, ran a dairy farm for 20 years, then moved into politics and government.
In 1961, he began his rise through Vermont politics. He served eight years in the Vermont House, two of them as speaker. He moved on to the state Senate and then won election to Congress, where he served for two terms.
Mallary lost a U.S. Senate election to Patrick Leahy in 1974. He served in the Cabinet and in other positions under three governors. In 1999, he decided to run again for a seat in Vermont’s House. He won and served four more years.
Besides his long political career, Mallary also was an executive at a bank, two different utilities and a heating company. He was vice president of Central Vermont Public Service Corp. and president of Vermont Electric Power Corp., which oversees transmission lines throughout the state.
He was a graduate of Bradford Academy and Dartmouth College, ran a dairy farm for 20 years, then moved into politics and government.
In 1961, he began his rise through Vermont politics. He served eight years in the Vermont House, two of them as speaker. He moved on to the state Senate and then won election to Congress, where he served for two terms.
Mallary lost a U.S. Senate election to Patrick Leahy in 1974. He served in the Cabinet and in other positions under three governors. In 1999, he decided to run again for a seat in Vermont’s House. He won and served four more years.
Besides his long political career, Mallary also was an executive at a bank, two different utilities and a heating company. He was vice president of Central Vermont Public Service Corp. and president of Vermont Electric Power Corp., which oversees transmission lines throughout the state.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round campaign button with the inscription, "RE-ELECT MEYER TO CONGRESS".
Acquisition
Accession
2022.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Meyer, William Henry (1914-1983)
Person or Organization
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2022.5.11
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Campaign pin for Madeleine Kunin, Governor of Vermont, 1985-1991. White background with "Madeleine!" in red script
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kunin, Madeleine May (b. 1933)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1973-1991
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.44
Context
Produced for one of the gubernatorial campaigns of Madeleine Kunin
Web Links and URLs
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Tiny white campaign pin with blue lettering that reads, "Good Roads, Economy" around the perimeter and "Simpson" in the center.
Acquisition
Accession
1992.87
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Simpson, Wilder Arthur
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1930-1960
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1992.87.7
Context
A campaign pin for W. Arthur Simpson (1888-) of Lyndon, who ran for governor four times -- 1930, 1932, 1944 and 1960 -- and lost each time in the Republican primary. One of his campaign promises was to improve roads, pave roads and provide funding for rural roads without raising taxes. He served in the Legislature and served as on the social welfare commission and the state highway board and was well-liked by Democratic as well as Republican politicians.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Red background with white and blue lettering: "PAUL / POIRIER / FOR / UNITED STATES / CONGRESS"
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Poirier, Paul N. (b. 1948)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1988
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.8
Context
In 1988 Republican Peter Smith won the U.S. House seat with 41%. In that election, independent Bernard Sanders had 38%, and Democrat Paul Poirier received 19% with a bit over 2% divided among the remaining three candidates.
This was Poirier's sole run for statewide office, but he has run legislative races starting with an unsuccessful bid for a House seat in 1986. He ran several times for the state senate in the early 1990s, won election to the House in 1996 and again in 1998. He tried again for the state senate in 2000 and lost. He tried unsuccessfully to return to the House in 2006, and was successful in 2008, winning re-election in 2010, 2012 and 2014 before losing in 2016.
This was Poirier's sole run for statewide office, but he has run legislative races starting with an unsuccessful bid for a House seat in 1986. He ran several times for the state senate in the early 1990s, won election to the House in 1996 and again in 1998. He tried again for the state senate in 2000 and lost. He tried unsuccessfully to return to the House in 2006, and was successful in 2008, winning re-election in 2010, 2012 and 2014 before losing in 2016.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with the blue and red inscription, "TAKE BACK VERMONT VOTE REPUBLICAN" and an image of an elephant that is blue with stars on the top half and red on the bottom half.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Republican Party
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.10
Context
Made for the 2000 election in opposition to Civil Unions.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with a light-green silhouette of an evergreen tree and the dark green inscription, "Hogan for Governor'. The tiny inscription, "Paid for by Hogan for Governor, P.O. Box 466, Barre, VT Douglas Hull, Treasurer" rings the bottom edge.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hogan, Cornelius (1942-2018)
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
2002
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.11
Context
Made for the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of Cornelius "Con" Hogan in 2002. He ran as an independent, having previously identified as a Republican. The Republican candidate and eventual winner was Jim Douglas with 103,436 votes. The Democrat, Doug Racine, received 97,565 votes and Hogan received 22,353.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with narrow green border, color photograph of a man in an indigenous American feathered war bonnet, and the inscription "HOMER ST. FRANCIS FOR GOVERNOR". The button is formed by two sheets of plastic sandwiching a round piece of paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
St. Francis, Homer (1935-2001)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Swanton
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1990
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.12
Context
Made for the gubernatorial campaign of Homer St. Francis in 1990, but the Vermont Secretary of State doesn't list him as a candidate in any primary or the general election that year. In fact, he isn't listed as a candidate in any election in that state database.
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round red button with the white inscription, "BERNIE '86".
Acquisition
Accession
1988.28
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sanders, Bernard (b. 1941)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1986
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1988.28.16
Context
Produced for the 1986 campaign of Bernie Sanders for mayor of Burlington, Vermont
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white metal button printed with an image of a bald eagle carrying a United States flag and a large marijuana leaf. The image is surrounded by the inscription, "DENNIS LANE for GOVERNOR / VT. GRASSROOTS PARTY".
Context
Context
Acquisition
Accession
2021.24
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lane, Dennis (1947-2013), Grassroots Party
Made/Created
Date made
1994-1996
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2021.24.7
Context
Made to promote the unsuccessful 1994 or 1996 campaign of Dennis Lane for Governor of Vermont
Campaign Button
Name/Title
Campaign Button
Lexicon
Description
Four small, red, white and blue pins for various political campaigns of Thomas Dewey. One says “Dewey for President. Two say Dewey/Warren and one says Dewey/Bricker.
Acquisition
Accession
1965.14
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, Thomas Edmund (1902-1971)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1965.14.18c
Context
From www.britannica.com: “Thomas E. Dewey, in full Thomas Edmund Dewey, (born March 24, 1902, Owosso, Mich., U.S.—died March 16, 1971, Bal Harbour, Fla.), vigorous American prosecuting attorney whose successful racket-busting career won him three terms as governor of New York (1943–55). A longtime Republican leader, he was his party’s presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948 but lost in both elections.”
One pin has the names “Dewey” and “Bricker.” John W. Bricker, the governor of Ohio, was the vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket in 1944. In 1948, Dewey teamed with Earl Warren, the governor of California to try again to defeat Roosevelt and his vice presidential choice, Harry S. Truman.
To see more on Dewey, go to https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-E-Dewey.
One pin has the names “Dewey” and “Bricker.” John W. Bricker, the governor of Ohio, was the vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket in 1944. In 1948, Dewey teamed with Earl Warren, the governor of California to try again to defeat Roosevelt and his vice presidential choice, Harry S. Truman.
To see more on Dewey, go to https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-E-Dewey.
Campaign Pin
Name/Title
Campaign Pin
Lexicon
Description
Box of miscellaneous Civil War and GAR materials.
a) envelope of "Badge Ribbons"
b) cufflinks and gold buttons in white and pink box
c) top of a badge, a rampant eagle
d) string of buttons
e) brass tag Roosevelt and Fairbanks
f) string of Mass. buttons
g) souvenir GAR badge
h) V.N.G. pin
i) Vt. GAR badge
j) Mil. Order of Loyal Legion medal
k) watch chain/fob
l) cufflinks
m) cufflinks
n) ribbon cufflinks, collar stays in white box
o) folding mother of pearl button hook
p) key
q) brown buttons
r) assorted buttons/cuff links
s) mourning ribbon
a) envelope of "Badge Ribbons"
b) cufflinks and gold buttons in white and pink box
c) top of a badge, a rampant eagle
d) string of buttons
e) brass tag Roosevelt and Fairbanks
f) string of Mass. buttons
g) souvenir GAR badge
h) V.N.G. pin
i) Vt. GAR badge
j) Mil. Order of Loyal Legion medal
k) watch chain/fob
l) cufflinks
m) cufflinks
n) ribbon cufflinks, collar stays in white box
o) folding mother of pearl button hook
p) key
q) brown buttons
r) assorted buttons/cuff links
s) mourning ribbon
Acquisition
Accession
1986.18
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Branch, Charles Francis, Sr. (1845-1910)
Person or Organization
Entry/Object ID
1986.18.74e
Context
From a collection of historic objects assembled by Civil War veteran and UVM trained physician Charles F. Branch.
From the finding aid for the Charles F. Branch collection in the Vermont Historical Society Library:
"Charles Franklin Branch, the son of Orson Smith and Rodilla (Felton) Branch,
was born on 9 December 1845 and grew up on a farm in Orwell, Vermont. In 1862, he
enlisted with the 9th Vermont Volunteers at age 16 and remained in the service until he
was mustered out on 1 December 1865. Charles F. Branch rose in rank from private to
major and was cited for meritorious conduct at the capture of Richmond.
After the war he worked on his father’s farm. In 1875, he resumed his education
which had been interrupted by the war, graduating from the medical school at the
University of Vermont in 1879. That same year he set up practice in Coventry, Vermont,
before later moving to Newport in 1887. Dr. Branch also taught at the University of
Vermont and was surgeon-general of the state from 1886 to 1888. In 1895, he was
president of the Vermont State Medical Society. He removed his practice to Amherst,
Massachusetts, in 1896, where he also served as medical examiner for 11 years.
An active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Charles Branch
served as commander of Department Vermont and was “esteemed one of the best
speakers on the subject of war in the state” (Ullery, Men of Vermont). Charles Branch
died in Amherst, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1907. He had a son and three daughters
and was married four times: Emma Cook (d. 1876); Ida Burbank (1858-1889); Martha J.
Stewart (d. 1894); Clara Bell Greenwood (1872-1956)."
From the finding aid for the Charles F. Branch collection in the Vermont Historical Society Library:
"Charles Franklin Branch, the son of Orson Smith and Rodilla (Felton) Branch,
was born on 9 December 1845 and grew up on a farm in Orwell, Vermont. In 1862, he
enlisted with the 9th Vermont Volunteers at age 16 and remained in the service until he
was mustered out on 1 December 1865. Charles F. Branch rose in rank from private to
major and was cited for meritorious conduct at the capture of Richmond.
After the war he worked on his father’s farm. In 1875, he resumed his education
which had been interrupted by the war, graduating from the medical school at the
University of Vermont in 1879. That same year he set up practice in Coventry, Vermont,
before later moving to Newport in 1887. Dr. Branch also taught at the University of
Vermont and was surgeon-general of the state from 1886 to 1888. In 1895, he was
president of the Vermont State Medical Society. He removed his practice to Amherst,
Massachusetts, in 1896, where he also served as medical examiner for 11 years.
An active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Charles Branch
served as commander of Department Vermont and was “esteemed one of the best
speakers on the subject of war in the state” (Ullery, Men of Vermont). Charles Branch
died in Amherst, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1907. He had a son and three daughters
and was married four times: Emma Cook (d. 1876); Ida Burbank (1858-1889); Martha J.
Stewart (d. 1894); Clara Bell Greenwood (1872-1956)."
Campaign Sign
Name/Title
Campaign Sign
Lexicon
Description
A yellow protest sign (a) with black text that reads, "PRESERVE MARRIAGE". Above, two black hearts are interlinked. The left heart reads, "One Man" in black Times New Roman-style font, and the right heart reads, "One Woman" in a black cursive-style font. The sign is double sided and says the same thing on both sides. It is mounted to a wooden post (b) that one would hold in a rally.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.46
Made/Created
Date made
1999-2009
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2000.46.5
Context
This sign was used to protest civil unions for same-sex couples. On April 26, 2000, Vermont passed a law allowing same-sex couples to receive the same benefits as heterosexual couples. Governor Dean signed the bill and it went into effect July 1, 2000.
Campaign Sign
Name/Title
Campaign Sign
Lexicon
Description
A white yard sign (a) with the words "DEAN'S ACT 60" printed in read letters and crossed out by a red prohibited sign. The bottom text reads, "VOTE DWYER" in white letters and is outlined by a red box. The sign is double-sided and has the same message on both sides. On one side there is a small sticker that reads, "Paid for by Dwyer '98/P.O Box 1998/Montpelier, Vt 05601". The sign is attached to metal stakes (b) that would be pushed into the ground.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.46
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dwyer, Ruth, Dean, Howard Brush (b. 1948)
Made/Created
Date made
1998
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2000.46.3
Context
Dean's Act 60 was an equal education act passed by Governor Howard Dean in 1997. The acted created a statewide school tax that would then be collected and distributed equally between every Vermont school in order to prevent wealthier towns from having better educational opportunity due to their higher rates of funding. Ruth Dwyer was a Republican politician who unsuccessfully ran for Governor in both 1998 and 2000 and subsequently lost to Howard Dean both years.
Web Links and URLs
Campaign Sign
Name/Title
Campaign Sign
Lexicon
Description
Campaign Sign for Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's mayoral campaign. The rectangular sign is thin cardboard with three color block bands printed diagonally across it. The top band is navy with "EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK" across it in white. The middle band is yellow with "for MAYOR" in the same navy as the top section. The lowest band is printed with the vertical rainbow stripes of the LGBT pride flag and has "EMMAFORMAYOR.COM" just below the middle yellow band. "PAID FOR BY EMMA FOR MAYOR," "PO BOX 701, BURLINGTON, VT 05402," "TREASURER: ERIN JACOBSEN" are printed in white across the bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.8
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
Can
Name/Title
Can
Lexicon
Description
Silver colored metal Heady Topper beer can. This is a one pint size.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Aluminum
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.6
Can
Name/Title
Can
Lexicon
Description
Aluminum can, in silver, red, and brown. Contained CITIZEN CIDER/VERMONT HARD CIDER/UNIFIED PRESS. 16 FL OZ/ 1 PINT/ 6.8% ABV. On the side of the can it states: Citizen Cider: Cider for the people, made by the people. Apples for this cider came from Middlebury; the cider was crafted and packed by Citizen Cider, LLC, Burlington, VT. The can has a pull tab.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Aluminum
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.7
Can Opener
Name/Title
Can Opener
Lexicon
Description
Metal can opener with wooden handle and crank. The top is stamped with the label, "Edlund / No. 5 Junior." The blade or knife, now missing, sits in the open slot next to the wheel, with the blade sitting perpendicular the wheel.
Acquisition
Accession
1984.23
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Elwert, Philip F. (1949-1988)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1965
Manufacturer
Edlund Company
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1984.23.1
Context
Made by the Edlund Company in Burlington, Vermont. Used by Philip Elwert in Montpelier, Vermont.
Can, Milk
Name/Title
Can, Milk
Lexicon
Description
Cream can probably made in the tin factory in East Calais, VT. Straight sided (for 5 3/8") curving inward to form a neck. Side handle. Lid has a loop handle and domed top.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.25.4a-b
Candy Dish
Name/Title
Candy Dish
Lexicon
Description
Round dish with fluted and scalloped edges. The dish is printed in the center with an engraved illustration of two matching Victorian building with flags flying from square cupolas. The image is labeled, "STATE SCHOOL, VERGENNES, VT." The back of the dish is marked, "MADE IN GERMANY FOR O. C. DALRYMPLE VERGENNES, Vt. 92."
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vergennes
City
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.147
Context
Sold by O. C. Dalrymple in Vergennes, Vermont
Candy Dish
Name/Title
Candy Dish
Lexicon
Description
Small Sevres dish, dark blue with gold fleur de lis and gold trim, small pedestal.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.139
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Cane
Name/Title
Cane
Lexicon
Description
Indigenous woman's dance staff or cane
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1950
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.191
Canister
Name/Title
Canister
Lexicon
Description
Canister made from a shell casing. The bottom of the canister has the inscription, "105 MM M14B1 RMO-206-2 6-53". There is a plaque that reads, "CANNON SHELL FIRED IN HONOR OF THE STATE OF VERMONT DURING A BICENTENNIAL SALUTE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON JULY 4, 1976 AT FORT SILL OKLAHOMA / THE US ARMY FIELD ARTILLERY CENTER". The canister is mounted at the top and bottom with light-colored wood.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.24
Relationships
Related Events
US Bicentennial Celebration
Event
Related Person or Organization
Salmon, Thomas Paul (b. 1932)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1976.24a-c
Context
Given to Governor Thomas Salmon from Major General Donald R. Keith of Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Canister, Food-storage
Name/Title
Canister, Food-storage
Lexicon
Description
A 5-pound size tin for Vermont Maid creamed cottage cheese made by Vermont Cheese Products, Inc., Cabot, VT. Lithographed label has picture of a seated girl in a country setting with motto: "Truly the best!" at the bottom. "Copyright 1952 by Vermont Cheese ..."
Outside of tin is painted white and the printing and litho are in an evergreen color.
Outside of tin is painted white and the printing and litho are in an evergreen color.
Acquisition
Accession
1983.13
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1960
Manufacturer
Vermont Cheese Products, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1983.13.1a-b
Cannonball
Name/Title
Cannonball
Lexicon
Description
Round iron cannonball. A typed card accompanying the cannonball reads, "Oak and cannon ball from the Royal Savage, Benedict Arnold's flagship, on Lake Champlain in the Revolution."
Acquisition
Accession
1960.57
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Howes, Phillip Sheridan (1875-1941)
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1960.57.4b
Context
Taken from the Royal Savage, Benedict Arnold's flagship, in Lake Champlain.
Canoe
Name/Title
Canoe
Lexicon
Description
Miniature milk glass canoe. The top edge is molded in a twist or braid shape. One side is painted with pink flowers, green leaves, and the words, "SOUVENIR OF BARRE, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2007.41
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1940
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2007.41
Canoe Cup
Name/Title
Canoe Cup
Lexicon
Description
Round cup carved from a single maple burl. Pierced handle with leather thong.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hakey, Ned
Artist
Date made
1956-1957
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.119
Context
This maple burl canoe cup was carved 1n 1956 or 1957 by Ned Hakey who lived on River Lane in Swanton. It represented the loon if turned upside down. The bowl was hollowed out by drilling then carving with a crooked knife.
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Long, wooden canoe paddle. Painted dark grey.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.186
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden canoe paddle, painted grey.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.180
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden canoe paddle with long, straight blade. Painted red.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.182
Context
Straight Blade, Southern Quebec Native style Canoe Paddle. This paddle was made by a Stanstead Quebec Abenaki Man. It has the Wabanaki blade-ridge to strengthen the paddle, a detail found on Maine Native paddles, but the pommel and the blade are unlike those more common eastern Wabanaki paddles.
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Butternut canoe paddle, varnished
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Materials
Material
Butternut
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.184
Context
This butternut paddle is from Western Maine and retains a bit of the classic “Long lead” of more easterly Penobscot and Passamaquoddy paddles. It has the distinct sharp ridge on the upper blade to add strength to the paddle.
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Ash canoe paddle
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.185
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden canoe paddle with red paint
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.181
Context
This is very important as the only example that we have of a mid-19th century “long-lead” Wabanaki style paddle with a good Abenaki provenance. It once had a nice red ochre paint job, mostly worn away now. Rounded pommel, damaged blade
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden canoe paddle with worn, red paint
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.179
Canoe Paddle
Name/Title
Canoe Paddle
Lexicon
Description
Unpainted, wooden canoe paddle
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.183
Context
This is very important as the only example that we have of a later -19th century “short-lead” paddle with a good Abenaki provenance from Northern New Hampshire. It has the distinctive Abenaki thin, parallel-sided blade seen years later from southern Quebec and the northern Lake Champlain region. It has the distinct sharp ridge on the upper blade to add strength to the paddle. It is entirely hand carved, without sanding, probably with a crooked knife and has no finish. The date is a guess.
Canteen
Name/Title
Canteen
Lexicon
Description
Round, tin canteen with a pouring/drinking spout at the center top. There is no textile cover. The label, "Walter CoE. 15 Regt. Vt. Vol Fifer" is scratched into the neck of the spout. There is a cork stopper with a metal ring. The cork is attached to a side bracket with a chain. Three side brackets hold a long, woven strap around the seam of the canteen.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.37
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Walker, True Blake (1841-1863)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burke
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1861-1865
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1982.37.17
Context
Owned by True Blake Walter during the Civil War. Walter served as a musician in Company E, 15th Regiment Vermont.
Canvas Patch
Name/Title
Canvas Patch
Lexicon
Description
Crimson canvas patch. The canvas is a rectangular crimson patch with yellow detailing and has frayed edges. A slanted yellow rectangle is in the center that reads “EMMA / MULVANEY-STANAK” in crimson print from negative space. The words “for MAYOR” are below the slanted rectangle in yellow print.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Britt Langdon
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.1
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
Black felted wool cap with a leather brim (detached). The crown is unstiffened. The base of the crown is decorated with a silver ribbon, and a red velvet cross is appliqued to the center front. The interior is lined with leather, and there is a label that reads, "J.R. Pettis & Co., Troy, N.Y."
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kent, LeRoy Abdiel (1843-1911), Knights Templar
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather, Wool
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.111c
Context
Worn by LeRoy A. Kent of Calais, Vermont, as a member of the Knights Templar.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
Tan baseball cap with rows of stitching on visor and stitched above visor in green and blue: "CELEBRATE/ CHAMPLAIN". On back of cap is a tab and buckle for adjusting size, and above this, stitched in green: "The Lake, The Land, The People" The cap is lined with blue netting and a blue band round edge. Tag inside reads: "100% Cotton/ Made in China"
Acquisition
Accession
2013.3
Relationships
Related Events
400 Years of the Champlain Valley
Event
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2009
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.3.2
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
This red silk cap is adorned with a Buddha applique on the front. On each side of the cap, there is an embroidered flower. Additionally, the cap features stuffed animal ears that protrude from the crown. The interior of the cap is lined with a blue and green floral fabric. Lastly, there is a single-thread loop situated at the crown.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.50
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Coutts, Flora (1897-1983), American Red Cross
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1935
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silk
Entry/Object ID
1999.50.8
Context
Collected by Flora Coutts of Hardwick, Vermont. Coutts worked as a teacher in Korea, and volunteered with the Red Cross in China.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Use
by Russell D. Miller
Acquisition
Accession
2012.30
Relationships
Related Events
Korean War
Event
Made/Created
Date made
1950-1953
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool, Silk, Buttons
Entry/Object ID
2012.30.8d
Context
From the uniform of Russell D. Miller, who served in the Army in the Korean War.
The ribbons in this bar mean the following:
The red and yellow ribbon is for the National Defense service.
The blue ribbon with a single white stripe in the middle is a United Nations Korean Service ribbon.
The blue and white striped ribbons signifies service in Korea.
Russell Dean Miller was born in 1930, the son of Guy B. Miller and Elnora McCarty. His father died the following year; his mother died in 1980. He was a veteran of the Korean war.
He was married to Iona A. Hodges, who died in 2012. He was also survived by a sister Gloria Cote. He was predeceased by three brothers, W. Royce Sr. in 1987, Lawrence in 1947, and Roswell in 1982; a sister Gwyneth Miller in 2003; and his nephew W. Royce Jr. in 2004.
He was interred with military honors.
The ribbons in this bar mean the following:
The red and yellow ribbon is for the National Defense service.
The blue ribbon with a single white stripe in the middle is a United Nations Korean Service ribbon.
The blue and white striped ribbons signifies service in Korea.
Russell Dean Miller was born in 1930, the son of Guy B. Miller and Elnora McCarty. His father died the following year; his mother died in 1980. He was a veteran of the Korean war.
He was married to Iona A. Hodges, who died in 2012. He was also survived by a sister Gloria Cote. He was predeceased by three brothers, W. Royce Sr. in 1987, Lawrence in 1947, and Roswell in 1982; a sister Gwyneth Miller in 2003; and his nephew W. Royce Jr. in 2004.
He was interred with military honors.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
A brown velvet women's traditional cap with pink, blue and gold embroidery. A paper tag sewn inside says, "Bonnet Breton du Finistere." A card pin inside says, "Mr. et MMme Marcel Hamet, Guingamp."
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Floss, Embroidery
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.107
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
A child's bonnet of dusty rose and purple brocade, purple edging and lace around the face.
a rose ribbon ties under the chin and a fancy brocade ribbon is tied in a bow in back with trailing ties.
a rose ribbon ties under the chin and a fancy brocade ribbon is tied in a bow in back with trailing ties.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.110
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
Baseball-type cap of camouflage cotton fabric. Embroidered on front above visor: "Central Vermont/ Public Service" with logo and "2011" in orange, and in blue, "Irene" with outline of state of Vermont replacing the letter "I" Attached to top of cap is a cardboard label for "MOSSY OAK', (brand name). Inside visor is paper label with bar code and order or serial numbers. Printed along inside band is maker "PORT AUTHORITY" with fabric content, etc. At back is a band with velcro tabs for expansion.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.51
Relationships
Related Events
Hurricane Irene
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2011
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton, Polyester, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.51.6
Cap
Name/Title
Cap
Lexicon
Description
Vermont Lake Monsters baseball cap, blue crown with a red visor and red button in center of crown. Logo on front of crown has a red "V" and Champ. Inside band has two labels, one the insignia of "Professional Baseball/ The Minor Leagues" and the other, "DeLong/ Made in U.S.A." and size Med-Lg.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.1
Made/Created
Date made
2011
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2011.1.92
Cap, Bottle
Name/Title
Cap, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Winnisquam Farms cardboard bottle cap for pasteurized light cream.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.19
Cap, Bottle
Name/Title
Cap, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Cardboard cap for bottle of pasteurized light cream from Walter L. Carr, Barre, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.20
Cap, Bottle
Name/Title
Cap, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Red plastic bottle cap with cardboard insert. Chittenden's Cider Mill/ SWEET CIDER/ 1600 Dorset Street/So. Burlington. VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Cardboard, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.21
Cap, Bottle
Name/Title
Cap, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
White plastic cap for a bottle of Chittenden's Cider Mill Sweet Cider/ 1600 Dorset Street, So. Burlington, VT .
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Paperboard, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.22
Cap, Bottle
Name/Title
Cap, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Waxed paper cap for a bottle of pasteurized milk from Jackson Dairy, Barre, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.23
Carcass Hook
Name/Title
Carcass Hook
Description
Meat hooks
Acquisition
Accession
1966.15
Entry/Object ID
1966.15.12a
Card Game
Name/Title
Card Game
Lexicon
Description
Boxed card game, "Game of Authors". The box is printed with an illustration of a young boy reading a book to a young girl and an elderly man in front of a large fireplace. The game consists of 31 playing cards, each printed with a portrait of a famous author and the titles of 3 of their works.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Balham, Jean Louise Goodall (1925-2016)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1935
Manufacturer
Russell Manufacturing Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (boxed)
Materials
Material
Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2003.12.18a-gg
Context
Owned by Jean Louise Goodall Balham in Montpelier, Vermont
Card Game
Name/Title
Card Game
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1985.39
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1985.39.1
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
A square ("quart" size) juice carton. The graphics include a branch of an apple tree with two apples on it. A stemmed glass containing a yellow liquid is superimposed in the lower right area of apples. The carton is entirely in Japanese. It was translated by the film crew: "49 kcal/ MITSUKAN (COMPANY)/VERMONT/ STRAIGHT/ EASY TO DRINK APPLE CIDER BEVERAGE/ CALCIUM PALATABLY/ AIDS ENERGY REFUELING/ &/ GOOD FOR MAINTAINING A HEALTHY BODY/ MADE FROM 10% APPLE JUICE/ 1000 ml" There is a white screw-type opening.
bright lime green/red/brown/yellow/black
bright lime green/red/brown/yellow/black
Acquisition
Accession
1999.2
Made/Created
Date made
1998
Manufacturer
Mitsukan Company
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1999.2
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Pint size, round ice cream carton. "BEN & JERRY'S/ Smooth/ICE CREAM/White Russian" "ONE PINT (473mL)" "VERMONT'S/FINEST.ALL/NATURAL!" Back has "Nutritional Facts...Serving Size 1/2 cup (107g)/Servings Per Container 4/... (also) ingredients, bar code and history of "White Russian"...celebrates our joint venture ice cream shop and factory in Karelia, Russia..."
deep red/black/tan/yellow
deep red/black/tan/yellow
Acquisition
Accession
1999.26
Made/Created
Date made
1997
Manufacturer
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1999.26.1a-b
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Pint size, round ice cream carton. "BEN & JERRY'S/ ICE CREAM/ VERMONT'S FINEST ALL NATURAL ICE CREAM." Lid is blue and reads: "BEN & JERRY'S/ FRENCH VANILLA /ICE CREAM/ 1 PINT" Side panel reads: "SAVE/FAMILY/ FARMS! BGH (within a circle that is crossed out) CALL BEN & JERRY/ 802.BGH-FARM."
deep red/black/white/slate blue
deep red/black/white/slate blue
Acquisition
Accession
1999.26
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1999.26.2a-b
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Pint size, round ice cream carton. "All Natural/ BEN & JERRY'S/ VERMONT'S FINEST/ Chocolate/ Cherry Garcia/FROZEN YOGURT/ Chocolate Frozen Yogurt with Sweet Dark/ Cherries & White Fudge Flakes." Nutrition facts on side as well as ingredients "message" from Ben & Jerry.
Royal blue with chocolate brown and cherry red
Royal blue with chocolate brown and cherry red
Acquisition
Accession
1999.26
Made/Created
Date made
1998
Manufacturer
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1999.26.3a-b
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Light brown boxboard 4-pack carton for Switchel, a Vermont-made energy drink. The paper label is glued-on, has a white backround, some white lettering, with orange and brown highlights and lettering. The carton is to hold 4-12 fluid ounce bottles of the all-natural drink, made mainly with apple cider vinegar, ginger, and pure maple syrup. A boxboard handle is built-in to the carton. The carton shows that the drink is made by the Vermont Switchel Company in Cabot, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.30
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2017.30
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Pint ice cream carton for Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch (never used). Lid is separate; colors on the carton are maroon, black, white and green. A picture of Ben & Jerry is on the top of the lid; a lot of text on the entire carton, with a drawing of Ben making ice cream by hand on the side.
Acquisition
Accession
1992.78
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1992.78.1a-b
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Foodland ice cream carton.
Acquisition
Accession
1983.9
Made/Created
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1983.9.1
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream carton Cherry Garcia
Acquisition
Accession
1999.10
Made/Created
Date made
1993
Manufacturer
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1999.10.9a-b
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
Elmwood Dairy ice cream carton.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.52
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Elmwood Dairy
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1989.52.1
Carton
Name/Title
Carton
Lexicon
Description
White plastic yogurt container(a) with lid (b). The container has two labels; the front one identifies this as Green Mountain Yogurt, Grade A/Pasteurized/Keep Refrigerated/5 Live Acidophilus & Bifudus Cultures/ 6 oz./ Plain;an oval with the picture of two cows identifies them as Clover & Blossom. The back label has a description of the family farm in West Newbury, VT, a list of ingredients, and the nutrition facts. The lid has a small round label identifying Green Mountain Yogurt/ Plain.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.2a-b
Carving
Name/Title
Carving
Lexicon
Description
Small wooden carving of a man laying on his side with a fishing pole held between his legs. The man is wearing long pants, shoes, and a button down shirt. He appears to have a bears. A long fishing pole made from a narrow dowel juts out at an angle from the man's knees, and a round wooden ball hangs from the end of the pole by a string.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.26
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood
Subject
Fisherman
Made/Created
Artist Information
Warren, William W. (1910-1989)
Artist
Date made
1945-1955
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2015.26.7
Context
Made by William W. Warren in Windsor, Vermont
Carving
Name/Title
Carving
Lexicon
Description
Small wooden carving of a man about to cast a fishing pole. The man is wearing long pants, a button down shirt, and a brimmed hat. He is standing with bent knees holding a fishing rod vertically. In his other hand he holds a wire that is attached to a small wooden stick. A fish hook is embedded into the back of the small rectangular base.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.26
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood
Subject
Fisherman
Made/Created
Artist Information
Warren, William W. (1910-1989)
Artist
Date made
1945-1955
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2015.26.8
Context
Made by William W. Warren in Windsor, Vermont
Carving
Name/Title
Carving
Lexicon
Description
Carved wooden scene consisting of a cow, woman, and cat in a barn stall. The cow has a brown head and white body, with white horns. The woman is wearing a blue dress and sitting on a stool milking the cow. The cat is grey and seating on the ground beside the woman. There is a feeding trough in front of the cow.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.35
Made/Created
Artist Information
Johnson, Erik John (1853-1938)
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1964.35.2
Context
Made by Erik Johnson in Proctor, Vermont
Carving
Name/Title
Carving
Lexicon
Description
Cedar bird tail carving on an uncarved base. This carving is made from one piece of cedar, which is then fanned out to form the tail. A small bag of unattached carved pieces accompanies the carving.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.23
Made/Created
Artist Information
Nutting, Chester (1900-1975)
Artist
Date made
1975
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2012.23.14a-b
Context
Made by Chester Nutting in West Danville, VT
Carving Pattern
Name/Title
Carving Pattern
Lexicon
Description
Wooden board with decorative ivy designs cut from paper pasted onto one side. One design is a symmetrical medallion that appears to have been cut from a letter. Portions of the design have been cut into the board. The other design is a border element cut from wallpaper.
Use
Likely an unfinished pattern for carving tombstones.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.15
Made/Created
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1966.15.57
Context
Made in Northfield, Vermont
Case
Name/Title
Case
Lexicon
Description
This black leather camera case has two interior compartments for storing a camera and 6 glass negative plates. The case has both a long strap, connecting with metal latches onto the sides, and a permanently attached short strap, connecting to the top. The top secures with two metal latches. The inside is lined in plain woven cotton over cardboard.
Acquisition
Accession
2020.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bosworth, George Ranney (1868-1915)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Berlin
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1890-1915
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather, Metal, Cardboard, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2020.4.1
Context
Used by George Ranney Bosworth in Berlin, Vermont
Case, Instrument
Name/Title
Case, Instrument
Lexicon
Description
Cornet case for 2010.26.1.1. Leather exterior with metal lock and side reinforcements for keeping the case closed. Metal frame extending around edges and leather-covered metal handle. Interior is purple velveteen in two sections. Interior of top section is deep and padded. The bottom section has a cover, the top of which has a form with leather strap and heavy snap to support the cornet and hold it in place. There are two indentations along top side for extra valves ? (empty) and small silver pivoting tabs to hold them in place. There are also two more pivoting tabs attached to the leather case to hold this cover in place. Along bottom edge are four holes for holding mouthpieces. Area below this cover is also deep and lined with purple velveteen. A piece of wood has been attached to the area beneath the lock, probably for reinforcement.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.26
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1940
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Leather, Suede, Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2010.26.1.2
Casting
Name/Title
Casting
Lexicon
Description
Cast of a human hand on a rectangular base. The hand is cut off at the wrist, and the flat wrist portion is inscribed, "THE ORIGON CAPTAIN C.E. CLARK U.S.N. MARCH 29, 1902 / to WHITTEMORE FROM KELLY". There is a small loop inserted in the side for hanging.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.2
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Places
Place
Bradford
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Plaster
Subject Person
Clark, Charles E. (1843-1922)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Kelly, J. E.
Artist
Date made
Mar 29, 1902
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1902.2
Ceremonial Mace
Name/Title
Ceremonial Mace
Lexicon
Description
Green-painted ceremonial mace. The staff has gold braid and gold sheer grosgrain ribbon twisted around it, a gold-painted knob on the top, and two gold tassels just above the ribbon.
This staff was used in the graduation processionals for the Austine School.
This staff was used in the graduation processionals for the Austine School.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.29
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Champlain
Name/Title
Champlain
Lexicon
Description
"Samuel de Champlain explores the southern reaches of the Lake with his Algonquin and Huron allies 1609"
Black ink on off-white paper. Middle foreground is a canoe with three men, the one in fron represents Champlain with two men rowing behind him. Two additional canoes in image, one to seft with two Huron's in it and one in back with two Huron's in it. Rolling hills/mountains in background. Flock of birds in left sky area. Compass points in right sky area. Superimposed at the far right over scene is a cartargaphers view of "Lac Champlain" At the lower right is a small (1.63" dia) bust of Champlain. Text as written above is below the artwork. In pencil between art and text is "Champlain 6/40 M. Simpson"
Black ink on off-white paper. Middle foreground is a canoe with three men, the one in fron represents Champlain with two men rowing behind him. Two additional canoes in image, one to seft with two Huron's in it and one in back with two Huron's in it. Rolling hills/mountains in background. Flock of birds in left sky area. Compass points in right sky area. Superimposed at the far right over scene is a cartargaphers view of "Lac Champlain" At the lower right is a small (1.63" dia) bust of Champlain. Text as written above is below the artwork. In pencil between art and text is "Champlain 6/40 M. Simpson"
Acquisition
Accession
2009.2
Artwork Details
Subject Person
Champlain, Samuel de (1580-1635)
Subject
Champlain's exploration of Vermont
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2009
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.2.6
Context
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Child's Bow
Name/Title
Child's Bow
Lexicon
Description
Child's size ash bow with bowstring through the bowstave
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.98
Child's Folding Chair
Name/Title
Child's Folding Chair
Furniture Details
Furniture Type
Chair - Folding
Lexicon
Description
Wooden child's Folding chair with woven seat and back. The chair has a carved and turned maple frame with ring-turned decorative knobs on the top and an arched crestrail. The sides have pinned bent maple elbow rests and the seat is supported by a hinged X-frame base. The stretchers at front and back are ring- and vase-turned.
The seat and back of the chair are both tapestry woven wool with a red floral spray at the center and a darkened cream-colored floral wreath around it. Both fabric sections have a plain brown textured ground and are pinned into the frame with brass furniture tacks.
This chair was used by Edith Wurm during Sunday School at the First Unitarian Church in Burlington, Vermont.
The seat and back of the chair are both tapestry woven wool with a red floral spray at the center and a darkened cream-colored floral wreath around it. Both fabric sections have a plain brown textured ground and are pinned into the frame with brass furniture tacks.
This chair was used by Edith Wurm during Sunday School at the First Unitarian Church in Burlington, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.23
Made/Created
Date made
1875-1885
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Maple, Wool
Entry/Object ID
2024.23.2
Context
Donated by Edith Jensen
Child's Moccasins
Name/Title
Child's Moccasins
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Moccasins
Size
Child
Description
Small, buff moccasins with blue vamps and cuffs. Beaded thistle motif on vamps. Zig-zag border on cuffs.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.146a-b
Child's Table
Name/Title
Child's Table
Lexicon
Description
Paint-decorated, drop leaf, oak, child's table. Top edge of the table has black stencil or stamp decorative border with three starbursts in center and one at center of each edge with black geometric squares in between. Includes single center drawer with turned wooden knob. Drawer has nail construction. Table rests on four ring-turned legs
This table was used by Edith Samson Wurm as a child in Burlington, VT
This table was used by Edith Samson Wurm as a child in Burlington, VT
Acquisition
Accession
2024.23
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall dimensions including leaves extended
Materials
Material
Oak
Entry/Object ID
2024.23.1
Context
Donated by Edith Jensen
Chisel
Name/Title
Chisel
Lexicon
Description
Hand chisel from the granite industry. One side is stamped with numbers/letters (possibly 10CO??).
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bianchi, Remo J. (1903-1974)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.51
Chocolate Cup
Name/Title
Chocolate Cup
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic chocolate cup printed all over with bright colors. The main design is separated into three cartouches, each showing a building, and a banner that reads, "Souvenir of MONTPELLIER. VT." The images are labeled "PAVILION HOTEL", "POST OFFICE", and "NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING". Between the cartouches the pitcher is decorated with pink, yellow, and blue scrollwork.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.26
Relationships
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2009.26.8
Civil War Officer
Interpretative Labels
Name/Title
Civil War Officer
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Portrait showing a naval officer wearing a double-breasted uniform coat. The coat has a standing collar decorated in light blue edged with gold. He is wearing gold, braided epaulets. Addition gold braid decorates his sleeves. He is wearing white gloves and holding a sword in both of his hands. The piece is prominently signed in lower left in red: "T. W. Wood."
Acquisition
Accession
2011.13
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject
Military officer
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)
Artist
Date made
1902
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (unframed)
Entry/Object ID
2011.13.1
Civil War Sketch
Name/Title
Civil War Sketch
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. 2 men in uniform, sitting, one stump in foreground holding pipe, other on table with feet on box. horses eating hay in lean-to structure behind seated figures, tent among trees in background, saddle, right edge ceter.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
3rd Vermont Infantry
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Pencil
Subject
Civil War camp life
Made/Created
Artist Information
Scott, Julian A. (1846-1901)
Artist
Date made
1871
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-166
Type of Drawing
Context
Julian A. Scott (February 14, 1846 – July 4, 1901), was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War, where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills. He was also an American painter and Civil War artist.
Civil War Sketch
Name/Title
Civil War Sketch
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. Large tree in center, 2 men in uniform seated in front, one man reading newspaper, camp with white tents and people in background. Branch on ground lower right corner.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
3rd Vermont Infantry
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Pencil, Chalk
Subject
Civil War Camp Life
Made/Created
Artist Information
Scott, Julian A. (1846-1901)
Artist
Date made
1871
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-165
Type of Drawing
Context
Julian A. Scott (February 14, 1846 – July 4, 1901), was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War, where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills. He was also an American painter and Civil War artist.
Clarinet
Name/Title
Clarinet
Lexicon
Description
19th century rosewood and boxwood clarinet. The mouthpiece (a) is made of rosewood with a metal tip, likely with a lead repair due to wear. The bottom edge is inset to fit into the next section (b) and is wrapped with thread. The next section is slightly pear-shaped, with ivory bands at the top and bottom edges. This section is imprinted "MARSH & CHASE" very faintly from an original wood burning stamp. The top fingering section (c) has three tone holes and spring-loaded brass levers to control two additional keys. Also branded into this section is "MARSH & CHASE / CALAIS, VT" with an image of an eagle in the center. The second fingering section (d) has four tone holes down the front and three additional brass levers covering key holes. There is a missing ivory band on the top edge of this piece. It is also imprinted with "MARSH & CHASE." The bell (e) has a polished surface, ivory bands at the top and bottom, and is imprinted with the same worn trademark as section c.
All sections have carved threading where they connect to adjoining pieces, but the threading has worn somewhat.
a= Rosewood mouthpiece, possible lead repair
b= Section next to mouth piece has ivory bands at each end. Barely legible printing on front: "MARSH & CHASE"
c= Next section has three tone holes and brass levers on front and back to control two other keys. Also printed on this piece but barely legible: "MARSH & CHASE/ CALAIS, VT." with an image of an eagle in center.
d= Next section has four tone holes down front, with two more brass levers and keys. An ivory band between (c) & (d) is missing. Also imprinted with "MARSH & CHASE"
e= The bottom end section is horn-shaped and is trimmed with ivory where it connects with (d) and around bottom edge. Imprinted with same trademark as on (c) but almost worn away.
All sections have carved threading where they connect to adjoining pieces, but the threading has worn somewhat.
a= Rosewood mouthpiece, possible lead repair
b= Section next to mouth piece has ivory bands at each end. Barely legible printing on front: "MARSH & CHASE"
c= Next section has three tone holes and brass levers on front and back to control two other keys. Also printed on this piece but barely legible: "MARSH & CHASE/ CALAIS, VT." with an image of an eagle in center.
d= Next section has four tone holes down front, with two more brass levers and keys. An ivory band between (c) & (d) is missing. Also imprinted with "MARSH & CHASE"
e= The bottom end section is horn-shaped and is trimmed with ivory where it connects with (d) and around bottom edge. Imprinted with same trademark as on (c) but almost worn away.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.35
Made/Created
Date made
1819-1836
Manufacturer
Marsh & Chase
Materials
Material
Rosewood, Ivory, Boxwood, Tin
Entry/Object ID
1991.35.1a-e
Context
Cousins Perry Marsh and Nelson Chase made fifes, clarinets, and pianos in Calais from 1819 until 1836.
Clip
Name/Title
Clip
Lexicon
Description
Bag clip - political handout.
Acquisition
Accession
2002.33
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Palmer, Shelley D.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Grand Isle
Town
Grand Isle County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2002.33.2
Clips
Name/Title
Clips
Lexicon
Description
Bag clip - political handout.
Acquisition
Accession
2002.33
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Palmer, Shelley D.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Grand Isle
Town
Grand Isle County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2002.33.3
Clock
Interpretative Labels
Label
Clock
France
Gift of the State of Vermont, 1964.63.125
In 1949, the French people shipped 49 boxcars filled with tokens of gratitude for the trainloads of food, clothing, and medicine that the United States had sent in 1947 to assist France's recovery following World War II. The "Merci Train," a response to the "American Friendship Train," arrived in February.
There was an antique boxcar full of gifts and messages for each of the 48 states, plus one for Hawaii and the District of Columbia to share. Vermont's boxcar arrived in the state aboard a flatbed car on February 9. It made short stops in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, and White River Junction on its way to Montpelier. The official welcoming ceremony took place on February 10, and included Governor Ernest W. Gibson Jr. and Count Max de Montalembert, the French vice-consul in Boston.
Vermont's boxcar contained hundreds of items--dolls, toys, paintings, crafts, pencil boxes, embroidered collars, wooden puppets, ornamental fans, paintings, vases, trinkets, books, cards, and letters. Some of the artwork was given to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont in Burlington, some French books to Middlebury College, and individual items were sent via legislators to towns and libraries throughout the state. The remainder--nearly 200 items--has been in the custody of and stored at the Vermont Historical Society.
Pieces from the collection have been displayed twice since they arrived in that boxcar 70 years ago--in the 1950s and in 1988.
Name/Title
Clock
Lexicon
Description
Wooden clock with ornately carved front. The front panel features floral carvings and inserted turnings. A round clock face is attached to the center. The front opens to reveal a space on the inside with a label indicating that it was given to the Merci Train.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.125
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Clothespins
Name/Title
Clothespins
Lexicon
Description
Package of two rows of clothespins wrapped in plastic film. The pins are made of wood with a wire spring hinge in the middle. Within the package, the two rows of pins are oriented opposite each other. The retail packaging consists of plastic film and two cardboard inserts that wrap around the handle side of one row of pins and is clamped between the pin side of the other row, causing the label to be upright on both sides. The cardboard is labeled on the side, "National KLOS-KLIPS "the kind the hold tight" / 18 SPRING CLOTHES PINS NATIONAL CLOTHES PIN CO., MONTPELIER, VT. 05602". The ends of the cardboard are printed with a line drawing of a clothespin and the words, "KLOS-KLIPS MADE IN U.S.A."
Acquisition
Accession
1979.2
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Manufacturer
National Clothespin Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Cardboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1979.2
Context
Made by the National Clothes Pin Company in Montpelier, Vermont
Club
Name/Title
Club
Lexicon
Description
Club made from a tree root. Painted green with a rattan handle. Floral and geometric designs etched into paint on handle.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.71
Context
This aggressive looking green painted root club once belonged to Swanton Historian Ben Gravel and reappeared many years after his death at the 2010 Abenaki “Heritage Days” Powwow in Swanton, where Frederick Wiseman was able to purchase it.
Club
Name/Title
Club
Lexicon
Description
Carved root club in form of man with antlers and extended tongue.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
York, Aaron (b. 1973)
Artist
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.168
Club
Name/Title
Club
Lexicon
Description
Club made from a tree root carved as a bird beak.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.70
Context
Oral history evidence exists of a root club of this “bird-beak” style being used by a Nulhegan Abenaki family as a healing wand to keep away disease in the sickroom. We were lucky to find this larger, stylistically identical example in nearby Northern New Hampshire (provenance says Essex?).
Coaster
Name/Title
Coaster
Lexicon
Description
Catamount Brewing Company beer coaster. Printed in color on off-white heavy, absorbent paper; the back is blank; shows a cougar (catamount) in the center of a red circle, with green hills behind; circle shows CATAMOUNT written at the top and "Pride of the North Country" in the circle bottom. Above the top of the circle is written "Strictly Fresh - Finest Ingredients" ; along the bottom of the circle is written "Brewed & Bottled by Catamount Brewing Company, White River Junction., Vermont."
Acquisition
Accession
2017.31
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
2017.31.1.1
Coaster
Name/Title
Coaster
Lexicon
Description
Catamount Brewing Company beer coaster. Printed in color on off-white heavy, absorbent paper; the back is blank; shows a cougar (catamount) in the center of a red circle, with green hills behind; circle shows CATAMOUNT written at the top and "Pride of the North Country" in the circle bottom. Above the top of the circle is written "Strictly Fresh - Finest Ingredients" ; along the bottom of the circle is written "Brewed & Bottled by Catamount Brewing Company, White River Junction., Vermont."
Acquisition
Accession
2017.31
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
2017.31.1.2
Coffee Mill
Name/Title
Coffee Mill
Lexicon
Description
Coffee mill consisting of a cast iron grinder on a wooden box. The grinder is a round bowl with a central pillar. A metal grinder is inside the pillar and turns with the use of a curved, horizontal handle. A vertical wooden handle that attached to the end of the handle is now missing. The grinder sits on a hollow, square wooden base with a drawer. There is a round wooden knob at the center of the drawer face.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.115
Made/Created
Date made
1890-1910
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Iron
Entry/Object ID
1960.115
Coffeepot
Name/Title
Coffeepot
Lexicon
Description
Tin coffeepot with metal handle. Simple design with an upper and lower band of beading. Dome lid with black (medal?) knob. Handle is a simple design with flourishes at the top. The back part of the handle is missing. 'Drip' of solder on the seam of the spout.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.38
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Simmons, George W. (1803-1861)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simmons, George W. (1803-1861)
Artist
Date made
1845-1860
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
2004.38.9a-b
Context
Made by George W. Simmons in North Bennington, Vermont
Coffin Plate
Name/Title
Coffin Plate
Lexicon
Description
A casket plate for Ira R. Kent. "Ira R. Kent/ Died Oct. 9th 1875 / Aged 42 years" The plate is tarnished but the portions that are engraved are still bright. Along the top edge is a roll, representing a scroll.
Acquisition
Accession
1985.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kent, Ira Richardson (1833-1875)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1875
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1985.20.1
Coffin Plate
Name/Title
Coffin Plate
Lexicon
Description
Oval casket plate. Possibly quadraplate. "Inez R.A. Kent / Died June 8th 1874 / Aged 32 years" Her name is engraved to follow the angle of the oval. Subtle floral border.
Acquisition
Accession
1985.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kent, Inez R. Aiken (1842-1874)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1874
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silverplate
Entry/Object ID
1985.20.2
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1985.35
Mintage
Date made
1786
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1985.35.1
Context
Produced in Rupert, VT in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Obverse: "VERMONTENSIUM. RES. PUBLICA." The sun is risingin the background. The foreground is a rural scene described fully on the worksheet. Reverse: "STELLA. QUARTA. DECIMA." A small circle with an eye in its center is surrounded by 13 single pointed rays.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.29
Mintage
Date made
1786
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.29.1
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTS RES PUBLICA" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1785
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.1
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1785.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTIS RES PUBLICA 1785" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1785
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.2
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermontin 1785.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA 1786" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.3
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent knows peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA 1786" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.4
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA 1786" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.5
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a left-facing bust of a Roman figure resembling George II of England, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1786 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.6
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
1786 Vermont Bust Left, R/R-11 or Bressett 9-H.
Obverse: Bust facing left. VERMON: AUCTORI
Reverse: Female (Liberty) seated, staff in her left hand and olive (?) branch in the right; straight line over the top of the date. INDE: :: ETLIB: 1786
Obverse: Bust facing left. VERMON: AUCTORI
Reverse: Female (Liberty) seated, staff in her left hand and olive (?) branch in the right; straight line over the top of the date. INDE: :: ETLIB: 1786
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.7
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Britannia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "BRITANNIA" rings the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.8
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1787" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.9
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.10
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI GIV" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 88" ring the edge. The coin is overstruck onto another coin, with portions of the previous striking visible on the lower face and lower reverse. The inscription and the center image are very misaligned on the reverse.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.11
Context
Produced in Newburgh, NY for use in Vermont, 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.12
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.13
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.14
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.15
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.16
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.17
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.18
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.19
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.20
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words "INDE ET LIB 1788" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.21
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTIS RES PUBLICA" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1987.36
Mintage
Date made
1785
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1987.36.1
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in in 1785
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge. The year 1788 is at the center bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
1987.36
Mintage
Date made
1788
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1987.36.2
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "GEORGIVS III REX" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge. The figure is rubbed nearly smooth.
Acquisition
Accession
1987.36
Mintage
Date made
1788
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1987.36.3
Context
Produced in Newburgh, NY in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a left-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.73
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1989.73.1
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. A flaw in the coin makes it appear as if the bust is wearing a sweatband or blindfold. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge. The date 1787 is at the center bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.73
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1989.73.2
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. A flaw in the coin mast it appear as if the bust is wearing a sweatband or blindfold. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB GEORGIVS" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.73
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1989.73.3
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. The coin is struck very off center. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, standing near a pedestal or frame. She is holding a balance scale in her left hand, has a large bow across her torso, and has a pike or flag pole with a liberty cap on the top. The words, "IMMUNE COLUMBIA" ring the edge. The date 1785 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.22
Mintage
Date made
1785
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1990.22.1
Context
Produced in Newburgh, NY in 1785. This coin is considered a numismatic mule since the face and reverse are not a set.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1786 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.22
Mintage
Designer or Engraver Information
Harmon, Reuben
Designer or Engraver
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1990.22.2
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.22
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1990.22.3
Context
Produced in Newburgh, NY for use in Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The upper half of the date 1787 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.22
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1990.22.4
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at the center bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.22
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1990.22.5
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge. The face side has rubbed smooth, losing fine detail, and the reverse has rubbed almost completely smooth, with only the vague outline of Columbia left.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1a
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Web Links and URLs
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The design is completely rubbed smooth. The date 1787 is at the center bottom.
The coin is over struck on an Irish halfpenny, which is still clearly visible through the Vermont pattern. The face was struck over a design of a harp beneath a crown.
The coin is over struck on an Irish halfpenny, which is still clearly visible through the Vermont pattern. The face was struck over a design of a harp beneath a crown.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1aa
Context
Made in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Web Links and URLs
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTIS RES PUBLICA" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1785
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1b
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1785.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1787 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1c
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA 1786" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1cc
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The face has childlike features, but has been rubbed so smooth, only the outline is visible. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The Columbia side of the coin has been rubbed almost completely smooth.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1d
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1dd
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The bust is so rubbed smooth that it is hardly visible. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. The O in "Vermon" is mis-struck, overlapping the M slightly. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1e
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1g
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. A line runs down the center of the coin where the striking die had broken. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1gg
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. It is rubbed almost completely smooth, and Columbia is only visible because of a color change.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1h
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. The face is nearly rubbed smooth, but the lettering is very crisp. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The center is pocked and rubbed nearly smooth, but the lettering remains crisp. The date 1788 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1hh
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The surface of the coin is unusual, indicating that it may be cast, overstruck, or doublestruck.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1i
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1787 is at the center bottom. The coin is overstruck on a 1785 Nova Constallatio coin, making it appear as if there is a strap over the bust's mouth and an eye on Columbia's stomach.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1jj
Context
Made in Rupert, Vermont in 1785, and remade in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. The coin is struck very off center. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, standing near a pedestal or frame. She is holding a balance scale in her left hand, has a large bow across her torso, and has a pike or flag pole with a liberty cap on the top. The words, "IMMUNE COLUMBIA" ring the edge. The date 1785 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1785
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1k
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1785.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at center bottom. Both sides are rubbed nearly smooth.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1kk
Context
Made in Rupert, Vermont in 1788
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTIS RES PUBLICA" ring the edge. Both sides are extremely mottled.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1785
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1nn
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1785.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTENSIUM RES PUBLICA" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1786
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1q
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1786.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The design has been overstruck on a Nova Constallatio coin and has a hole in the center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1u
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1787.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. Both sides are rubbed almost completely smooth.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1v
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at the center bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1x
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMON AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The date 1788 is at the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Mintage
Date made
1788
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.1y
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1788.
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a radiating eye on one side and a pictorial scene on the other. The eye side shows a detailed human eye with 13 rays emitting from it in every direction. Between each ray is a 6-petaled flower (13 in total). The words, "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" ring the edge. The reverse shows a scene of a plow in a field with a line of hills and trees on the horizon. A sun with two eyes and a prominent nose peeks over the horizon. The words "VERMONTS RES PUBLICA 1785" ring the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.14
Mintage
Date made
1785
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1991.14.22
Context
Produced in Rupert, Vermont in 1785
Coin
Name/Title
Coin
Lexicon
Description
Copper coin with a bust on one side and the allegorical figure, Columbia, on the other. The face side shows a right-facing bust of a Roman figure, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, tied with a ribbon at the nape of his neck, and military armor. The words "VERMONT AUCTORI" ring the edge. On the reverse, Columbia is shown swathed in loose fabric, seated next to a shield bearing the Union flag. She is holding a staff with a liberty cap in her left hand, and a small branch in her right hand. The words, "INDE ET LIB" ring the edge. The year 1787 is a the bottom center.
Acquisition
Accession
1971.1
Mintage
Date made
1787
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1971.1.1
Context
Produced in Rupert, VT in 1787
Collage "Abenaque Indians"
Name/Title
Collage "Abenaque Indians"
Lexicon
Description
Framed collage with three colorized photographs of an individual in native costume with a long gun. Work is titled, "Abenaque Indians" and subtitled, "Sebago Lake Maine." Costume includes large, red bag and feathered headdress. Background of large rocks, pine trees and water. (L-R) First photo shows person in profile holding gun at waist level and captioned "Um~Ha." Second photo shows person bent at waist in three-quarter view aiming gun over left wrist with caption, "Caramb~Ha." Third photo shows person facing to the left and looking at the camera, holding gun upright and captioned, "Lung~Ha."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.154
Context
This strange, (perhaps thought whimsical) framed collage is important for an early use of the “Abenaki” term in the hand drawn script designating a modern people. During the 18th can 19th centuries, “Abenaki” seemed to have only referred to historical peoples or as map designations. In Vermont, “Indian” and “St. Francis Indian” were the terms used for living regional indigenous people.
The three hand tinted photos illustrate a man with a muzzleloading firearm in three poses wearing a feather headdress and fragment of probably original cut cloth fringe clothing over a white shirt and trousers. Below the photos are constructed pseudo-Abenaki words.
The three hand tinted photos illustrate a man with a muzzleloading firearm in three poses wearing a feather headdress and fragment of probably original cut cloth fringe clothing over a white shirt and trousers. Below the photos are constructed pseudo-Abenaki words.
Collar
Name/Title
Collar
Lexicon
Description
Two light blue attachable collars, with rounded edges in front. One has embroidered rabbits and a card that says it was made by Christiane Gamblin. The other features snails and doesn't have a card.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Yarn
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.54
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Collar
Name/Title
Collar
Lexicon
Description
Net-beaded collar
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.129
Commemorative Button
Name/Title
Commemorative Button
Lexicon
Description
Round button printed with a black-and-white photograph showing a flooded area taken from the inside of a covered bridge. The inscription "IRENE 2011" rings the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.58
Relationships
Related Events
Hurricane Irene
Event
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2011
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2012.58.44
Context
Printed with an image of flooding damage during Hurricane Irene, 2011.
Commemorative Button
Name/Title
Commemorative Button
Lexicon
Description
Round light blue metal button printed in black with an image of a person in a small kaya and the words, "I SURVIVED THE MONTPELIER FLOOD March 11, 1992".
Acquisition
Accession
2013.9
Relationships
Related Events
1992 Flood
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1992
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.9.17
Context
The downtown area of Montpelier, Vermont, flooded in 1992 after an ice jam blocked the already high Winooski River during a spring thaw.
Commemorative Button
Name/Title
Commemorative Button
Lexicon
Description
Round metal button. The front is printed with a blue ground and an image of an amoeba with the words, "MARCH FOR SCIENCE / APRIL 22 2017 / VERMONT."
Acquisition
Accession
2023.13
Made/Created
Date made
2017
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2023.13.4
Context
Distributed to participants in the 2017 March for Science, Vermont, which was organized to protest the U.S. President Donald Trump administration's views on climate change and science.
Commemorative Button
Name/Title
Commemorative Button
Description
Photo of Barbara Snelling, given out at her memorial service on Nov. 13, 2015.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.47
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Snelling, Barbara W. (1928-2015)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2015
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2015.47.28
Context
This pin was given out at the Memorial Service for Barbara W. Snelling on November 13, 2015, at the State House.
From her obituary in https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/name/barbara-snelling-obituary?pid=176339872
"Barbara W. Snelling, a Vermont icon, died peacefully on November 2, 2015 at her home in So. Burlington surrounded by her family. Barbara Tuttle Weil was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on March 22, 1928 to the Reverend F. Taylor and Hazel (Russell) Weil. Barbara was the former Lt. Governor of Vermont and was the wife of former Governor Richard A. Snelling."
She was also a state senator.
From her obituary in https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/name/barbara-snelling-obituary?pid=176339872
"Barbara W. Snelling, a Vermont icon, died peacefully on November 2, 2015 at her home in So. Burlington surrounded by her family. Barbara Tuttle Weil was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on March 22, 1928 to the Reverend F. Taylor and Hazel (Russell) Weil. Barbara was the former Lt. Governor of Vermont and was the wife of former Governor Richard A. Snelling."
She was also a state senator.
Commemorative Plate
Name/Title
Commemorative Plate
Lexicon
Description
Square, decorative plate printed with a full-color portrait of Admiral George Dewey. He is shown in a blue, double-breasted military coat with rectangular epaulets. Each corner of the plate is printed with a blue-linework design of United States flags crossed behind a ship's wheel.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.43
Commemorative Ribbon
Name/Title
Commemorative Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
Commemorative ribbon pin consisting of three ribbons and button. The satin-woven ribbons are red, white, and blue. There are formed into three rosettes or cockades, and three tails hang below. At the center of the three rosettes is a round ceramic button printed with an image of a man with a large mustache (Admiral Dewey) and surrounded in gold tinsel trim.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.81
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War, Dewey Day
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1899
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1960.81.1h
Context
Made for Dewey Day, a large celebration in Montpelier, Vermont, welcoming war hero Admiral George Dewey, home from the Spanish-American War.
Commemorative Ribbon
Name/Title
Commemorative Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
Commemorative medal consisting of a bar, a ribbon, and a medallion. The bar is copper and is molded with the word, "SOUVENIR." The grosgrain ribbon is striped yellow (center) and blue (edges) and is printed in gold with the words, "RECEPTION Admiral Dewey 1899." The medallion hangs from an eye ring looped through a larger eye ring looped through the ribbon. It shows the bust of Admiral Dewey and another man surrounded by the words, "MANILA BAY MAY 1. SANTIAGO JULY 3. 1898." The back of the medallion shows the inscription, "YOU CAN COMMENCE FIRING AS SOON AS YOU ARE READY / MAY 1. 1898. / THERE IS GLORY ENOUGH FOR ALL / JULY 3. 1898." within a square frame over a laurel wreath.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.81
Relationships
Related Events
Dewey Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Prouty, Edward H. (1871-1966), Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1899
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Silk
Entry/Object ID
1960.81.3c
Context
Likely worn by Edward H. Prouty to Dewey Day in Montpelier, Vermont, 1899
Communion Plate
Name/Title
Communion Plate
Lexicon
Description
Silver plated communion plate. The plate has an ornate, raised rim with beaded molding around the edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.177
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
First Congregational Church
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Winooski
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silverplate
Entry/Object ID
1960.177.2
Context
Used at the first Congregational Church of Winooski, Vermont
Communion Set
Name/Title
Communion Set
Lexicon
Description
5-piece pewter communion set consisting of a flagon (pitcher), 2 chalices, and 2 plates. The bottoms are marked, "SHELDON & FELTMAN ALBANY"
Acquisition
Accession
1943.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Methodist Episcopal Church of Benson
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Benson
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1847-1848
Manufacturer
Sheldon & Feltman
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Flagon dimensions below. Chalice dimension is 8-1/4 in. high x 4-1/4 in. diameter. Plate dimension is 10-3/4 in. diameter.
Materials
Material
Pewter
Entry/Object ID
1943.20a-e
Context
Used at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Benson, Vermont
Compass Case
Name/Title
Compass Case
Lexicon
Description
Leather compass case with beadwork. The light brown suede leather is camel color while the fabric lining is cream color with pink stripes (much like pillow ticking). The beaded pattern is different on the front and back.
The beadwork motif on one side depicts a green flower cradling a silver ball or bud. Below the flower are two white branches surmounted by silver buds. The branches extend from a white stem that emerges from a light purple, figure-eight form. Below the purple form are four clear and silver leaves or pods.
The other side has a similar green flower, but without the silver ball. The flower sits atop a pink quatrefoil design. Two white branches emerge from either side of the quatrefoil and are surmounted by light purple and silver buds. A white stem descends from the base of the quatrefoil along with two white stems that curve outward. These stems are surmounted by light blue trefoil designs. Two clear circles flank the central motif.
Open edges are lined with clear beads. Closed seam is lined with light blue beads.
The beadwork motif on one side depicts a green flower cradling a silver ball or bud. Below the flower are two white branches surmounted by silver buds. The branches extend from a white stem that emerges from a light purple, figure-eight form. Below the purple form are four clear and silver leaves or pods.
The other side has a similar green flower, but without the silver ball. The flower sits atop a pink quatrefoil design. Two white branches emerge from either side of the quatrefoil and are surmounted by light purple and silver buds. A white stem descends from the base of the quatrefoil along with two white stems that curve outward. These stems are surmounted by light blue trefoil designs. Two clear circles flank the central motif.
Open edges are lined with clear beads. Closed seam is lined with light blue beads.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.10
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Westcot, Mary C. Wilbur
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waterville
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Related Publications
Log Cabin Days of Coit's Gore and Waterville
Publication
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1836
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Leather, Beads, Linen
Entry/Object ID
1989.10.3
Context
According to Isaac Merrick's daughter, Esther Merrick Wilbur, this compass case was made for him in 1836 by Abenaki Indians living in the area of what is now Waterville, Vermont. Isaac Huse Merrick (1796-1864) was born in Bedford, New Hampshire to parents who had recently settled after leaving Newbury, Massachusetts. His family was part of the second wave of settlers who moved first from the eastern shores of Massachusetts to New Hampshire and then on to northern Vermont.
Isaac Merrick is first recorded as living in Coit's Gore, the precursor to Waterville, Vermont (est. 1824) in the 1820 census. Family history, as published in a small volume by his granddaughter Mary Wilbur Westcot, place him in the area as early as 1807. There are many fanciful tales of Isaac that seem to blend fact with a healthy dose of fiction. Like any frontier settler of this time, his life would certainly have been daring and adventurous.
Isaac purchased 300 acres on a hillside above the Kelley River (now known as the north branch of the Lamoille). Family records state that his farm overlooked an "Indian settlement" of "wigwams" in the river valley. Isaac farmed the land and made a name for himself as a trader/smuggler. During this time, Britain enacted fairly stiff tariffs on goods crossing the Canadian border and many enterprising Vermonters took the risk of smuggling through the mountains for potential fortune. The family stories mention Isaac's partnership with Indians in these cross-border trading endeavors.
This small beaded case bears witness to this partnership with a beautiful Abenaki work of art designed to hold a European navigation device. The provenance of this item helps document an Abenaki community in the Waterville area in the first half of the 19th century as well as providing an example of stylistically distinct beadwork motifs.
Isaac Merrick is first recorded as living in Coit's Gore, the precursor to Waterville, Vermont (est. 1824) in the 1820 census. Family history, as published in a small volume by his granddaughter Mary Wilbur Westcot, place him in the area as early as 1807. There are many fanciful tales of Isaac that seem to blend fact with a healthy dose of fiction. Like any frontier settler of this time, his life would certainly have been daring and adventurous.
Isaac purchased 300 acres on a hillside above the Kelley River (now known as the north branch of the Lamoille). Family records state that his farm overlooked an "Indian settlement" of "wigwams" in the river valley. Isaac farmed the land and made a name for himself as a trader/smuggler. During this time, Britain enacted fairly stiff tariffs on goods crossing the Canadian border and many enterprising Vermonters took the risk of smuggling through the mountains for potential fortune. The family stories mention Isaac's partnership with Indians in these cross-border trading endeavors.
This small beaded case bears witness to this partnership with a beautiful Abenaki work of art designed to hold a European navigation device. The provenance of this item helps document an Abenaki community in the Waterville area in the first half of the 19th century as well as providing an example of stylistically distinct beadwork motifs.
Container
Name/Title
Container
Lexicon
Description
Round birchbark container with square foot. Bent wood rim with spruce root binding. Incised floral and pendant toothed-triangles arranged in three rings around the outside of the vessel.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1840
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.66
Context
This small crudely constructed and etched birch bark basket from Cambridge, Lamoille County, Vermont has pendant toothed designs on the side shown in the photo, as well as floral designs on the other side, a rarity anywhere in the Wabanaki area. It has very significant patination and use wear, including spruce root lashing loss. This basket is from an area that had documentation of having been a place of bark container manufacture: ... as late as 1840, a number of families (of) St. Francis Indians came into the town (Cambridge, VT) and encamped and made ... bark dishes for a while (vermontgenealogy.com/lamoille/Indians).
Cookie Mold
Name/Title
Cookie Mold
Lexicon
Description
A parallelogram, 7 5/8" x 12 7/8" x 2 1/2" thick. The figure on the wood has been hand carved and resembles a gingerbread man. Made in the Wolcott, Vt. area, early 20th C.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.30
Made/Created
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1981.30
Corn Cutter
Name/Title
Corn Cutter
Lexicon
Description
A kitchen tool to remove corn from cob. Wooden handle with steel (?) blade. Curved to the contour of the cob with a (1/4"?) pointed center that may go between the rows of kernels and keep the tool headed in a straight line. [.1.1= the cleaver .1.2=block of wood .1.3a=box cover .1.3b=box bottom]
light brown, gray
light brown, gray
Acquisition
Accession
1997.34
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hunter, Clyde
Artist
Manufacturer
E. W. Hunter & Son
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Dimensions of box that holds the tool
Materials
Material
Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
1997.34.1.1-.3a-b
Corn Husker
Name/Title
Corn Husker
Lexicon
Description
Corn husking tool used by C.C. Fuller. Tool is made up of a metal pick with a leather loop around it. The end is not sharp, but is relatively pointed. The pick has 3 grooves in it to hold the leather strip in place.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.49
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Fuller, Clayton Charles (1891-1925)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Rutland
City
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Leather
Entry/Object ID
1996.49.17
Context
Used by Clayton Charles Fuller of Rutland, Vermont.
Corn Knife
Name/Title
Corn Knife
Lexicon
Description
Metal and wooden corn knife. The metal blade of the corn knife is curved and inserted into a wooden handle with metal plates and two screws fixed into either side. The natural wooden handle is rounded at the ends and is wrapped with a black band in the lower middle section.
Use
Used to cut corn in the field.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.31
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Stone, William Chester (1889-1972), Stone, Ada Hopkins Willard (1887-1974)
Related Places
Place
Springfield
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
1977.31.2
Context
Used by William and Ada Stone in Springfield, Vermont.
Corn Mortar
Name/Title
Corn Mortar
Lexicon
Description
Tree-trunk with concave "bowl" at one end.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1750
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.172
Context
This very well preserved “corn pounder” mortar was found in a barn in Vergennes, Vermont. The antique dealer who Frederick Wiseman bought it from had cleaned and put a preservative finish on it. The original owner had no information on it other than it had set in the barn as long as he had lived on the property, which would put living memory back to the 1940’s. It is the only documented example of an hourglass style Native American mortar from the entire Northern New England area.
Corn Mortar and Pestle
Name/Title
Corn Mortar and Pestle
Lexicon
Description
a. Portion of tree trunk with concave bowl carved into one end.
b. Wooden pestle
b. Wooden pestle
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.174a-b
Corn Pestle
Name/Title
Corn Pestle
Lexicon
Description
Wooden pestle
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1820
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.176
Corn Pestle
Name/Title
Corn Pestle
Lexicon
Description
Red-stained pestle
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.173
Corn Popper
Name/Title
Corn Popper
Lexicon
Description
Popcorn popper
Acquisition
Accession
2000.42
Made/Created
Artist Information
Neill, Herb
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2000.42.20
Context
Made by Herb Neill of Plainfield, Vermont. Neill worked on the grounds crew at Goddard College and was a skilled blacksmith.
Cornet
Name/Title
Cornet
Lexicon
Description
a= Cornet used by George Cook of Corinth, VT. Horn is engraved with a leaf design and in center, in an oval frame, is the maker: "The/ Conqueror/ Made by C. A. CONN/ Elkhart. Ind." The heads of the valves are mother of pearl. There are two mouthpieces, (B) and (C).
b= Mouthpiece - is inscribed with maker "FORSELL MODEL/ The Vega Company/ 155 Columbus Ave, Boston"
c= Mouthpiece - is inscribed with maker "Levi Model CONN"
b= Mouthpiece - is inscribed with maker "FORSELL MODEL/ The Vega Company/ 155 Columbus Ave, Boston"
c= Mouthpiece - is inscribed with maker "Levi Model CONN"
Acquisition
Accession
2010.26
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1940
Materials
Material
Brass, Mother of Pearl
Entry/Object ID
2010.26.1.1a-c
Cornhusk Doll
Name/Title
Cornhusk Doll
Lexicon
Description
Cornhusk “sprite” doll made by Peggy Fullerton of Piermont, NH
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Fullerton, Peggy
Artist
Date made
circa 2002
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.207
Cornhusk doll
Name/Title
Cornhusk doll
Lexicon
Description
Cornhusk “sprite” doll made by Peggy Fullerton of Piermont, NH
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Fullerton, Peggy
Artist
Date made
circa 2002
Materials
Material
Cornhusk
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.208
Cousins Dancing Front of the Nickelodeon
Name/Title
Cousins Dancing Front of the Nickelodeon
Lexicon
Description
Crayon illustration showing several people in a domestic room surrounding a large brown wooden nickelodeon. A person playing an organ is visible in a different room through a door on the left. The figures consist of a red-haired girl wearing a pink shirt and blue skirt; a black-haired girl wearing a green dress; a red-haired boy wearing a green shirt (playing the organ); a black-haired girl wearing a blue dress; a brown-haired girl wearing a yellow shirt and red skirt; and a black-haired boy wearing a green striped shirt. The bottom is labeled, "Cousins Dancing Front of the Nickelodeon".
Acquisition
Accession
1974.41
Made/Created
Artist Information
Aiken, Gayleen (1934-2005)
Artist
Date made
1974
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1974.41.1
Type of Drawing
Web Links and URLs
Covenant Chain
Name/Title
Covenant Chain
Lexicon
Description
Metal chain made up of links in the shape of feathers, fleur-de-lys, and seated lions
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1660
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.24
Context
This amazing object is tiny but is one of the few known covenant chains surviving and is therefore exceedingly important. It probably dates from the Treaty of Kahnawake and has feather links, a fleur de lys link and seated lion links indicating the Native Nations, the French citizens, and the British Government.
Cowbell
Name/Title
Cowbell
Lexicon
Description
Metal cowbell formed from one sheet of iron, folded into shape and bracketed on the sides. There is a rectangular handle at the top and a metal clapper in the interior. The number 120 is written inside the bottom edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.1
Cradleboard
Name/Title
Cradleboard
Lexicon
Description
Wooden board with attached, turned cross-bar, and leather shoulder straps. Incised and painted decoration or Monarch butterfly and white trillium.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1960
Materials
Material
Wood, Leather
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.170
Context
Beautiful and well-made example of a presentation cradleboard from the American Abenaki area of southernmost Quebec. Construction similar to much earlier Mohawk examples, but decoration is very different. Does not appear to have been used.
Cradleboard
Name/Title
Cradleboard
Lexicon
Description
Cradle made from oval basswood base with basswood bark sides bent and stitched. Base has four holes for carrying straps and a starburst of decorative holes near one end.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1840
Materials
Material
Basswood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.90
Cream Pitcher
Name/Title
Cream Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Heavy white ceramic cream (or syrup) pitcher with red striping around the top edge. Just below the striping is the logo of the Lake Morey Club, which consists of a small, circular lake scene with tall evergreens and the inscription, "LAKE MOREY CLUB FAIRLEE VERMONT".
Acquisition
Accession
2016.51
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lake Morey Resort
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2016.51.8
Context
Used at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont
Cream Pitcher
Name/Title
Cream Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
White porcelain cream pitcher. The pitcher is printed with a fully-colored illustration of a cabin with a plinth in the foreground. The roof of the cabin is painted green. The image is labeled, "Birthplace and Memorial of Stephen A. Douglas, Brandon, Vt." The bottom of the pitcher is marked, "Made in Germany for W. D. Nutting, Brandon, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005), W. D. Nutting, Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.25
Context
Sold by W. D. Nutting in Brandon, Vermont
Cream Pitcher
Name/Title
Cream Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic cream pitcher with matter pink glaze on the bottom half. One side is printed with a full-color illustration of a building set on a hill amid trees. The image is labeled, "Proctor Public Library, Proctor, Vt." The bottom is marked, "WHEELOCK Made in Germnay for Vermont Marble Co's Store Proctor, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005), Vermont Marble Company Store
Related Places
Place
Proctor
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.109
Context
Sold by Vermont Marble Company's store in Proctor, Vermont
Cream Pitcher
Name/Title
Cream Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
White cream pitcher with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.7
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Cream Pitcher
Name/Title
Cream Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic cream pitcher printed all over with bright colors. The main design is separated into three cartouches: the sides show buildings, and the center says, "Souvenir of ST. JOHNSBURY VT." The side images are labeled "AVENUE HOUSE" and "MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE". Between the cartouches the pitcher is decorated with pink, yellow, and blue scrollwork.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.83
Relationships
Related Places
Place
St. Johnsbury
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2008.83.45
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware crock with blue one-sided fern leaves or feathers. Marked "L.W. Fenton/St. Johnsbury/2". The crock is straight-sided with a flared lip. There is a U-shaped handle on either side.
Acquisition
Accession
1945.38
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
L. W. Fenton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1945.38.2
Context
Made by L. W. Fenton in St. Johnsbury.
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware crock with hand-painted design of three flowers. There are U-shaped handles on either side. At the center top is the stamped label, "NORTON & FENTON, East Bennington, Vt. 2".
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
Norton and Fenton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.200
Context
Made by Norton & Fenton in Bennington, Vermont
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware crock with hand-painted decorate of a bird on a branch. U-shaped handles are applied on either side. At the center top is the stamped label, "J. NORTON 7 CO. / BENNINGTON, VT. / 3".
Acquisition
Accession
1954.36
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
J. Norton & Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.36.6
Context
Made by J. Norton & Co. in Bennington, Vermont
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Hand thrown stoneware crock with blue decoration of bird wings and the stamped mark, "R. & R. FENTON./EAST DORSET." The body of the crock flares outward at the center, then slightly back inward toward the top. There is a U-shaped handle on either side, and an incised line that goes around the top about three inches below the lip.
Acquisition
Accession
1945.38
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
R & C Fenton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1945.38.1
Context
Made by R. & C. Fenton of East Dorset, Vermont
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware crock featuring a painted design of a spotted deer. The large crock flare toward the top, with hand-formed handles and a round, flaring opening. Beneath the rim is the stamped inscription, "J. & F. NORTON/BENNINGTON VT." as well as a partial imprint of a stylized flower. The underglaze painted design shows a stylized, spotted stag between a house and picket fence.
Use
Used for food storage
Acquisition
Accession
1954.17
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
J. & E. Norton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.17.14
Context
Made by J. & E. Norton in Bennington, VT.
Crock
Name/Title
Crock
Lexicon
Description
Vase-shaped stoneware crock with hand-painted decoration of two leaves. There are U-shaped handles on either side. The lip appears to have been molded separately and flares outward dramatically. At the top center is the stamped inscription, "NORTON & FENTON / BENNINGTON VT" in a circle around the number 3.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.17
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
Norton and Fenton
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.17.4ab
Context
Made by Norton & Fenton in Bennington, Vermont
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Handle for knife
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.16
Context
Handle only
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Steel blade attached to "crooked" wooden handle and bound with rawhide.
Use
Snowshoe making
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood, Steel, Rawhide
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.151
Context
This mid-late 19th century crooked knife is the only one Wiseman has seen in the Abenaki area with a rawhide-wrapped handle. The handle is of softwood. Other than that, it is a typical example of a native-made tool used for making basket handles, snowshoes, axe handles and many other items.
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Crooked Knife with duck carving
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.14
Context
Duck effigy crooked knife
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Crooked Knife with sheath. Image of 1910 "Chief."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.44a-b
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Crooked knife
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.15
Crooked Knife
Name/Title
Crooked Knife
Lexicon
Description
Steel blade affixed to "crooked" wood handle with pewter fastener
Use
Basket maker
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1880-1920
Materials
Material
Wood, Steel, Pewter
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.147
Context
This item is unique in American Abenaki crooked knives in that the blade is held to the crooked wood handle by a cast pewter bolster.
Cross Pendant
Name/Title
Cross Pendant
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
"Jesuit" cross
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1650-circa 1720
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.38
Cross Pendant
Name/Title
Cross Pendant
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Silver cross in "Montreal" style with modern beaded chain. Silver cross has two sets of arms, both terminating in two lobes. Top of cross has three lobes with the middle lobe pierced. Foot of cross has a single lobe. Engraved floral design on arms and lower portion near foot.
Use
Used in Central Vermont
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.37
Context
The Montreal cross from a family with Native ancestry was shared with the old Abenaki Research Project as proof of a native lineage. The ancestral line traces to Franklin County, VT. It is a classic example of a silver pendant, believed to represent the dragonfly to some native peoples. This example is beautifully crafted of thick silver sheet with minimal incising on the arms and base. It is unmarked. It is suspended from a coeval string of blue glass tubular beads but has been restrung on artificial sinew.
Cuff
Name/Title
Cuff
Lexicon
Description
Beaded epaulet or coat cuff from men's coat. Brown fabrice with three, trilobate designs, each surrounded by simple scrolls. Zig-zag border.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1830
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.144
Context
This epaulet or coat cuff seems a bit earlier than the other beaded items in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. It sports a close relative of the coeval double scroll designs to the east; and has the distinctive Wabanaki trilobate design in the center of the arcing pinnate scrolls.
Cuffs
Name/Title
Cuffs
Lexicon
Description
Pair of beaded cuffs, probably from moccasins. The black velveteen fabric is decorated with white, yellow blue, and green beads. The motif features two zig-zag bands, blue on the outer and yellow on inner. Both bands are bordered with white beads. In each corner there is a white flower with green outer leaves or petals. There is evidence of an overcast stitch done in tan around the outside edge. Evidence of paper sandwiched between the two layers of velveteen can be seen on the reverse.
Use
These cuffs probably lined the foot opening of a pair of moccasins, most likely from the same moccasins as 1989.10.6a-b (vamps).
Acquisition
Accession
1989.10
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wilbur, Moses (1841-1903)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waterville
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1841-1903
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silk, Cotton, Paper, Glass
Entry/Object ID
1989.10.7a-b
Context
These particular pieces came into the Vermont Historical collection as part of a group of items from the Wilbur family. The envelope containing the cuffs, along with vamps 1989.6a-b, had the inscription, "James Wilbur's Beadwork." For a number of years, James Wilbur was listed as the maker with an origin date of 1840. Upon further research and close analysis of the beadwork, it's most likely these date from the 1820s and the inscription on the envelope is that of ownership as opposed to manufacture.
The Wilbur family was one of the early settler families in Waterville. 19th century Waterville written histories as well as recorded oral histories indicate there was a sizeable Abenaki village along the shores of the North Branch of the Lamoille River (called the Kelley River at the time). Wilbur's father-in-law, Isaac Merrick, is known to have partnered with Abenaki in his cross-boarder trade/smuggling in the 1810s and 1820s. A beautiful, Abenaki-produced, compass case belonging to Isaac Merrick is also part of this larger family gift. For more information on this relationship, please see object 1989.10.3.
It's highly likely that these cuffs, and the now-missing moccasins, were produced in the local Abenaki community and gifted or traded to the extended Wilbur family.
The Wilbur family was one of the early settler families in Waterville. 19th century Waterville written histories as well as recorded oral histories indicate there was a sizeable Abenaki village along the shores of the North Branch of the Lamoille River (called the Kelley River at the time). Wilbur's father-in-law, Isaac Merrick, is known to have partnered with Abenaki in his cross-boarder trade/smuggling in the 1810s and 1820s. A beautiful, Abenaki-produced, compass case belonging to Isaac Merrick is also part of this larger family gift. For more information on this relationship, please see object 1989.10.3.
It's highly likely that these cuffs, and the now-missing moccasins, were produced in the local Abenaki community and gifted or traded to the extended Wilbur family.
Cup
Name/Title
Cup
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic tumbler printed with an illustration of two churches labeled, "The Presbyterian Churches, South Ryegate, Vt." The bottom is marked, "Made in Germany for B. L. TERRY South Ryegate, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2008.83
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
B. L. Terry
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
South Ryegate
Village
Ryegate
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2008.83.48
Context
Sold by B. L. Terry in South Ryegate, Vermont
Cup
Name/Title
Cup
Lexicon
Description
Cup fashioned from gourd with attached wooden handle with low relief carving of beaver.
Use
Designed to fit under a waist sash with the hook, including beaver carving, facing outward.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1840
Materials
Material
Gourd, Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.25
Context
Canoe cups are a distinct art form, usually carved from a single piece of wood that was carried and ready to scoop a cooling cup of water out of the lake or stream. This ladle is important for several reasons. First, it is the only example of gourd art that we have from the region. Second, it is one of only two known canoe cups from the region. Third, it has an important bas-relief beaver carved into the handle.
There is a stylistically unique bas-relief beaver carved into the outside of the handle, reminiscent of the 20th century bas-relief “totem poles,” carved by Canadian Abenaki artists. Although this piece has a fairly good provenance from “a collector of local history in Rochester NH,” it is so distinctive in material and style, Wiseman really cannot say if it was from the region at all. The date is a guess from patination and what can be seen of the tack heads. The date is conservative, but may actually be 18th century.
There is a stylistically unique bas-relief beaver carved into the outside of the handle, reminiscent of the 20th century bas-relief “totem poles,” carved by Canadian Abenaki artists. Although this piece has a fairly good provenance from “a collector of local history in Rochester NH,” it is so distinctive in material and style, Wiseman really cannot say if it was from the region at all. The date is a guess from patination and what can be seen of the tack heads. The date is conservative, but may actually be 18th century.
Cup
Name/Title
Cup
Lexicon
Description
Tin cup with a rolled top lip reinforced with a wire. The bottom is soldered over the sides, and side seam is folded and soldered.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.37
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Walker, True Blake (1841-1863)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burke
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1982.37.13
Context
Owned by True Blake Walter during the Civil War. Walter served as a musician in Company E, 15th Regiment Vermont.
Cup
Name/Title
Cup
Lexicon
Description
Tin cup with straight handle attached just below the rim. The top lip is reinforced with a wire, and the handle is attached with two rivets. The bottom is soldered over the sides, and the side seam is folded and soldered. The top of the handle is scratched with the label, "Fifer Walter/ 15 Regt Vt Vol Co. E."
Acquisition
Accession
1982.37
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Walker, True Blake (1841-1863)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burke
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1982.37.14
Context
Owned by True Blake Walter during the Civil War. Walter served as a musician in Company E, 15th Regiment Vermont.
Cup and Saucer Set
Name/Title
Cup and Saucer Set
Lexicon
Description
White, round teacup and round saucer with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Dimension Description
cup: 4-5/8" w x 2" h & 3-3/4" diameter, saucer: 5-7/8" diameter
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.6a-b
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Curd Knife
Name/Title
Curd Knife
Lexicon
Description
Four tined curd knife. Marked D.G. Young, Cedarville, Warranted Cast Steel.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.41
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.41
Curtis and Kent Families Memorial
Name/Title
Curtis and Kent Families Memorial
Lexicon
Description
Curtis and Kent families - memorial. Symbolic landscape with memorials, weeping willows, and rivers with boats. The middleground is dominated by two memorials (out of scale). the memorial on the left contains Kent names. The memorial on the right contains Kent, Curtis, and Chase names. A river flows across the foreground. Calais, VT
Acquisition
Accession
1987.45
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Charcoal
Entry/Object ID
1987.45.1
Cutter, Cookie
Name/Title
Cutter, Cookie
Lexicon
Description
Heart shaped handmade cookie cutter. Crudely made and uneven. Edges of the handle are rolled. Possibly made by Strad Gray.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1986.25.6
Cutter, Doughnut
Name/Title
Cutter, Doughnut
Lexicon
Description
Donut cutter made of tin, likely at the East Calais tin shop.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1986.25.5
Cutting board
Name/Title
Cutting board
Description
A hardwood cutting board made by John McLeod of Wilmington, Vermnont.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.73
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Royalton
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2003.73.60
Context
Owned by Charles Willard Phipard of Royalton, Vermont
Daniel Pierce Thompson and Eunice Wright Robinson Thompson
Name/Title
Daniel Pierce Thompson and Eunice Wright Robinson Thompson
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Portrait showing a man and woman. The man is wearing a black suit jacket and a white shirt with a pleated cravat. He is holding up a small open book. The woman is wearing a white dress with large, transparent sleeves. Her hair is parted down the center and held in two bow shapes on either side of the part. She is looking at the viewer, and her hand is indicating a passage from the book. The pair is seated in an interior with red drapery behind. The man's arm is around the woman at her shoulder.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.40
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Thompson, Daniel Pierce (1795–1868), Thompson, Eunice Wright Robinson (1814-1894)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mason, Benjamin Franklin (1804-1871)
Artist
Date made
circa 1831
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1957.40.1
Context
The portrait shows Daniel Pierce Thompson, the famous Vermont author and one of the founders of the Vermont Historical Society, and Eunice Wright Robinson Thompson. It was painted shortly after their marriage in Montpelier by the itinerant portrait painter, Benjamin Franklin Mason.
Web Links and URLs
Decorative Glass
Name/Title
Decorative Glass
Lexicon
Description
Round glass orb. The orb has a mottle shape with a round nipple at the center top and a prominent pontil mark at the center bottom. Thin webs of glass are stretched through the center of the hollow sphere, with areas of green, purple, and opaque white blended through the webs.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.71
Artwork Details
Medium
Glass
Made/Created
Artist Information
Bramhall, Paedra (b. 1942)
Artist
Date made
May 4, 1998
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2022.71.1
Context
Made by Paedra Bramhall of Bridgewater, Vermont
Decorative Plaque
Name/Title
Decorative Plaque
Lexicon
Description
Round ceramic decorative plaque showing a man with a large mustache in blue military clothing. He is shown wearing a coat with two rectangular epaulets and a double breasted front closure. The label "Dewey" is written in script at the bottom right. The plaque is set into a metal frame molded into a braided pattern.
Acquisition
Accession
1963.14
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1898-1932
Manufacturer
W. Guerin
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1963.14
Context
Shows Admiral George Dewey of Montpelier, Vermont
Decorative Plate
Name/Title
Decorative Plate
Lexicon
Description
The item being described is a souvenir plate with a blue-and-white color scheme. The plate features nautical scenes depicted in vignettes, bordered with rococo swirls. Among the scenes on the plate are a ship captain in the center, surrounded by four ferry ships, and a lighthouse positioned at the top center. At the bottom center of the plate, there is an inscription that reads "BEAUTIFUL LAKE CHAMPLAIN" within a banner.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.18
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2007.18.497
Decoy
Name/Title
Decoy
Lexicon
Description
From Arts & Crafts League
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
T2022.16.26
Decoy
Name/Title
Decoy
Lexicon
Description
Black-and-white hand-painted duck decoy with yellow glass eyes. The bottom is signed “A. G. Fournier” in black paint. The decoy is missing its left eye and the head is loosely connected to the body of the decoy. The decoy is displayed on a wooden stand with two side pieces connected by two thin rods. The two side pieces have a curved divot in the middle in order for the decoy to rest properly.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.28
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Fournier, A. G.
Person or Organization
Related Publications
Decoys of Lake Champlain
Publication
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Glass, Lead
Entry/Object ID
2022.28.2a-b
Context
Used on Lake Champlain by A. G. Fournier
Decoy
Name/Title
Decoy
Lexicon
Description
a=Cork duck decoy. b=Iron weight. c=head
The duck has a cork body and a pre-made head that is man-made material and has a seam that goes over the head and and around it. The cork body is oval and has a slightly pointed 'tail' end. The cork is attached to a piece of wood (.69" thick) by nails. A screw eye is in the wood 2" from the front. A lead weight has been nailed down the center of the bottom
(5.88"l x 1"w) . The 'lead anchor' is oval with 5/8" finger tips coming off each shoulder of the oval.
The duck has a cork body and a pre-made head that is man-made material and has a seam that goes over the head and and around it. The cork body is oval and has a slightly pointed 'tail' end. The cork is attached to a piece of wood (.69" thick) by nails. A screw eye is in the wood 2" from the front. A lead weight has been nailed down the center of the bottom
(5.88"l x 1"w) . The 'lead anchor' is oval with 5/8" finger tips coming off each shoulder of the oval.
Use
near Sand Bar State Park in Milton
Acquisition
Accession
2011.41
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lindner, Erwin Schaffer (1915-1980)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Lindner, Erwin Schaffer (1915-1980)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cork, Lead, Metal, Wood, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2011.41.3a-c
Decoy
Name/Title
Decoy
Lexicon
Description
Birch twigs bundled in the shape of a bird
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Birch (Wood), Cotton
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.113
Context
These are usually associated with Cree communities in northern Quebec, but this one is made from southerly black birch twigs rather than the more northerly tamarack favored by Cree Artists. There is living memory among Vermont Abenaki of these being used. Groupings of these decoys were placed on fields to attract geese that would see the shadows of the decoys and be lured within reach of the arrow (early) or shotgun (late).
Dessert Plate
Name/Title
Dessert Plate
Lexicon
Description
White, round dessert plate with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.4
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Dinner Plate
Name/Title
Dinner Plate
Lexicon
Description
White, round dinner plate with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.2
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Dish, Salt
Name/Title
Dish, Salt
Lexicon
Description
Hand-carved wooden salt dish, wooden plug in base, resembles an eggcup.
Acquisition
Accession
1972.28
Relationships
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1972.28.18
Doll
Name/Title
Doll
Lexicon
Description
Doll in green wool skirt, white apron and blouse, black velvet hat tied with white ribbon, red hair, eyes that open, paint cracked on arms and legs.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.20
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Doll
Name/Title
Doll
Lexicon
Description
Doll in black skirt and blue and white striped blouse, tall white lace hat with wire loops, two black clogs, and brown hair. The doll's skin, socks, and facial features are painted.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.38
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Dollhouse Trunk
Name/Title
Dollhouse Trunk
Lexicon
Description
Miniature wooden travel trunk sized for a dollhouse. The unpainted trunk has a slightly domed top, and the upper corners are decorated with stamped metal accents (two remaining). The front is decorated with two paper stickers: one that reads, "1892 Chicago World's Fair" and one advertising a train route to Florida. The lid of the trunk hinges open. The interior is lined with red cotton printed with yellow flowers, and there is a removable tray insert.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Isham, Elizabeth Evans (1938-2021)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Cotton, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2010.25.174
Context
Owned by Betsy Evans Isham in Burlington, Vermont
Dominoes
Name/Title
Dominoes
Lexicon
Description
Set of dominoes in a cardboard box. The 28 domino pips are made of painted black bakelite with brightly colored spots. The box is printed in bright colors with triangle printed on the left and right edges reach toward the center, and the word "DOMINOES" in large yellow letters across the top.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Balham, Jean Louise Goodall (1925-2016)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1940
Manufacturer
Hal-Sam
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard, Bakelite
Entry/Object ID
2003.12.15a-dd
Context
Owned by Jean Louise Goodall Balham in Montpelier, Vermont
Dorset Mountains
Name/Title
Dorset Mountains
Lexicon
Description
Vibrant green and blue landscape dominated by a large mountain in the background with a small strip of clouded sky. The foreground depicts a lush, green valley with hints of structures and light green tree in the center. Modern label on the back indicates the title as, "Dorset Mountains."
Acquisition
Accession
2017.12
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Connaway, Jay Hall (1893-1970)
Artist
Date made
1965-1969
Entry/Object ID
2017.12.3
Context
Jay Connaway was born in Liberty, Indiana, November 27, 1893, the son of Cass Connaway, a lawyer and collector of Chinese art, and his wife May. Jay Connaway graduated from Emmerich Manual High School and undertook his first art training from William Forsyth, known for coastal Oregon views, at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis in 1910 and 1911. Connaway left home to tour the California and Oregon coasts, working his way across the country and then back to the East Coast as a stoker on engines for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.
In New York, Connaway enrolled at the National Academy of Design school in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he attended the Art Student's League at New York City, where he studied with George Bridgman and with William Merritt Chase. Another influence was Robert Henri, a New York Social Realist and leader of the Ashcan School, whom Connaway had met while attending night classes at the National Academy.
In 1917 he enlisted and shipped out to Contrexeville, France. After suffering a shoulder wound, he worked as a cartographer. Then he was assigned to what he called "the most wonderful work of my life"—making detailed watercolor drawings of lesions caused by mustard gas. This brought him to the attention of Lafayette Page, a physician who was so impressed with Connaway's draftsmanship that, at the close of the war, he sponsored his studies at the Académie Julian (1919–20) under Jean Paul Laurens and at the École des Beaux-Arts (1921) in Paris.
With backing from collectors and gallery owners, Connaway, "seeking to paint the lonely sea" found his way to uninhabited Head Harbor Island off the coast of Jonesport, Maine where he lived as an artistic hermit. He later worked dories with a Grand Banks fishing fleet, was also a cook for a lumber camp in Maine, and he enlisted in the Coast Guard.
In 1928 Connaway married Louise Boehle. During the depression, Connaway moved to Monhegan Island to paint and start the Connaway Art School.
The Connaways remained on Monhegan until 1947, when they moved to Vermont, residing in Dorset until 1953, then North Rupert. Connaway painted rural landscapes of the Vermont countryside and operated a summer art school, until 1966.
In 1962, Connaway merged his school with the Southern Vermont Arts Center and became the school's first director. During the 1960s, in addition to managing the art school Connaway painted in Portugal, Spain, California, and Arizona. In the last year of his life, troubled with poor eyesight and failing health, Connaway was no longer able to paint.
In New York, Connaway enrolled at the National Academy of Design school in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he attended the Art Student's League at New York City, where he studied with George Bridgman and with William Merritt Chase. Another influence was Robert Henri, a New York Social Realist and leader of the Ashcan School, whom Connaway had met while attending night classes at the National Academy.
In 1917 he enlisted and shipped out to Contrexeville, France. After suffering a shoulder wound, he worked as a cartographer. Then he was assigned to what he called "the most wonderful work of my life"—making detailed watercolor drawings of lesions caused by mustard gas. This brought him to the attention of Lafayette Page, a physician who was so impressed with Connaway's draftsmanship that, at the close of the war, he sponsored his studies at the Académie Julian (1919–20) under Jean Paul Laurens and at the École des Beaux-Arts (1921) in Paris.
With backing from collectors and gallery owners, Connaway, "seeking to paint the lonely sea" found his way to uninhabited Head Harbor Island off the coast of Jonesport, Maine where he lived as an artistic hermit. He later worked dories with a Grand Banks fishing fleet, was also a cook for a lumber camp in Maine, and he enlisted in the Coast Guard.
In 1928 Connaway married Louise Boehle. During the depression, Connaway moved to Monhegan Island to paint and start the Connaway Art School.
The Connaways remained on Monhegan until 1947, when they moved to Vermont, residing in Dorset until 1953, then North Rupert. Connaway painted rural landscapes of the Vermont countryside and operated a summer art school, until 1966.
In 1962, Connaway merged his school with the Southern Vermont Arts Center and became the school's first director. During the 1960s, in addition to managing the art school Connaway painted in Portugal, Spain, California, and Arizona. In the last year of his life, troubled with poor eyesight and failing health, Connaway was no longer able to paint.
Dr. B.J. Kendall and his Spavin Cure Manufactory
Name/Title
Dr. B.J. Kendall and his Spavin Cure Manufactory
Lexicon
Description
This artwork is a linocut print featuring a central focus on a large building with three stories, a three story, square wing coming out the right hand side, a mansard roof, and a prominent sign that reads "KENDALL'S / 1880 / SPAVIN CURE" in white stick lettering on an arched top sign at the front face of the central tower. Positioned in front of the building are three teams of horses and either buggies or small wagons each facing diagonally towards the left, and each carrying two individuals. In the upper right corner of the print, there are three interlocking circles arranged horizontally. On the left side, there is a profile of a man with groomed hair, coat, and tie facing towards the central circle and the text "DR. KENDALL" below it. Towards the center, there is another, smaller, wooden building with a multisided roof and two side wings with windows, and the text "1st LABORATORY" below it. To the right of the central building, there is a bust of a horse's head also facing towards the central circle with the text "1876 TRADEMARK" below it. The title of the print is located below the image, "DR. B.J. KENDALL" in tall serifed letters with, "and his Spavin Cure Manufactory" underneath in slightly diminuated, serifed lettering. On the right hand side of the title, breaking into the image itself (creating a three dimensional allusion in the exterior blank, white border is another image of a rounded bottle with a thin neck and small, round cap with a label in front, and in front and to the right a box with the front face bearing legible label, "KENDALL'S/SPAVIN CURE" in black boxy lettering with an image of the left facing horse's head in profile within another circular border. Additionally, there are pencil notations on the print, including "10/40," "2006," and "M. Simpson." The print is mounted on light beige paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kendall, Burney James (1845-1922), Dr. B. J. Kendall Company
Related Places
Place
Enosburg Falls
Village
Enosburg
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject Person
Kendall, Burney James (1845-1922)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2006
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.2.2
Context
Burney James Kendall grew up in Enosburgh Falls, Vermont and graduated from the Burlington Medical College in 1865. He moved to Minnesota and apprenticed at the practice of Dr. J. C. Mayo. He returned to Enosburgh Falls in 1870 and opened a medical practice and drug store.
He expanded his products to veterinary practice with the introduction of his Spavin Cure for horses. The cure included a healthy dose of opium and did serve to alleviate the pane of swelling of the hocks. Soon he was selling to cure for human consumption as well. The company grew exponentially and a large factory was built in town. His "cures" were marketed and sold throughout the country.
The food and drug act of 1906 put an end to the opium component of the cure, but various versions were sold into the 1920s. Kendall himself became an addict, left the company in the 1880s, and died in 1922.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
He expanded his products to veterinary practice with the introduction of his Spavin Cure for horses. The cure included a healthy dose of opium and did serve to alleviate the pane of swelling of the hocks. Soon he was selling to cure for human consumption as well. The company grew exponentially and a large factory was built in town. His "cures" were marketed and sold throughout the country.
The food and drug act of 1906 put an end to the opium component of the cure, but various versions were sold into the 1920s. Kendall himself became an addict, left the company in the 1880s, and died in 1922.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Web Links and URLs
Dutch Duelff Bead
Name/Title
Dutch Duelff Bead
Lexicon
Description
Dutch Duelff pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1725-1800
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.197
Context
This was an amazing discovery; these beads are very distinct with a trail of molten blue glass making a design on a heated white bead background. Bead collectors that I have talked to told me that most went to Africa and Asia, almost never here. So this is an interesting geographic anomaly.
Earbob
Name/Title
Earbob
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
pair of ball and cone earings
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.9a-b
Context
These little silver “ball and cone” earbobs were ubiquitous in Native America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There is one other published ball and cone earbob set from Vermont, so they are not unique. Also, earbob fragments from pairs like these have been found before in burial contexts in Vermont. Ex Ben Gravel Collection. I distinctly remember him once telling me that they style was “Probably from Central New Hampshire,” but elsewhere he said they were from Vermont. Both Vermont and New Hampshire are American Abenaki territory, so the ambiguity is annoying but not politically significant.
Earmuffs
Name/Title
Earmuffs
Lexicon
Description
This wool earwarmer is predominantly red, white, gray, and black in color. It is machine-knit and features the words "SKI" and "ATOMIC" knitted into the piece all around. The words are staggered, creating a visually appealing design. Width-wise, there are three rows allocated for each word.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Park, Elaine M. (b. 1940)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Jericho
Town
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Steffner
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
1999.35.2
Context
Likely worn by Elaine Park of Jericho, Vermont.
Earring
Name/Title
Earring
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Ear or nose bob
Use
Ear or nose decoration
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.28
Context
This tiny ear or nose bob has a flattened split ring to engage the flesh, so it was probably not designed be worn with a piercing
Earring and Pendant Set
Name/Title
Earring and Pendant Set
Lexicon
Description
Earring and pendant set made from fluorite and other semi-precious stones. Pendant is rectangular in shape with a large white/beige stone in the center surrounded by alternating stones in red, blue, pink, and black. Pendant is suspended on a double cord of pink and black. Earrings are columnar in shape and consist of alternating bands of stone in red, blue, pink, yellow, and black. The set includes a velvet bag and original box.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Tsonakwa, Gerard Rancourt
Artist
Date made
1989
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.86a-e
Web Links and URLs
Echo
Name/Title
Echo
Lexicon
Description
Carved marble statue of Echo by Larkin Mead. Echo stands in a slightly contrapposto pose, weight off her right foot, and holds a horn just above her shoulder in her left hand. Her face is turned to the right, seemingly looking into the distance. Her right hand rests by her hip, stretched out for balance away from her side. The nymph is barefoot and is supported by a decorative floral carved marble post at her back.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Marble
Subject
Echo (nymph)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Artist
Sculptor
Role
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall; diameter measured at base
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.1
Context
Vermont sculptor Larkin Mead is most famous for designing the original statue atop the Vermont Statehouse. He spent much of his later career in Italy - this statue was probably produced there and was part of his personal collection.
Web Links and URLs
Eel Spear
Name/Title
Eel Spear
Lexicon
Description
Metal eel spear consisting of a short handle and 7 barbed tines. There are three U-shaped rods inserted through the central shaft to create the tines. Each has two backward-facing barbs. The handle is hollow for securing over a wooden handle.
Use
Used to spear eel through ice during the winter.
Acquisition
Accession
1958.7
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Westminster
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1958.7
Context
Found on the bank of the Connecticut River in Westminster, Vermont, following the 1936 flood.
Egg Crate
Name/Title
Egg Crate
Lexicon
Description
Metal box with hinged lid. The sides of the box are stamped with the words, "2 DOZ. EGGS / EGGS". There is a rectangular hole in the top that reveals an address label underneath. There is an impressed square next to the rectangular hole that has slits at the top and bottom (for stamp cards). The address label is on a piece of paperboard that is printed with usage instructions, prices, mailing weights, and advertisements. The back of the paper is printed with the same information. The typed address label on one side reads, "ROBERT DUMVILLE / SOUTH ROYALTON / VERMONT". The handwritten address label on the other side reads, "Mr. Rudolf Kind / 40 Locust Street / Garden City L.I. New York". Beneath the page is rectangular piece of cardboard. The interior of the crate is filled with removable cardboard and metal inserts bent into repeated scallop shapes, creating rows of oval egg holders. Several of the egg holders are filled with paper napkins printed with flowers in pink, green, blue, and yellow. There are remnants of egg and eggshells within the holders.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.35
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dumville, Robert Whitney (1916-1998)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
South Royalton
Village
Royalton
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1939
Manufacturer
Metal Products Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2022.35.1
Context
Used by Robert Dumville to ship eggs from South Royalton, Vermont, to friends and family in New York and New Jersey throughout World War II.
Eggbeater
Name/Title
Eggbeater
Lexicon
Description
Metal eggbeater with wooden grip and turning handle. The eggbeater has two whisks or beaters that turn with a cranked central wheel. The beaters have a round shaped with 4 curved steel blades attached to a single post in the center. The drive wheel has a series of openings pierced around the edge. One side of the wheel is stamped with the label, "EDLUND COMPANY / BURLINGTON, VT. / PATENT NO. 1789224 - OTHER PAT. PENDING / MADE IN THE U.S.A."
Acquisition
Accession
1994.16
Made/Created
Date made
1929-1931
Manufacturer
Edlund Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Steel, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1994.16
Context
Made by the Edlund Company in Burlington, Vermont. Given as a wedding shower gift to Marie F. Forehan by her mother in 1949.
Elijah Paine (1757-1842)
Name/Title
Elijah Paine (1757-1842)
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Pastel of Elijah Paine (1757-1842) behind beveled glass [with black spacer]. Profile of man facing left, short gray hair with back braid. Clean shaven wearing a taupe coat and white cravat. His vest has a dark line running through the fabric.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.50
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Paine, Elijah (1757-1842)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Pastel
Subject Person
Paine, Elijah (1757-1842)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Sharples, James, Sr. (1751-1811)
Artist
Date made
circa 1796
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2013.50.3
Context
A Revolutionary War veteran and Harvard graduate, Elijah Paine first settled in Windsor, Vermont and then later in Williamstown.
In addition to farming and owning a series of businesses, he also maintained a law practice. He served a number of state elected positions, including representative from Williamstown. He was the secretary to the 1887 Vermont Constitutional Convention and served in Vermont's judiciary as both probate judge and supreme court justice. We was a Federalist United States Senator from 1795 to 1801 when he was appointed and resigned to become the United States District judge for the district of Vermont by President John Adams.
James Sharples, the artist who created this work, was an English immigrant to the new United States and made much of his career in painting profile portraits of prominent U.S. politicians. He used a device called the physiognotrace to produce an accurate silhouette of the sitter and then filled out the remainder of the portrait. He retained the original tracing so that he could produce and sell copies of popular likenesses.
In addition to farming and owning a series of businesses, he also maintained a law practice. He served a number of state elected positions, including representative from Williamstown. He was the secretary to the 1887 Vermont Constitutional Convention and served in Vermont's judiciary as both probate judge and supreme court justice. We was a Federalist United States Senator from 1795 to 1801 when he was appointed and resigned to become the United States District judge for the district of Vermont by President John Adams.
James Sharples, the artist who created this work, was an English immigrant to the new United States and made much of his career in painting profile portraits of prominent U.S. politicians. He used a device called the physiognotrace to produce an accurate silhouette of the sitter and then filled out the remainder of the portrait. He retained the original tracing so that he could produce and sell copies of popular likenesses.
Elvira L. Smith
Name/Title
Elvira L. Smith
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Portrait of a seated woman shown from the waist up. Her body is turned slightly to the right. The woman wears a pink dress with a fitted bodice, flared skirt, and large, puffed sleeves. A green sash or belt circles her waist. Her brown hair is gathered in two large groups of curls on either side of her head.
Acquisition
Accession
1946.47
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Subject Person
Smith, Elvina L. Hayes
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1835
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1946.47.1
Epaulet
Name/Title
Epaulet
Lexicon
Description
Coat epaulet
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.132
Epaulet
Name/Title
Epaulet
Lexicon
Description
Two four-star epaulets with navy insignia. Mayo was promoted to Admiral (4 star) on June 19, 1916, commander-in-chief, Atlantic Fleet.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.59
Relationships
Related Events
World War I
Event
Related Person or Organization
Mayo, Henry Thomas (1856-1937)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1916-1920
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metallic thread, Wool, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2007.59.2a-b
Epaulets
Name/Title
Epaulets
Lexicon
Description
Pair of beaded, epaulets for a man's coat. Central quatrefoil in red and white flanked by green and yellow scrolls and yellow and blue flowers.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1830-1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.142a-b
Context
These beaded “Wabanaki Quatrefoil” Epaulets seem a bit later than the other beaded items in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. The central quatrefoils are identical in color and construction to those found on a pair of moccasin vamps with a Waterville, Vermont provenance. Unfortunately, many of the other stylistic details such as bugle-beaded scrolls and the blue and yellow flowers are unlike other regional items from the period.
Epaulets
Name/Title
Epaulets
Lexicon
Description
Gold epaulets. The epaulets have thick, gold fringe made of coiled wire. The top is decorated with applied silver embroidery in the shape of 4 5-pointed stars. The reverse is lined with velvet.
Acquisition
Accession
1963.69
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1898
Manufacturer
Ackerman
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Gold, Silk, Silver
Entry/Object ID
1963.69.1e
Context
Worn by Admiral George Dewey of Montpelier, Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Ethan Allen: An Interpretation
Name/Title
Ethan Allen: An Interpretation
Lexicon
Description
Ethan Allen: An Interpretation
Comtemporary interpretation in reds, oranges, blues and green, heavy textured paint surface, head and background in orange/reds, hair green, clothing in blues and greens. Impressionistic.
Comtemporary interpretation in reds, oranges, blues and green, heavy textured paint surface, head and background in orange/reds, hair green, clothing in blues and greens. Impressionistic.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Allen, Ethan (1738-1789)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Tatseos, William George (1915-2002)
Artist
Date made
1948
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-25
Context
No contemporary likeness of Ethan Allen is know, leading to numerous artists trying their hands at their own vision of this famous Vermonter. William Tatseos (1915-2002) created his portrait of Ethan in 1948. This work was reproduced in "Vermont Life" v.2 No.4 Summer 1948.
Web Links and URLs
Eyeglasses
Name/Title
Eyeglasses
Lexicon
Description
Cardboard viewer to safely view the 1932 eclipse. Patented by Derick Studio in Orleans, Vt.
One side has a map showing where in New England and New York the best views will be, with the total eclipse forecast for the Northeastern corner of Vermont. The other side explains why an eclipse takes place and notes the safety of the filter for viewing the sun for extended periods without damage to the eyes.
One side has a map showing where in New England and New York the best views will be, with the total eclipse forecast for the Northeastern corner of Vermont. The other side explains why an eclipse takes place and notes the safety of the filter for viewing the sun for extended periods without damage to the eyes.
Use
For use to look at an eclipse.
Acquisition
Accession
2019.22
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Northeast Kingdom
Made/Created
Date made
1932
Manufacturer
Derick Studio
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2019.22.1
Context
Here is a 2017 write-up about the eclipse of 1932. The path of totality ran across the Northeast.
From: https://streetsofsalem.com/2017/08/20/the-great-new-england-eclipse-of-1932/
"This eclipse cut a diagonal swath through New England from Montreal to Provincetown, and people converged in the White Mountains, Cape Ann and Cape Cod for viewing: there were special eclipse “packages” and special eclipse trains, and more than one observer pointed out that the frenzy was serving as a distraction from the Depression. In Salem, the shops closed at 1:00 in the afternoon on the 31st (which was a Wednesday), as everyone departed for Gloucester–apparently not content to be in the 99% zone! The headlines leading up to the 1932 eclipse were not too different than those today: watch out for your eyes, watch out for your chickens (perhaps there was more emphasis on chickens then), the best viewing places, why the scientists are so excited. I do think there was more “eclipse ephemera” produced then, but it was a period of paper.
The viewing experience seems to have been uneven across New England on August 31, 1932: clouds and rain prevailed in some places, inspiring my favorite September 1 headlines: Long Awaited Eclipse is Partially Eclipsed (or some variation thereof). I have no doubt that people had fun on the New Haven Railroad’s special Eclipse Train, however, on which they could see night-time when it’s day in New England as you play. Strange things were reported for days afterwards: chickens (very sensitive to eclipses, apparently) laid eggs that bore an imprint of the corona, which appeared on several glass windows around the region as well. In my hometown of York Harbor, Maine, the artist Henry Russell Butler, who had traveled across the country in order to capture the previous three eclipses on canvas, was thrilled to see one appear in his backyard. Photography had long been able to capture eclipses, but paint still worked too."
From: https://streetsofsalem.com/2017/08/20/the-great-new-england-eclipse-of-1932/
"This eclipse cut a diagonal swath through New England from Montreal to Provincetown, and people converged in the White Mountains, Cape Ann and Cape Cod for viewing: there were special eclipse “packages” and special eclipse trains, and more than one observer pointed out that the frenzy was serving as a distraction from the Depression. In Salem, the shops closed at 1:00 in the afternoon on the 31st (which was a Wednesday), as everyone departed for Gloucester–apparently not content to be in the 99% zone! The headlines leading up to the 1932 eclipse were not too different than those today: watch out for your eyes, watch out for your chickens (perhaps there was more emphasis on chickens then), the best viewing places, why the scientists are so excited. I do think there was more “eclipse ephemera” produced then, but it was a period of paper.
The viewing experience seems to have been uneven across New England on August 31, 1932: clouds and rain prevailed in some places, inspiring my favorite September 1 headlines: Long Awaited Eclipse is Partially Eclipsed (or some variation thereof). I have no doubt that people had fun on the New Haven Railroad’s special Eclipse Train, however, on which they could see night-time when it’s day in New England as you play. Strange things were reported for days afterwards: chickens (very sensitive to eclipses, apparently) laid eggs that bore an imprint of the corona, which appeared on several glass windows around the region as well. In my hometown of York Harbor, Maine, the artist Henry Russell Butler, who had traveled across the country in order to capture the previous three eclipses on canvas, was thrilled to see one appear in his backyard. Photography had long been able to capture eclipses, but paint still worked too."
Eyeglasses Case
Name/Title
Eyeglasses Case
Description
Metal case, flat khaki in color, used to keep safety goggles. Paper label on the top, center: "Stock No. 74-G-79-40. / GOGGLE, VARIABLE-DENSITY / COMPLETE / CONTENTS: ONE SET / 3781" Lid / cover hinges in the back and clips closed. Rust is now detering closure.
Use
Peterson Jr., Dr. Oscar S. (1912-1988)
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1945
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.5b
Faceted Bead
Name/Title
Faceted Bead
Lexicon
Description
Faceted bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1725-1800
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.196
Family Register
Name/Title
Family Register
Lexicon
Description
Bancroft family record - Calais. It documents Lewis Bancroft, his two wives, Lucy Jane Mallary and Mary H. Bancroft and their families. It was begun about 1847 and the last entry is in 1888. Lithograph.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Made/Created
Artist Information
Currier
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.314
Fanny Pack
Name/Title
Fanny Pack
Lexicon
Description
Fannypack advertising "Vermont Transit Tours." Forest green with white trim and whiye nylon webbing belt strap. White zipper opening, belt has black plastic clip.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Nylon, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2016.52.13
Farm Route 67 with Cows, Autumn
Name/Title
Farm Route 67 with Cows, Autumn
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil painting of a farm on Vermont Route 67 with cows in autumn by Patsy Santo. The painting features a paved road with a double yellow center line in the closest foreground and a slightly golden-tinged fenced-in pasture with black and white cattle just behind it. The pale yellow barn has a brown shingle roof and white silos on the near side, and a white farmhouse peeks out of the fall-tinged trees on the left middle ground. The blue sky above has scattered puffy clouds. The painting is signed "Patsy Santo in the lower right corner and resides in a painted and gilt wooden frame.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.10
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Santo, Pasquale "Patsy" (1893-1975)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Subject
Dairy farm; Route 67
Made/Created
Artist Information
Santo, Pasquale "Patsy" (1893-1975)
Artist
Date made
1960-1970
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.10.1
Context
Patsy Santo pursued a number of professional activities after emigrating to this country from Italy in 1913. He worked for the railroad and as a housepainter. His first artistic effort was an outgrowth of one of his house painting jobs; his second was undertaken at the request of a friend. He did not follow up on these sporadic endeavors until many years later, however, when one of his paintings took first prize at the 1937 state fair in Rutland, Vermont. This brought Santo his first patron and inspired him to start painting in earnest. Other exhibitions followed. His introduction to the New York art world was about as auspicious as any folk painter could hope for. He debuted, with Grandma Moses, Morris Hirshfield, and a number of others, in a 1939 members-only showing at the Museum of Modern Art. His first one-man show at the Marie Harriman Gallery the following year was a virtual sell-out. His paintings were acquired by the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Sidney Janis included him in his book, "They Taught Themselves," observing that Santo, unlike most self-taught painters, evidenced continuing stylistic development.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
Sherbrooke Fair ceramic figurene with short brown, fuzzy hair glued to a ceramic doll. It is painted with huge black eyes and lengthy eyelashes, red lips and a yellow dress and base. Fern Souther apparently wrote on the bottom of the figure that it was from "Sherbrook Fair, 1923," adding, "He didn't guess my wgt." Sherbrooke is a town in the Province of Quebec and is spelled with an "e" on the end, although that isn't what is written on the bottom of the statuette.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.72
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Souther, A. Fern (1907-2004)
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic, Wool
Entry/Object ID
2004.72.21
Context
A. Fern Souther (1907-2004) was born in Orleans, VT, grew up in Lowell, VT, was an elementary school teacher in Burlington, VT. and a collector of family keepsakes, teaching materials, and mementos relating to the places where she lived, worked or traveled during her lifetime. For more information, see the A. Fern Souther papers in the VHS Manuscript Catalog on line.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
Miniature cast-iron sled dog. The dog is molded to appear as if it's walking, and there is a harness made of woven cotton tape around its body. It is painted in shades of brown. Its tail is raised upward.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.26
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Jr. (1888-1957)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paint
Entry/Object ID
1960.26.8
Context
Part of a model of Admiral Byrd's dog team. Byrd used dog teams for portions of his Antarctic expeditions.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
Plywood cutout figurine of soldier. The figure is painted on the front, and the plywood is left bare on the reverse. The soldier is shown wearing an eighteenth-century-style military uniform consisting of a brown tricorn hat, a green coat edged in red, a yellow plaid shirt, fawn breeches and stockings, and brown shoes. He is holding a long gun over his left shoulder. The figure sits in a slot within a rectangular wooden base. The back is incised with the inscription, "Green Mountain Ranger / Parade Uniform / Horace Mills Abrams".
Acquisition
Accession
1943.8
Relationships
Related Events
Battle of Bennington, American Revolutionary War
Made/Created
Artist Information
Abrams, Horace Mills (1894-1960)
Artist
Date made
1930-1940
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (each)
Materials
Material
Wood, Paint
Entry/Object ID
1943.8.2
Context
Made by Horace Mills Abrams as a model for a series of signs to be placed around Bennington, Vermont.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
From Arts & Crafts League
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
T2022.16.38
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
Plywood cutout figurine of soldier. The figure is painted on the front, and the plywood is left bare on the reverse. The soldier is shown wearing an eighteenth-century-style military uniform consisting of a blue double-breasted coat with gold epaulets and fan cuffs and lapels, a fawn waistcoat, fawn breeches, a red sash, and brown riding boots. He is holding a hat in his left hand and raising his right hand in a wave. There is a sworn hung on his left hip. The figure sits in a slot within a rectangular wooden base. The back is incised with the words, "Ethan Allen / after L. G. Mead / Horace Mills Abrams".
Acquisition
Accession
1943.8
Relationships
Related Events
Battle of Bennington, American Revolutionary War
Related Person or Organization
Allen, Ethan (1738-1789)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Abrams, Horace Mills (1894-1960)
Artist
Date made
1930-1940
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (each)
Materials
Material
Wood, Paint
Entry/Object ID
1943.8.3
Context
Made by Horace Mills Abrams to exhibit as a clothing reference for military clothing worn at the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War. It is based on the statue of Ethan Allen by Larkin Goldsmith Mead.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
Plywood cutout figurine of soldier. The figure is painted on the front, and the plywood is left bare on the reverse. The soldier is shown wearing a tricorn hat, a fawn-colored hunting shirt and breeches, with white stockings, brown spats, and black shoes. He is holding a long gun with a strap over his left shoulder. The figure sits in a slot within a rectangular wooden base. The back is stamped with the words, "JEHIEL HAWLEY STUDIOS by" and signed, "Horace Mills Abrams". It is incised with the inscription, "Green Mountain Rangers / Field uniform".
Acquisition
Accession
1943.8
Relationships
Related Events
Battle of Bennington, American Revolutionary War
Made/Created
Artist Information
Abrams, Horace Mills (1894-1960)
Artist
Date made
1930-1940
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (each)
Materials
Material
Wood, Paint
Entry/Object ID
1943.8.6
Context
Made by Horace Mills Abrams to exhibit as a clothing reference for military clothing worn at the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War.
Figurine
Name/Title
Figurine
Lexicon
Description
From Arts & Crafts League
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
T2022.16.39
Filmstrip Projector
Name/Title
Filmstrip Projector
Lexicon
Description
The Black Picturol Projector Model G, manufactured by the Society for Visual Education Inc. in Chicago, USA, is a filmstrip projector. It features a cylindrical light bulb housed in a box at the back of the projector. The front of the projector is equipped with a cylindrical lens, while the mechanism in between is responsible for feeding the filmstrip past the light. A black knob on the side allows for the movement of the filmstrip. To power the light, there is a lengthy cord that provides electricity.
Accompanying the projector is a black case with a hinged top and a leather handle. Inside the case, there are felt pads to provide protection. There is also a padded compartment, although it is too narrow to accommodate a spare light bulb. Additionally, there is a metal tin designed to hold a coil of filmstrip. The tin has a gold color and is labeled with the word "Vermont" on the top. Lastly, a spare light bulb is included for the projector. This bulb features a brass-colored connection base, a large wire filament, and a black cap on the top. It is worth noting that there is an identical bulb already inside the projector.
Accompanying the projector is a black case with a hinged top and a leather handle. Inside the case, there are felt pads to provide protection. There is also a padded compartment, although it is too narrow to accommodate a spare light bulb. Additionally, there is a metal tin designed to hold a coil of filmstrip. The tin has a gold color and is labeled with the word "Vermont" on the top. Lastly, a spare light bulb is included for the projector. This bulb features a brass-colored connection base, a large wire filament, and a black cap on the top. It is worth noting that there is an identical bulb already inside the projector.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.58
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Petroleum Association
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Society for Visual Education Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Glass, Plastic, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1999.58.9a-d
Context
Owned by the Vermont Petroleum Association
Finger, Wool
Name/Title
Finger, Wool
Lexicon
Description
"a" has a more pointed end,"b" has a more squared-off end.
medium brown
medium brown
Acquisition
Accession
1960.24
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Ward, Hannah Peake (1801-1843)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Highgate
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1820-1840
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1960.24.30a
Context
Used by Hannah Peake Ward in Highgate, Vermont
Fire Bucket
Name/Title
Fire Bucket
Lexicon
Description
Leather fire bucket with leather handle. The handle connects to the bucket with heavy-gauge wire rings. The bucket is painted green with a black stenciled label, now illegible.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.36
Materials
Material
Leather
Entry/Object ID
1954.36.19
Fire Steel
Name/Title
Fire Steel
Lexicon
Use
For striking with flint to create spark
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1750
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.21
Firesuit
Name/Title
Firesuit
Lexicon
Description
White coveralls with long sleeves and pants. The ends of both the pantlegs and sleeves are finished with round knitted cuffs that fit close to the wearer's skin. There are three red stripes running horizontally around the torso and sleeves, with the center stripe thicker than the edge stripes. The name "Beaver Dragon" is embroidered in red thread on the left breast. The torse is covered with several textile patches bearing the names of businesses: COCO, BOSCH Spark Plugs, Goodwrench Tour, Castle HI-TECH CHEM, CITGO, CTP, SUNOCO RACE FUELS, sfi MANUFACTURER CERTIFIED 3-2a/1. The word "GOODYEAR" is embroidered onto a rectangular patch applied to the upper back and spanning the entire width. The suit opens with a placket down the center front, spanning from the neck to the inseam that secures with a metal zipper. The placket closes over the zipper with a strip of velcro at the chest. The neck has a standing collar and that secures at the front right. There are straps on either shoulder and one at the left side seam on the waist. There is a zippered pocket at the right breast, and a large inset pocket at the left hip.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.48
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Harmon "Beaver" Dragon
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Milton
Town
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1975-1985
Manufacturer
J.B. Hinchman Inc.
Materials
Material
Nomex
Entry/Object ID
2022.48.1
Context
Worn by Harmon "Beaver" Dragon while racing automobiles in Vermont during the 1980s.
Firkin
Name/Title
Firkin
Lexicon
Description
Decorated wooden firkin with handle and cover. There is a metal band around the lower part. The firkin is stained dark brown and hand painted with flowers, leaves, and scrolls; the paint colors are green, gold, white, blue, red, and black. The front, back, and cover have decorative painting. The wooden band that encircles the top of the firkin has a blue ribbon-like brush stroke. On the bottom there appears "$ 8.50" in white pencil.
a=firkin
b=cover/lid
a=firkin
b=cover/lid
Acquisition
Accession
1975.514
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1975.514
Context
Likely made by a member or affiliate of the Vermont Arts & Crafts Service.
First Aid Kit
Name/Title
First Aid Kit
Lexicon
Description
Box containing items making up a Fallout Shelter Medical Kit from the Office of Civil Defense. The box is made of brown corrugated cardboard with a mailing label reading, "FROM: Department of the Army/ Schenectady Army Depot/ Schenectady, N.Y./ TO: Arthur Newhouse/ C D Dir Town Chairman/ (his address)/ M/F: Homer Fitts Store/ 159 N Main/ Barre, VT./ - - - " Handwritten in black ink: "Opened by./ D-- / June 17, 1971/ Removed Phenobarbitol".
The sides are printed in black letters with, "SURVIVAL SUPPLIES/ FURNISHED BY/ OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE/ DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/ MEDICAL KIT A/ 50-60 SHELTER OCCUPANTS/ THIS UNIT CONTAINS NO NARCOTICS" Printed on third side: "DOD - OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE/ FALLOUT SHELTER MEDICAL KIT" and listing the medications, dressings, etc. in the box. Also other directives.
The box contains:
b: 12 unopened boxes of gauze
c: 500 aspirin tablets
d: 100 tongue depressors
e: Bottle of diarrhea medication
f: Bottle sodium chloride (table salt)
g: Isopropyl alcohol
h: Vaseline
i: Syringe fountain (rubber bag, tubing, etc.)
j: 500 sulfadiazine tablets
k: 200 surgical gauze pads.
l: Thermometer
m: Metal tweezers
n: 100 cotton swabs
o: 3 bottles of eye and nose drops
p: 200 water purification tablets
q: Blunt-edged metal pocket scissors
r: 12 1.5-in safety pins
s: 100 Cascara Sagrada laxative tablets
t: 6 bars of surgical soap
u: Large bandage
v: Bottle of Eugenol (toothache remedy)
w: 100 penicillin G tablets
x: Baking soda
y: Sterilized non-compressed purified cotton
The sides are printed in black letters with, "SURVIVAL SUPPLIES/ FURNISHED BY/ OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE/ DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/ MEDICAL KIT A/ 50-60 SHELTER OCCUPANTS/ THIS UNIT CONTAINS NO NARCOTICS" Printed on third side: "DOD - OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE/ FALLOUT SHELTER MEDICAL KIT" and listing the medications, dressings, etc. in the box. Also other directives.
The box contains:
b: 12 unopened boxes of gauze
c: 500 aspirin tablets
d: 100 tongue depressors
e: Bottle of diarrhea medication
f: Bottle sodium chloride (table salt)
g: Isopropyl alcohol
h: Vaseline
i: Syringe fountain (rubber bag, tubing, etc.)
j: 500 sulfadiazine tablets
k: 200 surgical gauze pads.
l: Thermometer
m: Metal tweezers
n: 100 cotton swabs
o: 3 bottles of eye and nose drops
p: 200 water purification tablets
q: Blunt-edged metal pocket scissors
r: 12 1.5-in safety pins
s: 100 Cascara Sagrada laxative tablets
t: 6 bars of surgical soap
u: Large bandage
v: Bottle of Eugenol (toothache remedy)
w: 100 penicillin G tablets
x: Baking soda
y: Sterilized non-compressed purified cotton
Acquisition
Accession
2006.61
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Homer Fitts Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1971-1962
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Mercury, Aluminum, Metal, Soap, Paper, Plastic, Cardboard, Cotton, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2006.61.28a-y
Context
Sent to Barre, Vermont to be used in case of evacuation to a fallout shelter, 1971.
First Church in Territory
Name/Title
First Church in Territory
Type of Painting
Description
Side view of white building with twelve side, multi-paned windows (six per story) with the top row showing rounded top framing and the bottom row completely rectangular. The angling, pitched roof of the building in a light green color. The front facade of the building showing a porch jutting out of the front face itself. From this going upwards is a taller part of the structure (steeple) with a square, white structure with a triform window on the side. The window showing a higher central window with a rounded top and two rectangular side windows. Atop the square part of the tower is a low, latticed fence with tall, white arches in an octagonal shape. Through the fence is a small form (resembling a bell). The octagonal area showing a roof with another, smaller, enclosed octagonal structure on top with ovular, decorated windows on each face and a domed roof. At the center of the roof is a metal vertical structure with a horizontal arrow pointing towards the vanishing point at the center of the painting. Above the central building (the church) are clusters of puffy clouds in varying shades of dark grays. Only around the top of the steeple do the wisping clouds become lighter in shade and a small, speckled patch of light blue sky is showing. Behind the building is another cream-colored building that reaches up to almost halfway of the central church but it appears to sit lower as the profile of a hill is delineating with the foundational dark green, resolute, horizontal line of the main church contrasted with the light, faded green of the foreground arching downwards to the left. This smaller building is facing us with its slanting right green roof carrying off to the right. Flanking the central church on both sides are trees. On the left are five with mostly light, faded green foliage with the center trees showing some mixed yellow and orange leaves on top. On the right hand side are two the tree nearest showing dark, and bright orange foliage and the background tree with bright yellow leaves. Accordingly small groups of bright yellow and orange specks decorating the foreground with fallen leaves. Behind the central church is the top of another tree revealing two rising clusters of dark, bright orange leaves.
In the foreground is a silvery-white, sloping, latticed fence on the right hand side, each section arching upwards and meeting at white, square poles with later-like decorations atop. Mimicking this fencing making perspective lines towards the central building are perfect rows of thin, learning, vertical, stone slabs (headstones). In the second row from the right is one slab lying groundwards instead of standing up and another stacking of thicker slabs on a squarish base. In the central row is a dark gray squarish column narrowing to a point on an ornamented square, multi-layered basin. In the row to the left of the central row is a rectangular, dark brown structure with a gray top slanting downwards facing the fence (sarcophagus style). On the second row in from the left is another rising column in lighter gray with a squared neck and a pointed top. The light, faded green of the ground extends back and beyond the church into the distance to meet something very dark gray.
In the foreground is a silvery-white, sloping, latticed fence on the right hand side, each section arching upwards and meeting at white, square poles with later-like decorations atop. Mimicking this fencing making perspective lines towards the central building are perfect rows of thin, learning, vertical, stone slabs (headstones). In the second row from the right is one slab lying groundwards instead of standing up and another stacking of thicker slabs on a squarish base. In the central row is a dark gray squarish column narrowing to a point on an ornamented square, multi-layered basin. In the row to the left of the central row is a rectangular, dark brown structure with a gray top slanting downwards facing the fence (sarcophagus style). On the second row in from the left is another rising column in lighter gray with a squared neck and a pointed top. The light, faded green of the ground extends back and beyond the church into the distance to meet something very dark gray.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.2
Relationships
Related Publications
Vermont Firsts Collection
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject
Old First Church
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mitchell, Bruce Kirk (1933-2018)
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1975-1976
Entry/Object ID
2023.2.1
Context
In celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial, the First Vermont Bank commissioned artist Bruce Mitchell to create a series of paintings illustrating "Vermont Firsts." The paintings and the associated catalog were presented at galleries and museums across the state from 1976 to 1978. 16 of the 44 works remained with the bank through mergers and sales, ultimately coming to the Vermont Historical Society as a gift of successor owner TDBank.
This particular painting was gifted by the First Vermont Bank to Senator Leahy and he displayed it prominently in his Washington office until his retirement in 2022. The Senator donated the work to Vermont Historical Society.
The title of this painting is a bit misleading. The first Congregational congregation in the territory that is now Vermont was established in Bennington in 1762 with a meeting house erected in 1766. The current church, as depicted in this painting, was built in 1805 and is one of the oldest continually operating church structures in the state.
This particular painting was gifted by the First Vermont Bank to Senator Leahy and he displayed it prominently in his Washington office until his retirement in 2022. The Senator donated the work to Vermont Historical Society.
The title of this painting is a bit misleading. The first Congregational congregation in the territory that is now Vermont was established in Bennington in 1762 with a meeting house erected in 1766. The current church, as depicted in this painting, was built in 1805 and is one of the oldest continually operating church structures in the state.
First State House in Montpelier
Name/Title
First State House in Montpelier
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Acrylic painting depicting a large yellow building, set among tall straight trees. The building has two rounded bays on either side connected with balconies in the center. It is three stories tall and five bays deep. There is a domed cupola at the top with a bell. There are dark mountains visible in the background and a small stretch of sidewalk along the bottom edge. It is signed in the bottom, right, “H. G. Bryan. 1957.”
Acquisition
Accession
1967.169
Source (if not Accessioned)
Bryan, Hortense Maria del Carmen Gomez (1903-1997)
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Pastel
Subject
First Vermont State House
Made/Created
Artist Information
Bryan, Hortense Maria del Carmen Gomez (1903-1997)
Artist
Date made
1957
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1967.169.1
Context
This painting was created as part of a competition and exhibition to reflect a visual understanding of the first Vermont State House. A contemporary written description of the State House was provided to the artists and can be found on a typewritten sheet affixed to the back of the panel.
The first State House was designed by Sylvanus Baldwin and constructed of wood in 1808. The building famously hosted a speech by General Lafayette on his grand U.S. tour in 1825. The building was torn down upon the completion of the Second Vermont State House in 1838 (construction started in 1833). The current Vermont Supreme Court building stands on site of this first State House.
The first State House was designed by Sylvanus Baldwin and constructed of wood in 1808. The building famously hosted a speech by General Lafayette on his grand U.S. tour in 1825. The building was torn down upon the completion of the Second Vermont State House in 1838 (construction started in 1833). The current Vermont Supreme Court building stands on site of this first State House.
Fish Decoy
Name/Title
Fish Decoy
Lexicon
Description
Fish Decoy
Use
Used by Nazaire St. Francis
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1935
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.12
Fish Spear
Name/Title
Fish Spear
Lexicon
Description
Tubular steel fishing rod tipped with a sharp spring wire spike, flanked by two spring wire prongs.
Use
Fishing
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.116
Context
This is a late example of an ancient trident fish spear style that is distinctive to the Wabanaki peoples. The central impaling spike is flanked by two “leads,” made from steel wire. This fishing spear was found in a garage sale in Newport, VT, a relic of local Native fishing systems. It is a recycled, tubular steel fishing rod tipped with a sharp spring wire spike, flanked by two spring wire prongs. It is wired together steel wire… This is a diminutive version of the highly distinctive Wabanaki fish spear executed in metal rather than wood. (Nulhegan Band 2010 Recognition Petition: 42)
Fish Spear
Name/Title
Fish Spear
Lexicon
Description
Spear consisting of wooden handle, metal spike, and two arms with triangular ends.
Use
Fishing
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood, Iron
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.19
Context
Form is ethnically distinctive Wabanaki and shows use in the Abenaki study area.
Fish Trap
Name/Title
Fish Trap
Lexicon
Description
Cylindrical, ash splint device with interior woven cone.
Use
Trapping fish (eels)
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.109
Context
This woven ash splint eel trap (missing the basketry cap on the far end) is only the second fish trap from the entire American Abenaki area. The other, now housed in the ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain collections in Burlington was from the Connecticut River Valley.
Fishhook
Name/Title
Fishhook
Lexicon
Description
metal fishhook
Use
Used in Highgate Springs, VT
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1820
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.31
Fishhook
Name/Title
Fishhook
Lexicon
Description
metal fishhook
Use
Used in Highgate Springs, VT
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1820
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.32
Fishhook
Name/Title
Fishhook
Lexicon
Description
small, metal fishhook
Use
Used in Highgate Springs, VT
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1820
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.33
Fist Fight
Name/Title
Fist Fight
Lexicon
Description
Print of drawing commissioned by National Life Insurance Company entitle "Fist Fight."
Two men in the foreground are engaged in a fight. Two groups of men in 18th-century clothing appear in the background observing the contest. A clapboarded building and shingled building are in the background and set the scene as a townscape.
Two men in the foreground are engaged in a fight. Two groups of men in 18th-century clothing appear in the background observing the contest. A clapboarded building and shingled building are in the background and set the scene as a townscape.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper
Subject
Fight to name Barre
Made/Created
Artist Information
Heinrich, Roy Frederic (1881-1943)
Artist
Date made
1938
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1322
Context
From 1934 to 1946, National Life Insurance Company embarked on a long-term marketing program that used stories from Vermont History to represent company values. A series of artists were engaged to create black and white artwork for a broad, nationwide campaign. National Life published the prints and associated stories as an educational resource for Vermont Schools. Many of the original drawings were the highlight of the Vermont Pavilion at the 1939-40 World's Fair.
This particular print depicts a fictional story, once thought as fact, of two men engaging in a fight/wrestling match for the right to name the current municipality of Barre. The area that we now know as Barre City and Barre Town was originally incorporated as Wildersburgh in 1780. In 1793 the citizens of the town voted to create a new house of worship. To raise the needed funds they offered the rights to rename the town to the person committing the most funds to the meeting house construction. Ezekiel Dodge Wheeler offered £62 and named the town Barre after Barre, Massachusetts.
This particular print depicts a fictional story, once thought as fact, of two men engaging in a fight/wrestling match for the right to name the current municipality of Barre. The area that we now know as Barre City and Barre Town was originally incorporated as Wildersburgh in 1780. In 1793 the citizens of the town voted to create a new house of worship. To raise the needed funds they offered the rights to rename the town to the person committing the most funds to the meeting house construction. Ezekiel Dodge Wheeler offered £62 and named the town Barre after Barre, Massachusetts.
Flag
Name/Title
Flag
Description
Small green and blue flag with white stars that says, "Green Mountain Boys / 1776-1976"
Acquisition
Accession
1996.12
Relationships
Related Events
US Bicentennial Celebration
Event
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Linen
Entry/Object ID
1996.12.6
Flag
Name/Title
Flag
Lexicon
Description
Muddy paper American flag stapled to a wooden stick.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.25
Relationships
Related Events
2023 Flood
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2023.25.1
Context
Found in Montpelier after the July 2023 flood.
Flag
Name/Title
Flag
Lexicon
Description
Flag from Orleans County Salem Lake 4-H Camp.
Acquisition
Accession
1990.14
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
4-H
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Lake Salem
Village
Derby
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
1990.14.3
Flag, Signal
Name/Title
Flag, Signal
Lexicon
Description
Blue plastic flag, drawing of a bicycle with "Vermont" below, in a circle; "BETTER BY BIKE" in upper right corner and "LOCAL MOTION" below. Used at a rally at the State House on September 24, 2015. Attached to a thin white plastic flexible rod.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.47
Made/Created
Date made
2015
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2015.47.5
Flask
Name/Title
Flask
Lexicon
Description
Dark-colored glass flask or decanter with a wide, circular body and long, thin neck. The neck has an applied glass handle, shaped like an ear. On one side of the body of the bottle is a paper note with the typed inscription, "This is Authentically DR. "THUNDERBOLT" WILSON'S FLASK Purchased at an Auction of His Personal Property, May 22, 1847 By Judge Charles Royall Tyler Handed Down By Him to His Granddaughter, Helen Brown Tyler Purchased from Her by Miss Mary R. Cabot / Author of The Annals of Brattleboro And Presented July 25, 1929 by Miss Cabot to Charles E. Crane"
Acquisition
Accession
2005.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wilson, John (1788-1847)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brookline
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2005.29
Context
Owned by Dr. John "Thunderbolt" Wilson, a traveling doctor and teacher in Vermont. Due to Wilson's private nature and mysterious injuries, after his death rumor aligned him with notorious highway robber, Captain Thunderbolt.
Flask
Name/Title
Flask
Lexicon
Description
Ring-shaped ceramic flask or canteen. The neck at the opening is broken off.
Acquisition
Accession
1953.14
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Squier, Daniel
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1780-1800
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Redware
Entry/Object ID
1953.14.1
Context
Used during the Revolutionary War by Daniel Squier.
Flatware Tray
Name/Title
Flatware Tray
Lexicon
Description
Bentwood silverware box. The rectangular tray has high sides, steamed to bend around curved corners. There is a center divider that rises to connect to a turned wooden handle.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.49
Made/Created
Artist Information
Attributed to
Attribution
Date made
1840
Manufacturer
Ingalls, Samuel (1786-1854)
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1999.49
Context
Made by either Samuel Ingalls or Barnard Hoyt.
Flax Breaker
Name/Title
Flax Breaker
Lexicon
Description
Flaxbreaker, solid wood, one piece, hand made. Handle has hole drilled through it for hanging.
By carefully looking, you can see the marks of the carver.
By carefully looking, you can see the marks of the carver.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Kent's Corner
Village
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.167
Flour Bag
Name/Title
Flour Bag
Lexicon
Description
Zip-top plastic bag. The bag is red and white with the label, "UNBLEACHED ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR". It has a large label showing a crusader surrounded by the inscription, "King Arthur Flour". The back of the bag is printed with nutritional information and a note saying, "During these unprecedented times, and as we work to restock stores around the country, we're finding new ways to supply you with flour so that you can keep baking. To help bridge the gap until stores are restocked nationwide, we're offering this 3lb. bag of flour for a limited time."
Acquisition
Accession
2020.27
Relationships
Related Events
Covid-19 Pandemic
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2020
Manufacturer
King Arthur Baking Company
Entry/Object ID
2020.27.1
Context
Made by King Arthur Flour as a response to nation-wide flour shortages at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Flying Disk
Name/Title
Flying Disk
Lexicon
Description
Orange vinyl flying disk printed in black with an image of a monkey wearing a baseball cap and drinking from a cup, and the words, "NORWICH UNIVERSITY SPRING FLING '92".
Acquisition
Accession
2006.33
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Norwich University
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1992
Manufacturer
Enduro
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Vinyl
Entry/Object ID
2006.33.1
Food-Storage Box
Name/Title
Food-Storage Box
Description
Rectangular candy tin with hinged lid. Along the front top edge (longer edge) is a row of stylized 8 pine trees, all dark green except 5th from left which is white outlined in dark green. Below trees is product name VERMINTS, with the ver in white, outlined in green and the mints dark green. The white pine dots the "I". Below name is "ALL NATURAL WITH ORGANIC/ ECHINACEA AND GINSENG" in black. Next line is white letters printed in a block of dark royal blue "PEPPERMINT" / MADE IN VERMONT/ NET WT. 0.75 OZ. (21g)" On the reverse are the "Nutrition Facts", web-site, physical location [Saxton's River, Vt. 05154]; bar code and ingredients which include "organic echinacea and organic ginseng extracts in a base of sucrose, pure peppermint oil, pure organic Vermont maple syrup, gum tragacanth, our own organically grown Vermont mint." 3 mints left inside.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.17
Made/Created
Date made
2000-2001
Manufacturer
Vermints
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
2001.17.1
Food-Storage Box
Name/Title
Food-Storage Box
Description
Rectangular candy tin with hinged lid. Along the front top edge (longer edge) is a row of stylized 8 pine trees, all dark green except 5th from left which is white outlined in dark green. Below trees is product name VERMINTS, wilth the ver in white, outlined in green and the mints in dark green. The white pine dots the "I". Below name is "ALL NATURAL WITH ORGANIC/ ECHINACEA AND GINSENG" in black. Next line is white letters printed in a block of dark green "WINTERGREEN"/ MADE IN VERMONT/ NET/ WT. 0.75 OZ. (21g)" On the reverse are the "Nutrition Facts", web-site, physical location [Saxton's River, Vt. 05154]; bar code and ingredients which include "organic echinacea and organic ginseng extracts in a base of surose, pure wintergreen oil, pure organic Vermont maple syrup, gum tragacanth, our own organically grown Vermont mint." 1 mint left inside.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.17
Made/Created
Date made
2000-2001
Manufacturer
Vermints
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
2001.17.2
Food-storage Can
Name/Title
Food-storage Can
Lexicon
Description
Maple syrup can
Acquisition
Accession
1987.22
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Vermont Maple Syrop Co., Inc.
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1987.22.1
Fork
Name/Title
Fork
Lexicon
Description
Three tined fork with steel shank and tines ~ wooden handle riveted on. Owned by Mrs. Medad Wright.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.62
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wright, Mary Jane McIntyre (1849-1909)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.62.3
Fruit Basket
Name/Title
Fruit Basket
Lexicon
Description
Woven, ash splint basket with handle. Square base with round rim.
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.110
Context
The small basket holding about a peck would be useful for carrying a few fruits and vegetables from the garden to the kitchen. It came from the same Fairfield, VT source as the large goose down basket (L2024.3.111) and was said to have been made by the same "Indian" family. This example is important in that it is the only one with a carved bail handle that can be assigned a Vermont provenance.
Frying Pan
Name/Title
Frying Pan
Lexicon
Description
Iron frying pan with applied handle. The round pan has a flat base and angled, hand-shaped sides with a slightly irregular top edge. The attached handle is made from a second piece of iron and has squared edges. The handle is upturned at the same angle as the sides, then is bent to be horizontal, before angling sharply down to create a hook-like end for storing.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.74
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870-circa 1900
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1960.74.4
Fuel
Name/Title
Fuel
Lexicon
Description
Black and white woodcut depicting a central female figure with a wagon at her feet holding an armload of wood. Two automobiles are at the left and another figure to the right. A large structure with clearstory is in the background.
Titled "Fuel" and signed by the artist in pencil.
Titled "Fuel" and signed by the artist in pencil.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.36
Relationships
Related Publications
Ronald Slayton
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Slayton, Ronald Alfred (1910-1992)
Artist
Date made
1936
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2007.36.1
Context
Ronald Slayton (1910-1992) was born in Barre. During the Great Depression, he worked as an artist in the Vermont Division of the federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1936-1939. W.C. Lipke once commented that Slayton “has been a painter, poet, dramatist, educator, politician, gallery director, peace activist, humorist, critic and historian suggest that the single appellation ‘artist’ is not broad enough to encompass his many achievements.”
This particular woodcut was created during his first year working for the Federal Art Project as an easel artist. This print was exhibited in a 1989 exhibition of his work at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. To accompany the work, Slayton offered the following poem:
There was a hunger and
They were fed by soil's bounty.
There was a thirst for water
And water was there in all living things,
A remnant of sea left in themselves
There was darkness, then as now,
Soft upon the island hills at dusk;
Night, a same black ocean, swept the valleys
To wane before their feeble fire.
This particular woodcut was created during his first year working for the Federal Art Project as an easel artist. This print was exhibited in a 1989 exhibition of his work at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. To accompany the work, Slayton offered the following poem:
There was a hunger and
They were fed by soil's bounty.
There was a thirst for water
And water was there in all living things,
A remnant of sea left in themselves
There was darkness, then as now,
Soft upon the island hills at dusk;
Night, a same black ocean, swept the valleys
To wane before their feeble fire.
Game Board
Name/Title
Game Board
Lexicon
Description
Paper-covered cardboard game board for "The Checkered Game of Life". The board folds in half down the center. The front of the board is printed in a checkered pattern, alternating red and blue squares. The red squares are all printed with a quatrefoil design, and the blue square are all printed in black with instructions and illustrations oriented towards to different sides of the board (for viewing by two players). Inscriptions include Prison, Disgrace, Jail, Infancy, Fat Office, Fame, Influence, School, Suicide, College, Ambition, Poverty, Ruin, Bravery, Industry, Honesty, Government Contract; Cupid, Honor, Congress, Success, Idleness, Happiness, Crime, Intemperance, Politics, Truth, Perseverance, Happy Old Age, Gambling, Matrimony, and Wealth.
Use
Ida & Mary Templeton
Acquisition
Accession
1980.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sparrow, Ida Templeton (1852-1947), Gould, Mary C. Templeton (1846-1872)
Related Places
Place
East Montpelier
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Manufacturer
Milton Bradley Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1980.5.5
Context
Owned by Ida and Mary Templeton in East Montpelier, Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Garrison Cap
Name/Title
Garrison Cap
Lexicon
Description
Olive green garrison cap. There is a bronze insignia button molded with an emblem consisting of two crossed flagpoles over a lit torch.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.31
Relationships
Related Events
World War I
Event
Related Person or Organization
Stone, Joseph Lyman (1895-1958)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
1969.31.6
Context
Worn by Joseph Lyman Stone of Burlington, Vermont, during World War I.
Gavel
Name/Title
Gavel
Lexicon
Description
Gavel and block (wooden) in original box used by House Speaker Mallary (donor) while presiding over the Vermont House of Representatives during the 1966 Reapportioned Session, the 1967 Regular Session and until the 15th of February of the 1968 Adjourned Session.
a=gavel Shaped head and handle. Head has four ridges on it, two on either side of the handle.
b=block Round with shaped sides. Cork sheet applied to the bottom.
c=leatherette covered box (maroon) lined with maroon velvet and white 'satin.' Gold colored line decorates the top edge of the bottom. A straight gold 'handle' is in the center of the top front. The hinge on the lid has a 'catch' so it stays open when opened all the way and closes only when pressure is applied.
a=gavel Shaped head and handle. Head has four ridges on it, two on either side of the handle.
b=block Round with shaped sides. Cork sheet applied to the bottom.
c=leatherette covered box (maroon) lined with maroon velvet and white 'satin.' Gold colored line decorates the top edge of the bottom. A straight gold 'handle' is in the center of the top front. The hinge on the lid has a 'catch' so it stays open when opened all the way and closes only when pressure is applied.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.77
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mallary, Richard W. (1929-2011)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont State House
Building
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1966-1968
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2006.77.1a-c
Gavel
Name/Title
Gavel
Lexicon
Description
Wooden gavel consisting of a heavily molded cylindrical head on a long wooden handle.
Acquisition
Accession
1925.2
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1925.2
Context
Made of wood from the "new barn shed" of Calvin Smith, where it is said that the fight that decided the name of the town of Barre, Vermont, took place on September 5, 1793.
Gay Brothers Mill
Name/Title
Gay Brothers Mill
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. Fall foliage, mill in center next to river with waterfall, road next to mill, small building next to road. Mountains in background. Trees next to river and by road.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Publications
Neither Wealth nor Poverty
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject
Gay Brothers' Mill
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wilder, Arthur Brickett, Sr. (1857-1949)
Artist
Date made
1943
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-54
Context
Arthur Wilder, an fairly well-know landscape artist and former manager of the Woodstock Inn, created this work as the frontispiece of a VHS publication on the Gay Brothers' woolen Mills.
Though much of Wilder's work reflected the existing landscape he observed on painting trips, this particular piece depicts the original Tunbridge Mill as it would have appeared in the 1870s.
Founded in Tunbridge in 1869, the Gay Brothers company quickly expanded to larger Mills first in Cavendish and then in Ludlow. Going out of business in 1944, the publication and painting helped document the impressive run of a Vermont wool enterprise.
Though much of Wilder's work reflected the existing landscape he observed on painting trips, this particular piece depicts the original Tunbridge Mill as it would have appeared in the 1870s.
Founded in Tunbridge in 1869, the Gay Brothers company quickly expanded to larger Mills first in Cavendish and then in Ludlow. Going out of business in 1944, the publication and painting helped document the impressive run of a Vermont wool enterprise.
Geiger Counter
Interpretative Labels
Label
Geiger Counter, 1957
Chatham Electronics
Metal, rubber, plastic
Given in Memory of Dr. O.S. Peterson, Jr., 2004.35.1ab
A Geiger counter, named after scientist Hans Geiger, is a device used to detect and measure radiation. The unit consists of two parts: a probe and the body, which has a measurement window as well as the Geiger-Muller tube, which actually registers the radiation. Geiger counters are inexpensive, easy to use, and widely available pieces of technology.
The world entered the atomic age after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and for several decades the threat of a potential nuclear war gripped both the public and the American government. National civil defense programs produced short films, radio ads, pamphlets, posters, and other educational programs designed to educate citizens about how to act after a nuclear attack. Those decades of preparation, worry, and international diplomatic maneuvering are today known as the Cold War.
The Geiger counter in the collection of the Vermont Historical Society was used by Dr. Oscar S. Peterson, Jr. in his role as radiological officer for the State Civil Defense Agency. (The “CD” symbol on the side of the unit stands for Civil Defense.) It formed part of his personal kit, intended to detect and investigate any signs of nuclear fallout.
The Cold War was a period during which Vermonters had a complicated relationship with innovation and technology. They had to integrate both the threat of nuclear war and the fast-paced advances of modern society in their worldviews simultaneously. Few things illustrate this tension quite like a Geiger counter, which was meant to be used in a disaster scenario – but could guide the way to safety.
Name/Title
Geiger Counter
Lexicon
Description
Yellow geiger counter and instruction manual. The counter has a rectangular yellow case with curved ends. Each long side has a log consisting of a white triangle inside a blue circle with the letters "CD" in red. A dial on the top has a numerical range from 0 to 0.5., and is encased beneath a plastic cover, held on with screws. The printing on the top of the case reads, "FCDA / ITEM NO. / CD V-700 / MODEL NO. 3 / SERIAL NO. / 667 / MFRD. FOR / FCDA BY / CHATHAM / ELECTRONICS / LIVINGSTON / NEW JERSEY". There are two black plastic knobs and a yellow plastic plug on the top of the case. A U-shaped bar extends from the case to act a both a handle and a holster for a silver-toned tube, connected to the case by a rubber-encased cord, and capped on either end with rubber. The counter is accompanied by a 15-page manual entitled "Radiological Survey Meter / FCDA ITEM NO. CD V-700" printed in black and white on glossy paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988), University of Vermont
Made/Created
Date made
1957
Manufacturer
Chatham Electronics
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Aluminum, Rubber, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.1a
Context
Used by Dr. Oscar S. Peterson, Jr. while working with Civil Defense in Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Geiger Counter
Name/Title
Geiger Counter
Lexicon
Description
Geiger counter with orange case and "MODEL SU-10 RADIAC / (AN / PDR T-18) SERIAL NO. 5424 / MANUFACTURED BY / Tracerlab INC / BOSTON, MASS." printed on the top. The top has 3 black dials and one silver one. The handle is built onto the top of the piece and the lid is held to the base with 4 screws, one on each corner. On the end of the two short sides are 2 "D" rings each side. No wand.
Use
Peterson Jr., Dr. Oscar S. (1912-1988)
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1949-1955
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Composition, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.2
Geiger Counter
Name/Title
Geiger Counter
Lexicon
Description
Yellow plastic case with aluminum dial with numbers from 0 to 5. Two black dials on the top, just beneath the handle. "FCDA ITEM NO. CD V-720 MOD 2 / VICTOREEN MODEL 720 / MFGD. FOR THE FCDA BY / THE VICTOREEN INSTRU. CO. / CLEVELAND, OHIO USA SER. NO. 34498"
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1959-1962
Manufacturer
Victoreen Instrument Co.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Aluminum
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.3
Context
Dr. Oscar S. Peterson, Jr. was the radiological officer for the State Civil Defense Agency from the 1950s to early 1970s. This Geiger counter was part of his personal kit, meant to investigate any nuclear fallout.
Web Links and URLs
Glass
Name/Title
Glass
Lexicon
Description
Three small pieces of window glass. The pieces all have jagged edges and are pearlized.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.4
Made/Created
Date made
1832
Manufacturer
Champlain Glass Company
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1967.4a-c
Context
From the windows of the first Catholic church in Vermont
Glass
Name/Title
Glass
Lexicon
Description
Small clear drinking glass. The drinking glass has a thin rim and a circular mouth that tapers down from the slightly flared bowl into a bulbous heavy base.
Acquisition
Accession
1958.1
Made/Created
Date made
1813
Manufacturer
Vermont Glass Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1958.1.355
Context
Made by Vermont Glass Company, Salisbury, VT
Glass Suncatcher
Name/Title
Glass Suncatcher
Description
Hand-blown and hand-stamped colorless glass suncatcher from AO Glass. The circular suncatcher has a hole near the top with a pale tan ribbon through it for hanging. The central design shows the moon nearly covering the sun, with a diamond-like sparkle to indicate the moment just before totality during the eclipse. The hand-blown glass round was stamped with a graphite stamp designed by Justin Harris.
Harris writes, "Since 2012, AO Glass has been crafting stamped sun catchers and ornaments with a mastery that reflects their expertise in interpreting graphic symbols through the medium of glass. With a keen eye for capturing the interplay of light within the confines of a flat circle, they have honed their craft to perfection. Spearheaded by Justin M Harris, this particular piece represents a meticulous transformation journey from image to graphite and finally to glass. Harris's vision was to encapsulate the essence of that awe-inspiring 'diamond ring' moment just before the full totality, translating it into a tangible work of art."
Process photos courtesy of Brian MacDonald Photography.
Harris writes, "Since 2012, AO Glass has been crafting stamped sun catchers and ornaments with a mastery that reflects their expertise in interpreting graphic symbols through the medium of glass. With a keen eye for capturing the interplay of light within the confines of a flat circle, they have honed their craft to perfection. Spearheaded by Justin M Harris, this particular piece represents a meticulous transformation journey from image to graphite and finally to glass. Harris's vision was to encapsulate the essence of that awe-inspiring 'diamond ring' moment just before the full totality, translating it into a tangible work of art."
Process photos courtesy of Brian MacDonald Photography.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.17
Source (if not Accessioned)
AO Glass
Relationships
Related Events
2024 Eclipse
Event
Related Person or Organization
AO Glass, Justin-Morae Harris
Made/Created
Time Period
21st Century
Manufacturer
AO Glass
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall of glass medallion (excluding the ribbon for hanging)
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2024.17.2
Globe
Name/Title
Globe
Lexicon
Description
13" terrestrial globe by James Wilson and Sons, Albany, New York. This globe, made in 1831, is of an edition which represents the highest point in globe making attained by the Wilson family.
Acquisition
Accession
1962.66
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wilson, James (1763-1855)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1831
Materials
Material
Paper, Wood, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1962.66.1
Globe
Name/Title
Globe
Lexicon
Description
13" celestial globe made in 1831 by James Wilson and Sons, Albany, New York.
Acquisition
Accession
1962.66
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wilson, James (1763-1855)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1831
Materials
Material
Wood, Brass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1962.66.2
Globe
Interpretative Labels
Label
Globe, 1810-1819
James Wilson
Bradford, VT
Wood, paper, brass
Anonymous gift, 1921.16
James Wilson of Bradford was raised on a farm and trained briefly as a blacksmith. He moved to Bradford as a young man in 1796 and became interested in cartography. After visiting Dartmouth College's map collection, he grew particularly enamored of globes, and set out to make his own. It took several years of experimentation and learning new skills - he was almost exclusively self-taught - but Wilson began officially manufacturing his globes in 1813. Producing a high-quality globe required mastering a variety of skills - printing, engraving, woodworking, and blacksmithing - all with a high degree of precision.
Wilson manufactured a variety of globes, including a line of papier-mache globes that he could produce and sell inexpensively. His globes were the first to be manufactured in America, and found a ready audience in schools in particular. This globe was not among his first run, but was produced later, in 1816. The Wilson Manufacturing Company continued to produce globes in Vermont and New York for nearly fifty years.
Name/Title
Globe
Lexicon
Description
World globe printed on paper that is glued onto a hollow wooden sphere. The sphere rests in a stand made of wood and brass, and spins freely in two directions. The brass portion encircles the globe vertically, and is marked with measurement hash marks and numbers meant to indicate longitude. The wooden stand encircles the globe horizontally and on its flat surface there are more printed paper designs depicting astrological signs. The horizontal piece also includes measurement hash marks meant to indicate latitude.
The wooden stand is supported on four turned legs that are connected crosswise in the center. The globe can spin freely or be locked in place by making adjustments to the brass piece.
On the legend on the globe is printed the explanatory text: "A NEW / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, / on which the / TRACTS and NEW DISCOVERIES / are laid down / from the Accurate Observations / made by / Cap.t. Cook, Furneux, Phipps & C. / By J. WILSON, VERMONT."
The wooden stand is supported on four turned legs that are connected crosswise in the center. The globe can spin freely or be locked in place by making adjustments to the brass piece.
On the legend on the globe is printed the explanatory text: "A NEW / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, / on which the / TRACTS and NEW DISCOVERIES / are laid down / from the Accurate Observations / made by / Cap.t. Cook, Furneux, Phipps & C. / By J. WILSON, VERMONT."
Acquisition
Accession
1921.16
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wilson, James (1763-1855)
Artist
Date made
circa 1810
Manufacturer
Wilson Manufacturing Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Paper, Wood, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1921.16
Context
Made by Wilson Manufacturing Company in Bradford, VT.
Web Links and URLs
Goggles
Name/Title
Goggles
Lexicon
Description
Safety goggles used, presumably, by Dr. Peterson and two replacement filters. Google search identified as being used druing WWII by the Air Force. The goggles are black rubber with a green strap attached to the rubber by metal ladder lock buckle. The red filters attach to the goggles at the center top edge of the goggles. The two spare filters have handwriting (by the same person) in both the center of the lower edge "Cpl. McDaniel / M - 3592" and the upper right corner "Ro330"
Use
Peterson Jr., Dr. Oscar S. (1912-1988)
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1945
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Rubber, Metal, Plastic, Nylon, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.5a
Going to Meeting
Name/Title
Going to Meeting
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Winter landscape. With white church in right middleground. Six figures (one left, one center, two right center, two right) move toward the church. Black picket fence goes from left to center. Snow covered trees in background.
Relationships
Related Publications
Memories Touched by Fancy
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Drennan, Bessie Maria (1882-1961)
Artist
Date made
1950
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-496
Context
Bessie Drennan, a lifelong resident of Woodbury, Vermont, started painting near the end of her life. Her scenes, in the folk or naive style, became quickly collectible by locals and visitors alike. Though she produced her artwork at the same time as Grandma Moses, she never reached her level of fame.
Gourd Rattle
Name/Title
Gourd Rattle
Lexicon
Description
Gourd rattle, marked "Sadoques."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1995
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.171
Governor Ernest Gibson, Jr.
Name/Title
Governor Ernest Gibson, Jr.
Lexicon
Description
Portrait drawing of a man. The man has wavy hair that is parted in the center and slicked away from his face. He has dark eyebrows, with one raised slightly higher than the other. He is shown wearing a light-colored suit and dark, striped tie. At the bottom right is the large cursive inscription "Gov. Gibson" and the outlines of the initials, "N R".
Acquisition
Accession
1983.32
Artwork Details
Medium
Pastel
Subject Person
Gibson, Ernest Willard, Jr. (1901-1969)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Rockwell, Norman Perceval (1894-1978)
Artist
Date made
1946-1947
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1983.32.1
Type of Drawing
Context
Ernest William Gibson Jr. (March 6, 1901 – November 4, 1969) was a Vermont attorney, politician, and judge. He served briefly as an appointed United States Senator, as the 67th Governor of Vermont, and as a federal judge.
Born in Brattleboro, and the son of a prominent Vermont political figure who served in the United States Senate, Gibson graduated from Norwich University in 1923, attended The George Washington University Law School, and attained admission to the bar in 1926. A Republican, he served in several elected and appointed positions in state government. When his father died while serving in the Senate, Gibson was appointed to temporarily fill the vacancy, and he served from June 1940 to January 1941.
A veteran of the United States Army Reserve and Vermont National Guard, during World War II, Gibson served in the South Pacific and on the staff of the United States Department of War, and received several decorations for heroism. In 1946, he ran for Governor of Vermont and defeated the incumbent in the Republican primary, the only time this has ever occurred in Vermont. He went on to win the general election, and won reelection in 1948.
Gibson served as governor until accepting appointment as judge of Vermont's U.S. District Court; he remained on the bench until his 1969 death in Brattleboro. He was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Brattleboro.
Born in Brattleboro, and the son of a prominent Vermont political figure who served in the United States Senate, Gibson graduated from Norwich University in 1923, attended The George Washington University Law School, and attained admission to the bar in 1926. A Republican, he served in several elected and appointed positions in state government. When his father died while serving in the Senate, Gibson was appointed to temporarily fill the vacancy, and he served from June 1940 to January 1941.
A veteran of the United States Army Reserve and Vermont National Guard, during World War II, Gibson served in the South Pacific and on the staff of the United States Department of War, and received several decorations for heroism. In 1946, he ran for Governor of Vermont and defeated the incumbent in the Republican primary, the only time this has ever occurred in Vermont. He went on to win the general election, and won reelection in 1948.
Gibson served as governor until accepting appointment as judge of Vermont's U.S. District Court; he remained on the bench until his 1969 death in Brattleboro. He was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Brattleboro.
Graphite Stamp
Name/Title
Graphite Stamp
Description
Graphite stamp designed by Justin Harris at AO Glass to create custom suncatchers for the 2024 total eclipse in Vermont. The graphite cylinder is smooth on the sides and top and bottom surfaces, with a laser-cut design of the "diamond" moment just before totality. The underside of the stamp has a circle of stars around the edge that were part of an old, discarded design.
Harris writes, "Since 2012, AO Glass has been crafting stamped sun catchers and ornaments with a mastery that reflects their expertise in interpreting graphic symbols through the medium of glass. With a keen eye for capturing the interplay of light within the confines of a flat circle, they have honed their craft to perfection. Spearheaded by Justin M Harris, this particular piece represents a meticulous transformation journey from image to graphite and finally to glass. Harris's vision was to encapsulate the essence of that awe-inspiring 'diamond ring' moment just before the full totality, translating it into a tangible work of art."
Harris writes, "Since 2012, AO Glass has been crafting stamped sun catchers and ornaments with a mastery that reflects their expertise in interpreting graphic symbols through the medium of glass. With a keen eye for capturing the interplay of light within the confines of a flat circle, they have honed their craft to perfection. Spearheaded by Justin M Harris, this particular piece represents a meticulous transformation journey from image to graphite and finally to glass. Harris's vision was to encapsulate the essence of that awe-inspiring 'diamond ring' moment just before the full totality, translating it into a tangible work of art."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.17
Source (if not Accessioned)
AO Glass
Relationships
Related Events
2024 Eclipse
Event
Related Person or Organization
AO Glass, Justin-Morae Harris
Made/Created
Time Period
21st Century
Manufacturer
AO Glass
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall
Materials
Material
Graphite
Entry/Object ID
2024.17.1
Green Heart Bead
Name/Title
Green Heart Bead
Lexicon
Description
Green heart pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1675-1750
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.199
Green Heart Bead
Name/Title
Green Heart Bead
Lexicon
Description
Green Heart pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1675-1750
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.194
Green Heart Bugle Bead
Name/Title
Green Heart Bugle Bead
Lexicon
Description
Green Heart pattern bugle bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1675-1700
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.203
Green Heart Bugle Bead
Name/Title
Green Heart Bugle Bead
Lexicon
Description
Green heart pattern bugle bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1675-1700
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.198
Growler
Name/Title
Growler
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass growler with white plastic screw-on cap. The growler is printed in white with a label for AquaViTea Kombucha, but white sticker labels have been applied over the original labels. The sticker labels read "SURFACE CLEANER" along with instructions, ingredients, warnings, and manufacturing information.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.14
Relationships
Related Events
Covid-19 Pandemic
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2020
Manufacturer
Aqua ViTea
Materials
Material
Glass, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2021.14.1
Context
Produced by Aqua ViTea in Middlebury, Vermont, for the COVID-19 pandemic
Growler
Name/Title
Growler
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass growler with black metal screw-on lid. The growler has an oval sticker label on one side showing an image of a human figure playing a clarinet with the inscription, "Rock Art Brewery MORRISVILLE VERMONT". The opposite side of the growler has a rectangular sticker label telling the story behind the name along with the brewery's statement and contact information. An oval sticker on the neck reads, "Ridge Runner Ale 7.5% alcohol/volume".
Acquisition
Accession
2011.1
Made/Created
Date made
2011
Manufacturer
Rock Art Brewery
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2011.1.7ab
Context
Made by Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville, Vermont
Guber Family Record
Name/Title
Guber Family Record
Lexicon
Description
The main text is enclosed in a shield that is made up of blue floral vine. Around the shield are interweaving floral vines. the top center has a small floral (blues and creames) arrangement. The bottom has a red heart with flowers coming out of the top center. Arlington, Vt.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.8
Made/Created
Date made
1896
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1991.8.1
Hair Ornament
Name/Title
Hair Ornament
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Wedge-shaped, brass woman's hair ornament with two arms at the base to form the comb with an upper, pierced decoration reminiscent of knotted rope. Crest of the piece has five loops. Surface is engraved with simple decoration.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Brass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.22
Context
This exquisite, engraved brass comb from Western Maine was a descendent of the common bone and ivory hair ornaments used by Native women all over New England.
Hair Wreath
Name/Title
Hair Wreath
Lexicon
Description
Hair wreath with tintype of John & Nettie Dodge of Barre, VT. Wooden shadow box with hair wreath in the shape of a rounded horseshoe (opening at the top), the inside most band, closest to the glass is of gold/gilt and there are two bands painted black. In the center is a tintype of a woman & man in a gold colored fillagree frame-like mat. Paperboard back is stapled to the back of the piece.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.23
Made/Created
Date made
1865-1875
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Hair, Wood, Glass, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2015.23
Halter Iron
Name/Title
Halter Iron
Lexicon
Description
Halter iron. Iron hemisphere is 6.25" in diameter with iron ring attached to the top. This item was used to hitch horses to when no fixed post was available. Carried in buggies, etc.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.3
Hand Card
Name/Title
Hand Card
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular wooden paddle with short metal wires set into one side.
Use
Used to pull wool fibers parallel in preparation for spinning
Acquisition
Accession
1946.44
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1946.44
Hand Gestures Sign
Name/Title
Hand Gestures Sign
Description
Large sign spelling in seven separate hands each in the position of a sign language letter. It spells 'AUSTINE" all together. Each hand (a-g) is of paper mâché with the hand painted and outlined in realistic detail. Delineating sides with a solid color (pink a-b) (blue, c) (green, d) (orange e-f) and (purple, g) Painting on back of letters is black with each represented letter painted in multi-color and capitalized.
The sign was sculpted by artist Chuck Baird alongside Austine students during a visit in 2001.
The sign was sculpted by artist Chuck Baird alongside Austine students during a visit in 2001.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Made/Created
Artist Information
Chuck Baird
Artist
Media Artist
Role
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Paper mâché hands that have been painted for wall secure they include small metal loops with either clear plastic or rope loops for wall attachment
Material
Papier-mâché, Paint, Metal, Plastic, Rope
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.6a-g
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Chuck Baird (Feb. 22, 1947-Feb 10, 2012) was one of the founding members who in 1989 defined through its manifesto, and actively practiced the art movement of De'VIA (Deaf Visual Image Art). As a result he is considered one of the "fathers" of the movement, and one of the practitioners of its "first wave" (1989-2009). De'VIA is defined as art created expressing the experience of deaf culture in any media format (including depictions of American Sign Language).
Chuck Baird (Feb. 22, 1947-Feb 10, 2012) was one of the founding members who in 1989 defined through its manifesto, and actively practiced the art movement of De'VIA (Deaf Visual Image Art). As a result he is considered one of the "fathers" of the movement, and one of the practitioners of its "first wave" (1989-2009). De'VIA is defined as art created expressing the experience of deaf culture in any media format (including depictions of American Sign Language).
Web Links and URLs
Handline
Name/Title
Handline
Lexicon
Description
Ash reel with attached line and hook.
Use
Fishing
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Wiseman, Frederick M.
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1890
Materials
Material
Ash
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.148
Context
This beautifully hand-carved ash reel descended in a Missisquoi Abenaki family. These 19th century hand line reels were wound with commercial fish-line and were used by children as well as poorer families who could not afford commercial fishing tackle.
Handline
Name/Title
Handline
Lexicon
Description
a. Commercial handline reel
b. Bobber
c. Sinker
b. Bobber
c. Sinker
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1940
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.192a-c
Context
This is a commercially made and sold rig of a type Wiseman remembers being used when he was young in the 1950’s and maybe later. It has the line wound carefully around the rectangular wooden reel. It is in perfect condition, except for the warping of the reel.
Hard Hat
Name/Title
Hard Hat
Lexicon
Description
White hard hat. The hat is made of molded plastic, with strapping lines running front to back, and a narrow brim. A green "label maker" sticker runs across the front brim that reads, "GOVERNOR DEANE C. DAVIS". Above that sticker was a sticker for Green Up Day, now missing. The hat is signed all over in grease pencil.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.17
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Davis, Deane C. (1900-1990)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1970
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1998.17
Context
Worn by Gov. Deane Davis at the first Green Up Day.
Web Links and URLs
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
2003.70
Relationships
Related Events
Vietnam War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Frizzell, Marshall Ray (1931-1966)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Woodstock
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
2003.70.3
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Bicorne felt hat belonging to Roswell Miner when serving from Connecticut in the Revolution. White paper note pinned to inside lining removed (with worksheet) reads: "Roswell Miner fought under Washington in 1776" Black hat appears to be all original with black silk rosette at the top left (front) with two pieces of flat braid attaching to a metal button at the bottom edge. On the left front there is a 1" piece of black ribbon coming out from inside the hat. Interior lining appears to be original with black gauze on the crown. On the back there are two holes (original to piece) where at one point braid strung between them. There is a mark on the hat where the braid was up against it for a long period.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.67
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Minor, Roswell (1753-1809)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1776
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Fabric, Silk, Wool
Entry/Object ID
2012.67.1
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
White military hat with black bill worn by Air Force Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Little. Hat has eagle emblem on front and silver band. On the bill are two sets of three clouds with lightning. These so-called thunderbolts represent U.S. air power. Inside the hat is a label that reads "Berkshire DeLuxe, trade mark reg., Distinctive in Style and Construction." Another label says, "All Wool, Lee Uniform Cap Mfg, Co., Baltimore, Md." (See 2001.33.2 for black top that could replace the white part of this hat.)
Acquisition
Accession
2001.33
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Little, Edwin Loren (1918-2004)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Poultney
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Hat is size 7.38
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2001.33.1
Context
From Vermont Historical Society Library finding aid:
"Edwin Loren Little was born in North Poultney, Vermont, on October 24, 1918, son of
Charles and Jessie (Streeter) Little. Early in his life, at age 10, Little came to the rescue of a
downed flyer in need of water. His assistance earned him a brief ride in the aircraft and turned
young Little’s mind towards flying. At another time, Little persuaded his mother to take in a
young pilot as a boarder in exchange for flying lessons for Edwin. These incidents changed his
life forever and he went on a quest to become a pilot himself.
Little began his military career in the early days of World War II when he earned his
pilot’s wings and flew 25 bombing mission over Europe. He named his B-17 bomber “Green
Mountain Rambler” after his native state, making it perhaps the only bomber in World War II
named for the State of Vermont. He continued in this career after the war, received a commission
in the regular Army, and entered the US Air Force at its inception. His duties took him to
several locations in the US and Europe. While on assignment in Germany, Little flew missions
during the Berlin airlift. He rose from pilot to squadron leader and up through group
commander, mostly in supply and logistics units. General Little retired from the service in 1970
and passed away in 2004. "
He married Janice Sarah Wilmore (1912-2002) in 1943 and they had one son, Bradfor d.
Additional details of Edwin Little's military career in accession folder.
"Edwin Loren Little was born in North Poultney, Vermont, on October 24, 1918, son of
Charles and Jessie (Streeter) Little. Early in his life, at age 10, Little came to the rescue of a
downed flyer in need of water. His assistance earned him a brief ride in the aircraft and turned
young Little’s mind towards flying. At another time, Little persuaded his mother to take in a
young pilot as a boarder in exchange for flying lessons for Edwin. These incidents changed his
life forever and he went on a quest to become a pilot himself.
Little began his military career in the early days of World War II when he earned his
pilot’s wings and flew 25 bombing mission over Europe. He named his B-17 bomber “Green
Mountain Rambler” after his native state, making it perhaps the only bomber in World War II
named for the State of Vermont. He continued in this career after the war, received a commission
in the regular Army, and entered the US Air Force at its inception. His duties took him to
several locations in the US and Europe. While on assignment in Germany, Little flew missions
during the Berlin airlift. He rose from pilot to squadron leader and up through group
commander, mostly in supply and logistics units. General Little retired from the service in 1970
and passed away in 2004. "
He married Janice Sarah Wilmore (1912-2002) in 1943 and they had one son, Bradfor d.
Additional details of Edwin Little's military career in accession folder.
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular pink knitted hat. There is a section of ribbed knitting around the opening, creating a tight fit.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.27
Relationships
Related Events
Women's March
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Strong, Marjorie J.
Artist
Date made
2017
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2017.27
Context
Made by Marjorie Strong and worn by her to the January, 2017, Women's March to the Vermont State House. The protest was held in conjunction with other marches throughout the country after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as US president.
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular pink-and-white plaid fleece hat. There is a narrow band around the opening.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.28
Relationships
Related Events
Women's March
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gustin, Amanda Kay
Artist
Date made
2017
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Polyester, Wool
Entry/Object ID
2017.28
Context
Made by Amanda Kay Gustin and worn by her to the January, 2017, Women's March to the Vermont State House. The protest was held in conjunction with other marches throughout the country after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as US president.
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Wool hat with 2 shell ornaments. The hat has a low, flat crown and no brim. The sides are made wide over a narrow lining, giving them a slouched appearance. The top of the crown in woven with colorful stripes on a grey ground, while the sides are plain grey. The shell ornaments are side-by-side on the side of the hat.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.16
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont State Fair
Event
Related Places
Place
Shrewsbury
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Holmes, Mildred Wiggins (1891-1954)
Artist
Materials
Material
Wool, Shell
Entry/Object ID
1960.16.1
Context
Made by Mildred Wiggins Holmes from the wool of sheep raised on the Sarcka farm in Shrewsbury, Vermont
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Hat
Notes
Hat appears machine-knitted but all decorations, of "AUSTINE" spelled in descending letters is part of the knitted fabric and therefore highly specialized in this case. Wintry-ski type hat with thicker material and flexible shape.
Textile Details
Green
White
Color
Knit
Clothing Sex
Unisex
Description
Dark green winter hat in knitting with two horizontal white stripes. On the cuff is "AUSTINE" in knitting of fabric and descending letters from left to right.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.28
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Civil War hat of Daniel Skinner - brown felt with ribbon around the crown and brim. Crown of the had is domed and it has a 2 1/2" brim all around. Leather band inside crown that is backed with a diagonal blue and (once) white striped fabric.
Accompanying the hat is part of the box it was once stored in. Writing on the box reads:
"Hat worn by Daniel Skinner / When wounded in head in Battle of The Wilderness." Stored with hat 023/5/1e
-This appears to be a "slouch hat" a non-regulation type favored by many soldiers.
-See worksheet folder for genealogy information.
Accompanying the hat is part of the box it was once stored in. Writing on the box reads:
"Hat worn by Daniel Skinner / When wounded in head in Battle of The Wilderness." Stored with hat 023/5/1e
-This appears to be a "slouch hat" a non-regulation type favored by many soldiers.
-See worksheet folder for genealogy information.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.28
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Skinner, Daniel (1833-1911)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1860-1870
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool, Ribbon
Entry/Object ID
2007.28
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
U.S. Army dress uniform hat with metal eagle insignia, a gold band and oak leaf ornamentation signifying an officer.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Rossi, Lawrence K.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Luxenberg
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool, Metal, Leather
Entry/Object ID
2008.1.11
Context
This hat was worn by Lawrence Rossi (1918-2025) of Barre during military service. He spent three years in the Pacific Theater during WWII, serving as a 1st Lieutenant with the Army's 172nd Infantry. After he was discharged in 1946 he continued to serve in the Vermont National Guard and was reactivated to serve in the Korean War. He retired as a Major from the Vermont National Guard in 1963.
Hat
Interpretative Labels
Label
Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo (1856-1937) was born in Burlington, Vermont. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1876 he saw service in the Spanish American War, the Mexican Occupation of 1914, and as the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War I. Mayo is best remembered for his actions during the Tampico Incident in April 1914 which almost led to war between the United States and Mexico. As commander of the 4th Division of the Atlantic Fleet stationed in Tampico, Mexico, he demanded an apology from the Mexican government after several U.S. Marines had been seized against their will. The Mexicans refused and after a similar incident occurred in Vera Cruz, President Wilson ordered the landing of over 700 Marines in that city to support Mayo. Four Marines were killed and 22 wounded but mediation effort prevented the war. After his retirement from the Navy, Mayo lived in Burlington and is buried there.
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Admiral Mayo's hat. A short-napped black skin covering a cardboard form. Crown of hat extends down and out each side with coiled brass tassels. Fabric is folded back onto the crown and trimmed with a braid. On one side there is a wide gold ribbon trim with a brass button. 1.5" leather band around inside of cap. Off-white lining has a crest on crown imprinted: "Meyer/ New York" and around the crest: "The Mark of Merit/ Government Standard" Small red and white label attached to lining gives size: "7 1/8"
Acquisition
Accession
2007.59
Relationships
Related Events
World War I
Event
Related Person or Organization
Mayo, Henry Thomas (1856-1937)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1916-1920
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Leather, Cardboard, Brass, Ribbon
Entry/Object ID
2007.59.1.1
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Uniform hat with an unstiffened green wool crown and rounded black brim at the front. The base of the crown is wrapped with a white band. There is a brass button on either side of the brim that are connected with gold-colored cord. The initials "W.C.B." are embroidered with metal at the center front. The name "J.W. Buzzel" is written inside the hat.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Waitsfield Cornet Band
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waitsfield
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1893-1920
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool, Brass, Leather, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1989.21.7c
Context
Worn by J. W. Buzell as a member of the Waitsfield Cornet Band.
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Bicorn military uniform hat made of black beaver fur. The edge is trimmed with a wide gold ribbon with 2 copper-colored stripes. The brim is raised to stick on the crown at the front and back, leaving the sides low. There is a large gold tassel on either side, sitting on the brim. On the front, there is a wide strap made from the gold ribbon holding a black silk rosette with a brass button.
Acquisition
Accession
1963.69
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1898
Manufacturer
Ackerman
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Fur, Wool, Gold, Silk, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1963.69.1d
Context
Worn by Admiral George Dewey of Montpelier, Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Hat
Name/Title
Hat
Lexicon
Description
Black wool cocked hat. The had consists of a round crown with an unevenly wide brim tacked up on two sides. One tacked side is decorated with a very large black cockade held by gold springed wire in a decorative oval. There are gold tassels on the untacked portions of the brim (center front and back). The brim is edged with black silk ribbon. The interior is lined with black silk and stamped in gold with the words, "WRIGHT & HOWARD Manufacturers. No. 158 MARKET ST. Baltimore."
Acquisition
Accession
1920.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sawyer, Horace Bucklin (1797-1860)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1830
Manufacturer
Wright & Howard
Materials
Material
Wool, Silk, Gold
Entry/Object ID
1920.4.4
Context
Worn by Captain Horace B. Sawyer of Burlington, Vermont
Hatbox
Name/Title
Hatbox
Lexicon
Description
Round hatbox covered in blue wallpaper. Inside is a fragment of the same wallpaper sample with the handwritten note: "The 'Bonnet Box' paper found by LAK [Louise Andrews Kent] about 1937. Wallpaper from hall of Samuel Dwight Hollister House, Marshfield, about 1855. Covered with hideous brown and gold about 1890." A sample of the brown & gold paper is inside.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Made/Created
Artist Information
Kent, Louise Andrews (1886-1969)
Artist
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.131a-b
Context
Made by Louis Andrew Kent using wallpaper removed from a house in Marshfield, Vermont
Hatbox
Name/Title
Hatbox
Lexicon
Description
Hatbox for Admiral Henry T. Mayo's uniform hat (.59.1.1) and belt (.59.1.3). Rectangular black metal with hinged cover; two levers attached to inside back to hold hat in place when lowered; in all four corners, box extensions for holding accessories; and in center an oval-shaped form 3.5" high with a hinged cover to hold a belt which has been rolled, and when the cover is lowered in place, to serve as a form on which to rest the hat. Cover has a metal handle in center and on front edge, connecting top and bottom, a latch to hold a lock in place.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.59
Relationships
Related Events
World War I
Event
Related Person or Organization
Mayo, Henry Thomas (1856-1937)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1916-1920
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2007.59.1.2
Hatchel
Name/Title
Hatchel
Lexicon
Description
Hatchel consisting of a wooden board with metal spikes and a wooden cover. The spikes are placed in offset parallel and sharpened to points on the end. The cover fits snugly over the spikes.
Use
Used to break the stem off flax fibers
Acquisition
Accession
1940.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Titus, Simeon B.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vershire
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1940.11.1a-b
Context
Used by the family of Simeon B. Titus in Vershire, Vermont
Headband
Name/Title
Headband
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Headband
Textile Details
Beads
Material
Clothing Sex
Female
Description
Black, white, and blue beaded headband.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1960
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.165
Context
This is a beautiful loom-woven beaded headband with white and blue designs reminiscent of the Wabanaki Confederacy double scroll. There is nothing diagnostic about it at all. It was given to Frederick Wiseman at the 1996 Heritage Days Pow Wow by an older Abenaki man who said that it was worn by his mother “many years ago,” which may have put it back before the 1970 Missisquoi Renaissance.
Headdress
Name/Title
Headdress
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Headdress
Textile Details
Leather
Material
Whipstitch
Running Stitch
Description
Loom-beaded head band. The band is made of tiny glass beads woven into a design of feathers, chevrons, and Xs in purple, white, and black. The beaded strip is stitched onto a leather backing, which is stretched thin at either end to make ties.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.3
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
St. Francis, Homer (1935-2001)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Swanton
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1950
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2017.3.13
Context
This was Abenaki chief Homer St. Francis' first head dress.
Headdress
Name/Title
Headdress
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Headdress
Textile Details
Feather
Felt
Beads
Material
Clothing Sex
Male
Description
a. Feathers attached to green felt cap with blue feather "wraps." White, blue, green, and red beaded browband. Red ribbon chin strap.
b. cotton bag
b. cotton bag
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.164a-b
Context
This heavily worn headdress is a mix of well-done beadwork and naïve, culturally inappropriate details like the feather wraps and the crude felt side pendant drops. Later correspondence with the dealer indicated that it “came from a picker out of Raymond (on the shores of Sebago Lake), Maine.” This may be an example of period “Indian Enthusiast” art, perhaps from a children’s camp at the Lake. However, this item saw long sustained use and expedient (inexpert) repair that is generally not characteristic of enthusiast wear. There are records of Native people making and wearing native clothing during this period, and this is probably an example of that tradition. Local Native People also would don “Indian Clothes” for performance or selling crafts at tourist areas like Sebago Lake. It comes with its original cotton drawstring bag. This is the type of adult headdress that appears in 20th century “Blanket and Headdress” photographs of Western Abenaki Men (see 2024.3.154).
Headdress
Name/Title
Headdress
Lexicon
Description
Beaded, leather and turkey feather headdress. Band decorated with star/flower motifs in beadwork.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.123
Context
Feathers all broken replaced 2001. Headdress is a bit of a mystery. It was sold to Frederick Wiseman as “from an old Indian family” by a Western Maine antique dealer. Its style is unique, with beautiful tiny edge beading with coarse springperlen Bohemian beads making star designs. There is a chance that this was made by an “Indian hobbyist” in the 1910’s or 1920’s.
Headphones
Name/Title
Headphones
Lexicon
Description
Headphones that went with a tuned frequency radio with vacuum tubes to detect radio signals and amplify the sound.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.50
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Taplin, Winn Lowell (1893-1961)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Fairfax
Town
Franklin County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Taplin, Winn Lowell (1893-1961)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1991.50.1c
Context
Built by Winn Taplin, Sr., in Fairfax, Vermont.
It was built by Winn Taplin Sr. in the 1920s. He was supervising principal of schools in Fairfax, VT at the time. The son and donor of this radio equipment called it a crystal set, but a Houghton Cate of East Calais suggested several years later that it was a tuned frequency set. Cate built and repaired radios and electronic equipment as far back as the 1930s and was interviewed about this radio in 1996.
It was built by Winn Taplin Sr. in the 1920s. He was supervising principal of schools in Fairfax, VT at the time. The son and donor of this radio equipment called it a crystal set, but a Houghton Cate of East Calais suggested several years later that it was a tuned frequency set. Cate built and repaired radios and electronic equipment as far back as the 1930s and was interviewed about this radio in 1996.
Henry Bridge
Name/Title
Henry Bridge
Type of Painting
Description
A framed painting of a landscape with a red covered bridge spanning a flowing river, flanked by lush green trees on either side, while a grassy riverbank stretches into the foreground. A low dam with flowing water can be seen under the bridge. A man stands with a horse at the river's edge.
Painting is identified as the Henry Covered Bridge in North Bennington by Pasquale Santo. Signed "Patsy Santo" in yellow lower right.
Painting is identified as the Henry Covered Bridge in North Bennington by Pasquale Santo. Signed "Patsy Santo" in yellow lower right.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.25
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject
Henry Covered Bridge
Made/Created
Artist Information
Santo, Pasquale "Patsy" (1893-1975)
Artist
Date made
1946
Entry/Object ID
2024.25.1
Context
Patsy Santo pursued a number of professional activities after emigrating to this country from Italy in 1913. He worked for the railroad and as a housepainter. His first artistic effort was an outgrowth of one of his house painting jobs; his second was undertaken at the request of a friend. He did not follow up on these sporadic endeavors until many years later, however, when one of his paintings took first prize at the 1937 state fair in Rutland, Vermont. This brought Santo his first patron and inspired him to start painting in earnest. Other exhibitions followed. His introduction to the New York art world was about as auspicious as any folk painter could hope for. He debuted, with Grandma Moses, Morris Hirshfield, and a number of others, in a 1939 members-only showing at the Museum of Modern Art. His first one-man show at the Marie Harriman Gallery the following year was a virtual sell-out. His paintings were acquired by the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Sidney Janis included him in his book, "They Taught Themselves," observing that Santo, unlike most self-taught painters, evidenced continuing stylistic development.
Historic Relic
Name/Title
Historic Relic
Lexicon
Description
Wood fragment and piece of paper documentation. The wood board has a hole drilled through one corner, into which a blue ribbon has been attached.
Acquisition
Accession
1864.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lawrence, Stephen (d. 1789)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1783-1793
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1864.1ab
Context
From the first framed building in Burlington, built by Stephen Lawrence. Taken from the structure in 1864 by Sarah E. Lund.
Web Links and URLs
Horse Feed Basket
Name/Title
Horse Feed Basket
Lexicon
Description
Conical, ash-splint woven basket with wooden rim. Remains of leather straps.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.177
Context
This is an amazing ash-splint utility basket one of only two that Wiseman has ever seen in the antiques trade. It is designed to add feed or something nicer for the horse to eat in the bottom of the tapered subconical basket while it is tethered. There are the remains of two black leather straps that affix the basket to the horse’s harness. It is uncertain at this time whether the basket is Native-made, but the Nulhegan Tribal records show several local and itinerant Indigenous basket sellers in the area in the early 20th century, and presumably they had parents who also made and sold baskets in the Northeast Kingdom. Large, coarse primitive baskets were known to have been made by both Euro-Americans and Abenakis.
Howe Scale Works
Name/Title
Howe Scale Works
Lexicon
Description
Print on tin showing a bird's eye view of a factory complex. The complex is set within a triangular block and consists of several blue or grey warehouses and a red factory with a tall chimney. The complex is bordered on two sides by railroad tracks, and there is an additional track inside the complex. There is a residential building in the foreground, a small village in the middleground, and grassy hills in the background. The words "HOWE SCALE WORKS / RUTLAND, V.T. U.S.A." are in the sky.
Acquisition
Accession
1984.7
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Howe Scale, Co. (1857-1982)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Metal
Subject
Howe Scale Company
Made/Created
Date made
1880-1890
Manufacturer
Kellogg & Bulkeley Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1984.7.1
Context
The history of the Howe Scale Company begins with Frank M. Strong of Vergennes and Thomas Ross designing and patenting a ball bearing scale for the Sampson Scale Company of Vergennes. Prior to this invention, the sharp pivot on which the platform of the scale rests would become worn down with repeated use, thus causing the scale to lose accuracy over time. The ball-bearing design provided a shock absorber for the pivot to reduce stress on the scale and improve its accuracy. This was the first major scale improvement in America and the first major innovation by Strong and Ross, the second being the building in 1857 of a gigantic scale for weighing canal boats, a feat that experts said was impossible.
In Spring 1857 John Howe Jr. of Brandon took over Strong and Ross's patents and began to manufacture their designs under the name Howe Scale Company. The Howe Scale Company became world-renowned, earning several awards at fairs and exhibitions, including the the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 1867 Paris Exhibition against competitors from all over the world.
In 1873 the plant was moved to Rutland, with John A. Mead of Rutland becoming president in 1886, followed by Carl B. Hinsman and Frank G. Riehl. The Howe Scale Company went on to manufacture the weightograph, a device which produces weight readings on a ground glass screen that can be read in the dark from some distance away. It also produced the longest railroad track scale in the world, scales for weighing airplane propellors, and lightweight, aluminum scales that were easily transportable on airplanes. It also began producing trucks and tailers for cargo, and this became an important part of the company's product line. The Howe Scale Company continued to be a leader in the manufactuer of high-accuracy weighing instruments into the twentieth century.
In Spring 1857 John Howe Jr. of Brandon took over Strong and Ross's patents and began to manufacture their designs under the name Howe Scale Company. The Howe Scale Company became world-renowned, earning several awards at fairs and exhibitions, including the the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 1867 Paris Exhibition against competitors from all over the world.
In 1873 the plant was moved to Rutland, with John A. Mead of Rutland becoming president in 1886, followed by Carl B. Hinsman and Frank G. Riehl. The Howe Scale Company went on to manufacture the weightograph, a device which produces weight readings on a ground glass screen that can be read in the dark from some distance away. It also produced the longest railroad track scale in the world, scales for weighing airplane propellors, and lightweight, aluminum scales that were easily transportable on airplanes. It also began producing trucks and tailers for cargo, and this became an important part of the company's product line. The Howe Scale Company continued to be a leader in the manufactuer of high-accuracy weighing instruments into the twentieth century.
Web Links and URLs
Howe Scales
Name/Title
Howe Scales
Lexicon
Description
Wood block print in black ink on white paper showing a man demonstrating a platform scale on a city street. The salesman is wearing a tailcoat and holding a poster that reads, “HOWE SCALES”. He is gesturing to a man in a top hat who is holding a wallet in one hand and touching the scale with the other. He is standing in striped pants in front of a leaning briefcase on his leg. There are posters for Howe Scales with inscriptions, "THE/IMPROVED/HOWE/SCALES," a man holding a tabletop scale, and a cart toting scales in the background. The bottom of the image is labeled, “HOWE SCALES / Vermont’s Honest Weigh!” with a Howe logo. It is signed in pencil above the label, “M. Simpson 3/40 2010”. The print is top mounted onto dark red mat board and framed behind glass in a black wooden frame.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.21
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont History Expo
Event
Related Person or Organization
Howe Scale, Co. (1857-1982)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink
Subject
Howe Scale Company
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2010
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2022.21.7
Context
The history of the Howe Scale Company begins with Frank M. Strong of Vergennes and Thomas Ross designing and patenting a ball bearing scale for the Sampson Scale Company of Vergennes. Prior to this invention, the sharp pivot on which the platform of the scale rests would become worn down with repeated use, thus causing the scale to lose accuracy over time. The ball-bearing design provided a shock absorber for the pivot to reduce stress on the scale and improve its accuracy. This was the first major scale improvement in America and the first major innovation by Strong and Ross, the second being the building in 1857 of a gigantic scale for weighing canal boats, a feat that experts said was impossible.
In Spring 1857 John Howe Jr. of Brandon took over Strong and Ross's patents and began to manufacture their designs under the name Howe Scale Company. The Howe Scale Company became world-renowned, earning several awards at fairs and exhibitions, including the the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 1867 Paris Exhibition against competitors from all over the world.
In 1873 the plant was moved to Rutland, with John A. Mead of Rutland becoming president in 1886, followed by Carl B. Hinsman and Frank G. Riehl. The Howe Scale Company went on to manufacture the weightograph, a device which produces weight readings on a ground glass screen that can be read in the dark from some distance away. It also produced the longest railroad track scale in the world, scales for weighing airplane propellors, and lightweight, aluminum scales that were easily transportable on airplanes. It also began producing trucks and tailers for cargo, and this became an important part of the company's product line. The Howe Scale Company continued to be a leader in the manufactuer of high-accuracy weighing instruments into the twentieth century.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
In Spring 1857 John Howe Jr. of Brandon took over Strong and Ross's patents and began to manufacture their designs under the name Howe Scale Company. The Howe Scale Company became world-renowned, earning several awards at fairs and exhibitions, including the the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 1867 Paris Exhibition against competitors from all over the world.
In 1873 the plant was moved to Rutland, with John A. Mead of Rutland becoming president in 1886, followed by Carl B. Hinsman and Frank G. Riehl. The Howe Scale Company went on to manufacture the weightograph, a device which produces weight readings on a ground glass screen that can be read in the dark from some distance away. It also produced the longest railroad track scale in the world, scales for weighing airplane propellors, and lightweight, aluminum scales that were easily transportable on airplanes. It also began producing trucks and tailers for cargo, and this became an important part of the company's product line. The Howe Scale Company continued to be a leader in the manufactuer of high-accuracy weighing instruments into the twentieth century.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Web Links and URLs
Human Yoke
Name/Title
Human Yoke
Lexicon
Description
Yoke used for gathering sap. Wooden, stained red.
Included with this are a sap yoke (.2), two sap buckets (.3 + .4), this leather belt (.1) and two hooks (.5 + .6). Hand carved yoke with buckets in red stain/paint made by the grandfather of Dr. Herbert S. Carver of Marshfield when Herbert was a boy.
Belt is 72" long and 15/16" wide. It has buckle holes all along it, usually at 3/4" intervals.
The yoke is 37" long and 7 1/2" widest point. The under side is not painted. Edges worn with age and use. The buckets are both 10" dia at top, 11 3/4" at bottom and 10 1/2" high. The hooks are both 6 7/8" long and slightly different. .6 has a leather piece (part of a strap) on the ring end, it is also very rusty. .5 is silver colored metal and is flaking slightly, it also has the smaller hook of the two.
Included with this are a sap yoke (.2), two sap buckets (.3 + .4), this leather belt (.1) and two hooks (.5 + .6). Hand carved yoke with buckets in red stain/paint made by the grandfather of Dr. Herbert S. Carver of Marshfield when Herbert was a boy.
Belt is 72" long and 15/16" wide. It has buckle holes all along it, usually at 3/4" intervals.
The yoke is 37" long and 7 1/2" widest point. The under side is not painted. Edges worn with age and use. The buckets are both 10" dia at top, 11 3/4" at bottom and 10 1/2" high. The hooks are both 6 7/8" long and slightly different. .6 has a leather piece (part of a strap) on the ring end, it is also very rusty. .5 is silver colored metal and is flaking slightly, it also has the smaller hook of the two.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.13
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1981.13.5.2
Ice Fishing Jig
Name/Title
Ice Fishing Jig
Lexicon
Description
Wooden stick with hooks on one end to wrap line around and a pierced end to guide line.
Use
Used primarily for ice fishing
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.20
Context
Thousands or perhaps millions of these efficient little hand carved ice fishing pole/reel combo tools were carved by everyone who could get onto the ice in the winter, whether Abenaki, French or English. We do know that an Abenaki man from Highgate Springs, Vermont used this to fish off of Shipyard Bay, “over by Bandstand Island” during the early 1900’s.
Ice Tongs
Name/Title
Ice Tongs
Lexicon
Description
Hand-forged iron ice tongs consisting of two metal rods connected at a hinge in the center. The handles are ovals, and the tongs arch outward before coming inward near the end. The end of each side is bent into a point.
Use
Used for moving large blocks of ice
Acquisition
Accession
1966.15
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1966.15.6
Identification Holder
Name/Title
Identification Holder
Lexicon
Description
ID tag holder, clear on one side (to view the ID) and dark green on the other side. The green side has white printing that reads: "Vermont / Transit Tours / 345 Pine Street / Burlington, VT 05401 / 802-651-4739" There is a plastic 'zipper' (like on sandwich bags) on the clear side to keep the ID securely in the holder. There is a punched, sealed hole in the lower corner to allow the holder to be worn.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Transit Company, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2010.19.14
Context
From the Vermont Historical Society Library:
On February 16, 1926, the first local bus route in Burlington, the “Country Club
Loop”, was established by William S. Appleyard, who owned an automobile dealership
on South Winooski Avenue. Calling his company the Burlington Rapid Transit Company
(BRT), he received permission from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to operate a
non-competitive (with BTC) bus route in the Hill Section of Burlington. Soon, when
BTC failed to comply with PSC orders to expand their lines, the commission granted
Appleyard permission to operate his buses in places directly in competition with the
BTC.
Over the next few years, Appleyard received permission to expand to seven
competitive yet successful bus routes in the Burlington area. His success, combined with
the devastating flood in November of 1927 (that damaged trolley tracks and collapsed the
Winooski Bridge, a main BTC route), proved to be the undoing of the BTC. In 1929,
Appleyard bought the BTC in order to acquire its routes and eliminate competition. BTC
trolleys operated until August 4, 1929, when, at 4 p.m., a crowd gathered at City Hall
Park to witness the famous and symbolic torching of Car #5, their oldest trolley. The
trolley era had ended.
Meanwhile, in 1927, Appleyard established the Vermont Transit Company
(VTC), under which he operated out-of-town buses. Over the next decade and a half,
Appleyard purchased existing bus lines throughout Vermont, connecting Burlington via
bus to the other towns and cities of Vermont (and beyond). Towns accessed by VTC
buses included Barre (1927), Rutland and Vergennes (1928), Bennington and Pittsfield,
MA (1929), Portland, ME (1932), Bellows Falls, White River Junction and Claremont,
NH (1935), Albany, NY (1936), St. Johnsbury and Littleton, NH (1937), Newport
(1938), Chester and Springfield (1939), and Concord and Manchester, NH (1941). By
1945, VTC buses were connecting Vermonters to New York City, Boston and Montreal.
In 1975, Greyhound bought Vermont Transit Company, though they continued to
operate it as the Vermont Transit Company until 2008.
As of 2010, all of Greyhound’s Vermont bus service is based out of its White
River Junction hub; service in the Burlington area is now operating out of the Burlington
airport. Due to declining ridership, bus service down the western side of Vermont has
been terminated.
On February 16, 1926, the first local bus route in Burlington, the “Country Club
Loop”, was established by William S. Appleyard, who owned an automobile dealership
on South Winooski Avenue. Calling his company the Burlington Rapid Transit Company
(BRT), he received permission from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to operate a
non-competitive (with BTC) bus route in the Hill Section of Burlington. Soon, when
BTC failed to comply with PSC orders to expand their lines, the commission granted
Appleyard permission to operate his buses in places directly in competition with the
BTC.
Over the next few years, Appleyard received permission to expand to seven
competitive yet successful bus routes in the Burlington area. His success, combined with
the devastating flood in November of 1927 (that damaged trolley tracks and collapsed the
Winooski Bridge, a main BTC route), proved to be the undoing of the BTC. In 1929,
Appleyard bought the BTC in order to acquire its routes and eliminate competition. BTC
trolleys operated until August 4, 1929, when, at 4 p.m., a crowd gathered at City Hall
Park to witness the famous and symbolic torching of Car #5, their oldest trolley. The
trolley era had ended.
Meanwhile, in 1927, Appleyard established the Vermont Transit Company
(VTC), under which he operated out-of-town buses. Over the next decade and a half,
Appleyard purchased existing bus lines throughout Vermont, connecting Burlington via
bus to the other towns and cities of Vermont (and beyond). Towns accessed by VTC
buses included Barre (1927), Rutland and Vergennes (1928), Bennington and Pittsfield,
MA (1929), Portland, ME (1932), Bellows Falls, White River Junction and Claremont,
NH (1935), Albany, NY (1936), St. Johnsbury and Littleton, NH (1937), Newport
(1938), Chester and Springfield (1939), and Concord and Manchester, NH (1941). By
1945, VTC buses were connecting Vermonters to New York City, Boston and Montreal.
In 1975, Greyhound bought Vermont Transit Company, though they continued to
operate it as the Vermont Transit Company until 2008.
As of 2010, all of Greyhound’s Vermont bus service is based out of its White
River Junction hub; service in the Burlington area is now operating out of the Burlington
airport. Due to declining ridership, bus service down the western side of Vermont has
been terminated.
Indentured Treasurer's Certificate
Name/Title
Indentured Treasurer's Certificate
Lexicon
Description
Paper scrip with the inscription, "No. [2885] TREASURER'S-OFFICE, [Octr. 12th 1785] THE STATE OF VERMONT acknowledge themselves indebted to [Major Barn -- Hinesburg 5/8] in the Sum of [Twenty] Lawful Money, which I promise, in behalf of said STATE, to pay the said [Major Barn] or Possessor, on demand; with Interest at Six per Cent. per Annum :--Said Interest to be paid in har Money annually, if demanded, by Virtue of an Act of Assembly, passed at Windsor, February, 1783. [L29..5..8] Witness, [I. Allen] Treasurer." It is split into 2 pieces.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Allen, Ira (1751-1814)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1785
Manufacturer
State of Vermont
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1967.19
Context
Issued by the State of Vermont for paying soldiers on credit during and shortly following the Revolutionary War. The certificates were redeemed by matching the the wavy-torn side of the certificate to the corresponding torn stub, kept by the State.
Independence!! and Ethan Allen! Forever
Name/Title
Independence!! and Ethan Allen! Forever
Lexicon
Description
Decorative work on paper made with stamps and penmanship. The stamps are used to create a composition of two vertical towers surrounding the words, "INDEPENDENCE!! AND ETHAN ALLEN! FOREVER." The words "Ornamental" and "Penmanship" are written in decorative script at the top of composition, each within its own box of inked swirls. There is a bird at the top of each tower drawn with ink.
Acquisition
Accession
1972.66
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Allen, Ethan (1738-1789)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Walter, Augustus Porter (1834-1872)
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1972.66.12
Context
Made by Augustus Porter Walter of Burke, Vermont
Inkwell
Name/Title
Inkwell
Lexicon
Description
Heavy, cylindrical inkwell. The inkwell has a large, deep hole in the center top, and a smaller hole next to it.
Acquisition
Accession
1935.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Edson, Lucian A. (1843-1918)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Randolph
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Pewter
Entry/Object ID
1935.5.5
Context
Owned by Lucien A. Edson in Randolph, Vermont
Jacket
Name/Title
Jacket
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Jacket
Textile Details
Green
Color
Clothing Sex
Female
Description
Green blazer with a Legislative Page patch on the front. The patch is a yellow oval embroidered in green with the state of Vermont and the inscription, "VERMONT LEGISLATIVE PAGE".
Acquisition
Accession
2022.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Duncan, Dianne Kearns
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont State House
Building
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
2022.6.1
Context
Worn by Diane Kearns Duncan who, along with Lea Sikora Finck, was the first female legislative page in 1969.
James S. Peck
Name/Title
James S. Peck
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Portrait of a man facing 3/4 right. He is shown wearing a dark-color overcoat and has short brown hair and a narrow brown beard.
Acquisition
Accession
1920.9
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Peck, James Stevens (1838-1884)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1920.9.1
Context
James S. Peck was Assistant State's Attorney for Vermont from 1869 to 1880.
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Description
A short jar of Uncle Dave's sun-dried tomato basil pasta sauce, 8 ounces (now empty), "serves 3-4 Covers 1 lb. pasta." Pasta sauce is said to be all natural with 5 percent of profits donated to charity. It is listed as being made in Uncle Dave's Kitchen, Route 30, P.O. Box 69, Bondville, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.38
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Uncle Dave's Kitchen
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.38.9
Context
This pasta sauce received a write-up in the Chicago Tribune in 1992, with the writer saying he/she had previously written about a Vermont E-zippy Bloody Mary Fixin's (& dip mix) also produced by Uncle Dave. The new pasta sauces, according to the article, include this basil, plus spicy peanut and Tex-Mex. The company is own by "Uncle Dave's wife," Lynne, and their son, J.B. Lyon. The company apparently ceased operations in the early 2000s.
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Description
A large jar with canning-type screw top that held Cherry Hill brand applesauce. The label for this 32-ounce jar says it is "Vermont made, unsweetened." The jar has a Vermont Department of Agriculture seal of quality. It was produced by Cherry Hill Cooperative Cannery, Barre, Vermont. A peeling paper sticker on top said it was purchased for $2.55 at Hunger Mountain Coop, which is located in Montpelier.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.38
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Cherry Hill Cannery Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.38.11
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Lexicon
Description
Beverage container for juice with a screw cap. Label reads, "After the Fall, Vermont Apple Juice" featuring two big red apples and scenes around Putney, Vermont, such as images of West Hill bike shop and Putney General Store. The juice company -- After the Fall -- was based in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.38
Made/Created
Manufacturer
After the Fall, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.38.10
Context
After the Fall Inc. was acquired by J. M. Smuckers Co. in 1994. Smuckers had already acquired another natural juice company -- Knudsen -- which had been a competitor in the 100 juice market with After the Fall.
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Lexicon
Description
Sixteen ounce glass Mason jar with gold and black label that says, "Filomena’s Marinara Pasta Sauce (mild)" with the image of a young woman. On the side of the label is the story of Filomena D'Agosto. And the label says the sauce was made in Burlington, Vermont..
Acquisition
Accession
1990.14
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
D'Agosto Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
D'Agosto Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1990.14.5
Context
Filomena's seems to have been a restaurant or pizzeria located at 505 Riverside Ave. in Burlington. The business registration records for this name at the Office of the Secretary of State all say "inactive." That location is now another eatery.
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware jar decorated with a hand-painted design of a flowering plant with four number fours painted throughout the plant. There are U-shaped handles applied to either side, and two parallel lines are incised around the piece just above the handles. Above the line is the stamped label, "R. L. FENTON & CO. / EAST DORSET / 4".
Acquisition
Accession
1954.36
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
R. L. Fenton & Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.36.5
Context
Made by R. L. Fenton & Co. in East Dorset, Vermont
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Lexicon
Description
White River Jct., Vt. A blue/green glass jar that contained horse radish. The rectangular base comes up straight to beyond the label where it narrows to a round nect of 1.625" diam. The label reads "TRADEMARK/ Absolutley Pure/ GREEN/MOUNTAIN/BRAND/HORSERADISH/ NET WEIGHT 6OZS..." the bottle is fairly clean. The label has a few losses.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.27
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Cross, Abbot Co.
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.27.5
Jar
Name/Title
Jar
Lexicon
Description
A jar of Cherry Hill unsweetened apple butter. Cherry Hill is listed on the label as a worker owned cannery on the Barre Montpelier Road in Barre, Vermont.
Use
Can be spread on bread as a condiment or on waffles or eaten straights from the jar.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.4
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Cherry Hill Cannery Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1996.4.2
Context
Made by Cherry Hill in Barre, Vermont.
Jar, Condiment
Name/Title
Jar, Condiment
Lexicon
Description
This clear glass six-sided jat with a black metal turn lid, held Woods Edge Farm spinach & sun-dried tomato pesto. Woods Edge Farm is in Greensboro, VT. (Woodsedgefarmvt.com). The label has the business logo, the list of ingredients, and nutrition facts. On the bottom of the jar, there is a small white label: Best By.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.24
Jar, Confectionary
Name/Title
Jar, Confectionary
Description
Clear glass jar with metal screw-on cap, containing Fat Toad Farm caramel topping.
(a) Cap has a paper label with farm logo in center with brown border imprinted: "FAT TOAD FARM/ A VERMONT GOAT DAIRY"
(b) Jar has a brown and tan paper label imprinted on front: "FAT TOAD FARM/ Farmstead Goat's Milk/ CARAMEL/ SALTED BOURBON" with mailing address, web address, list of ingredients, fluid weight, etc. On bottom is paper tag which reads: "Best by 060614
(a) Cap has a paper label with farm logo in center with brown border imprinted: "FAT TOAD FARM/ A VERMONT GOAT DAIRY"
(b) Jar has a brown and tan paper label imprinted on front: "FAT TOAD FARM/ Farmstead Goat's Milk/ CARAMEL/ SALTED BOURBON" with mailing address, web address, list of ingredients, fluid weight, etc. On bottom is paper tag which reads: "Best by 060614
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
2013
Manufacturer
Fat Toad Farm
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.2a-b
Jar, Food-Storage
Name/Title
Jar, Food-Storage
Lexicon
Description
8 ounce clear glass jar of maple cream. The green and gold paper label indicates this is from Bragg Farm Sugarhouse and Gift Shop on Route 14, East Montpelier. The screw-on lid is gold color metal. The receipt for the purchase is in the attached poly bag.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Made/Created
Date made
2015
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.33
Jar, Honey
Name/Title
Jar, Honey
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass jar (a) with oval paper label;the label is white with a green border and states in green ink : "Champlain Valley Apiaries Bee Honey/Established by CHARLES MRAZ..."
The lid (b) is white plastic and screws onto the jar.
The lid (b) is white plastic and screws onto the jar.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.1a-b
Jemima Leavitt
Name/Title
Jemima Leavitt
Description
Bas relief of Jemima Leavitt by William Morris Hunt. The carved relief shows Jemima facing proper right wearing a ruffled bonnet and high, simple collared dress. The relief is dated "1841" along the right lower edge.
There is a manufacturing company's name on the back but it is difficult to decipher. It may say "Gorham MFG Co."
Also on the back is the following: Jemima Loomis B. 1799 (which is an incorrect date. It should be 1779) M. Thaddeus Leavitt Jan. 1st 1801."
There is a manufacturing company's name on the back but it is difficult to decipher. It may say "Gorham MFG Co."
Also on the back is the following: Jemima Loomis B. 1799 (which is an incorrect date. It should be 1779) M. Thaddeus Leavitt Jan. 1st 1801."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hunt, William Morris (1824-1879)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
Connecticut
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Continent
Artwork Details
Medium
Metal
Subject Person
Jemima Leavitt
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hunt, William Morris (1824-1879)
Artist
Date made
1841
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.7
Context
The subject of this bas relief was the grandmother of the artist. Jemima Loomis (1779-1846) of Connecticut married Thaddeus Leavitt (1778-1828 ) and they had two children, Jane and John Leavitt. Jane married Jonathon Hunt of Brattleboro, Vermont, and they had four children including William Morris Hunt.
"William Morris Hunt (born March 31, 1824, Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.—died September 8, 1879, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire) was a Romantic painter who created a fashion in the United States for the luminous, atmospheric painting of the French Barbizon school.
After attending Harvard University, Hunt studied with Thomas Couture in Paris and then in Barbizon with Jean-François Millet, one of the leaders of the Barbizon school of painters. Upon returning to New England, Hunt introduced the works of Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, and the Barbizon school to the Boston society circles in which he moved, thereby helping to turn a rising generation of American painters toward Paris and away from the national style epitomized by the Hudson River school landscape painters."
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Morris-Hunt
"William Morris Hunt (born March 31, 1824, Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.—died September 8, 1879, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire) was a Romantic painter who created a fashion in the United States for the luminous, atmospheric painting of the French Barbizon school.
After attending Harvard University, Hunt studied with Thomas Couture in Paris and then in Barbizon with Jean-François Millet, one of the leaders of the Barbizon school of painters. Upon returning to New England, Hunt introduced the works of Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, and the Barbizon school to the Boston society circles in which he moved, thereby helping to turn a rising generation of American painters toward Paris and away from the national style epitomized by the Hudson River school landscape painters."
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Morris-Hunt
Jersey
Name/Title
Jersey
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Shirt
Notes
All base material of the jersey is a white nylon (this also lines the neckline and the sleeve lines). All seams and hems in white thread while securing in green thread decorations in same fabric as white but in green. Fabric is semi-stretchy for athletic wear.
Textile Details
White
Green
Color
Nylon
Clothing Sex
Male
Size
Small
Description
White and green sleeveless jersey with white background and green striping. In the center bearing inscription: "Arrows" in green fabric with green topstitching and the number "12" in same green fabric with green topstitching. Back has another "12" in same green fabric with green topstitching. Unlined interior with tag saying: "Champion (within logo blue, white and red) SMALL (in red) 100% NYLON FOR CARE SEE REVERSE (on Verso of tag) CHAMPION PRODUCTS INC ROCHESTER N.Y. MACHINE WASH TUMBLE DRY LOW TEMPS MILD DETERGENT AVOID CHLORINE BLEACH DO NOT IRON DESIGN RH 26094 MADE IN USA" all in light blue.
Worn by Daryl Wetzel Austine alumnus class of 1979 who in 1978 won the 1,000 points for the basketball team.
Worn by Daryl Wetzel Austine alumnus class of 1979 who in 1978 won the 1,000 points for the basketball team.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.54
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
12 was the number of Daryl Wetzel who was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 was inducted into the 1,000 points club in his junior year in Spring, 1978. (see photo in archives) He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
12 was the number of Daryl Wetzel who was a graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in 1979 was inducted into the 1,000 points club in his junior year in Spring, 1978. (see photo in archives) He continued to play ay Gallaudet University and enjoyed a career with the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) and with the USADB (United States American Deaf Basketball). In 2003 Wetzel was inducted as the first ever deaf male player in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame (R.I.).
Web Links and URLs
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
3.4 oz. maple syrup jug received as a wedding favor. Tan with green lettering on front: "DAKIN FARM/ PURE/ VERMONT/ MAPLE SYRUP"; panel on left: "EST/ 3.4 FL. OZ." and panel on right: "1792/ Seal of Quality/ Vermont" Printed in a box on back: "OUR PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP" with information re processing procedure, address, etc.
Black plastic cap has white label reading: "VERMONT/ GRADE A/ MEDIUM AMBER"
Black plastic cap has white label reading: "VERMONT/ GRADE A/ MEDIUM AMBER"
Acquisition
Accession
1992.54
Made/Created
Date made
1992
Manufacturer
Dakin Farm
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1992.54.1
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware jug with hand-painted design of three feathers or leaves. There is a small round handle at the back of the spout. The center top is stamped with the label, "R. L. FENTON & CO. EAST DORSET."
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
R. L. Fenton & Co.
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.298
Context
Made by R. L. Fenton & Company in East Dorset, Vermont
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
Dark brown ceramic jug with spout. The bottom of the jug is molded into a sort of handle for ease of pouring. Two U-shaped handles are attached to either side, and a wire handle is threaded through them. Beneath the spout is the stamped label, "E. NORTON AND CO. / BENNINGTON, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1954.17
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
E. Norton & Co.
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1954.17.26
Context
Made by E. Norton and Co. in Bennington, Vermont
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
Stoneware Jug with hand painted design of curled fern leaves or feathers. Above the design is the stamped label, "FENTON & HANCOCK ST. JOHNSBURY. VT. 1 1/2".
Acquisition
Accession
1954.36
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
Fenton & Hancock
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.36.12
Context
Made by Fenton & Hancock in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
Large stoneware jug with a small round handle near the spout. The front of the jug is decorated a hand-painted design of elaborate flowers. The jug is marked near the handle with the label, "J. E. NORTON BENNINGTON, VT 41".
Stoneware jug with handle. "J.E. Norton, Bennington, VT, 41"
Elaborately decorated with blue spray of flowers and leaves.
Stoneware jug with handle. "J.E. Norton, Bennington, VT, 41"
Elaborately decorated with blue spray of flowers and leaves.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.17
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
J. E. Norton
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1954.17.3
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
1/2 gallon plastic jug (a), contained sweet cider from the Cold Hollow Cider Press, Waterbury Ctr., Vt. Has metal cap (b) and white label with brown lettering on front which reads: "SWEET CIDER/ KEEP COLD/ COLD HOLLOW CIDER PRESS/ Made from ripe sound apples." See Gifts and Loans file.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.10
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Manufacturer
Cold Hollow Cider Press
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1977.10.3a-b
Jug
Name/Title
Jug
Lexicon
Description
Half-gallon milk jug with orange plastic cap. Orange and white label on front with sketch of a "milkmaid" and a cow. Printed above: "Farm Fresh/ KIMBALL BROOK/ FARM/ Grass Grazed/ USDA/ Organic" and below: "VERMONT'S ORGANIC MILK" and more information re grade, additives, fat content, etc. Label on back gives specific info re Nutrition Facts, ingredients, organic certification, farm location and contact info, etc. Above this label is price label: "Sunflower/ $4.99" Stamped on right lower side: "Best by 1/15/16"
Acquisition
Accession
2015.47
Made/Created
Date made
2015
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2015.47.20
Kent Family at Kent's Corner
Interpretative Labels
Label
Kent Family at Kent's Corner, 1882
James Franklin Gilman (1842-1929)
Calais, VT
Charcoal on paper
Gift of J. Brooks Buxton, #A-788
This drawing depicts the area of Calais known as Kent's Corners due to the large number of Kent families that lived there. The building known as Kent Tavern once belonged to Vermont Historical Society and is now a Vermont State Historic Site. The people pictured are all descendants of patriarch Abdiel Kent.
James Gilman was a prolific landscape painter throughout Washington County in the late-19th century.
Name/Title
Kent Family at Kent's Corner
Lexicon
Description
Charcoal landscape drawing showing a family of six lounging on the bank of a river. Three additional people walk along the opposite bank, and a small town centered along a road can be seen beyond them. The buildings consist primarily of white structures with the notable exception of a stately brick house at the center. The landscape consists or rolling hills, partitioned with fences and sparsely dotted with trees.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kent, Dorman B.E. (1875-1951)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Charcoal
Subject
Kent family
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1882
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (framed)
Entry/Object ID
2007.13.1
Context
This drawing depicts the area of Calais known as Kent's Corners due to the large number of Kent families that lived there. The building known as Kent Tavern once belonged to Vermont Historical Society and is now a Vermont State Historic Site. The people pictured are all descendants of patriarch Abdiel Kent.
James Gilman was a prolific landscape painter throughout Washington County in the late-19th century.
James Gilman was a prolific landscape painter throughout Washington County in the late-19th century.
Knee Buckle
Name/Title
Knee Buckle
Lexicon
Description
Silver-plated brass knee buckle. The buckle is oval with a center bar. The bar has two prongs and a hinged loop. The frame is petaled.
Acquisition
Accession
1933.2
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Lyon, Robert (1743-1809)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Stockbridge
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silver, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1933.2.2
Context
Worn by Robert Lyon of Stockbridge, Vermont
Knitting Needles
Name/Title
Knitting Needles
Lexicon
Description
Collection of handmade wooden knitting needles and one crochet hook. 8 of the knitting needles have one point, and 9 are double pointed.
Acquisition
Accession
1962.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bugbee, Cora Nettie Preston (1860-1956)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Hartford
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1962.1.16a-r
Context
Likely used by Cora Nettie Preston Bugbee in Hartford, Vermont
Knot of Love
Name/Title
Knot of Love
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Geometric patterned watercolor and love poem, 1816, Guilford, VT. Called a "knot of love"
In the center of the piece is a red heart surrounded with green and beige circles that stylistically forms a diamond [a square on end]. There are four triangles about 1.13" from each side of the diamond. Those triangles are beige and green. The border around the design consists of uniform straight lines with short inward juts (about 1" x 1"); two per side. Color highlights the borders too. Red/orange, blue, green and beige. Writing that is difficult to read weaves its way through the piece. I'm not sure if it begins in the center with "I send..." or ends there and begins along the outside edge with "A true loves knot..."
In the center of the piece is a red heart surrounded with green and beige circles that stylistically forms a diamond [a square on end]. There are four triangles about 1.13" from each side of the diamond. Those triangles are beige and green. The border around the design consists of uniform straight lines with short inward juts (about 1" x 1"); two per side. Color highlights the borders too. Red/orange, blue, green and beige. Writing that is difficult to read weaves its way through the piece. I'm not sure if it begins in the center with "I send..." or ends there and begins along the outside edge with "A true loves knot..."
Acquisition
Accession
2009.20
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Date made
1816
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.20.2
Context
A lover's knot or "True Lover's Knot" became a popular form of courting in the late 18th and early 19th century. Based on illuminated letters and designs from the area that is now Germany, the practice seemed to take hold first in southeast Pennsylvania. The practice was adopted from people of German descent by the English Quaker population and from there to other parts of the United States, though they are more rare outside of the mid-Atlantic. Usually written and designed by a young man, the complex romantic poem can be read in a number of ways depending on where you start reading within the work. Geometric designs, hearts, and color forms fill out these enchanting works.
Though often associated with Valentine's Day, these notes were sent throughout the year. This particular lover's knot was sent in November of 1816 within the town of Guilford.
Though often associated with Valentine's Day, these notes were sent throughout the year. This particular lover's knot was sent in November of 1816 within the town of Guilford.
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A maple syrup label, vertical in layout. "GREEN MOUNTAIN BRAND/ REG. U.S. PAT.OFF./PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/CONTENTS 1 GALLON/ 11 LBS. NET/ PACKED BY/ GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO./ ST. ALBANS, VT." Label image has a man hanging a maple bucket on a tree with a log cabin in middle-ground with smoke coming from chimney. Snow covered trees and ground. Gold/gilt used in lettering and borders.
multi (white with red, blue, gilt gold, black)
multi (white with red, blue, gilt gold, black)
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.1a-c
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A maple syrup label, horizontal in layout. "CONTENTS GREEN MOUNTAIN BRAND/ PURE/ VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/PACKED BY/ GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO./ ST. ALBANS, VT."
multi (white with red/blue/gold-gilt/black)
multi (white with red/blue/gold-gilt/black)
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.2a-u
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Maple syrup label, horiz. in layout. "CONTENTS 1 GALLON/ BRIER ROSE/ REG. U.S. BRAND PAT. OFF.' SYRUP/ MADE FROM CANE SUGAR & VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/ PACKED BY GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO. ST. ALBANS, VT." In the center is a cluster of pink roses.
multi (light blue/red/pink/gold-gilt/yellow-mustard)
multi (light blue/red/pink/gold-gilt/yellow-mustard)
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.3a-l
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A maple syrup label, horiz. in layout. "12 FL. OZ. NET WT. 1 LB. AVD./Brier Rose/SYRUP/REG. U.S. BRAND PAT. OFF./ MADE FROM CANE SUGAR & VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/ PACKED BY GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO. INC. ST. ALBANS, VT." A rose is pictured in the upper l & r corners.
multi (med. and dark blue/red/pink/green)
multi (med. and dark blue/red/pink/green)
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.4a-zzzz
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal (full) can label. "Brier Rose/ CUT/ GOLDEN WAX/ BEANS/ Brier Rose/ CUT GOLDEN/WAX BEANS/ CONTENTS 15 1/2 OZ./ SIZE OF CAN- NO. 303 CUPS APPROX. 2/ AVERAGE SERVINGS 4 SEASONING SALT/ DIRECTIONS- Pour liquid into a saucepan.../PACKED BY/ GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO. INC./ ST. ALBANS, VERMONT" Pictured on label is a small dish of wax beans and a small cluster of roses with graphics. On the edge where the label overlaps: "US 8091-4 13 14 193 19 303X406"
med. blue with red/white/yellow/buff/navy
med. blue with red/white/yellow/buff/navy
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.5a-k
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal jar label. "NET.WT. 12 OZ./GREEN MOUNTAIN/ PURE/ STRAWBERRY/ PRESERVES/ Packed by GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO., Inc. St. Albans, Vt."
White with red/greens/navy
White with red/greens/navy
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.6a-ccccc
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal jar label. "NET WT. 12 OZ./ GREEN MOUNTAIN/ PURE/ RASPBERRY/ PRESERVES/ Packed by GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO., Inc. St. Albans, Vt."
White with red/greens/navy.
White with red/greens/navy.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.7a-ttt
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal can/jar label. "CONTENTS 12 FL. OZ./ 16 OZ. AVOIR./GREEN/MOUNTAIN/REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./ Pure/ VERMONT/MAPLE SYRUP/ PACKED BY GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO., INC., ST. ALBANS, VT."
White with red/black/yellow/green.
White with red/black/yellow/green.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.8a-sssss
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal jar/can label. "16 OZ.AVD. 12 FL.OZ./ GREEN MOUNTAIN/ REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./ PURE/ VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/ Packed by GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING COLK INC. St. Albans, Vt."
Greens with off white/yellow/dark blue/gold.
Greens with off white/yellow/dark blue/gold.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.9a-wwwww
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Horizontal jar/can label. "G.M.P./ 1LB. 12 FL. OZ./ PANCAKE SYRUP/ MADE FROM PURE CANE SUGAR AND IMIATION MAPLE FLAVOR/ PACKED BY GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO., INC. ST. ALBANS, VT."
Yellow with white/med. brown/blue/red/navy.
Yellow with white/med. brown/blue/red/navy.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.10a-ggg
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A vertical can/bottle label. "NORTHERN COMFORT/ SQUEEZED FROM MAPLE TREES/ BONDED 80 YEARS/ BY MOTHER NATURE/ 100% PURE/ VERMONT GRADE A/ Packed Under/ Vermont License No. 117/ By/ S. ALLEN SOULE/ FAIRFIELD, VERMONT." Border is a simple twist pattern
Orange with red/navy/green.
Orange with red/navy/green.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Soule, S. Allen
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.11a-h
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A vertical bottle/jar label. Three maple leaves at top and 19th C. sugaring scene superimposed in center. "THREE LEAF/BRAND/GREEN MOUNTAIN MAPLE/ AGED IN THE TREE (both sides)/Distilled from Pure Maple Sap/100% HEADACHE PROOF/ GREEN MOUNTAIN MAPLE CO./ FAIRFIELD. VERMONT/ Grade A- Vermont License No. 117"
Beige with green and red.
Beige with green and red.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Maple Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.12a-l
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Orange vertical label for a jar/can. "SALOON/SPECIAL/ AGED IN BED/93% POOF/ Contents: 98% Corn syrup, 1% Maple Syrup/ 1% Dissatisfaction/ Bottled for DAN MAC GREW/ by/ S. ALLEN SOULE/ FAIRFIELD. VERMONT. Border is a simple red zig-zag. Center is a bald man smoking a cig. at a piano with a beer on top of it.
Orange with green/blue.
Orange with green/blue.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Soule, S. Allen
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.13a-n
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Yellow vertical bottle/can label. "SALOON/SPECIAL/ AGED IN BED 93% POOF/ Contents: 98% Corn syrup, 1% Maple Syrup/ 1% Dissatisfaction/ Bottled for DAN MAC GREW/ by/ S. ALLEN SOULE/ FAIRFIELD. VERMONT" Center of label is a man at a piano identical to 1998.24.13
Yellow with green, red, navy.
Yellow with green, red, navy.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Soule, S. Allen
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.14a-j
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Vertical green bottle/jar label. "Farmer Favorite/ 100% CORNY/ For Morning After/ (Non-alcholic)/ PLAIN RISKY/ Contents: 85% Cane 15% Maple Syrup/ S. ALLEN SOULE/ FAIRFIELD. VERMONT" Central image is of a farmer wiping his brow with a how in his hand.
Green with red and navy.
Green with red and navy.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Soule, S. Allen
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.15a-h
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Blue vertical bottle/jar label. "NATURE'S/ COMPOUND/ FAVORITE AMONG/VERMNT FARMERS/ Kures Everything/ Aids Old Maids/Peps Old Men/ Contents: 85% Cane 15% Maple Syrup/ PACKED BY/ S. ALLEN SOULE/ FAIRFIELD, VERMONT"
Dark/med. blue with red and green.
Dark/med. blue with red and green.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Soule, S. Allen
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.16a-m
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Orange vertical bottle label. "OLD/ GRAND-MOM/ VERMONT STRAIGHT/ MAPLE BLEND/ BONDED BY MOTHER NATURE/ BOTTLED BY OLD GRAND-MOM MAPLE CO./ FAIRFIELD, VERMONT" In the center is an image of a stereotyped "grand-mom" with a spoon coming up to her mouth.
Orange wih black.
Orange wih black.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Old Grand-Mom Maple Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.17a-yy
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Orange vertical bottle label. "OLD/ GRAND-MOM/ VERMONT/ STRAIGHT MAPLE BLEND/ 70% CANE SUGARS/ 30% PURE MAPLE SUGARS/ Bottled by/ OLD GRAND-MOM MAPLE CO./ FAIRFIELD, VERMONT/ 4/5 PINT 17.6 OUNCES NET." No graphics.
Orange with black.
Orange with black.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Old Grand-Mom Maple Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.18a-rrrr
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A can label, horizonatal. Foliage decorated label. "green mountain/ PURE VERMONT/MAPLE/ SYRUP/ (on side) PURE VERMONT/MAPLE SYRUP/ CONTENTS 1 LB. 6 OZ. AVOIR. /ONE FLUID PINT/ PACKED BY/ GREEN MOUNTAIN PACKING CO., INC./ ST. ALBANS, VERMONT. (on other side) GREEN MOUNTAIN PURE VERMONT/MAPLE SYRUP is hermetically sealed...VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP/ PERMIT NUMBER 16"
Cream woth green, rust and brown.
Cream woth green, rust and brown.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Packing Co.
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.20a-o
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
Orange vertical label reads: "OLD MULE 100% HEADACHE POOF/ AGED IN THE PILE/ Designed and bottled by Jack Ass/ A Kick With Every Swig/ BLENDED/ Contents: 85% Cane 15% Maple Syrup/ (Traces of Mulejuice)/ PACKED BY/ JACK ASS PACKERS/ FAIRFIELD, VERMONT" Outside edge of label has a simple line design.
Orange with green, red and blue
Orange with green, red and blue
Acquisition
Accession
1998.24
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Jack Ass Packers
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.24.21a-d
Label
Name/Title
Label
Lexicon
Description
A roll of maple syrup seals, each numbered sequentially (14353, 14354 etc.) The paper is perforated between each seal. The paper is white, printed in dark blue with two red areas of print: "Vermont/Grade A" and "Supervised by. . . (see above)". The seal reads: "A NEW ENGLAND QUALITY PRODUCT VERMONT GRADE A packed in accordance with Official State Grads". The number follows, below the number is the "supervised by. . ." portion. The design has an outline of the New England states with the printing over it. The circumference of the circle has each of the New England states within an oval link. At the center of the roll is a wooden roll.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.47
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
1986.47.1
Lacemaker's Cushion
Name/Title
Lacemaker's Cushion
Lexicon
Description
Spherical, tightly padded lacemaking pillow. The pillow is covered with stripes of printed cotton. The cotton has a brown ground with floral pattern printed onto it, the colors of which have not faded almost completely. There are two pouches attached to the pillow: one is blue-and-white ticking and the other is blue-and-white printed cotton. There is a strip of paper attached to the pillow that is perforated throughout its length with evenly spaced pinholes. At the upper end of the paper, several pins are inserted through the paper into the pillow, and threads are woven around the pins to create a small length of lace. The unwoven ends of the lace are wound wooden lace bobbins that are held in the printed cotton pouch.
Acquisition
Accession
1951.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Rice, Sarah Sterling (1766-1864)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Reading
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Cotton, Wool, Paper, Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1951.1a-u
Context
Used by Sarah Sterling Rice in Reading, Vermont
Lacrosse Stick
Name/Title
Lacrosse Stick
Lexicon
Description
Hooked, ash stick with woven rawhide basket
Use
Game of lacrosse
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Materials
Material
Ash, Rawhide
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.115
Lance Head
Name/Title
Lance Head
Lexicon
Description
Steel lance head
Use
Moose hunting
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.40
Context
This moose lance was found in a vegetable garden in Morrisville, Vermont, on the floodplain of the Lamoille River. It is a standard big game trade lance point forged from iron wire.
Land Voyage of the Ticonderoga
Name/Title
Land Voyage of the Ticonderoga
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Watercolor painting showing a large white steamboat on land with a small portion of a body of water visible in the background. A portion of the boats name, "TICOND", is visible on the side.
Acquisition
Accession
1979.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Shelburne Museum
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Webb, Grace A. (1888-1979)
Artist
Date made
Jan 1, 1955
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1979.22.3
Context
Shows the transportation of the Ticonderoga to the Shelburne Museum.
Land Voyage of the Ticonderoga - #2 Suggesting An Etching
Name/Title
Land Voyage of the Ticonderoga - #2 Suggesting An Etching
Lexicon
Description
Watercolor painting showing a large, white steamboat. The boat has several levels and a single, black chimney. It has the name label "Ticonderoga" on the front of the uppermost level. The boat is shown either in water alongside land, or already on the land alongside water. There a yellow building at the lower left, a sign at the lower right, and an electrical or telephone pole at the right edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1979.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Shelburne Museum
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Webb, Grace A. (1888-1979)
Artist
Date made
Dec 31, 1954
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1979.22.2
Context
Shows the transportation of the Ticonderoga to the Shelburne Museum.
Landscape
Name/Title
Landscape
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Watercolor - winter landscape with a stream meandering through a snow covered field. Snowy mountains in the background.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.28
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Barrett, Robert
Artist
Date made
1964-1984
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.28.1
Context
Signed Robert Barrett, AWS (American Watercolor Society). Little is known of this artist. A similar work sold at auction and had the location of Morrisville, Vermont written below his signature.
Lantern Slide Projector
Name/Title
Lantern Slide Projector
Lexicon
Description
The slide holder comes out/off of the projector. Lens cap is lined with black velvet, front cover of lens cap is damaged.
black
black
Acquisition
Accession
1996.47
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
State of Vermont
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1895
Manufacturer
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1996.47.1a
Context
Used by the State of Vermont Department of Education.
Late Afternoon on the River, October
Interpretative Labels
Label
Kannenstine graduated from the Washing University School of Fine Art in St. Louis and studied at the Arts Student's League in New York. She lives in Woodstock, Vermont and has exhibited throughout the Northeast.
Name/Title
Late Afternoon on the River, October
Lexicon
Description
"Late Afternoon on the River, October"
monotype on paper (monotypes= Unique prints made by using the process of monotype and a printing process that consists of painting an image onto a plate and then printing it.)
monotype on paper (monotypes= Unique prints made by using the process of monotype and a printing process that consists of painting an image onto a plate and then printing it.)
Acquisition
Accession
2000.2
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Woodstock
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Acrylic
Made/Created
Artist Information
Kannenstine, Margaret Lampe (1938-2023)
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2000.2.1
Context
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Peggy Lampe attended Washington University in St Louis where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts?degree in 1959. While there she met Louis Fabian Kannenstine, who later became her husband. In 1959 Peggy began pursuing post-graduate studies through the Art Students’ League in New York City.
In the early 1960’s her family began spending summers in East Barnard, Vermont, eventually buying a summer home there in 1966. Time in Vermont brought Peg great joy. When, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the mid 1970’s, it became apparent that she was healthier during their stays there, the family relocated to Vermont, this time to Woodstock, where they finally settled in the mid-1980s.
From the mid-1970s onward, Peg exhibited her work in a plethora of one-woman, juried and group shows, primarily throughout New England. Her work continues to be featured by various galleries along the eastern seaboard. Peg also co-authored “From Luminous Shade” along with Ann? McGarrell.
In the early 1960’s her family began spending summers in East Barnard, Vermont, eventually buying a summer home there in 1966. Time in Vermont brought Peg great joy. When, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the mid 1970’s, it became apparent that she was healthier during their stays there, the family relocated to Vermont, this time to Woodstock, where they finally settled in the mid-1980s.
From the mid-1970s onward, Peg exhibited her work in a plethora of one-woman, juried and group shows, primarily throughout New England. Her work continues to be featured by various galleries along the eastern seaboard. Peg also co-authored “From Luminous Shade” along with Ann? McGarrell.
Laundry Agitator
Name/Title
Laundry Agitator
Lexicon
Description
Paddle hand carved from single piece of wood, handle 1" wide, 22.5" long, .5" thick, broadening to paddle end which is 3.25" wide and tapers down to .125" thick.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.15
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.15.2
Context
No known VT connection.
Law Enforcement Badge
Name/Title
Law Enforcement Badge
Lexicon
Description
This silver colored pin belonged to a CAPTAIN of the State of Vermont auxiliary police, Montpelier, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.80
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont State Police
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1975
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.80.24
Context
Auxiliary police were established during World War I and again during World War II to assist police departments struggling to fulfill their responsibilities when many officers were away in the armed forces. In 1950, Congress passed a civil defense act creating a civil defense program to help address public safety needs that develop during emergencies.
The time period for this pin wasn't available. Information also wasn't found about auxiliary police in Montpelier.
This pin belonged to Joseph George Abair, born in Dorchester, MA 8/14/1894 to James Fitzgibbons and Mary Smith. He was adopted by George Abair and his wife Phillie Abair. The 1910 US Census shows that Joseph lived in Montpelier with his adoptive parents. The Vermont death record shows that Joseph died in Montpelier on December 2, 1975. His WW I experience was with the 26th Division, an infantry division of the US Army; This division saw extensive combat in France during WW I.
THE TWENTY-SIXTH DIVISION -- the "Yankee Division," as it has been most appropriately named -- was organized from National Guard troops of all the New England States. ... The Twenty-Sixth was the second Division to arrive in France (in World War I); and it was the first division of the National Guard or the National Army troops to be organized, equipped, and sent overseas."
The time period for this pin wasn't available. Information also wasn't found about auxiliary police in Montpelier.
This pin belonged to Joseph George Abair, born in Dorchester, MA 8/14/1894 to James Fitzgibbons and Mary Smith. He was adopted by George Abair and his wife Phillie Abair. The 1910 US Census shows that Joseph lived in Montpelier with his adoptive parents. The Vermont death record shows that Joseph died in Montpelier on December 2, 1975. His WW I experience was with the 26th Division, an infantry division of the US Army; This division saw extensive combat in France during WW I.
THE TWENTY-SIXTH DIVISION -- the "Yankee Division," as it has been most appropriately named -- was organized from National Guard troops of all the New England States. ... The Twenty-Sixth was the second Division to arrive in France (in World War I); and it was the first division of the National Guard or the National Army troops to be organized, equipped, and sent overseas."
Leggings
Name/Title
Leggings
Lexicon
Description
Pair of leather leggings. Each legging secures down its length with 14 knotted leather buttons. The leggings are slightly shaped to the wearer's shin.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.76
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dustin, Moody (1742-1810)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Time Period
18th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Dimensions below using longest of each and measured as they are folded.
Materials
Material
Leather
Entry/Object ID
1960.76.5a-b
Context
Worn by Major Moody Dustin during the American Revolutionary War
Lens Cap
Name/Title
Lens Cap
Lexicon
Description
The slide holder comes out/off of the projector. Lens cap is lined with black velvet, front cover of lens cap is damaged.
black
black
Acquisition
Accession
1996.47
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
State of Vermont
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1895
Manufacturer
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1996.47.1c
Context
Used by the State of Vermont Department of Education.
License Plate
Name/Title
License Plate
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular metal license plate with green ground and white lettering. The words "GREEN MOUNTAINS / VERMONT" are along the top and bottom (respectively) and the license number is "JAN16". A small red sticker in the lower right corner says "EXPIRES LAST DAY OF SEP 78".
Acquisition
Accession
1978.21
Relationships
Related Events
US Bicentennial Celebration
Event
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1978.21.3
Context
Used by Robert Hagerman to celebrate the bicentennial of Vermont signing the Declaration of Independence. He later learned that the correct date was January 17.
Lighter
Name/Title
Lighter
Lexicon
Description
Cigarette lighter in gold gift box.
(a) Silver cigarette lighter with etching of a monument with "METRO" carved in center and in lower right corner: "Rouleau Granite Co., Inc." Printed below is: "ROULEAU GRANITE CO./ BARRE, VT./ PH. GR 6-4891" Cover folds back on hinge to expose actual lighter. Engraved on bottom of lighter: "BARLOW/ Windproof Design No. 17592 Japan".
b= Gold box cover
c= Box bottom has purple suede liner with space for lighter.
(a) Silver cigarette lighter with etching of a monument with "METRO" carved in center and in lower right corner: "Rouleau Granite Co., Inc." Printed below is: "ROULEAU GRANITE CO./ BARRE, VT./ PH. GR 6-4891" Cover folds back on hinge to expose actual lighter. Engraved on bottom of lighter: "BARLOW/ Windproof Design No. 17592 Japan".
b= Gold box cover
c= Box bottom has purple suede liner with space for lighter.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.63
Made/Created
Date made
1950
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Suede, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.63.11a-c
Log Drum
Name/Title
Log Drum
Lexicon
Description
Hollow section of log with skin stretched on each end and secured with cords.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood, Leather
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.189
Context
This typical Taos or Hopi log drum was used by a Missisquoi elder and herbalist Bob Wells from the early/mid-20th century into the early 1990’s when it was given to Frederick Wiseman to document Abenaki culture. As shown in tourist postcards of “Indian Shops” in Maine and New Hampshire, these drums were imported in large numbers into the Northeast and sold as souvenirs, and this trade was probably the source of this Mr. Wells’ drum. There are few remaining Wabanaki drums from this period.
Lowell Lake
Name/Title
Lowell Lake
Lexicon
Description
Landscape--small lake, large peninsula, and small island viewed from hill in foreground. Trees surround lake in front at base of hill, meadow behind lake dotted with 5 farms, mountains in background, 2 boats on lake.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Underwood, Wynn
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Date made
1880-1900
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-43
Context
This late 19th-century view, looking south from what is now Little Pond Road, of Lowell Lake in Londonderry, Vermont depicts the relatively treeless landscape of Vermont at the time. This area today is almost completely forested with large tracts of land conserved as a state park or part of the Green Mountain National Forest. The island, prominent in the center of the work, is known as Annie's Island.
Lowell Lake, orginally known as Derry Pond, was formed by the town of Londonderry as a reservoir. The dam at the south end of the lake has been replaced a number of times over the past century.
The south shore of lake, hosted a summer resort in the late 19th and early 20th century. Boaters on the lake may be visitors to this resort. In 1940, the resort was converted into a summer camp, which served, first just children, and then later families and operated until 1979. The old resort and camp infrastructure is now part of Lowell Lake State Park.
Lowell Lake, orginally known as Derry Pond, was formed by the town of Londonderry as a reservoir. The dam at the south end of the lake has been replaced a number of times over the past century.
The south shore of lake, hosted a summer resort in the late 19th and early 20th century. Boaters on the lake may be visitors to this resort. In 1940, the resort was converted into a summer camp, which served, first just children, and then later families and operated until 1979. The old resort and camp infrastructure is now part of Lowell Lake State Park.
Web Links and URLs
Magnet
Name/Title
Magnet
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular magnet with "MILLER MEMORIAL/ UNITED METHODIST CHURCH / Bethel, Vermont / Celebrating 100 Years / 1905 - 2005" The yellow writing is superimposed over a photograph of the church.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.44
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Bethel
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2005-2005
Manufacturer
Miller Memorial United Methodist Church
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Magnet
Entry/Object ID
2005.44
Context
This church was built in 1905. Here is a bit of Bethel history that notes the construction of new churches.
(Source: https://townofbethelvt.com/index.asp?SEC=521041EA-7D21-4547-B4DE-F502747A9E43)
"Bethel Village sustained its "Golden Age" from the late 1880’s until the early 1920’s and developed an industrial character. The three largest industries of the era—the shoe shop, the tannery and the white granite quarry and cutting sheds—flourished because of the ease of railroad transportation, the availability of local workers and the influx of European immigrants skilled in granite extraction, cutting and sculpting. During this period Bethel proudly enhanced its community with major cultural and civic improvements including the town hall, the first high school and library, electric lighting, new churches, and civic and business organizations. Main street businesses thrived as they supported the many needs of the community. By 1910, the town population grew to 1,953 with nearly 50% of the citizens residing in the Village."
(Source: https://townofbethelvt.com/index.asp?SEC=521041EA-7D21-4547-B4DE-F502747A9E43)
"Bethel Village sustained its "Golden Age" from the late 1880’s until the early 1920’s and developed an industrial character. The three largest industries of the era—the shoe shop, the tannery and the white granite quarry and cutting sheds—flourished because of the ease of railroad transportation, the availability of local workers and the influx of European immigrants skilled in granite extraction, cutting and sculpting. During this period Bethel proudly enhanced its community with major cultural and civic improvements including the town hall, the first high school and library, electric lighting, new churches, and civic and business organizations. Main street businesses thrived as they supported the many needs of the community. By 1910, the town population grew to 1,953 with nearly 50% of the citizens residing in the Village."
Magnet
Name/Title
Magnet
Lexicon
Description
Photographic magnet showing a city street lined with shops. Two church steeples are in the background, and the who is in front of a large mountain. The bottom of the image is labeled, "Rutland, Vt." in gold. The back of the magnet bears the inscription, "SCENIC VERMONT / Eastern Illustrating Union, Maine Made in USA".
Acquisition
Accession
2000.55
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Rutland
City
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Eastern Illustrating
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Magnet, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2000.55.4
Magnet
Name/Title
Magnet
Lexicon
Description
A pale green magnet with black lettering that says, "Vermont Tradition has never been state-imposed religion."
Acquisition
Accession
2019.20
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Badge-a-Minit
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Magnet
Entry/Object ID
2019.20.7
Context
No information found to explain the purpose/context for this magnet.
Magnet
Name/Title
Magnet
Lexicon
Description
Campaign magnet from the Emma for Mayor campaign, thanking voters. The magnet shows the Mayor's campaign logo in the upper left corner, "Thank You!" in yellow script and the date "03-05-2024" at the center overlaying an image of the Burlington waterfront. A drawn image of Mulvaney-Stanak's face is in the lower right corner. "Paid for by Emma for Mayor | @sarahwoodardart" is in white script in the lower left.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Sarah Woodard
Artist
Designer
Role
Time Period
21st Century
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.2
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
Major Domo
Name/Title
Major Domo
Lexicon
Description
Large-format drawing depicting a man in a white drum major's uniform. The figure is depicted with a whistle in his mouth, his left hand resting on his left hip, and his right hand positioned in a semi-saluting gesture. He is wearing a tall fur hat with a red plume, and has several yellow ropes attached to his right shoulder. The bottom right of the composition has the decoratively written title, "Major Domo/Ralph Olliver." The work is signed in the lower right, "Al Comi."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.40
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Gouache
Subject Person
Olliver, C. Ralph (1899-1979)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Artist
Date made
circa 1965
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (framed)
Entry/Object ID
2006.40.1
Type of Drawing
Context
Ralph Olliver was as outsized in his local fame as this large image by noted Barre artist Al Comi. Olliver, born in 1899 and a WWI veteran, served as Barre City Clerk for 50 years (1926 to 1976). At about the same time he started his first Clerk term, he joined the American Legion Post 10 Drum and Bugle Corps. He initially tried his hand at bass drum, but in his words, "That's when they decided I was making too much noise. I was a big fellow, and they figured I'd stand out any way, so they gave me the baton, told me to go up front and be the frum major and keep quiet."
Olliver became a fixture at Barre and other local parades through the 1930s. The Legion band folded in 1936 due to lack of members, but came roaring back in the years following WWII with a fresh infusion of veterans. Olliver continued to serve as the Legion drum major and soon became the leader of the Shriners band. As the drum major for the Shriners he travelled all over the U.S. and Canada and became well known for his parade-leading abilities. He retired from the drum major position in 1965 as his knees started to give him trouble. This drawing probably dates from about this time.
At the time of his retirement from the Barre City Clerk's office in 1976, Olliver was the longest serving city clerk in Vermont, a record that still stands today. Through his time in office he saw the 1927 flood, the great depression, the large CCC works in and around Barre, the construction of the Barre City Auditorium, and the development of the new Spaulding High School and Technical Center. He named the funding and construction of the Barre City Auditorium in 1939 as one of his greatest achievements.
Olliver became a fixture at Barre and other local parades through the 1930s. The Legion band folded in 1936 due to lack of members, but came roaring back in the years following WWII with a fresh infusion of veterans. Olliver continued to serve as the Legion drum major and soon became the leader of the Shriners band. As the drum major for the Shriners he travelled all over the U.S. and Canada and became well known for his parade-leading abilities. He retired from the drum major position in 1965 as his knees started to give him trouble. This drawing probably dates from about this time.
At the time of his retirement from the Barre City Clerk's office in 1976, Olliver was the longest serving city clerk in Vermont, a record that still stands today. Through his time in office he saw the 1927 flood, the great depression, the large CCC works in and around Barre, the construction of the Barre City Auditorium, and the development of the new Spaulding High School and Technical Center. He named the funding and construction of the Barre City Auditorium in 1939 as one of his greatest achievements.
Web Links and URLs
Map
Name/Title
Map
Lexicon
Description
Framed hand-drawn and colored map of New England by S.E. Henry of Chester, Vermont. The pen and ink map shows all six New England states bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada, and New York, and features a decorative ink border denoting degrees of longitude and latitude. The coastline includes coastline depth indicators and the interior of each state includes many of the major rivers and cities or towns. Massachusetts and Maine are outlined in blue, New Hampshire and Rhode Island in yellow, and Connecticut and Vermont in green. There is a decorative cartouche in the lower right space of the ocean that reads, "Map of the Six NEW ENGLAND States Executed by S.E. Henry Chester VT 1867." The map is in a simple gold and black edged frame with a dark brown/gray mat.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Henry, S.E. (19th century)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Chester
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Henry, S.E. (19th century)
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1867
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.10
Context
Most likely drawn by Sarah Elizabeth Henry, age 12 or 13 of Chester, Vermont in 1867. Colloquilay referred to as "School Girl Maps," these copies of example maps were a common school project meant to teach geography. Though certainly produced by both boys and girls, those made by girls seem much more prevalent in museum collections.
Sarah Elizabeth Henry was born July 12, 1854 in Chester, Vermont to Hugh Horatio Henry (1814-1869) and his wife Sarah Henry (1812-1867). Sarah Elizabeth was the youngest of 11 children and lost her parents at a young age. Upon the death of her father in 1869 she joined her older sister's household. She died on July 10, 1882 at her sister's home of consumption (tuberculosis).
Sarah Elizabeth Henry was born July 12, 1854 in Chester, Vermont to Hugh Horatio Henry (1814-1869) and his wife Sarah Henry (1812-1867). Sarah Elizabeth was the youngest of 11 children and lost her parents at a young age. Upon the death of her father in 1869 she joined her older sister's household. She died on July 10, 1882 at her sister's home of consumption (tuberculosis).
Maple Sugar Crystal
Name/Title
Maple Sugar Crystal
Description
Maple sugar crystal wrapped in a paper note that reads: "Maple Sugar crystal found in a 2 quart jar of low grade maple syrup put up in the early 1940s. When jar was emptied in 1974 this crystal was found. Elwin and Violet Davis, Gee Hill, Royalton, Vt." Note on the back of the paper reads: "brought in by John Powell, Groton, Vt. found at Gee Hill So. Royalton."
Acquisition
Accession
1982.33
Relationships
Related Places
Place
South Royalton
Village
Royalton
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Maple Sugar
Entry/Object ID
1982.33.13
Maple Sugar Mold
Name/Title
Maple Sugar Mold
Lexicon
Description
Maple sugar mold carved from a single piece of wood. Three concave designs arranged vertically top to bottom: cross, heart, and quatrefoil.
Use
For molding maple sugar into decorative cakes
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.76
Context
These molds, usually found in Canada, were originally meant to mold cooling maple syrup into solid decorative chunks. They were an adaptation or evolution of the bark sugar cone. This one, crafted in maple, has a good Vermont Abenaki family provenance from the Demars Family of Highgate, Vermont, a family that has provided important Abenaki oral history used in the Missisquoi and Nulhegan state recognition petitions. The quatrefoil at the bottom of the mold is shaped similarly to the “Wabanaki quatrefoil” beaded design examples from 30 – 50 years before.
Marking Iron
Name/Title
Marking Iron
Lexicon
Description
Wood handle, iron head pick-shaped at one end, widening to a 1" square bar at other end with letter "V" deeply cut for striking the butts of logs. Owner's logs could thus be itentified and sorted at the end of the river drive. The company owner was VanDyke, thus the "V".
Acquisition
Accession
1978.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Schoppe, Winfield Scott (1850-1924), Connecticut Valley Lumber Company
Related Places
Place
Canaan
Town
Essex County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1978.15.4
Context
Owned by Winfield Scott Schoppe in Canaan, Vermont. Schoppe was woods boss of a logging crew in Canaan for The Connecticut Valley Lumber Co., and was rear boss on the last river drive in 1915.
Martin M. Flint's Map of Vermont drawn by Myself
Name/Title
Martin M. Flint's Map of Vermont drawn by Myself
Lexicon
Description
School boy map of Vermont. Map depicts 12 of the 14 Vermont counties with Lamoille county and Grand Isle county both absent, although some oft the islands that constitute Grand Isle county appear to be depicted. The Borders of each county are composed of dotted lines of ink dot with some appearing to have a straight continues line drawn through them. The interiors of the counties close the border have been colored with water color paint but only a small amount and most the county interiors remain colorless. The counties are all labeled with ink but the handwriting and spelling of the labels makes it difficult to tell weather the labels are accurate. The only major physical feature of the state depicted is Lake Champlain, whose border is drawn with curved lines and whose island are shown through the use of round oval like shapes. The New York and New Hampshire borders are both simply labeled with in ink, with no mention of the Canadian or Massachusetts borders. Both states are just Labeled New York and New Hampshire receptively. The map title is located in the lower left corner with it simply reading "A map of Vermont" although T is obscured due to damage that either took place during or after production. Lines used to draw the title are still visible. The edge of the map is composed of two lines encompassing yellow water color, though foxing has caused much of it to turn brown. On the back of the map the artist's name is displayed as reading Martin M Flint, drawn by Myself. An inscription on the back says to "H.M Ditz".
Hand-drawn map of Vermont. The map is separated by county, with the borders drawn in black ink with dotted lines. Within the borders, each county is outlined with a thick line of watercolor in a color different from its neighbors. Pink, blue, yellow, orange, and green are used. The names of the counties are written in large, decorative letters oriented in various ways. The edges of the page are framed with a line a yellow.
The paper has a crease horizontally across the center. The reverse is labeled in ink, ""Martin M. Flint's Map of Vermont drawn by Myself" in script. Beneath the label in pencil are the words, "To H. M. Ditz".
Hand-drawn map of Vermont. The map is separated by county, with the borders drawn in black ink with dotted lines. Within the borders, each county is outlined with a thick line of watercolor in a color different from its neighbors. Pink, blue, yellow, orange, and green are used. The names of the counties are written in large, decorative letters oriented in various ways. The edges of the page are framed with a line a yellow.
The paper has a crease horizontally across the center. The reverse is labeled in ink, ""Martin M. Flint's Map of Vermont drawn by Myself" in script. Beneath the label in pencil are the words, "To H. M. Ditz".
Acquisition
Accession
2018.17
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2018.17.1
Context
Made by Martin Flint of Randolph, Vermont
Match Safe
Name/Title
Match Safe
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular metal match safe with an enamel wrap. The wrap is printed on one side with a photograph of two men and the inscription, "Always Found at CITY HOTEL". The other side is printed with an image of a stamped envelope addressed to "K. W. Morse, Barre, VT" with the return address, "CITY HOTEL, H.C. Jones, Clerk."
Acquisition
Accession
1973.30
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Morse, Kimball W. (1859-1950), City Hotel
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Enamel
Entry/Object ID
1973.30
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Green matchbook with the black inscription, "THE HOMER FITTS CO. BARRE VERMONT", on the front flap and, "Dry Goods Ladies' Apparel Accessories" on the back and on the inside flap. There are red-headed matches inside, and a striking strip on the lower front flap.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Homer Fitts Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1930-1950
Manufacturer
Advance Match & Printing Corporation
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.2
Context
Produced as advertisement for The Homer Fitts Co., a department store in Barre, Vermont
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Red matchbook with the gold inscription, "THE COUNTRY HOUSE RESTAURANT BARRE, VT." On the back are the words, "ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DISHES Vic Guiduli Prop." Printed on top fold: "Tel. 2160" Matchbook manufacturer printed along bottom edge is illegible. There are red-headed matches inside, and a striking strip on the lower front flap.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Country House Restaurant
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1950
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.4
Context
Produced as an advertisement for The Country House Restaurant in Barre, Vermont
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Matchbook. A rectangular cardboard matchbook with black background and green and silver text. The exterior of the front flap reads, “The / Venetian / Barre, VT.” A silver printed moon sits between the text, green choppy waves adorn the bottom with a red and white canal pole leaning diagonally to the left. The front flap tucks into the match’s striker, which has a silver colored band and staple above the crease. The back of the exterior shows an empty restaurant and bar, with a solid green band that has white print saying, “PHONE 933W.” The interior does not have any matches and has no added color, except for green lettering saying, “Reserve Our DEN.”
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Venetian
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1950
Manufacturer
Lion Match Corporation of America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.5
Context
Produced as an advertisement for The Venetian in Barre, Vermont
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Matchbook, black with gold lettering. Printed on front cover, "THE DUGOUT/ Tel. 786/ Route 302/ Barre, Vermont/ Frank Malnati" Printed along bottom edge, "Superior Match Co., Chicago, U.S.A."
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Dugout
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1950
Manufacturer
Superior Match Company
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.8
Context
Produced as an advertisement for The Dugout, a restaurant in Barre, Vermont
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Matchbook, blue with green trim. On front cover, "ARNHOLM'S/ SERVICE STATION/ Wheel Aligning/ Body & Fender/ Repairing/ Phone 425/ 12 Scampini Square/ Barre, Vermont" Printed on fold at top, "JOBBING Our Specialty" and on the back cover, an image of a young woman and in a dialogue box above, "Like my Slippers?" Printed along bottom edge, "Superior Match Co., Chicago, U.S.A."
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Arnholm's Service Station
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1950
Manufacturer
Superior Match Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.17
Context
Produced as an advertisement for Arnholm's Service Station in Barre, Vermont
Matchbook
Name/Title
Matchbook
Lexicon
Description
Matchbook, gold and green. On front cover, "Hooker's Wayside Furn./ Barre-Montpelier Highway/ Barre, VT./ Authorized Kroehler Dealer" On back cover is photo of a green couch and "Styled by Kroehler" Printed along bottom edge, "Universal Match Corp., Chicago."
Acquisition
Accession
1991.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hooker's Wayside Furniture
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Universal Match Corp.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1991.19.26
Context
Produced as an advertisement for Hooker's Wayside Furniture, a store in Barre, Vermont
Matchbox
Name/Title
Matchbox
Lexicon
Description
The cover is made of thin cardboard and features a green foil top with a gold embossed catamount and the words "VERMONT CATAMOUNTS" also in gold. The ends of the cover are open to slide the box into, and strikers cover the front and back edge of the cover. The bottom of the cover is made of a gold-tone paper with gold grid lines and the words "Made in Sweden" printed in black ink. The interior box is made of plain white cardboard and has a gray interior.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.58
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
University of Vermont
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.58.82a-b
Context
Produced to advertise the sports teams of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont
Matchbox Cover
Name/Title
Matchbox Cover
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic matchbox cover printed on one side with the image of a hermit thrush over a silhouette of the state of Vermont. The word, "Vermont", in decorative script runs along the bottom. The top is open for inserting a matchbox, and there is an oval hole in one side to allow the striking strip to be accessed.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.58
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2022.58.3
Medal
Name/Title
Medal
Lexicon
Description
Medal of Honor (Army) presented to Brigadier General Stephen Thomas (1809-1903).
Dated Oct. 19, 1864. From the top brass (pin) bar hangs a loop of silk grossgrain ribbon (7/8" - 1" wide). The loop is made up of two types of ribbon - solid navy blue and red/white stripes. Central section is a rampant eagle on crossed cannons & cannonballs. Hanging with two jumprings from the cannons is an inverted 5 pointed brass star. Engraved on the reverse of the star is: "The Congress / to / Brig Gen'l / Stephen / Thomas, / U.S Vols. / for / distinguished / conduct at the / battle of Cedar Creek Va. / Oct. 19, 1864." Details of the design and symbolism are in a print out with the worksheet. Only half of the original box was given with the medal, the lower half that is molded to the shape of the medal and covered with flocking or dark blue velveteen. The small closure hook is at the lower end of the box.
Dated Oct. 19, 1864. From the top brass (pin) bar hangs a loop of silk grossgrain ribbon (7/8" - 1" wide). The loop is made up of two types of ribbon - solid navy blue and red/white stripes. Central section is a rampant eagle on crossed cannons & cannonballs. Hanging with two jumprings from the cannons is an inverted 5 pointed brass star. Engraved on the reverse of the star is: "The Congress / to / Brig Gen'l / Stephen / Thomas, / U.S Vols. / for / distinguished / conduct at the / battle of Cedar Creek Va. / Oct. 19, 1864." Details of the design and symbolism are in a print out with the worksheet. Only half of the original box was given with the medal, the lower half that is molded to the shape of the medal and covered with flocking or dark blue velveteen. The small closure hook is at the lower end of the box.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.38
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Thomas, Stephen (1809-1903), 8th Vermont Infantry
Related Places
Place
Bethel
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1864
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Brass, Fabric
Entry/Object ID
2016.38.1
Context
From the town of Bethel website at https://townofbethelvt.com/index.asp?SEC=F9AF2803-19B0-499F-BA42-064A393BDB46&DE=43AC5C31-7A7B-4281-BC1F-B94013CA970C
"General Stephen Thomas, considered Bethel's greatest son, received limited education in Thetford, Vermont before he began working in the woolen mills in Strafford, Thetford, and West Fairlee, Vermont. General Thomas was State Representative for West Fairlee six times, and then State Senator for Orange County twice, before serving as Lieutenant Governor in 1867 and 1868. General Thomas also served as Probate Judge and Sheriff of Orange County. He was influential in Vermont politics and Veteran's affairs.
Stephen Thomas was made colonel of the 8th Vermont regiment on November 12, 1861. He served with distinction and of the highest order in the battles of Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek. He served with such signal courage and ability that following the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, he was commissioned brigadier-general in February 1865 at the age of 55.
The location of the General Thomas Monument stands on the chimney foundation of the log cabin where General Thomas was born on December 9, 1809. The bronze inscription reads:
"General Stephen Thomas, born on this spot December 9, 1809. Colonel of the 8th Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, November 12, 1861; Brigadier-General of U.S. Volunteers for meritorious service, Patriot, brave soldier, wise consulter and beloved by all men. Died in Montpelier, Vermont, Dec. 13, 1903."
The property consists of thirty three square rods of land, deeded to the Town of Bethel by Appleton McIntosh on October 14, 1914. The monument was erected by the 8th Vermont Regiment (Civil War) at the insistence of Captain B.F. Bowman who had served under General Thomas. Dedication of the monument was made on October 19, 1914 to a crowd of 70, many of them former soldiers. The day also marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek, for which General Thomas was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor."
"General Stephen Thomas, considered Bethel's greatest son, received limited education in Thetford, Vermont before he began working in the woolen mills in Strafford, Thetford, and West Fairlee, Vermont. General Thomas was State Representative for West Fairlee six times, and then State Senator for Orange County twice, before serving as Lieutenant Governor in 1867 and 1868. General Thomas also served as Probate Judge and Sheriff of Orange County. He was influential in Vermont politics and Veteran's affairs.
Stephen Thomas was made colonel of the 8th Vermont regiment on November 12, 1861. He served with distinction and of the highest order in the battles of Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek. He served with such signal courage and ability that following the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, he was commissioned brigadier-general in February 1865 at the age of 55.
The location of the General Thomas Monument stands on the chimney foundation of the log cabin where General Thomas was born on December 9, 1809. The bronze inscription reads:
"General Stephen Thomas, born on this spot December 9, 1809. Colonel of the 8th Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, November 12, 1861; Brigadier-General of U.S. Volunteers for meritorious service, Patriot, brave soldier, wise consulter and beloved by all men. Died in Montpelier, Vermont, Dec. 13, 1903."
The property consists of thirty three square rods of land, deeded to the Town of Bethel by Appleton McIntosh on October 14, 1914. The monument was erected by the 8th Vermont Regiment (Civil War) at the insistence of Captain B.F. Bowman who had served under General Thomas. Dedication of the monument was made on October 19, 1914 to a crowd of 70, many of them former soldiers. The day also marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek, for which General Thomas was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor."
Medical Test
Name/Title
Medical Test
Lexicon
Description
Lucira Covid-19 at-home lamp test, literature, and box. The test kit contains a clear test tube for the sample that fits into the opening on the base. The base is a white, plastic rectangular box that reads "LUCIRA" just below the test tube slot and "Ready Done / COVID-19 / Positive / Negative" at the front. There are light up indicators beside the words "Ready," "Done," "Positive," and "Negative".
Acquisition
Accession
2022.11
Relationships
Related Events
Covid-19 Pandemic
Event
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Plastic, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2022.11.1
Context
Given to donor [Amanda Gustin] by State of Vermont to be used for testing over Christmas 2021, when the testing labs were closed.
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Green glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "DR BAXTER'S MANDRAKE BITTERS LORD BROS PROPRIETORS BURLINGTON VT". The bottle has 12 narrow sides forming a circle.
Use
Mandrake bitters were used as a cure for indigestion, constipation, and headaches.
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Lord Brothers
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.16
Context
Made for Lord Brothers of Burlington, Vermont.
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "W. H. ZOTTMAN & CO. BURLINGTON, VT." The bottom is labeled, "W.T. Co. PAT JAN 18 98"
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Made/Created
Date made
1898
Manufacturer
W. T. & Co., W. H. Zottman & Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.17
Context
Made for W. H. Zottman & Co. of Burlington, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
"JARVIS BLOOD RENOVATOR/ PREPARED BY/ GEO. S. JARVIS & CO." On side: "MONTREAL P.Q." and "BURLINGTON, VT."
green
green
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montreal
City
Quebec
State/Province
Canada
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
George S. Jarvis & Company
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.25
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "L.H.GREENE/DRUGGIST/ 25 STATE ST./MONTPELIER,VT." and a molded image of a mortar and pestle in the center.
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. W. L., L. H. Greene
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.52
Context
Made by L. H. Greene of Montpelier, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "H J DWINELL DRUGGIST MORRISVILLE, VT." Above the inscription is the molded image of a hand fan with the initial D on it.
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Made/Created
Manufacturer
H. J. Dwinell
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.61
Context
Made by H. J. Dwinell of Morrisville, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "DRS BAILEY AND ALLEN PHARMACISTS RANDOLPH, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1997.28
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Drs. Bailey and Allen
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1997.28.74
Context
Made by Drs. Bailey and Allen of Randolph, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular brown glass bottle with a paper label reading, "SMITH'S Green Mountain Renovator." The label also contains directions for use. The other side of the bottle is molded with the inscription, "SMITH'S GREEN MOUNTAIN RENOVATOR.", and the sides are molded with the inscriptions "REMEDY COMPANY" and "ST. ALBANS, VT." The bottle is sealed with a cork and full of liquid.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.11
Made/Created
Manufacturer
St. Albans Remedy Co.
Entry/Object ID
2000.11.1
Context
Made by St. Albans Remedy Company, St. Albans, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular green glass bottle with a paper label on one side that reads, "Strong spirits of Camphor for family used. Prepared by Burlington Drug Co. Wholesale Druggists, Burlington, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.16
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Burlington Drug Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1996.16.12
Context
Made by Burlington Drug Company in Burlington, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Glass medicine bottle with metal screw top. The bottle is made of clear glass with a metal screw top colored red. An aged paper label with black printed lettering is adhered to the bottle. The label has two parallel thin black lines on the edges of the label creating a frame around the text. The label reads, “DR. B.J. KENDALL’S / PECTORAL / ELIXIR / ALCOHOL 5% / A STIMULATING / EXPECTORANT / For Coughs or Hoarseness due to Colds.” and continues on with “Directions:- For Adults 1-2 to 2 teaspoonfuls 4 or 5 times a day. For a Child 6 years old 15 to 40 drops, 2 years old, 10 to 20 drops, 1 year old, 5 to 15 drops, If the above doses cause sicknese at the stomach take smaller doses. / Kimball’s Bros. & Co., Inc. / Sole Proprietors, Enosburg Falls, - Vermont.” The lettering is subdivided by thin black lines.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.27
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Dr. B. J. Kendall Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.27.4
Context
This bottle was previously contained in small cardboard box for Kendall's Spavin Cure, 1986.27.2.
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass medicine bottle with a white plastic cap. There are two rectangular paper labels on the either side of bottle, both orange. One has a photographic image of a boxer with the inscription, "BARRA'S RUB-MASSAGE REG. TRADE MARK Bobby "Kid" Barra FEEL LIKE NEW Rub-Massage for all Sports Indoor and Outdoor Prepared by ROBERT R. BARRA 24 Peru Street Burlington, Vt. 8 flu. ozs. $1.50 Satisfaction guaranteed FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY CAUTION NEAR FIRE". The other label has directions for use, and list of uses, and ingredients.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Barra, Robert R.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1948
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2014.6.6
Context
Made by Robert R. Barra in Burlington, Vermont
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass bottle with the molded inscription, “A. A. DEAN / DRUGGIST / BRISTOL VT".
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Made/Created
Date made
1879-1899
Manufacturer
A. A. Dean
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.86
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass bottle with the molded inscription, “FROM ANDREWS' DRUG STORE BELLOWS FALLS, VT." on one side and a paper label on the other side. The paper label is printed with the address of Andrews' Drug Store and has the handwritten label, "Herpes Cure".
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Andrew's Drug Store
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.97
Medicine Bottle
Name/Title
Medicine Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass bottle with the molded inscription, “SHELDON'S".
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.106
Medicine Chest
Name/Title
Medicine Chest
Lexicon
Description
This is a red wooden medicine chest that has eight drawers, with four drawers on top of four. The drawers have brass knobs, and the construction of the chest includes the use of square nails. The top of the chest is divided lengthwise, with the back half being hinged to reveal additional storage space beneath it.
In terms of the contents of the drawers, the first drawer on the top left contains a glass medicine bottle filled with a red and white substance, along with a cork that is sticky. There is also a fragment of advertising paper in the drawer. The second drawer from the left is currently empty, as is the third drawer left. The top right drawer contains 10 playing "jacks" and a piece of trim from the chest. Moving to the bottom row of drawers, the drawer on the bottom left contains a military bar pin. The second drawer from the left is currently empty, and the third drawer from the left contains a round piece of glass and a scrap of newspaper. Finally, the drawer on the bottom far right contains a vial, a miniature book, and pieces of medicine containers.
In terms of the contents of the drawers, the first drawer on the top left contains a glass medicine bottle filled with a red and white substance, along with a cork that is sticky. There is also a fragment of advertising paper in the drawer. The second drawer from the left is currently empty, as is the third drawer left. The top right drawer contains 10 playing "jacks" and a piece of trim from the chest. Moving to the bottom row of drawers, the drawer on the bottom left contains a military bar pin. The second drawer from the left is currently empty, and the third drawer from the left contains a round piece of glass and a scrap of newspaper. Finally, the drawer on the bottom far right contains a vial, a miniature book, and pieces of medicine containers.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.31
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2010.31.17a-h
Megaphone
Name/Title
Megaphone
Description
Green and white megaphone from the Austine Cheer Squad. The green megaphone has silver metal rolled rims at the small mouth opening and the larger projection opening, and a cleat-style handle a long the metal pinned seam. The megaphone is green with "AUSTINE" down one side in white lettering and a white arrow with scraped-away green "A" at the top point edge for the Austine Arrows.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Made/Created
Date made
1960-1990
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.19
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Membership Button
Name/Title
Membership Button
Lexicon
Description
Small blue pin: "School Bank Club of America" in white lettering and "MEMBER" printed across center on a red band. Maker information printed on paper insert in back: "The Whitehead & Hoag Co./ Buttons/ Badges/ Novelties/ and Signs/ Newark, N.J." Pin attached to back.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.72
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
School Bank Club of America
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
The Whitehead & Hoag Co.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.72.6
Context
No information was found about this organization or about which Vermont school was associated with this pin. It came from the estate of A. Fern Souther (1907-2004), who was born in Orleans, VT, grew up in Lowell, VT, was an elementary school teacher in Burlington, VT.
Membership Ribbon
Name/Title
Membership Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
A blue ribbon with silver fringe and topped with a silver metal bar with pin on the back. The bar has the words “Faith, Hope and Charity” on it plus a crossed anchor and cross. On the ribbon, printed in black on the initials “I.O.G.T.” then a globe with the words “our field” across the middle. At the bottom of the ribbon, it says, “Camel’s Hump Lodge, No. 119, Huntington, Vt.”
Acquisition
Accession
1973.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
International Organization of Good Templars
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Huntington
Town
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1973.15.1
Context
The I.O.G.T. stands for International Organization of Good Templars and was a temperance fraternal group founded in 1851 in Utica, N.Y. It was one of the few organizations that welcomed women, not only as members, but to leadership positions. And some lodges admitted black members until after the Civil War when dual lodges were allowed. The organization also had the name American Independent Order of Good Templars. One source of more information about the I.O.G.T. is http://www.iogt.us/iogt.php?p=35.
Metal Fragment
Name/Title
Metal Fragment
Lexicon
Description
Bent rectangular metal fragment, possibly from strapping. One end is bent toward the flat size, and the other end is bent and slightly twisted in the opposite direction.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.57
Relationships
Related Places
,
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1960.57.5
Context
Taken from the site of Fort St. Frederic near Crown Point, New York
Milk Bottle
Name/Title
Milk Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Milk bottle printed in green with a skiing cow on one side and the circular logo for Mansfield Dairy on the other.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.52
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Mansfield Dairy
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1976.52.1
Context
Made by Mansfield Dary in Stowe Vermont.
Milk Bottle
Name/Title
Milk Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Clear glass milk bottle with orange printed label saying, "Ethan Allen Creamery / Essex Junction Vt.", on both sides.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.15
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Ethan Allen Creamery
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1981.15
Context
Made by Ethan Allen Creamery in Essex Junction, Vermont
Milk Strainer
Name/Title
Milk Strainer
Lexicon
Description
Large aluminum funnel used for straining milk as it was poured into milk cans. The top is about 12" in diameter, and it narrows to 5.5" with 2 metal straining disks in the bottom, held by metal spring hoop. Entire device is 8.5" high.
Acquisition
Accession
1977.31
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Stone, William Chester (1889-1972), Stone, Ada Hopkins Willard (1887-1974)
Related Places
Place
Springfield
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1977.31.3
Context
Used by William and Ada Stone in Springfield, Vermont.
Milking Pail
Name/Title
Milking Pail
Lexicon
Description
Tin milking pail with strainer lip. One side of the pail has a wide spout, set beneath the strainer lip. There is a handle at the bottom of the opposite side for pouring, and a wire handle across the top for carrying.
Acquisition
Accession
1963.3
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Batchelder, Orvis Burton (1826-1911)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1963.3.1
Context
Likely used by Orvis Burton Batchelder near Barre, Vermont
Mineral Water Glass Bottle Vermont Spring Water
Name/Title
Mineral Water Glass Bottle Vermont Spring Water
Lexicon
Description
Dark green glass bottle for local mineral water. The bottle (a) is a round cylinder with long neck and indentation near top. Traces near indention suggest perhaps a wax cover (no longer present) and there is a dried cork (b) still in place. "VERMONT SPRING" is stamped in a rounded half circle using protruding block letters in all capitals. Beneath is "SAXE & Co" beneath which is "SHELDON, VT."
Vermont Spring Sheldon, VT Mineral Water Bottle, emerald green quart size two dots on bottom (delineating mold imperfections in making of glass)
Vermont Spring Sheldon, VT Mineral Water Bottle, emerald green quart size two dots on bottom (delineating mold imperfections in making of glass)
Acquisition
Accession
2024.19
Dimensions
Dimension Description
dimensions without cork
Materials
Material Notes
cork stable and tight in bottle
Material
Glass, Cork
Entry/Object ID
2024.19.1a-b
Context
Purchased at May 3rd Americana and Fine Arts Auction, Duane Merrill and Co. Williston, VT
Miniature Bow and Arrow Set
Name/Title
Miniature Bow and Arrow Set
Lexicon
Description
Miniature recurve bow with string through stave and waterfowl arrow. Arrow is tied to stave with strip of fabric.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.72a-b
Context
Made for the tourist trade
Miniature Canoe
Name/Title
Miniature Canoe
Lexicon
Description
Wood and birch bark canoe
Use
Model sold for the tourist trade
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.54
Context
This small canoe from Western New Hampshire is almost identical in construction to the common “Odanak Abenaki” model canoes sold by the ten thousand all over the Northeast and are still being made to this day. However, this one lacks the decking that is characteristic of the Odanak style that makes them almost look like a kayak. It is unclear whether this is an earlier, American Abenaki style, or a geographic variation, even if there are any others made in this style.
Miniature Snowshoes
Name/Title
Miniature Snowshoes
Lexicon
Description
wood and sinew snowshoes
Use
model snowshoes produced for the tourist trade
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.53a-b
Miniature Toboggan
Name/Title
Miniature Toboggan
Lexicon
Use
Model made for tourist sale
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1910
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.51
Mirror Case
Name/Title
Mirror Case
Lexicon
Description
a. Brown, hide pouch with small flower design made of dyed porcupine quills.
b. Round wood mirror
b. Round wood mirror
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.130a-b
Context
This was an unexpected find, originally from an old farmhouse in North Central New Hampshire. It has a leather front and flap and “blue/gray “bed ticking” back, giving it a 19th century date. It has a small but definite porcupine quilled design and holds a small round mirror. The research on these items is so sparse, there is no guarantee that this was made by the Abenaki community, but the pouch was not a souvenir purchased elsewhere and brought back to New Hampshire.
Mirror, Hand
Name/Title
Mirror, Hand
Lexicon
Description
Dark gray slate cut in the shape of a hand mirror, with a hole in the handle. One side has a smooth surface, the opposite side is rougher. No actual mirror is attached. No manufacturer mark.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.53
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Slate
Entry/Object ID
2013.53.3
Mittens
Name/Title
Mittens
Lexicon
Description
Brown, knitted wool mittens with a floral design of red blooms and a green stem. They are knitted with a heavy looped pile.
Acquisition
Accession
1973.27
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Templeton, Horatio (1819-1895)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
1973.27.2a-b
Context
Worn by Horatio Templeton in Montpelier, Vermont.
Moccasin
Name/Title
Moccasin
Lexicon
Description
High-top, hide moccasin with blue and white, beaded quatrefoil design. Zig-zag border on heel.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.135
Moccasin Cuff
Name/Title
Moccasin Cuff
Lexicon
Description
Fabric decorated with geometric beadwork. Black, white, green, and purple beads.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.131
Context
This object is tiny but is one of the few surviving pieces of late 18th century Wabanaki beadwork, and has a Swanton, Vermont provenance. It was found in the wall of a 19th century Swanton house being demolished in the early 1900’s. Ex. Ben Gravel Collection.
Moccasin Vamp
Name/Title
Moccasin Vamp
Lexicon
Description
Beaded, fabric moccasin vamp (top of foot). Design includes light blue and dark blue quatrefoil motif with green, spiral motif nearer the toe. Edged in black and white beading.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1840
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.145
Context
This single Moccasin vamp, with quatrefoil motif and tipped lines was found in Norwood, NH. It has a couple other regionally diagnostic motifs such as the two-color radiating lines and the green twisted outline beadwork.
Moccasins
Name/Title
Moccasins
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Moccasins
Description
Quilled leather moccasins. Thongs added in 1999.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.63a-b
Context
These are strange pieces, they are of modern style commercial tanned leather, and the porcupine quilling is excellent but does not use dyed quills. The pair is probably a revival piece of some kind, but I am unsure of the prototype.
Moccasins
Name/Title
Moccasins
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Moccasins
Textile Details
Leather
Material
Description
Winter Moccasins of possibly Huron manufacture
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.77a-b
Context
Traded or sold to Abenaki family
Model Car
Name/Title
Model Car
Description
Vermont (Transit) bus scale model. Die-cast replica of Vermont (Transit) bus in original packaging, a blue cardboard box with molded plastic form to hold bus, 2 sealed bags with rubber gasket-type pieces, an accordian-type pamphlet showing different styles of Corgi vehicles, and a 2.75" x 4.75" certification card with photo of bus on one side and printed below: "This is to certify that this is a Limited Edition and is one in a series of 1,500 distributed worldwide." Reverse side of card gives model number and history of Corgi.
Box cover is in shades of blue with photo of bus in background & imprinted: "1:50 Scale Limited Edition/ Die-Cast Replica" "Vintage Bus Lines" logo diagonally on right side and in left corner "CORGI" with red trademark Corgi.
At each end is picture of bus with model number. On one side of cover are six scenes of buses and printed below: "Highly Detailed Die-Cast Models for the Adult Collector" with Corgi trademark and "Vintage Bus Lines" logo. On other side of cover is same historical information as on Certification card.
The bus is white with a three color green roadway on each side and a fully sprinting greyhound dog. "VERMONT" in dark green is toward the back of the bus. A U.S. flag is at the very front below the driver's window and on the door. On front of bus, over driver's window, is printed "White River Jct" Under front windows is bus ID number "40189" and 'VERMONT" and license plate. By left passenger door is blue "handicap" logo and bus ID number appears over passenger door and driver's door. In front of back wheels on each side is "Owned by: State of Vermont/ Operated by: Vermont Transit Co., Inc./ Burlington, VT/ USDOT086293" On back of bus is "40189" with greyhound, "VERMONT" and license plate. Underneath is "0084" limited edition number and at front: "CORGI/ MCI 102"
Box cover is in shades of blue with photo of bus in background & imprinted: "1:50 Scale Limited Edition/ Die-Cast Replica" "Vintage Bus Lines" logo diagonally on right side and in left corner "CORGI" with red trademark Corgi.
At each end is picture of bus with model number. On one side of cover are six scenes of buses and printed below: "Highly Detailed Die-Cast Models for the Adult Collector" with Corgi trademark and "Vintage Bus Lines" logo. On other side of cover is same historical information as on Certification card.
The bus is white with a three color green roadway on each side and a fully sprinting greyhound dog. "VERMONT" in dark green is toward the back of the bus. A U.S. flag is at the very front below the driver's window and on the door. On front of bus, over driver's window, is printed "White River Jct" Under front windows is bus ID number "40189" and 'VERMONT" and license plate. By left passenger door is blue "handicap" logo and bus ID number appears over passenger door and driver's door. In front of back wheels on each side is "Owned by: State of Vermont/ Operated by: Vermont Transit Co., Inc./ Burlington, VT/ USDOT086293" On back of bus is "40189" with greyhound, "VERMONT" and license plate. Underneath is "0084" limited edition number and at front: "CORGI/ MCI 102"
Acquisition
Accession
2008.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Transit Company, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2004
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Rubber, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2008.25.1
Model Train
Name/Title
Model Train
Lexicon
Description
Route of The Whippet. Rutland 25
Acquisition
Accession
2022.10
Entry/Object ID
2022.10.8
Context
Rutland railroad model train car
Model Train Car
Name/Title
Model Train Car
Lexicon
Description
Railroad car, painted mustard yellow with maroon roof. Lettering in orange "COUPLING" on the side with "PT / 1869" painted in the lower center of each side. Flourishes are at each end of the word COUPLING. Vertical dividers on the sides with 7 sections and a small 1x1 gray "window" at the top and orange pinstriping and green and gray lines too. Ends have painted doors. 8 brass wheels on the bottom with one pair attached to the hardware on the end that attaches the cars.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.23
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Braley, Andrew Jackson (1828-1878)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Braley, Andrew Jackson (1828-1878)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Brass, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2014.23.1.2
Model Train Car
Name/Title
Model Train Car
Lexicon
Description
1/2" scale model of Mansfield First Freight Motor 1898 on the Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad during the years 1898 - 1933.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.7
Made/Created
Date made
1990-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.7.1
Model Train Car
Name/Title
Model Train Car
Lexicon
Description
"Mansfield's Second Freight Motor-1915" on the Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad during the years 1898 - 1933. This is built to 1/2" scale.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.7
Made/Created
Date made
1990-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.7.2
Model Train Car
Name/Title
Model Train Car
Lexicon
Description
"Mansfield's Rotary Plow-A Failure-1898" on the Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad during the years 1898 - 1933. This is built to 1/2" scale.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.7
Made/Created
Date made
1990-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1993.7.4
Model Train Car
Name/Title
Model Train Car
Lexicon
Description
"Waterbury-Stowe Interurban 1898-1932" on the Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad during the years 1898 - 1933. This is built to 1/2" scale.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.7
Made/Created
Date made
1990-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, String
Entry/Object ID
1993.7.5
Model Train Engine
Name/Title
Model Train Engine
Lexicon
Description
Model train engine, coal car (tender), and track. The engine and tender are black with red wheels and gold-painted accents. The word "BARRE" is on the engine, and "C. V R. R." is on the tender. In the engine, the door to the firebox opens, and there is a lever underneath to let out ashes. The tender has working brakes, and the sand box rod is moveable. The front of the engine has a removable cow catcher. The track is made of wood.
Acquisition
Accession
1949.17
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Central Vermont Railway
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Watson, William Arthur (1865-1950)
Artist
Date made
1879
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1949.17.1a-c
Context
Model of the first engine to run between Barre and Montpelier Junction made by William Arthur Watson at age 14 (1879). The model was made from boxes and the tops of flour barrels, with a piece of railroad track used as an anvil during the construction process.
Moose Call
Name/Title
Moose Call
Lexicon
Description
Birchbark cone with three bark bands
Use
Moose calling
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Birch
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.107
Context
Native made moose calls are very common in Maine but are relatively rare in Vermont and New Hampshire and only come from scattered woods and lake camps in the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont to Western Maine. This one was made to use, not a tourist souvenir.
Mortar and Pestle
Name/Title
Mortar and Pestle
Lexicon
Description
Large wooden mortar and pestle.
Acquisition
Accession
1932.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Galusha, Jonas (1753–1834)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1932.4.2a-b
Context
Owned by Jonas Galusha, the sixth and eighth Governor of Vermont.
Mortarboard
Name/Title
Mortarboard
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Mortarboard
Textile Details
Silk
Cardboard
Description
Green satin covered mortarboard (graduation cap). The cap is a dark green fabric-wrapped square with a button at the center to hold a tassel. There is a cap adhered underneath to secure it to the wearer's head and the board is labeled "JOSTENS" in black and red underneath.
Worn by an Austine graduate.
Worn by an Austine graduate.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.51
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Mount Tom
Name/Title
Mount Tom
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas painting of Mount Tom by Charles Franklin Pierce. The painting features a blue sky with wisps of darkened clouds that lighten as they pass over the peak towards the river. The landscape shows a fall scene, with scattered orange and brown leaves on the trees and a pale green field on the far bank of the river. The painting is set into a carved gilt gesso frame.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Pierce, Charles Franklin (1844-1920)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Subject
Mount Tom
Made/Created
Artist Information
Charles Franklin Pierce
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.3
Context
Charles Franklin Pierce was born on April 26th, 1844 in Sharon, New Hampshire to John A. and Phila W. Pierce. He was the third of six children who were raised in the nearby rural community of Peterborough. His early years were spent working on the family farm where the pastoral environment and a multitude of livestock made a deep impression on the future artist. Many of the works of art he would create later on in his life would stem from his familiarity with the farming way of life in the mid 1800s. Cows were one of his favorite subjects.
In the early 1860s his creative energies started to emerge and the drudgery of farm work was certainly no outlet for them, so in 1864 he decided to move to Boston to attend art school. Over the next few years he developed his skills at school and in the latter 1860s took his sketchbooks and went to England, Scotland and Wales to sketch the countryside there. This was his first of two prolonged stays in Europe during his lifetime and he honed his craft through his acute attention to detail.
The Early 1870s found Pierce back in Boston where he was a leader in the Boston Art Club and as the country celebrated the centennial of its founding, Pierce married his first wife Luena Wilder of Peterborough who was also an artist of note. They both returned to Europe in the late 1870s and sketched and painted and toured for over a year. They continued to paint both European and New England scenes in a Boston studio and at an estate in Peterborough and after 30 years of marriage Luena died in 1906.
Pierce continued to paint and draw and in 1912, he married Sarah Katherine Plimpton of Massachusetts. They lived on his estate in Peterborough and in Brookline Massachusetts where he died in 1920 on March 5th. In his studio upon his death were found numerous unfinished canvases, which attest to his liveliness right up to his final breath at the age of 67.
In the early 1860s his creative energies started to emerge and the drudgery of farm work was certainly no outlet for them, so in 1864 he decided to move to Boston to attend art school. Over the next few years he developed his skills at school and in the latter 1860s took his sketchbooks and went to England, Scotland and Wales to sketch the countryside there. This was his first of two prolonged stays in Europe during his lifetime and he honed his craft through his acute attention to detail.
The Early 1870s found Pierce back in Boston where he was a leader in the Boston Art Club and as the country celebrated the centennial of its founding, Pierce married his first wife Luena Wilder of Peterborough who was also an artist of note. They both returned to Europe in the late 1870s and sketched and painted and toured for over a year. They continued to paint both European and New England scenes in a Boston studio and at an estate in Peterborough and after 30 years of marriage Luena died in 1906.
Pierce continued to paint and draw and in 1912, he married Sarah Katherine Plimpton of Massachusetts. They lived on his estate in Peterborough and in Brookline Massachusetts where he died in 1920 on March 5th. In his studio upon his death were found numerous unfinished canvases, which attest to his liveliness right up to his final breath at the age of 67.
Mountain View
Name/Title
Mountain View
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil painting showing green rolling hills in front of a forest of tall trees and hills dotted with autumn colors. The lower corner is signed, "CV GRANT 32".
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Grant, Cecil Vezin (1880-1953)
Artist
Date made
1932
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.343
Context
Cecil V. Grant was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on July 20, 1880. He was educated at the Pingry School in Elizabeth, NJ, and after his marriage to Mary Jack they relocated to Elizabeth where their only child, Lois, was born in 1914.
Grant was a stockbroker, commuting to Wall Street in New York City each day. On weekends he was a “Hobby Painter,” and traveled to the New Jersey shore, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in the 1920s to southern Vermont. In the late 1920s he purchased an old farmhouse between Londonderry and Peru on Rt. 11.
The farmhouse was intended to be a summer vacation home, but the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 changed all that: Cecil Grant lost his job, his life savings and even his home in Elizabeth, NJ. He moved his family to the Vermont farmhouse, struggled to make ends meet with odd jobs, and continued his painting just to keep occupied. But in the depths of the Great Depression, Grant began to win prizes for some of his paintings exhibited locally. From then until his death in March 1953 he painted over a thousand oil landscapes of Vermont, virtually all of scenes within a 30 mile radius of his Londonderry home. He painted year around, and in the summers he had what amounted to a one man show on the village green in Manchester, next to Walter Hard’s drugstore and across the street from the Equinox House hotel. In his later years he also operated The Manchester Art Gallery in what is now the Brewster Funeral Home in Manchester Center.
Grant was a stockbroker, commuting to Wall Street in New York City each day. On weekends he was a “Hobby Painter,” and traveled to the New Jersey shore, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in the 1920s to southern Vermont. In the late 1920s he purchased an old farmhouse between Londonderry and Peru on Rt. 11.
The farmhouse was intended to be a summer vacation home, but the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 changed all that: Cecil Grant lost his job, his life savings and even his home in Elizabeth, NJ. He moved his family to the Vermont farmhouse, struggled to make ends meet with odd jobs, and continued his painting just to keep occupied. But in the depths of the Great Depression, Grant began to win prizes for some of his paintings exhibited locally. From then until his death in March 1953 he painted over a thousand oil landscapes of Vermont, virtually all of scenes within a 30 mile radius of his Londonderry home. He painted year around, and in the summers he had what amounted to a one man show on the village green in Manchester, next to Walter Hard’s drugstore and across the street from the Equinox House hotel. In his later years he also operated The Manchester Art Gallery in what is now the Brewster Funeral Home in Manchester Center.
Mr. M. Wright's Family Record
Name/Title
Mr. M. Wright's Family Record
Lexicon
Description
Wright family record. Pen, ink and watercolor. Marriage, birth, and death records of the Medad Wright family are written in the space between highly stylized columns. Above columns are three arches, within which are the words marriages, births, and deaths in semicircular form. Around these words are stylized hearts, hands, and a willow tree. Bases of columns have flared bottoms and semicircular tops.
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Ink, Watercolor
Made/Created
Date made
1820-1850
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-500
Mr. N, Atwells Family Record
Name/Title
Mr. N, Atwells Family Record
Lexicon
Description
Mr. Nathan Atwell's family record. Marriages, births, and deaths--L to R. The sections are separated with columns and archways. they are all in black with color highlights. The colors used are yellow, red and green. There are many entries in the birth column with a few in marriages and deaths. Symbolic drawings under the archways, hearts, a squiggle?, and a weeping willow. There are many losses fromt he acidity of the ink. Recently back from the conservator. Johnson, VT.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor, Ink
Made/Created
Date made
1820-1850
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-558
Mrs. Clara Hopkins/ Mother Nursing a Baby
Interpretative Labels
Label
Ruth Greene Mould was born in Morrisville, Vt. She studied art at the Minneapolis Art Institute then returned to VT and taught school. She was well known in the state for her portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes. She did this painting when she lived in Johnson, VT.
Name/Title
Mrs. Clara Hopkins/ Mother Nursing a Baby
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Painting is of Mrs. Kenneth (Clara ) Hopkins (Jan. 26, 1908 - Jul. 12, 2001) and her daughter Marian (born Sept. 26, 1938) of Johnson, Vermont.
Marian Hopkins Nichols visited the VHC on 8/01/2007 and gave this information to Jackie Calder. The Hopkins were dairy farmers and worked the Stiles farm which was originally owned by Clara's parents. A photograph was taken of Marion Hopkins Nichols holding the painting when she visited.
[Hard copy of notes is with worksheet in file.]
Marian Hopkins Nichols visited the VHC on 8/01/2007 and gave this information to Jackie Calder. The Hopkins were dairy farmers and worked the Stiles farm which was originally owned by Clara's parents. A photograph was taken of Marion Hopkins Nichols holding the painting when she visited.
[Hard copy of notes is with worksheet in file.]
Acquisition
Accession
1998.22
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mould, Ruth Greene (1894-1979)
Artist
Date made
1938-1939
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1998.22.25
Muddy Lane
Name/Title
Muddy Lane
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas painting showing a grassy and muddy landscape, with various trees and small rocks throughout. On the right side of the painting, post and rail fencing stands above a rock wall, separating a muddy depression on the left, and a grassy hill with many trees on the right.
In the background, a dark green mountain spreads to both sides of the canvas, illuminated by a blue sky, adorned with clouds of various shapes and sizes. It is signed in black ink at the bottom left, "L H Towsley".
In the background, a dark green mountain spreads to both sides of the canvas, illuminated by a blue sky, adorned with clouds of various shapes and sizes. It is signed in black ink at the bottom left, "L H Towsley".
Acquisition
Accession
2022.26
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Manchester
Town
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Towsley, Leale Hastings (1888-1963)
Artist
Date made
1930-1945
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2022.26.1
Context
Leale Towsley was born and raised in Manchester, Vermont. He attended Burr and Burton Seminary and worked in Manchester until enlisting in the Army for WWI. Upon discharge he returned to Manchester, but soon left for California to study art.
He visited Manchester frequently and was a member of Southern Vermont Artists. He returned to Vermont permanently in 1950 when he took residence at the Vermont Soldier's Home in Bennington.
He visited Manchester frequently and was a member of Southern Vermont Artists. He returned to Vermont permanently in 1950 when he took residence at the Vermont Soldier's Home in Bennington.
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
A cylindrical, insulated travel mug with a cover that snaps on. Gray mug with dark green top, lid/cover and handle. Two sides of the mug have the following images: side 1) pair of hiking boots with writing surrounding "THE LONG TRAIL Vermont's Footpath in the Wilderness" with a much smaller "Green Mountain Club" side 2) "The Green Mountain Club/ Founder and Protector of the Long Trail Since 1910" / "Vermont's Long Trail---445 Miles of/ Backcountry Adventures!/ (a vertical map showing the trail thru VT.)/ The Green Mountain Club/ Route 100. Waterbury Center, Vt. 05677.(802)244-7037"
gray/dark green/black
gray/dark green/black
Acquisition
Accession
2001.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green Mountain Club
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Long Trail
* Untyped Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1999
Manufacturer
Whirley
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2001.5.1a-b
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
Blue plastic drinking mug. "Milk is Good FOOOOOOD / Vermont" with line drawings of cows lined up between the two rows of text.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.47
Made/Created
Date made
1994
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2000.47.2
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic mug given out by the state. It has blue images of a building with earmuffs, another with an upside down "jacket" that zips and the Statehouse with a hat on the dome and a blanket around the bottom. Inside a green circle are words in blue type. The message: "It takes energy to save energy."
Acquisition
Accession
1990.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Historical Society
State of Vermont
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1990.37.1
Mug
Interpretative Labels
Label
Ceramic pieces – whether utilitarian or decorative – have been popular souvenir items for centuries. Tourists often buy examples from specific locations, unaware they are identical to dozens of others, with only a small change in feature to reflect the site of purchase.
Barre Ethnic Heritage Festival Mug, 1970
Barre, VT
Glass
Gift of Ellen Robbins, #2011.44.3
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
Opaque, white glass coffee mug with a printed blue wrap on the exterior. Within two white ovals on either side of the mug are line drawings of monuments. One is labeled, "ROBERT BURNS", and the other is labeled, "YOUTH TRIUMPHANT". Between the two ovals is a circular logo showing a crane in a quarry with the words, "BARRE VERMONT / HERITAGE FESTIVAL".
Acquisition
Accession
2011.44
Relationships
Related Events
Barre Heritage Festival
Event
Related Person or Organization
Barre Ethnic Heritage Association, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1970
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2011.44.3
Context
Produced as souvenirs of the 1970 Barre Ethnic Heritage Festival in Barre, Vermont
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
Straight-sided white ceramic mug with the green inscription "RadioVermont WDEV AM550 FM96.1" on one side and "Radio You Can Count on Since 1931" on the other side.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.48
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
WDEV
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waterbury
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1990-2000
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.48.1
Context
Made for WDEV, a radio channel based in Waterbury, Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
White mug with navy blue signatures of classical music composers. Across the middle is the inscription, "We Support the Classics ON VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO."
Acquisition
Accession
1997.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Public Radio
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1989
Manufacturer
Forest Incentives
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1997.1.1
Context
Produced as a donation incentive by Vermont Public Radio
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
White flower pot shaped ceramic mug with two illustrations of monsters playing instruments and the red inscription, "Vermont Public Radio 89.5FM/Windsor 107.9FM/Burlington 88.7FM/Rutland". On the bottom is the mark, "KOPOTS/VERMONT INC."
Acquisition
Accession
1997.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Public Radio
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Koren, Edward Benjamin (b. 1935), Potok, Charlotte Cherney (1930-2008)
Date made
circa 1990
Manufacturer
Kopots Vermont, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1997.1.3
Context
Made by Kopots Vermont, Inc. as a donation incentive for Vermont Public Radio.
Mug
Name/Title
Mug
Lexicon
Description
White coffee mug printed in red with the inscription "Danforth's Sugarhouse East Montpelier, VT 800-887-9536 VT's Most Complete Maple Supply" on one side and "Danforth's Sugarhouse Home of Free Shipping and Cash 'n Carry Prices".
Acquisition
Accession
2008.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Danforth's Sugarhouse
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
East Montpelier
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 2000
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2008.19.5
Context
Produced for Danforth's Sugarhouse in East Montpelier, Vermont
Muskrat Spear
Name/Title
Muskrat Spear
Lexicon
Description
Metal rod sharpened ends and sharp protrusions a long the sides.
Use
Hunting muskrat
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Materials
Material
Steel
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.152
Context
An amazing find from the Northeast kingdom antique shop in Irasburg. This wrought iron spear was not definitively associated with an Abenaki family but is considered a typical “Indian Trade” item in the literature.
Napkin Holder
Name/Title
Napkin Holder
Lexicon
Description
Black-painted metal napkin holder in the shape of a basket. The holder is stenciled in shades of yellow and green with a floral pattern on the exterior sides of the basket and along the upper side of the handle.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.4
Made/Created
Artist Information
Cleveland, Susie Boyce Ditty Fiske (1894-1982)
Artist
Time Period
20th Century
Date made
1940-1960
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2012.4.4
Context
Made by Susie Cleveland in Northfield, Vermont
Napkin Holder
Name/Title
Napkin Holder
Lexicon
Description
Wooden napkin holder with the fan-tailed bird carvings attached on either side. The sides also have carvings in the wood of round flowers with leaves. The sides are attached to the base with screws. These carvings are made from one piece of cedar, which is then fanned out to form the tail.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.23
Made/Created
Artist Information
Nutting, Chester (1900-1975)
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2012.23.12
Context
Made by Chester Nutting of Danville, Vermont
Napkin Rings
Name/Title
Napkin Rings
Lexicon
Description
4 carved wooden napkin rings. They are carved with floral vines over a mottled ground.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.14
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Santo, Pasquale "Patsy" (1893-1975)
Artist
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2023.14.6a-d
Context
Made by Pasquale "Patsy" Santo of Rutland, Vermont.
Napkin Rings
Name/Title
Napkin Rings
Lexicon
Description
Birch bark napkin rings. The first rounded napkin ring in the set (a) is a basket weave design with strips of light bark. The interior is a single complete layer of light birch bark with the cursive handwritten message “Willoughby lake 1923” in black ink. A green ribbon circles the side of the ring and has a bow at the center of the exterior facing side. The second rounded napkin ring (b) is a basket weave design with strips of dark bark woven in horizontally and the light bark vertically. The interior is a single complete layer of light birch bark lining with the words “From Home Farm” in cursive handwriting and in black ink. A red ribbon circles the side of the napkin ring and is tied in a bow at the center of the exterior facing side.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.118
Entry/Object ID
1967.118.9a-b
National Horse Nail Company
Name/Title
National Horse Nail Company
Lexicon
Description
Lithographic print showing 2 large factory buildings beside a body of water. There is a large boat pulled alongside the quay, a small steamboat near it, 2 large boats directly approaching the shore, and a small rowboat. Behind the factories are a waterfall (left), 2 factory buildings, and scattered domestic buildings. Beneath the print is the title, "National Horse Nail Co. / VERGENNES, Vt." The bottom right corner is labeled, "Geo. H. WALKER & CO. Lith. BOSTON."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.69
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
National Horse Nail Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vergennes
City
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Manufacturer
Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2006.69.7
Needle Case
Name/Title
Needle Case
Lexicon
Description
Beaded needle case
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.127
Needlework Basket
Name/Title
Needlework Basket
Lexicon
Description
Sweetgrass sewing basket with tatted and crocheted contents. The basket has four interior features: a pincushion with green velveteen dome top (and 4 pins), a thimble holder, a scissors holder and a lidded compartment to store tiny things in (about 1.5" square and .5" deep.
This does not appear to have been colored.
The magnifying glass has two numbers scratched on it "13" and "3" It has a tiny handle. The rim and handle are a flat grey metal.
This does not appear to have been colored.
The magnifying glass has two numbers scratched on it "13" and "3" It has a tiny handle. The rim and handle are a flat grey metal.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.2
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sheridan, Lena Caverzasi (1913-2008)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Sweetgrass, Cotton, Crochet
Entry/Object ID
2010.2a-b
Context
Used by Lena Caverzasi Sheridan
New Rural School
Name/Title
New Rural School
Lexicon
Description
Watercolor of a rural school house with trees and fields in foreground and a village in the background. It is mounted within a brown mat that has the label, "THE NEW RURAL SCHOOL" and a thin silver line around the mat opening. The whole is framed in a black wooden frame with a simple molding.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.64
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Farnham, Lenora Rachael Stevens (1869-1943), Daughters of the American Revolution
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Stebbins, Verna
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1924
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2003.64.1
Context
In the late 1910s and 1920s the Daughters of the American Revolution took a distinct interest in education in the United States. In the early years they felt a need to create a unified, Anglo-American-centric curriculum to help immigrants shed their own culture and become "Americanized." By the mid-1920s this initiative grew beyond new immigrants to poor and rural schools.
In 1924, the Marquis de Lafayette Chapter of the DAR (Montpelier) sponsored a speaking contest to define the "New Rural School" and raise funds for the project. The speaker had to be between the ages of 50 and 90. This second prize painting by Verna Stebbins of Montpelier was awarded to Lenora Stevens Farnham on February 24, 1924.
In 1924, the Marquis de Lafayette Chapter of the DAR (Montpelier) sponsored a speaking contest to define the "New Rural School" and raise funds for the project. The speaker had to be between the ages of 50 and 90. This second prize painting by Verna Stebbins of Montpelier was awarded to Lenora Stevens Farnham on February 24, 1924.
Nordic Skis
Name/Title
Nordic Skis
Lexicon
Description
MADSHUS nordic skis. The top of the skis (a-b) are red and gradiate into white towards the bottom. "MADSHUS" is printed on the top half of both skis as well as on both outside edges of both skis. The top of the skis has a black speckled design around the bindings. On the top of both of the skis is a commemorative note written in black permanent marker. It reads, "Beijing OWG22 Team Sprint/ 1st NCAA 22' 10km." Along with the skis are two ski straps (c-d) to hold the skis together while they are being carried. One is dark blue and branded, "HOLMENKOL" and the other is light blue and branded, "PIONEER MIDWEST".
Acquisition
Accession
2024.29
Relationships
Related Events
2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 Nordic Skiing National Championships
Related Person or Organization
Ben Ogden
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
2021
Manufacturer
Madshus
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall ski dimensions
Materials
Material
fiberglass, Carbon Fiber
Entry/Object ID
2024.29.4a-d
Context
Used by Ben Ogden in both the 2022 Beijing Olympics as part of Team USA and the 2022 NCAA Skiing Championships with the UVM Ski Team. Ben Ogden grew up in Landgrove, VT.
Nose Bob
Name/Title
Nose Bob
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
silver, wing-shaped nose bob with British hallmarks. Wire added in 1995.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.30
Context
This little piece of silver is a real anomaly. This nose ornament was designed to hang from a wire or sinew thread from a pierced nose septum. This is a hallmarked British piece made in 1812 and may have been manufactured as another item before being formed into jewelry. Wiseman states: If early VT racism was as strong as we tend to believe, it is hard to imagine a Vermont Indigenous person feeling safe enough to wear this obvious sign of Native identity in early 19th century Vermont. I believe that the only possibility would be well-known “old Indians” who were seen as colorful characters in many early 19th century Northern New England towns. This may have been an early 19th century gift to one of these men.
Nueva Cadiz Bead
Name/Title
Nueva Cadiz Bead
Lexicon
Description
Nueva Cadiz pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1500-1600
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.206
Context
Usually associated with the Spanish trade
Nut Dish
Name/Title
Nut Dish
Lexicon
Description
Small white ceramic nut dish with a colored illustration of a government building with a golden dome in the center. The building has a portico with six columns and is flanked by trees. The illustration is labeled, "STATE CAPITOL MONTPELIER, VT". The bottom bears the mark, "Hand Painted The Jonroth Studios Germany / Painted and imported for Buswell's Book Store, Montpelier, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2000.3
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Buswell's Book Store
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Manufacturer
The Jonroth Studios
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2000.3.1
Context
Sold by Buswell's Book Store in Montpelier, Vermont
Nutpick
Name/Title
Nutpick
Lexicon
Description
A silver nutpick that when folded resembles a pocketknife. Engraved "Hiram"
silver
silver
Acquisition
Accession
1960.43
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gibbs, Hiram Harley (1851-1922), Gibbs, Jennie Harriet Isabel Cutting (1852-1918)
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1873
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
1960.43
Context
Given as a Christmas gift to Hiram Gibbs from his fiancee, Jennie Harriet Isabel Cutting, prior to their wedding on January 20, 1874, in Montpelier, Vermont
Occupational Badge
Name/Title
Occupational Badge
Lexicon
Description
Park Caretaker badge. State of Vermont, #31. Rampant eagle sits on top of medallion. It reads: "PARK/ CARETAKER/ PARK SERVICE/ 31/ STATE OF/ VERMONT" State seal in center with "FREEDOM UNITY" Silver colored metal.
Acquisition
Accession
2002.36
Made/Created
Date made
1960-1979
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2002.36.1
Context
According to paperwork with this donation from Brian Lindler of Waterbury, badges like this were issued in the 1960s and discontinued in the 1970s. " Each part supervisor/caretake was issued a badge with the original issues being in numerical order starting with the longest serving caretaker. Tony Pine at Groton State Forest was badge #1. The badges were created because there was no standard uniform and this program was selected as an inexpensive option to establish authority. In the 1970s, the view reversed when it was decided that badges made the caretakes appear to police-like. In the 1970s my father, Erwin Lindler, was the supervisor for all state parks in norther Vermont. he was ordered to collect all badges."
Occupational Button
Name/Title
Occupational Button
Lexicon
Description
Pin "CHAUFFEURS, TEAMSTERS & HELPERS OF BARRE, VT. / 1968/ 597/ AUG" Olive green outside perimeter with red and cream inside portions. Maker on edge: "BASTIAN BROS. CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y."
On back: "B B CO / ROCH NY"
Metal back has some rust. Some discoloration of red on front.
On back: "B B CO / ROCH NY"
Metal back has some rust. Some discoloration of red on front.
Acquisition
Accession
2002.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Celluloid
Entry/Object ID
2002.13
Context
Teamsters Local 597 was chartered in 1939 as "Chauffeurs, Teamsters, Warehouseman and Helpers Union No.597" by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 597 is also affiliated with Teamsters Joint Council 10 which includes all 24 Local Unions in New England, Vermont State Labor Council AFL-CIO, as well as the Vermont Building Trades Council.
Today Teamsters Local 597 represents over 900 workers in such diverse trades such as package delivery, freight, dairy processing, public transit and school bus services, building material and wire and cable manufacturing, police services and municipal highway maintenance.
Today Teamsters Local 597 represents over 900 workers in such diverse trades such as package delivery, freight, dairy processing, public transit and school bus services, building material and wire and cable manufacturing, police services and municipal highway maintenance.
Occupational Pin
Name/Title
Occupational Pin
Lexicon
Description
Triangular post-backed pin with the enameled initials "B.R.T." in gold on green ground. There is a stamp-molded gold braided border. There is a 1/2" threaded post on the back as well as the nut - the post gets placed in a small hole on the hat with the nut holding it on. There is a tiny (1/8") straight pin at the lower back edge that keeps it from spinning around.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Burlington Rapid Transit
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1960-circa 1970
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Enamel, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.29.6
Context
Uniform pin worn on the hats of Burlington Rapid Transit drivers. The Burlington Rapid Transit company was founded in 1926. It sold to Burlington Traction Company in 1929 and ceased operation in 1973.
Old Country Store
Name/Title
Old Country Store
Lexicon
Description
Four hand carved diaramas by Napoleon DeGuise, 'The Old Country Store.'
Carvings include: Lady at Post Office, child with toque, child with tam, man holding newspaper, little dog, tub, sitting man reading newspaper, standing man with pail, man with hands in upper side pockets watching game, man in derby watching game, man with hat playing game, game board, man with arm raised playing game, pot bellied stove, man with scarf tied around head and back to stove, wood box, man with hands up in front and face turned to side, man with hands in beard standing with coat collar turned up, man facing previous man, man reaching for cracker, cracker barrel, wall pieces include lantern over wood box, bacon to left of door, pair of boots to right of door, pair of hams (?) to right of boots.
Carvings include: Lady at Post Office, child with toque, child with tam, man holding newspaper, little dog, tub, sitting man reading newspaper, standing man with pail, man with hands in upper side pockets watching game, man in derby watching game, man with hat playing game, game board, man with arm raised playing game, pot bellied stove, man with scarf tied around head and back to stove, wood box, man with hands up in front and face turned to side, man with hands in beard standing with coat collar turned up, man facing previous man, man reaching for cracker, cracker barrel, wall pieces include lantern over wood box, bacon to left of door, pair of boots to right of door, pair of hams (?) to right of boots.
Acquisition
Accession
1991.46
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
DeGuise, Napoleon F. (1894-1950)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1945-1950
Manufacturer
DeGuise, Napoleon F. (1894-1950)
Entry/Object ID
1991.46.1
Old Gal
Name/Title
Old Gal
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
This portrait depicts an elderly woman seated in a green Windsor armchair with a yellow cushion, while a pink cushion rests against the chair's back. She is dressed in a blue dress with a white collar, accompanied by a darker blue jacket or sweater. Her head is adorned with a black hat decorated with pink flowers, secured by a loose black ribbon beneath her chin. The woman's hands are clasped together in her lap, and she wears a serious expression on her face. The background of the portrait is gray, and the artwork is unframed.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.46
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Small, Zana (1863-1952)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wright, Stanley Marc (1911-1996)
Artist
Date made
circa 1938
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2006.46.5
Web Links and URLs
Opener, Bottle
Name/Title
Opener, Bottle
Lexicon
Description
The bottle opener has a round, slightly tapered wooden handle (widest dia. at end) with a silver colored metal end that has two flat parts for opening the bottle. Writing on bottom of larger flat section reads: "EDLUND CO./PAT. NOV. 7-33/MADE IN U.S.A."
red handle
red handle
Acquisition
Accession
1991.27
Made/Created
Date made
1933
Manufacturer
Edlund Company
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1991.27.6
Opener, Jar
Name/Title
Opener, Jar
Lexicon
Description
Canning jar opener. Made by Ernest M. Wheatley , Chester Depot, Vt. probably during the Depression . Probably didn't sell these, made just for family.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.54
Made/Created
Date made
1930-1940
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1999.54.1
Pack Basket
Name/Title
Pack Basket
Lexicon
Description
Ash-splint pack Basket with birch or maple rim
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Ash Splint
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.175
Context
Every hunter carried his Indian pack basket into the field, and they sat in many bark and cedar & canvas canoes back in the day. Many others that I found, mostly with nailed or riveted rims retained that leather or fabric shoulder straps, but this one does not seem to ever had them, since there is no strap wear on the splints at all. I would surmise that this may have been used inside a camp or in a canoe. The distinctive loop handle allowed the basket to be slung from the stump of a tree-branch to keep some, but not all animals from finding food or other edibles.
This is the only native-made pack basket I have found that has a good far-north central Vermont provenance from Averill, VT, near the Canadian Border. It has all of the distinctive characteristics of a handmade Native style pack basket that are accepted in Maine. The spear shaped prongs that hold the loop handle to the basket rim are especially distinctive. It still has its original copper-riveted web shoulder straps.
This is the only native-made pack basket I have found that has a good far-north central Vermont provenance from Averill, VT, near the Canadian Border. It has all of the distinctive characteristics of a handmade Native style pack basket that are accepted in Maine. The spear shaped prongs that hold the loop handle to the basket rim are especially distinctive. It still has its original copper-riveted web shoulder straps.
Painting
Name/Title
Painting
Lexicon
Description
Landscape probably West River in Weston, VT. Signed Harry Shokler, 1949.
Beige wooden outer frame with white inner frame. Shows a landscape with hills in the background and a river in the center of the oil painting flowing towards the bottom of the frame, a winter scene. Bare trees and shrubs line the banks. Hues are in blues, browns, whites, with some green and beige pinks. Signed in red paint.
Beige wooden outer frame with white inner frame. Shows a landscape with hills in the background and a river in the center of the oil painting flowing towards the bottom of the frame, a winter scene. Bare trees and shrubs line the banks. Hues are in blues, browns, whites, with some green and beige pinks. Signed in red paint.
Acquisition
Accession
2019.4
Made/Created
Artist Information
Shokler, Harry (1896-1978)
Artist
Date made
1949
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Masonite
Entry/Object ID
2019.4.1
Context
Born in Cincinnati, Shokler's early training took place at the city's academy of fine arts. He later studied in New York and Philadelphia. He was originally based in New York, with a teaching specialization in print-making. After a stint in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, he discovered a love for Southern Vermont. In 1934, he and his wife rented a summer cottage in South Londonderry and became involved in the Southern Vermont Artists group in Manchester.
By the early 1940s they had purchased an old farmhouse and renovated a barn into a studio and gathering place. They ended up becoming year-round residents of Vermont, painting and printing its impressive landscape. Shokler's work was widely exhibited during his lifetime and many museum feature his paintings and prints in their collections.
By the early 1940s they had purchased an old farmhouse and renovated a barn into a studio and gathering place. They ended up becoming year-round residents of Vermont, painting and printing its impressive landscape. Shokler's work was widely exhibited during his lifetime and many museum feature his paintings and prints in their collections.
Painting
Name/Title
Painting
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Punched metal tray with a painting of a baby on the center surface. The baby has light pink skin and brown or red hair. It is wearing a white dress. The left hand is at the baby's mouth, and the right hand is holding a white ring toy. The background is painted light blue. The back of the tray is scratched with the label, "S.E. Goddard".
Acquisition
Accession
1958.1
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil, Metal
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hager, Sarah Elizabeth
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1958.1.1620
Painting
Name/Title
Painting
Lexicon
Description
Framed watercolor of a red barn with green doors. The bank barn is built into a hillside and faces a dirt road in the foreground. Fields and mountains can be seen in the background along with a stormy sky. Two large trees stand to the left of the barn. The scene probably depicts Addison County, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2019.16
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Comito, Nicholas Umberto (1906-1990)
Artist
Date made
1945
Entry/Object ID
2019.16.1
Context
Nicholas Comito was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1906 to Italian immigrant parents. From an early age he showed an aptitude for art and ultimately studied that subject at the National Academy of Design school in Florence, Italy as well as in France and Switzerland. Like many artists he followed friends to Vermont for painting trips, spending extended time in Hartland, Windsor, and Middlebury.
He served in Texas during WWII and painted many works dealing with aviation and was commissioned to produce panels depicting the history of aviation medicine for the Research Building of the School of Aviation at Randolph Field. His work was also displayed at West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy.
According to various newspaper articles, he and his wife spent a fair amount of time in Vermont painting and participating in solo and group shows. A 1947 article from the Addison County Independent features a solo show at the Community House in Middlebury. His work, mainly of Addison County landscapes, is described as, "Romantic Realist."
He served in Texas during WWII and painted many works dealing with aviation and was commissioned to produce panels depicting the history of aviation medicine for the Research Building of the School of Aviation at Randolph Field. His work was also displayed at West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy.
According to various newspaper articles, he and his wife spent a fair amount of time in Vermont painting and participating in solo and group shows. A 1947 article from the Addison County Independent features a solo show at the Community House in Middlebury. His work, mainly of Addison County landscapes, is described as, "Romantic Realist."
Pan, Pie
Name/Title
Pan, Pie
Lexicon
Description
Tin fluted pie pan with patch applied over hole in center. The patch is 8 sided and is applied to the inside of the pan. Handmade. See tracing on Worksheet.
Acquisition
Accession
1984.24
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Rutland
City
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1984.24.14
Context
Owned by a member of the Knapp family
Paper Doll
Name/Title
Paper Doll
Lexicon
Description
Paper doll made of cardstock showing a young boy with blond, chin-length hair. He is wearing a white long-sleeved undershirt with a ruffled collar, white knee-length pants, white stockings, and blue shoes with yellow ribbons. There is a blue ribbon tied around his waist. The head attaches on the reverse to a long neck, allowing the chin to hang over clothing. There is a rectangular cardstock tab on the reverse that allows the doll to be propped standing up. The tab has the penciled inscription, "George Davenport". The back is printed with trademark and copyright information.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2a
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Hat
Name/Title
Paper Doll Hat
Lexicon
Description
Five-pointed crown for a paper doll. The bottom of the crown is cut with a slit for inserting the paper doll, and a triangular tab that hangs behind the doll's head.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2i
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Hat
Name/Title
Paper Doll Hat
Lexicon
Description
Five-pointed crown for a paper doll. The bottom of the crown is cut with a slit for inserting the paper doll, and a triangular tab that hangs behind the doll's head.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2j
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Hat
Name/Title
Paper Doll Hat
Lexicon
Description
Green hat for a paper doll. The hat has a pointed brim that folds upward to show a yellow lining. It has a high, slightly pointed crown and is decorated with a yellow feather.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2g
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Hat
Name/Title
Paper Doll Hat
Lexicon
Description
Purple hat for a paper doll. The hat has a wide brim and a low crown that is covered with large white feathers.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2h
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Hat
Name/Title
Paper Doll Hat
Lexicon
Description
Green, wide-brimmed hat for a paper doll. The hat has a tall crown and is decorated with and blue ribbon and feather.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2f
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Suit
Name/Title
Paper Doll Suit
Lexicon
Description
Light blue, stylized romantic costume for a young boy paper doll. It consists of a one-piece garment stretching from foot to neck with tight leggings and voluminous sleeves. Over that is a loose-fitting sheer white over-bodice with a wide, round collar. The right hand is holding a spray of pink roses.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2d
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Suit
Name/Title
Paper Doll Suit
Lexicon
Description
Stylized heraldic costume for a paper doll. It consists of a tunic and leggings. The tunic is green with brown accents. It buttons up the front on one side, and has voluminous sleeves. There are two collars: a flat gold collar of a tabbed collar that lays over the sleeves and across the front. There are brown shoulder pieces over the sleeves. One leg of the leggings is green, and the other is brown. There are tight, mid-calf lace-up boots in the opposite colors (green on brown/brown on green). The hands are covered with brown, gauntlet-style gloves. The right hand is raised, but the object it was holding is no longer present.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2b
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Suit
Name/Title
Paper Doll Suit
Lexicon
Description
Stylized heraldic costume for a paper doll. It consists of a lavender short cloak over a white-and-lavender tunic and leggings. The tunic has balloon sleeves with long lace cuffs. One leg of the leggings is white, and the other is purple. There are tight, mid-calf lace-up boots with turned-up pointed toes. The right hand is holding a letter.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2e
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Doll Suit
Name/Title
Paper Doll Suit
Lexicon
Description
Stylized 17th-century costume for a paper doll. It consists of a short green jacket with wide, slit sleeves over a white shirt with a ruffled collar, green knee-length breeches, a yellow cape, green gloves, and green boots. There is a green ribbon crossing the hip diagonally. The gloves are gauntlet style and trimmed with lace and gold. The hem of the breeches are ruffled with gold fringe or beads. The boots are buckled, and the uppers flare outward dramatically. The cape has a broad standing collar. The right hand is holding a bird (detached).
Acquisition
Accession
1966.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Briggs, Catherine Marion (1883-1945), Briggs, Florence Day (1884-1974)
Related Places
Place
Brandon
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
McDonald, Marguerite
Artist
Date made
1894
Manufacturer
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1966.29.2c
Context
Used by Catherine and Florence Briggs in Brandon, Vermont
Paper Money
Name/Title
Paper Money
Lexicon
Description
Paper money with the inscription, "One Shilling and Three Pence / The possessor of this BILL shall be [loss] by the Treasurer of the State [loss] RMONT, One Shilling and Three Pence in Silver at Six Shillings and Eight Pence [loss] Ounce by the J[loss] Day of June, A [loss] 1782. By order of Assembly -- Windsor February, 1781." It is signed by L. Porter and E. Walbridge. The other side has the inscription, "Fifteen Pence / Death to counterfeiters / WESTMINSTER Printed by Spooner and Green. 1781." The serial number is 3320.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.52
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Windsor
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Designer or Engraver Information
Spooner and Green
Designer or Engraver
Date made
1781
Bureau
State of Vermont
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1964.52
Paperweight
Name/Title
Paperweight
Lexicon
Description
Oval, clear glass paperweight with a base image of a bust portrait of Admiral George Dewey. The portrait is within a laurel wreath topped by a flying eagle and flanked by United States flags.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.52
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Lexicon
Description
"Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol / America's Oldest Ski Patrol" patch. Round red, white and blue embroidered. Large red cross in center imprinted: "EST. 1934" See Worksheet file for history
Acquisition
Accession
2008.77
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Mount Mansfield
Mountain
Underhill
Town
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2007
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Nylon
Entry/Object ID
2008.77
Context
From the Vermont Historical Society library introduction to documents on the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol:
"One of the first organized ski patrols in the nation, the Mount Mansfield Ski
Patrol was organized in 1934 through the auspices of the Mount Mansfield Ski Club. The
Club formed a committee to establish a patrol to cover the mountains and hills
surrounding Stowe, Vermont. The driving force behind the formation of the patrol was
Roland Palmedo, president of the Amateur Ski Club of New York. In 1935 the patrol
instituted a rule that all members must pass the Red Cross first aid course. After a skiing
fatality in 1936, the committee felt it needed to strengthen the rescue system and chose a
ski patrol director, Al Gottlieb, to coordinate the effort. One of his innovations was
building a series of nearly 40 caches of toboggans and first aid supplies on the mountains.
In 1938 Stowe hosted the U. S. National Downhill and Slalom races where the Ski Patrol
demonstrated its professionalism. As a result, the Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol was used
as the model for the National Ski Patrol."
"One of the first organized ski patrols in the nation, the Mount Mansfield Ski
Patrol was organized in 1934 through the auspices of the Mount Mansfield Ski Club. The
Club formed a committee to establish a patrol to cover the mountains and hills
surrounding Stowe, Vermont. The driving force behind the formation of the patrol was
Roland Palmedo, president of the Amateur Ski Club of New York. In 1935 the patrol
instituted a rule that all members must pass the Red Cross first aid course. After a skiing
fatality in 1936, the committee felt it needed to strengthen the rescue system and chose a
ski patrol director, Al Gottlieb, to coordinate the effort. One of his innovations was
building a series of nearly 40 caches of toboggans and first aid supplies on the mountains.
In 1938 Stowe hosted the U. S. National Downhill and Slalom races where the Ski Patrol
demonstrated its professionalism. As a result, the Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol was used
as the model for the National Ski Patrol."
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Lexicon
Description
A white fabric oval patch with the Cabot logo.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.58
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cabot Farmers Co-op, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Cabot
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Fabric, Cotton, Polyester
Entry/Object ID
2012.58.11
Context
The co-op was formed in 1919. In 1930 cheddar and cottage cheese were added to line of dairy products.
In 1960 membership reached 600 farmers and cheese was being marketed under Cabot brand.
during the 1970-80s new facilities were built to expand product line. The first visitor center opened in Cabot, VT in 1987. In 1989 Cabot won Best of Class for U.S Championships of Cheese. In 1992
Cabot merged with Agri-Mark. In1993 the West Springfield Plant was rebuilt allowing Cabot to enter retail butter business. In 1994 the Middlebury Plant was purchased. In 2003 Cabot merged with the Chateaugay Cooperative, bringing the McCadam brand & Chateaugay plant to the co-op. In 2006 Cabot Sharp Cheddar won World’s Best Cheddar at World Championship Cheese Contest. In 2010 Agri-Mark Whey brand was created.
In 1960 membership reached 600 farmers and cheese was being marketed under Cabot brand.
during the 1970-80s new facilities were built to expand product line. The first visitor center opened in Cabot, VT in 1987. In 1989 Cabot won Best of Class for U.S Championships of Cheese. In 1992
Cabot merged with Agri-Mark. In1993 the West Springfield Plant was rebuilt allowing Cabot to enter retail butter business. In 1994 the Middlebury Plant was purchased. In 2003 Cabot merged with the Chateaugay Cooperative, bringing the McCadam brand & Chateaugay plant to the co-op. In 2006 Cabot Sharp Cheddar won World’s Best Cheddar at World Championship Cheese Contest. In 2010 Agri-Mark Whey brand was created.
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Was definitely a patch once attached to a garment. The gray refers to the background which may have been the original fabric of the patch or the fabric itself of the garment carefully cut out. The green is the body of the overstitching creating the image with its golden outlines stitched not top of this. The same golden/yellow is used also in massively machine top-stitching to create the word beneath.
Textile Details
Gray
Green
Yellow
Color
Description
Horizontal grey patch with green winged skis and gold outlining of feathers and skis. (Evoking the swiftness of Mercury while skiing). Underneath is inscription: "BRATTLEBORO" in gold lettering slanting to the right. Two small holes above "R". general condition: fairly tattered.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.41
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Worn by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Worn by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Patch is in original form as would have been before applied to a garment or fabric-based object. Exhibiting dark top-stitched edging. Stitching on entirety of patch to create its image with all its colors and so fourth. While top lettered stitching may have happened simultaneously to the image stitching (all by machine) the bottom red "USA" appearing as though machine stitched on top of the image stitching below.
Textile Details
Blue
Gray
Black
Yellow
Red
Color
a lot
Sewing Stitch Count
Description
Shield shaped patch with dark blue top-stitched edging. Depicting grey mountains with light blue sky and ski jumper in jump from frontal foreshortening position with skis slightly crossing. The jumper is wearing a grey suit with matching gray goggles and ski cap with details of costume in black stitching. Ski poles are tucking under arms bringing the gloved hands of the jumper to the front of their body and jumper is smiling. Bearing inscription: "AMERICAN ATHLETIC ASS'N. OF THE DEAF" in yellow on top and on bottom in bright red: "USA."
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.42
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Dark royal blue top stitching edging along periphery of patch exhibiting fraying along edge in multiple places. All of image and wording of patch are all created through many machine-made stitches delineating all points in still-vibrant colors of thread. All colors are found in image while the black also refers to the writing on the exterior.
Textile Details
White
Blue
Red
Color
a lot
Sewing Stitch Count
Description
Circular patch with light blue top-stitched edging. Depicting in inner circle with thin black border, white mountains with outlining crags in thin black lines. Another thin black line is outlining a red strip in the left side and on the bottom is a blue stripe (perhaps water) also outlining with thin black line. Also delineating in the lower left, two conifer trees in black. Also depicting a ski jumper in jump in profile. Jumper wears a red suit, and head and hands sticking out but also created in the same thin black lines. Encircling inscription in white space between black border of image and top stitched edging of patch: "UNITED STATES EASTERN AMATEUR SKI ASSOCIATION" in black on white background.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.44
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Edging with bright red topstitching thread, perfectly preserved as if new. Entire shield filled with image of competitive ski jumper in bright colorful threads, each shape outlined with thin black lines in thread. All stitching is crisp and tight.
Textile Details
Blue
White
Gray
Green
Yellow
Beige
Black
Color
a lot
Sewing Stitch Count
Description
Shield shaped patch with bright red top-stitched edging. Depicting white mountains with gray crags and gray shadows along the slopes in front of a dark royal blue sky and outlining in black lines is one large green conifer with snowy branches and yellow twisted-thread trunks. A line of similar confer trees follow up and winding to the left on the mountainside. Also depicting a ski jumper with black outlining in jump in profile, above the frontal confirmation (delineating height of jump). Jumper wears a red sweater with a white vest, cap, and gloves; turquoise pants; brown (most likely wooden) skis; and black ski boots. Bearing inscription: "LAKE-PLACID NY" in yellow on top.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.43
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Earned by by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Earned by by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
- Records of Cross-country Skiing in Olympics-Deaflympics
- Clip of New York Times-January, 1964
- Clip of New York Times-February, 1964
- Records of Various Ski Events in Lake Placid February 1968-Adirondack Times
- History of Olympic Jumping Hill/Lake Placid Ski Club
- Samples of Other Ski Club Patches-Almost identical to this one
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
All machine tip stitching in vibrant colors. Edging in top-stitched black thread. Smallest, most delicate stitching in the word "MERIBEL" and in the snowflakes which are all single-stitched. Everything else group top-stitched.
Textile Details
Black
White
Red
Blue
Yellow
Color
a lot
Sewing Stitch Count
Description
Circular patch with black top-stitching edging. Depicting white foreground and black sky. Along the border is an arch in blue, white, and red (the French flag colors). In the middle is a cross-country skier in profile. Wearing dark blue gloves, hat and pants, and bright red sweater and boots. Also wearing white socks and yellow skis, and holding yellow ski poles. On the bottom bearing inscription: "MERIBEL" in white thread on black background surrounded by two white snowflakes and semi-circular squared yellow border.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper. This patch would have been gotten at the end and height of his career as a skier in Meribel, France 1979.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper. This patch would have been gotten at the end and height of his career as a skier in Meribel, France 1979.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.45
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Earned by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Description
CCC patch made of yellow wool with dark green embroidery (thread). The back has a cheese cloth type material over it. There are three large CCCs in the upper center with mountains below and lines below that, possibly representing a lake. To the left and right are evergreen trees.
Use
by Rayburn H. Gornall (1924-2013)
Acquisition
Accession
2014.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Civilian Conservation Corps
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1939-1941
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2014.9.2
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Lexicon
Description
Round green patch embroidered in yellow with the words, "GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB VERMONT" and a wayfinding sign that reads, "THE LONG TRAIL".
Acquisition
Accession
2007.26
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green Mountain Boys State
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Long Trail
* Untyped Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
2007.26
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Lexicon
Description
Green cotton patch screen printed in white with silhouettes of people with outstretched arms in front of a mountain. The patch reads, "VERMONT FIGHT FASCISM". The bottom left reads, "pjcvt.org". There is a metal safety pin at the top right corner.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.16
Made/Created
Date made
2016-2020
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2021.16.1
Context
Anti-fascism patch worn by Catherin Cipolla to protests in Vermont
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Lexicon
Description
Round, black wool patch embroidered in yellow with the words "FORESTS AND PARKS". Embroidered at the center is an image of the state of Vermont in green, with the word "VERMONT" in black on a yellow ground.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.41
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lindner, Brian, Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1962-1967
Materials
Material
Wool, Polyester
Entry/Object ID
2011.41.6
Context
Worn by Brian Lindner while working for the Vermont State Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation.
Patch
Name/Title
Patch
Description
Circular green patch with gold lettering "BURLINGTON RAPID TRANSIT BRT" Attached to bus driver's uniform.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Burlington Rapid Transit
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2010.19.19
Context
From the Vermont Historical Society Library:
"On February 16, 1926, the first local bus route in Burlington, the “Country Club
Loop”, was established by William S. Appleyard, who owned an automobile dealership
on South Winooski Avenue. Calling his company the Burlington Rapid Transit Company
(BRT), he received permission from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to operate a
non-competitive (with BTC) bus route in the Hill Section of Burlington. Soon, when
BTC failed to comply with PSC orders to expand their lines, the commission granted
Appleyard permission to operate his buses in places directly in competition with the
BTC.(Burlington Trolley Co.)
Over the next few years, Appleyard received permission to expand to seven
competitive yet successful bus routes in the Burlington area. His success, combined with
the devastating flood in November of 1927 (that damaged trolley tracks and collapsed the
Winooski Bridge, a main BTC route), proved to be the undoing of the BTC. In 1929,
Appleyard bought the BTC in order to acquire its routes and eliminate competition. BTC
trolleys operated until August 4, 1929, when, at 4 p.m., a crowd gathered at City Hall
Park to witness the famous and symbolic torching of Car #5, their oldest trolley. The
trolley era had ended.
Meanwhile, in 1927, Appleyard established the Vermont Transit Company
(VTC), under which he operated out-of-town buses. Over the next decade and a half,
Appleyard purchased existing bus lines throughout Vermont, connecting Burlington via
bus to the other towns and cities of Vermont (and beyond). Towns accessed by VTC
buses included Barre (1927), Rutland and Vergennes (1928), Bennington and Pittsfield,
MA (1929), Portland, ME (1932), Bellows Falls, White River Junction and Claremont,
NH (1935), Albany, NY (1936), St. Johnsbury and Littleton, NH (1937), Newport
(1938), Chester and Springfield (1939), and Concord and Manchester, NH (1941). By
1945, VTC buses were connecting Vermonters to New York City, Boston and Montreal.
...In 1973, Burlington Rapid Transit’s name was changed to BRT, Inc., which
became a real estate investment business. The local bus service BRT provided was
undertaken by the Chittenden County Transportation Authority, though BRT maintained
ownership of the bus station and leased it to the VTC. The CCTA continues to operate
the local bus service today (2010). "
"On February 16, 1926, the first local bus route in Burlington, the “Country Club
Loop”, was established by William S. Appleyard, who owned an automobile dealership
on South Winooski Avenue. Calling his company the Burlington Rapid Transit Company
(BRT), he received permission from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to operate a
non-competitive (with BTC) bus route in the Hill Section of Burlington. Soon, when
BTC failed to comply with PSC orders to expand their lines, the commission granted
Appleyard permission to operate his buses in places directly in competition with the
BTC.(Burlington Trolley Co.)
Over the next few years, Appleyard received permission to expand to seven
competitive yet successful bus routes in the Burlington area. His success, combined with
the devastating flood in November of 1927 (that damaged trolley tracks and collapsed the
Winooski Bridge, a main BTC route), proved to be the undoing of the BTC. In 1929,
Appleyard bought the BTC in order to acquire its routes and eliminate competition. BTC
trolleys operated until August 4, 1929, when, at 4 p.m., a crowd gathered at City Hall
Park to witness the famous and symbolic torching of Car #5, their oldest trolley. The
trolley era had ended.
Meanwhile, in 1927, Appleyard established the Vermont Transit Company
(VTC), under which he operated out-of-town buses. Over the next decade and a half,
Appleyard purchased existing bus lines throughout Vermont, connecting Burlington via
bus to the other towns and cities of Vermont (and beyond). Towns accessed by VTC
buses included Barre (1927), Rutland and Vergennes (1928), Bennington and Pittsfield,
MA (1929), Portland, ME (1932), Bellows Falls, White River Junction and Claremont,
NH (1935), Albany, NY (1936), St. Johnsbury and Littleton, NH (1937), Newport
(1938), Chester and Springfield (1939), and Concord and Manchester, NH (1941). By
1945, VTC buses were connecting Vermonters to New York City, Boston and Montreal.
...In 1973, Burlington Rapid Transit’s name was changed to BRT, Inc., which
became a real estate investment business. The local bus service BRT provided was
undertaken by the Chittenden County Transportation Authority, though BRT maintained
ownership of the bus station and leased it to the VTC. The CCTA continues to operate
the local bus service today (2010). "
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model of an evaporator. The model consists of a tinned copper tray separated into 12 compartments. The center divider lists to the side, creating unequal compartments. There are four oval wire handles on the long sides near the corners.
Use
From 1790 to 1880, the US Patent Office required a three-dimensional working model to demonstrate each new invention.
Acquisition
Accession
1946.31
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Perkinsville
Village
Weathersfield
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Tolles, A.
Artist
Date made
1870
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Copper, Tin
Entry/Object ID
1946.31.4
Context
Model for patent number 98,816, issued to Abner Tolles of Perkinsville, Vermont, on January 11, 1870
Label from an exhibit: "Model of an apparatus for evaporating saccharin and other solutions. Abner Tolles and Almon Durkee Tolles. Weathersfield and Royalton. 1870
Abner Tolles was born in Weathersfield on July 30, 1823, and died May 27, 1880. Almon was his nephew. The Tolleses' invention allowed for a continuous evaporation of sap, prevented back flow, and kept scum and foreign matter in the first compartment as the refined liquid moved from one compartment to the next."
Label from an exhibit: "Model of an apparatus for evaporating saccharin and other solutions. Abner Tolles and Almon Durkee Tolles. Weathersfield and Royalton. 1870
Abner Tolles was born in Weathersfield on July 30, 1823, and died May 27, 1880. Almon was his nephew. The Tolleses' invention allowed for a continuous evaporation of sap, prevented back flow, and kept scum and foreign matter in the first compartment as the refined liquid moved from one compartment to the next."
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model of a horse-powered machine. The model consists of two green metal ovals connects in the middle with three green metal brackets. A red metal track sits in grooves along the inside of the U-shaped pieces, creating a continuous loop.
Use
From 1790 to 1880, the US Patent Office required a three-dimensional working model to demonstrate each new invention.
Acquisition
Accession
1946.31
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
A. W. Gray & Sons
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Middletown Springs
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1842
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1946.31.2
Context
For patent number 2.83B, issued to A. W. Gray on October 26, 1842. Gray was a manufacturer of farm machinery in Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model of wooden window shutters. The miniature shutter sits on a rectangular wooden base, and the blinds open and close with a vertical wooden dowel attached to wire eyes at the center of each blind. The bottom of the dowel is attached to a metal disk that rotates as the dowel is moved. A paper tag in a metal frame is attached to the model with a wire and reads, "No. 64,588 F. R. Smith. Blind Slat Fastenings. Patented May, 7th 1867." The name "F. R. Smith" is painted in red at the top of the shutter, and "BENNINGTON, VT." is painted at the bottom.
Use
From 1790 to 1880, the US Patent Office required a three-dimensional working model to demonstrate each new invention.
Acquisition
Accession
1946.31
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Smith, F. R.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1867
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1946.31.5
Context
For patent number 64,588 issued to F. R. Smith of Bennington, Vermont
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Sap boiling stove patent model. The sheet-iron boiler is composed of two main parts: a circular drum and a cylinder resting sideways underneath. The circular drum has an open top that shows iron guides to direct liquids into a trough, and a small overhang of curved iron. A single circular spout is cut into the middle band of the drum. An old paper label is attached to the side of the drum and reads, “Samual B. Spaulding / Brandon Vt.” in faded brown script. The cylinder underneath the drum has a hinged door that opens. The entire model stands on two pairs of arched legs. A hook extends off of the drum, holding a string and tag that says, “No. 37, 464 / 1863. / S.B. Spaulding / Stoves for Boiling / Sap. / Patented Jan. 19th, / 1863.” in typed and handwritten text.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.6
Made/Created
Artist Information
Spaulding, Samuel B. (1789-1878)
Artist
Date made
1863
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.6.2
Context
Invented by Samuel B. Spaulding.
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
A portion of the patent model 3.876, a heating stove invented by H. Stanley on January 4, 1845. Box-like with 3.13" diameter opening (not perfect circle) on top. On one end is a 1.69" hole, probably for a pipe. On opposite side is a door with a mica window. The other two sides each have a mica window. See Worksheet.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.4
Made/Created
Date made
1845
Manufacturer
H. Stanley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1981.4
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Evaporating pan for "Saccharine Liquids" composed of series of flues passing through from end to end and joined into single flue for smoke escape. Pan should connect to firebox & evaporator (not with model) where boiling and sugaring off occure. "Furguson's Evaporator"
Pan is 4.5 x 3", overall 7: x 3"
Tag verifies this as Patent No. 159,661, by James F. Ferguson of Essex, Vt. registered Feb. 9, 1875. Registration papers in file.
Pan is 4.5 x 3", overall 7: x 3"
Tag verifies this as Patent No. 159,661, by James F. Ferguson of Essex, Vt. registered Feb. 9, 1875. Registration papers in file.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.6
Made/Created
Date made
1875
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.6.4
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Lamp chimney patent model. The chimney is a metal cylinder that flares as it gets closer to the base. A metal skirting around the chimney’s base has a pierced decorative border and is mostly detached from the chimney. The adjoining tag states, “No. 146, 862 / W.S. Blaisdell / & C.K. Young / Lamp Chimney / Patented Jan. 27th / 1874.” in typed and handwritten text.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.6
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Manchester
Town
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1874
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.6.5
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model - mop head. Iron frame composed of screw at top to attach to mop handle, which when tightened closes a shaped bar down onto a heavy wire rim. Rags or other materials would be tightened into place by this screw action. Accompanying tag verifies this as Patent No. 64,683 registered by H.H. Mason and Jos. Messinger of Springfield, VT on May 14, 1867. See Gifts and Loans for papers.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.7
Made/Created
Date made
1867
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Iron, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1978.7
Patent Model
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Carding machine patent model. The model has three wooden rollers with different diameters connected to a wood base. Wooden slats nailed to leather straps rests below the rollers and connect to wooden dowels. On the left, “James Fitton” is written in black cursive script on an unstained patch of wood. A red card is nailed to the opposite side of the signature and has torn edges, and reads “Carding machine / Nov. 12 / ‘60” in typed and handwritten script. Different wooden pieces have a cursive letter from A to G.
Wooden model composed of one thick central roller and two smaller rollers on either side. Underneath is a movable belt of wooden slats mounted on two leather straps. Red paper tag - '760'
Tag shows: "No. 30.--5, 1860, J. Fitton, Carding-Engine, Patented Dec. 11th, 1860" and written in hand "Carding/Feeding". "James Fitton" handwritten in ink on wood.
Wooden model composed of one thick central roller and two smaller rollers on either side. Underneath is a movable belt of wooden slats mounted on two leather straps. Red paper tag - '760'
Tag shows: "No. 30.--5, 1860, J. Fitton, Carding-Engine, Patented Dec. 11th, 1860" and written in hand "Carding/Feeding". "James Fitton" handwritten in ink on wood.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.22
Made/Created
Artist Information
Fitton, James (1819-1890)
Artist
Date made
1860
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.22.1
Patent Model
Interpretative Labels
Label
Patent Model, 1868
Benjamin F. Wheeler
Calais, Vermont
Wood, metal
Gift of Myrtie B. Wheeler, 1966.19.1
The United States Patent and Trademark Office required inventors to submit a patent model for their designs from 1790 – 1880. Models could be no larger than 12” in any direction. The requirement was a way to make the patent process accessible to homegrown inventors who might not have the drafting or engineering expertise necessary to submit a full, formal patent application. Inventors can still submit a patent model today, particularly in situations where a working model would provide better evidence of their design than the patent application itself. Thanks to several fires at the patent offices in Washington, D.C., many patent models have been lost over the years; others were dispersed in subsequent sales. The Vermont Historical Society possesses a number of patent models related to Vermont inventions.
This patent model showing a new design for carriage brakes was submitted by Benjamin Wheeler. We don’t know much about him other than he primarily worked as a farmer, and submitted this and one patent for a carriage braking system, also in the VHS collections (1966.19.1).
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model of a new system for sleigh brakes.
The model is of the chassis system of a sleigh only, constructed from metal and wood. The wood is painted blue. The sleigh rails are in two pieces, and the chassis can pivot at the center. The braking system can be activated from the middle of the chassis, and drops a metal hook down from the rear of the chassis to drag into the snow.
On a strip of wood at the front of the chassis is a small metal plaque with the inscription “B.F. WHEELER’S / PATENT JULY 21ST 1868”
The model is of the chassis system of a sleigh only, constructed from metal and wood. The wood is painted blue. The sleigh rails are in two pieces, and the chassis can pivot at the center. The braking system can be activated from the middle of the chassis, and drops a metal hook down from the rear of the chassis to drag into the snow.
On a strip of wood at the front of the chassis is a small metal plaque with the inscription “B.F. WHEELER’S / PATENT JULY 21ST 1868”
Acquisition
Accession
1966.19
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wheeler, Benjamin F.
Artist
Date made
1868
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1966.19.1
Context
Made by Benjamin F. Wheeler of Calais, Vermont
Label from an exhibit says, "The brakes were constructed so that as the horses slowed, they applied a stopping force equal to the forward pressure of the load. If the driver wanted to back up, the brakes could easily be readjusted."
Label from an exhibit says, "The brakes were constructed so that as the horses slowed, they applied a stopping force equal to the forward pressure of the load. If the driver wanted to back up, the brakes could easily be readjusted."
Patent Model
Interpretative Labels
Label
Patent Model
Benjamin F. Wheeler
Calais, Vermont
Wood, metal
Gift of Myrtie B. Wheeler, 1966.19.2ab
The United States Patent and Trademark Office required inventors to submit a patent model for their designs from 1790 – 1880. Models could be no larger than 12” in any direction. The requirement was a way to make the patent process accessible to homegrown inventors who might not have the drafting or engineering expertise necessary to submit a full, formal patent application. Inventors can still submit a patent model today, particularly in situations where a working model would provide better evidence of their design than the patent application itself. Thanks to several fires at the patent offices in Washington, D.C., many patent models have been lost over the years; others were dispersed in subsequent sales. The Vermont Historical Society possesses a number of patent models related to Vermont inventions.
This patent model showing a new design for carriage brakes was submitted by Benjamin Wheeler. We don’t know much about him other than he primarily worked as a farmer, and submitted this and one patent for a sleigh braking system, also in the VHS collections (1966.19.1).
Name/Title
Patent Model
Lexicon
Description
Patent model of a new system for carriage brakes.
The model is just the chassis and wheels of the carriage, in two pieces. The pieces are held together through a pin that connects the front axle to the body of the chassis.
The whole chassis is made of wood and metal, with four wheels, the front pair smaller than the rear. The braking system is activated when the carriage rolls backward, or by a hand brake that is connected to a lever at the left front of the chassis.
The brakes themselves are in front of the rear carriage wheels, held in place by a strip going horizontally across the width of the chassis. When the lever is activated, the wood strip slides backwards and engages the brakes.
The model is just the chassis and wheels of the carriage, in two pieces. The pieces are held together through a pin that connects the front axle to the body of the chassis.
The whole chassis is made of wood and metal, with four wheels, the front pair smaller than the rear. The braking system is activated when the carriage rolls backward, or by a hand brake that is connected to a lever at the left front of the chassis.
The brakes themselves are in front of the rear carriage wheels, held in place by a strip going horizontally across the width of the chassis. When the lever is activated, the wood strip slides backwards and engages the brakes.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.19
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wheeler, Benjamin F.
Artist
Date made
1868
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1966.19.2a-b
Context
Made by Benjamin F. Wheeler of Calais, VT
From a label in an exhibit: "The self-acting brake no longer stopped forward motion, but prevented a wagon from rolling backward when it was ascending a hill."
From a label in an exhibit: "The self-acting brake no longer stopped forward motion, but prevented a wagon from rolling backward when it was ascending a hill."
Pen
Name/Title
Pen
Lexicon
Description
Fountain pen consisting of a long wooden handle and an attached metal nib. The nib is stained black, as is the edge of the handle. Printed in black letters over the orange paint are the words, "Burlington Business College / LARGEST INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND IN NOTHERN NEW ENGLAND". The edge farthest from the nib is thinner and progressively gets larger as it gets closer to the nib.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Burlington Business College
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1884-1956
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Paint, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2022.21.10
Context
Burlington Business College, now widely known and regarded as Champlain College changed its name sever times. From 1884-1956, Champlain College was known as Burlington Business College.
Pencil Box
Name/Title
Pencil Box
Lexicon
Description
This is a wooden pencil box. The words on top of the box are "Pencil Box". In the center of the side of the box, there is a thin metal sheet, with a keyhole. In the interior of the pencil box, there is a slate crayon (pencil), a small metal key, a clip, and a compass. The slate crayon has "956 EAGLE SLATE CRAYON - PA" carved into its exterior. There is also a small carving of an eagle between the numbers "956" and the word "EAGLE". The key is a small, faded black, metal key that is roughly 1-1/8 in. The compass is a silver-colored, metal compass with two long legs. The steady leg is approximately 1/16 in longer than the adjustable leg.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.72
Source (if not Accessioned)
Souther, A. Fern (1907-2004)
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Souther, Wilbur, Souther, A. Fern (1907-2004)
Related Places
Place
Lowell
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1916-1916
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.72.22a-e
Context
This pencil box was given to Fern Souther by her Grandfather Wilbur Suther. Fern Souther was born on June 1st, 1913. Fern attended primary school in Lowell, Vermont, and then graduated from UVM in 1931.
Pendant
Name/Title
Pendant
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Beaver-shaped silver pendant
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Robert Cruickshank (c. 1748-1806)
Artist
Metal Smith
Role
Date made
circa 1780
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.10
Pennant
Interpretative Labels
Label
Pennants are commemorative flags that typically show support for a particular sports team. Over the 20th century, other entities adopted the pennant as a form of souvenir or local pride. The pennants in this case are all Vermont-related and represent specific events, locations, and tourist attractions.
Barre Pennant, c. 1960
Barre, VT
Felt fabric
Gift of Clarice Bianchi Cella Best, #2011.68.4
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Red felt pennant with white lettering and a white band at wide end, four green tassels at wide end, and also at wide end an oval multi-colored scene of a granite quarry. Below the oval, in white letters: "LARGEST GRANITE CENTRE IN THE WORLD" and to the right, extending to the pointed end: "BARRE, VT." Stapled to upper corner at wide end is a small price tag from the M. H. Fishman Company with the price: "19 cents"
Acquisition
Accession
2011.68
Made/Created
Date made
1940
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2011.68.4
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Yellow felt Boy Scout pennant that includes a circular logo for Camp Plymouth, Calvin Coolidge Council with the image of a Davy Crockett-like figure holding a musket and a paddle. The words "Boy Scouts of American" is printed in large blue letters.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.73
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002), Boy Scouts of America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2006.73.12
Context
Excerpts below from Vermont Historical Society Library summary of documents.
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
A blue pennant with large, white initials -- BHS -- glued on the pennant plus a shield logo for Burlington, Vermont. BHS stands for Burlington High School.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Burlington High School
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2023.22.7
Context
A souvenir from the high school.
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Green Mountain Girls State banner, green and white felt, white background with green border and lettering "GREEN MOUNTAIN GIRLS STATE" in center and Girls State insignia in shape of state of Vermont at left. Four white felt ribbons extend from wide end.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.46
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green Mountain Girls State
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2007.46.20
Context
American Legion Auxiliary Green Mountain Girls State is a leadership development program for rising high school seniors. The focus of the program is Vermont town, county, and state government."
Source: https://www.alagmgs.com/
Source: https://www.alagmgs.com/
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Leather pennant from Willoughby Lake, Vt., with two bookmarks attached.
(a) Leather pennant has sketch of an Indian scene, a teepee, a campfire, a canoe on a lake, and printed beside it: "Willoughby Lake, Vt." At the widest part of the pennant are two cuts in the leather to hold the bookmarks.
(b) and (c) Bookmarks made of thin pieces of ash with a circle of woven sweetgrass at top. (b) has green splints and (c) has multi-colored splints
(a) Leather pennant has sketch of an Indian scene, a teepee, a campfire, a canoe on a lake, and printed beside it: "Willoughby Lake, Vt." At the widest part of the pennant are two cuts in the leather to hold the bookmarks.
(b) and (c) Bookmarks made of thin pieces of ash with a circle of woven sweetgrass at top. (b) has green splints and (c) has multi-colored splints
Acquisition
Accession
2004.72
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Lake Willoughby
Lake
Westmore
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ash Splint, Sweetgrass, Leather
Entry/Object ID
2004.72.18a-c
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Triangular blue wool pennant flag with the appliqued, red wool inscription, "SPAULDING". There are two ties at the top and bottom of the back edge. There is a tag on the reverse that reads, "A PRODUCT OF GREEN MOUNTAIN STUDIOS WHTIE RIVER JUNCTION, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
1999.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dopp, Leroy James, Jr. (1910-1995), Spaulding High School
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1925-1928
Manufacturer
Green Mountain Studios
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
1999.22.2
Context
Made for Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont by Green Mountain Studios in White River Junction, Vermont
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Navy blue wool felt pennant printed with the seal of the Lake Champlain 350th Anniversary Festival and the words, “LAKE CHAMPLAIN”. They seal consists of a scene of four people in a canoe, two wearing traditional European dress and two wearing indigenous American dress. The group is superimposed over an aerial map of the lake, and encircled by the words, “1609 350TH CHAMPLAIN ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL 1959”.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.46
Relationships
Related Events
350th Champlain Anniversary Festival
Event
Related Person or Organization
Champlain, Samuel de (1580-1635)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1959
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2009.46.1
Context
Produced to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the first sighting of Lake Champlain by a European
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Blue felt pennant printed in white with a line drawing of a building and the inscription, "HOUSE O' MAPLE VERMONT SUGAR HOUSE ROYALTON, VERMONT". The short edge of the pennant is bound with white felt. The reverse is stamped in red with the mark, "The KEEZER MFG. Co. School of Artistic Specialties Plaistow, N.H. Made in U.S.A."
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
House o' Maple
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Royalton
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1966-1977
Manufacturer
The Keezer Manufacturing Co.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.4
Context
Produced as a souvenir of the House o' Maple in Royalton, Vermont
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Dark blue pennant printed in white with the inscription, "Beautiful LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRY CROSSING". At the wide end of the pennant, a round faux leather patch is appliqued to the pennant. The patch is hand-painted with a scene of a large ferry boat on water, with a large cloud behind. The short edge of the pennant is bound with yellow felt, and there are green tabs.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lake Champlain Transportation Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.5
Context
Produced as a souvenir of the ferries of Lake Champlain
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Vermont Expos pennant. At wide end, a large red V resting against a grey and blue "Champ", the mascot, and all this against a background of a large brown baseball mitt and baseball. Continuing on to narrow end, in red letters, "VERMONT/ EXPOS" Also at wide end, at bottom, in black, the trademark "Professional Baseball" and the maker "Wincraft PB *MLB 1997"
Acquisition
Accession
2001.50
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Expos
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2000-2001
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2001.50.3
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Small pennant from the Rock of Ages Museum. The dark blue pennant has white felt edging and ties along the short side and white printed lettering that reads "ROCK / OF / AGES" in a circle to the left, wider section and "WORLD'S LARGEST / GRANITE QUARRY" in increasingly smaller print towards the pointed end.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.12
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2024.12.4
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
A green pennant from Southern Vermont College in Bennington, which closed in June 2019 due to financial insolvency. The banner, plus two others, came to the Vermont Historical Society along with the surviving historical records from the college and its predecessor, St. Jospeh Business School.
Acquisition
Accession
2019.21
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2019.21.1
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Montpelier Seminary pennant from 1925. Blue with white letters graduating in size: "MONTPELIER SEM." Tag on back reads: "A PRODUCT/ OF/ GREEN MOUNTAIN/ STUDIOS/ White River Junction, Vt." Two streamers on wide end.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.38
Made/Created
Date made
1925
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2014.38
Pennant
Interpretative Labels
Label
Pennants are commemorative flags that typically show support for a particular sports team. Over the 20th century, other entities adopted the pennant as a form of souvenir or local pride. The pennants in this case are all Vermont-related and represent specific events, locations, and tourist attractions.
Vermont Pennant, c. 1970
Felt fabric
Gift of Wade Walker, #2015.37.1
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Small Vermont pennant with bright colors (red, Turquoise, yellow, orange,green).
Acquisition
Accession
2015.37
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1975
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2015.37.1
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Green pennant with gold colored logo of the University of Vermont. The end band and "tails" are also gold color. The back has no manufacturer's tag or label.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.37
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1975
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2015.37.6
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Green felt pennant depicting "ARROWS" inscribed behind an arrow coming from the circular school crest inscribed with "THE AUSTINE SCHOOL BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT 1904" with crossing arrows in the center. Two green straps protruding from left side to secure.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Triangle without fastenings (see note)
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.2
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Small blue pennant with the white Middlebury College seal that says "Coll.Med.Virid.Mon 1800" around the outside and "Scientia et Virtue" in the center with a book. Also in large white letters, "Middlebury 1926 - 50th Reunion."
Acquisition
Accession
2021.40
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Middlebury College
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Middlebury
Town
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2021.40.1
Context
Made for the 50th reunion of the Class of 1926 from Middlebury College.
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Description
Significantly faded green pennant with the word "Vermont" spelled in gold and at the biggest end, a white triangle with the initials AKK around a faded green triangle. AKK stands for Alpha Kappa Kappa, a medical school fraternity founded at Dartmouth College in 1888. There was a chapter formed at the University of Vermont in 1894 called the Delta chapter and the green triangle is the Delta symbol in the Greek alphabet. The fraternity disbanded nationally in the 1960s.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.73
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Royalton
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2003.73.66
Context
Owned by Charles Willard Phipard of Royalton, Vermont
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Black felt pennant with a circular white patch featuring the image of a ferry. Next to the image are these words printed in white: "Beautiful Lake Champlain Ferry Crossings."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.73
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2006.73.10
Context
Excerpts below from Vermont Historical Society Library summary of documents.
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
Pennant
Interpretative Labels
Label
Pennants are commemorative flags that typically show support for a particular sports team. Over the 20th century, other entities adopted the pennant as a form of souvenir or local pride. The pennants in this case are all Vermont-related and represent specific events, locations, and tourist attractions.
Bennington Sesquicentennial Pennant, 1927
Bennington, VT
Felt fabric
Gift of Morgan Irons, #2021.40.2
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Green pennant with image of the Bennington Battle monument and in white lettering, the words, "Sesqui Centennial, Bennington, Vt. Aug. 13, 1927" and to the side, "1777."
Acquisition
Accession
2021.40
Relationships
Related Events
Battle of Bennington Sesquicentennial
Event
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1927
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2021.40.2
Context
Made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bennington
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Red and white, felt Boy Scout pennant. The pennant has a Boy Scout insignia that includes a musket and powder horn. Printed in red letters on the white background are the words, "Vermont, Plymouth, Ethan Allen Council Camps."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.73
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002), Boy Scouts of America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2006.73.11
Context
Excerpts below from Vermont Historical Society Library summary of documents.
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
"Charles Willard Phipard was born Aug. 5, 1916, in New York City, the son of Dr.
Willard Phipard and Hazel (Dealing) Phipard.
Charles and his sister Helen spent many summers of their youth with their great-aunt and great-uncle, Cora Gero Munsell and Dr. Chauncy Munsell in South Royalton, Vermont.
Charles Phipard received his elementary education at Poly Prep Day School in
Brooklyn, N.Y., the school attended by his father and grandfather. He attended Wesleyan
University and Upsala College, graduating with degrees in business and economics. He
was a member of the Delta Upsilon national fraternity and served in the U.S. Army Air
Force during World War II; most of his time was spend in Canada as a weather observer.
After his discharge he returned home to Long Island and worked in the
experimental department of Sperry Gyroscope. In 1956 he moved to Royalton, Vermont,
to be near his sister and purchased a farm on Waterman Road where he raised chickens.
Charles Phipard was a charter member of the Heartland Lions Club, where he
served as treasurer for many years. He was active as a Boy Scout leader, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and for many years was State Commissioner and
Treasurer for Babe Ruth Baseball. He died August 7, 2002. "
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Navy blue wool felt pennant with the white printed inscription, "TRINITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT" and the school's logo (three circles covering a triangle). The broad end is bound in white wool felt and has two strips of fabric attached at both the top and bottom. The cardboard manufacturer's tag is still attached and reads, "Collegiate Pacific Felt Products / Traditional Wool Felt Pennants".
Acquisition
Accession
2000.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Trinity College of Vermont
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Manufacturer
Wool Felt Products, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
2000.19.3
Context
Commissioned by Trinity College of Vermont of Burlington, Vermont
Pennant
Name/Title
Pennant
Lexicon
Description
Sky blue pennant for the Girl Scout Jamboree held in Button Bay in 1962. The pennant has an image of water, woods and mountains and the word Vermont in large white letters.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Girl Scouts
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Button Bay State Park
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2023.22.6
Context
A souvenir from the jamboree in 1962 held at the state park at Button Bay on Lake Champlain.
Personal Hearing Aid Device
Name/Title
Personal Hearing Aid Device
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular, gray hearing aid device with plastic cover and silver back clip. Attached is a wrapped chord with a beige plug and a light pink disc with a clear plastic earpiece. The device has a black plastic bottom edge. Chords of earpiece exhibit some rusting.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Just device (see note for earpiece)
Materials
Material Notes
Most components of the device appear on the exterior to be plastic but due to rusting on the wires to the earpiece suggest evidence of metal wiring.
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.16
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Picketing Sign
Name/Title
Picketing Sign
Description
Hand-drawn sign on cream thick paper/perhaps cardboard in marker. Bearing inscription: "DEAF SCHOOL accommodates Special Needs, not just education of DEAF Students" in alternating red and black marker. Staples on top and bottom to wooden plank. Unfinished wood with two other staples (perhaps re-using as another sign) and the number "68" in black marker.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Sign only (see note for wooden rod)
Materials
Material Notes
The paper/cardboard refers to the supporting material of the sign itself (that which was used for the marker) while the wood refers to the poll used to hold up the sign. The paper/cardboard area of the sign was secured onto the wooden poll using staples still present which is what metal refers to.
Material
Paper, Cardboard, Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.31
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Web Links and URLs
Picnic Basket
Name/Title
Picnic Basket
Lexicon
Description
Brown stained woven basket with two U-shaped handles on either side. The basket has a plywood lid that hinges open on one of the long sides with brass-plated hinges. The inside of the lid is burned with the label, "Putney BasketVille (R) Vermont". Within the basket is a four-serving picnic service consisting of plastic plates divided into three sections, plastic mugs, and plastic flatware. Each piece is marked, "BASKETVILLE".
Acquisition
Accession
1975.497
Made/Created
Date made
1975
Manufacturer
Basketville, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ash Splint, Plastic, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1975.497.1.1-.29
Context
Made by Basketville, Inc., in Putney, Vermont
Pill Aid
Name/Title
Pill Aid
Lexicon
Description
An aluminum plunge device with two additional tips that screw on, each 2" long.
Acquisition
Accession
1994.27
Materials
Material
Aluminum
Entry/Object ID
1994.27.9a-d
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Material of item is restricted to the ribbon itself. The ornament was made of a metal and the backing is metal as well.
Textile Details
Red
White
Blue
Color
Ribbon
Material
Description
Small gold pin attaching to faded red, white, and blue ribbon with gold ornament hanging down. Gold ornament revealing multi-layered art-deco style framing in metal relief with small image of ski jumper in relief flying towards the right. Securing to ribbon with two golden jump rings suspending between pointed top of ornament and gathered bottom of ribbon. Golden safety-pin backing coming from ribbon-piece.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.34
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Presented on the occasion of winning a competition regarding ski jumping to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Presented on the occasion of winning a competition regarding ski jumping to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Small black metal rectangular pin with two silver straight fastenings. Front has small inscription in bright red "CISS/1975 WORLD WINTER GAMES FOR THE DEAF." In the center is a snowflake emblem outlined in white and on the bottom is written in white "LAKE PLACID."
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.36
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Presented to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier on the occasion of the 1975 CISS (Comite International des Sports des Silencieux) 8th annual World Winter Games for the deaf "Deaflympics" where Holbrook won fifth place in the category of cross-country skiing in Lake Placid, NY. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Presented to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier on the occasion of the 1975 CISS (Comite International des Sports des Silencieux) 8th annual World Winter Games for the deaf "Deaflympics" where Holbrook won fifth place in the category of cross-country skiing in Lake Placid, NY. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
- Records of Cross-country Skiing in Olympics-Deaflympics
- Clip of the New York Times-January, 1964
- Clip of New York Times-February, 1964
- Biography of Herbert Holbrook
- History of Comite International des Sports des Silencieux (CISS) 1975
- Clip of New York Times about the Lake Placid Deaflymics Games-February, 1975
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Red and white Chittenden County Beard Boosters pin.
In the center of the pin is a cartoon drawing of a man with a full beard and long moustache wearing a derby hat pulled down over his eyes. Below his beard is '1609 - 1959'. Around the perimeter in red is "CHITTENDEN COUNTY BEARD BOOSTERS / CHAMPLAIN FESTIVAL"
In the center of the pin is a cartoon drawing of a man with a full beard and long moustache wearing a derby hat pulled down over his eyes. Below his beard is '1609 - 1959'. Around the perimeter in red is "CHITTENDEN COUNTY BEARD BOOSTERS / CHAMPLAIN FESTIVAL"
Acquisition
Accession
2009.46
Relationships
Related Events
Champlain Valley Fair, 350th Champlain Anniversary Festival
Related Places
Place
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1959
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2009.46.4
Context
An object from the festivities in 1959 marking the 350th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's first visit to the lake that today's bears his name.
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Small shield shaped pin. Inscribing in dark blue lettering and stylized letters on top is: "US" beneath in small red lettering with a white background is: "DEAF SKI TEAM." Beneath and on the bottom are radiating white lines against a dark blue background. Straight, gold pin backing.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.40
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Web Links and URLs
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Lexicon
Description
Gold painted ceramic stick pin. The stick pin is the upper torso of a man in a partial profile. The man has a mustache and wrinkled detailing between the brows and deep indentations on the cheeks. He is wearing a collared, double-breasted coat and epaulets on either shoulder. The nose and left shoulder are chipped.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.48
Relationships
Related Events
Dewey Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.48
Context
From Encyclopedia Britannica, "George Dewey was born on December 26, 1837 in Montpelier, Vermont. Upon his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1857, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1861. During the Civil War he served with Admiral Farragut during the Battle of New Orleans and as part of the Atlantic blockade. From 1871 until 1896, Dewey held a variety of positions in the Navy. In 1897 he was named commander of the Asiatic Squadron, thanks to the help of strong political allies, including Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt's help was also essential in supplying Dewey with guns, ammunition, and other needed supplies so that his fleet would be prepared if war broke out with Spain. An aggressive commander, Dewey ignored China's neutrality and took on coal for his fleet at Mirs Bay. He was forced to leave Hong Kong on April 25, but not before the U.S.S. Baltimore had arrived from Honolulu with needed ammunition.
Thus prepared for battle, Dewey launched his attack, through mined waters and firing shore batteries, on Admiral Patricio Montojo's slow, outmoded, under-supplied Spanish squadron at Cavite in Manila Bay. On May 1, he engaged the Spanish forces and demolished them, inflicting very heavy casualties. His troops occupied the bay and Manila itself alone until General Wesley Merritt's soldiers arrived in August.
News of the victory in the Battle of Manila Bay reached President McKinley on May 7 and soon Dewey became a national hero."
Roosevelt's help was also essential in supplying Dewey with guns, ammunition, and other needed supplies so that his fleet would be prepared if war broke out with Spain. An aggressive commander, Dewey ignored China's neutrality and took on coal for his fleet at Mirs Bay. He was forced to leave Hong Kong on April 25, but not before the U.S.S. Baltimore had arrived from Honolulu with needed ammunition.
Thus prepared for battle, Dewey launched his attack, through mined waters and firing shore batteries, on Admiral Patricio Montojo's slow, outmoded, under-supplied Spanish squadron at Cavite in Manila Bay. On May 1, he engaged the Spanish forces and demolished them, inflicting very heavy casualties. His troops occupied the bay and Manila itself alone until General Wesley Merritt's soldiers arrived in August.
News of the victory in the Battle of Manila Bay reached President McKinley on May 7 and soon Dewey became a national hero."
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Lexicon
Description
Circular plastic pin with metal backing in light green with the state of Vermont outlined in darker green. In front is printed "Support DEAF RIGHTS" and "ASL" using American Sign Language hand gestures with outlined hands. Along the side is printed "www.vtadr.org."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
The pin itself is metal with a metal plate backing while the cover is a printed plastic with a sheen.
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.27
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Web Links and URLs
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Small shield shaped, enamel style pin with dark blue top bearing: "USA AAAD" (American Athletic Association of the Deaf) with bottom half showing vertical red and white stripes. Straight golden pin backing.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.38
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Worn and earned by by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Worn and earned by by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Small black metal rectangular pin with one gold safety pin fastening. Depicts two snowy white peaks with gold craggy shadows and a light blue sky. On the left is a pointed ski-like light blue column with the inscription: "BERCHTESGADEN" written semi-verticle gold lettering. In the center is a green circle outlined in gold with a golden cartesian-type grid outlined in gold. Within the circle is the lettering in gold, "CISS." Underneath is an inscription: "VI INTERNATIONALE GEHORLOSEN-WINTERSPIELE 1967."
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.37
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Presented to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier on the occasion of the 6th annual World Winter Games for the Deaf "Deaflympics" which was held in Berchtesgaden (West Germany). Holbrook won fifth place in cross-country skiing and therefore this pin. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Presented to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier on the occasion of the 6th annual World Winter Games for the Deaf "Deaflympics" which was held in Berchtesgaden (West Germany). Holbrook won fifth place in cross-country skiing and therefore this pin. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Gray, red, white and black pin that was used as admission to events on New Year's Eve in Burlington. The name of the event, First Night Burlington, is printed in the center of a white star. At the bottom is the date when this pin was the admission ticket -- 1991.
Acquisition
Accession
1999.18
Relationships
Related Events
New Year's Eve
Event
Related Person or Organization
First Night Burlington
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
2.25
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1999.18.15
Context
First Night Burlington, "a sprawling variety show" that marked the new year for 35 years, was discontinued after the 2018 event after freezing temperatures reduced crowds and caused significant financial loss. Also the lead sponsor said it would reduce its future participation. First Night began in 1983 in Burlington. For the final First Night in 2018, "nearly 100 performers at 19 downtown venues performed music, dance, theater, storytelling and comedy from 11 a.m. Dec. 31 until a fireworks show in the early hours of Jan. 1."
Source: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/04/17/first-night-burlington-ends-35-year-run-done-cold-and-lack-money/525725002/
Source: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/04/17/first-night-burlington-ends-35-year-run-done-cold-and-lack-money/525725002/
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Mad River Valley Winter Carnival 1995. Central to the button is a sleigh being pulled by a horse. Light green/gray printing and graphics on a white background.
Use
Probably by donor or family member
Acquisition
Accession
2007.61
Made/Created
Date made
1995
Manufacturer
Newton Manufacturing Company
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2007.61.2
Context
The Mad River Valley had a winter carnival for a decade or more, but as of 2021, it had been discontinued. No information was found on when it was started and when it ended. Below is a description of the Mad river Valley winter carnival from a list of winter carnivals in New England in the early 2000s.
"A ten-day winter Carnival that capitalizes on Vermont's famous winter and combines small town fun with big city activity. Lots of food, skiing, snow shoe races, as well as the Jeep King of the mountain Downhill series. The Mad River Valley is active Vermont, pastoral, but never passive. The Valley is best seen by doing."
"A ten-day winter Carnival that capitalizes on Vermont's famous winter and combines small town fun with big city activity. Lots of food, skiing, snow shoe races, as well as the Jeep King of the mountain Downhill series. The Mad River Valley is active Vermont, pastoral, but never passive. The Valley is best seen by doing."
Pin
Name/Title
Pin
Description
Medium circular silver pin with folding and waving triangle made up of two black lines with slightly hooking points (like skis) with a small red heart in the center. Outline all of these are small, thin, silver protrusions from the surface. Beneath is the inscription in positive relief: "MERIBEL 21-27 JANV. 1979" (January 1979).
Verso has gold edging and silver circular inscription: "IXE JEUX MONDIAUX D"HIVER DES SOURDS" (9th Global Winter Games of the Deaf). Surrounding a green circular area with a silver sphere in center with a Cartesian grid (like a globe) with radiating silver rays. This is overlapped with inscription: "C.I.S.S."
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper. This award was given in France at the end and height of this career as a ski jumper.
Verso has gold edging and silver circular inscription: "IXE JEUX MONDIAUX D"HIVER DES SOURDS" (9th Global Winter Games of the Deaf). Surrounding a green circular area with a silver sphere in center with a Cartesian grid (like a globe) with radiating silver rays. This is overlapped with inscription: "C.I.S.S."
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper. This award was given in France at the end and height of this career as a ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.39
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Given to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979 (where he won this particular pin)
Given to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979 (where he won this particular pin)
Web Links and URLs
Pin, Campaign
Name/Title
Pin, Campaign
Lexicon
Description
Blue political campaign pin with the image of an elephant with a blanket on its back reading, "Coolidge and Dawes."
Acquisition
Accession
2019.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2019.20.4
Context
Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, became president in 1923 when President Warren Harding died suddenly. In 1924, Coolidge ran for president with Charles Dawes as his vice presidential running mate. They won and served one 4-year term.
Pin, Campaign
Name/Title
Pin, Campaign
Lexicon
Description
A red, white and blue campaign pin calling for the election of Democrats Phil Hoff, governor, and John. J. Daley, lieutenant governor. The pin says "Re-Elect Hoff Daley."
Acquisition
Accession
2019.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hoff, Philip Henderson (1924-2018)
Daley, John J. (1923-2000)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2019.20.5
Context
Philip Hoff, a Democrat, won election for governor in 1962, the first Democrat elected to that position in Vermont. In 1964 John J. Daley ran for lieutenant governor as a Democrat and was elected. The pair ran for re-election in 1966 and won. Daley ran for governor in 1968 when Hoff didn't seek re-election, but lost to Republican Deane Davis.
Pin, Political
Name/Title
Pin, Political
Lexicon
Description
Round political pin with green background and yellow border. The pin reads in yellow, "BONEHEADS for Health Care Reform". There is an arc of yellow stars above the words and around the border.
Acquisition
Accession
2019.20
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dean, Howard Brush (b. 1948)
Vermont Legislature
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2019.20.9
Context
The pin was created in response to a squabble between Gov. Howard Dean and Republicans in the Legislature in 2000 over how to address the shift of the cost of Medicaid to private insurance when Medicaid reimbursements were low. Dean called a move by Republican lawmakers to increase Medicaid payments to hospitals "bone-headed" because he said his administration was in the midst of talks about how to address the issue. Some lawmakers started wearing this pin in the Statehouse. Dean argued he wouldn't consider increasing Medicaid payments unless health care providers agreed to some cost-control measures.
Pipe
Name/Title
Pipe
Lexicon
Description
Ceramic (kaolin) pipe head
Use
Peace pipe used by Nettie Demars of Highgate, Vermont
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.43
Pipe Bowl
Name/Title
Pipe Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Pipe Bowl made from carved soapstone
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Soapstone
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.58
Pipe Bowl
Name/Title
Pipe Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Pipe Bowl blank carved from soapstone
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Materials
Material
Soapstone
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.59
Context
"blank"
Pipe Bowl
Name/Title
Pipe Bowl
Lexicon
Description
Soapstone pipe bowl w/modern stem
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Materials
Material
Soapstone
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.150
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Brown ceramic pitcher molded with a hunt scene. The body of the pitcher is molded with a scene of a pack of dogs hunting a stag. The shoulder is molded with leaves or grass and flowers. The spout is molded with a vine of fruits or flowers. The handle is in the shape of a hound whose nose is pointed downward into the pitcher.
Acquisition
Accession
1960.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1960.1.46
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Tall, round pitcher with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border around the rim and base. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.1
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Niagara pattern parian pitcher. The pitcher is made of a lightly-glazed, white-bodied ceramic molded into a high-relief design of jutting rocks, running water, and branches. The handle is in the form of a branch.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Date made
1852-1858
Manufacturer
United States Pottery Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.223
Context
The Niagara pattern was the only pattern that was exclusively produced by the U.S. Pottery Company, which operated out of Bennington, VT.
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
White unglazed ceramic pitcher molded with lily pads. The bottom is marked "U.S. P. #14" within a twisting ribbon.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
United States Pottery Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.219
Context
Made by The United States Pottery Co. in Bennington, Vermont
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Tall ceramic wash pitcher with mottled brown and green glaze. The body is molded with flutes and there is scrollwork around the rim. The bottom is stamped with the mark, "Lyman Fenton & Co. Fenton's enamel patented 1849, Bennington, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Date made
1849
Manufacturer
Lyman, Fenton & Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.115
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Molded white pitcher with slightly glossy glaze. The pitcher is molded with an allover pattern of flowers, including sunflowers, carnations, and tulips.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
United States Pottery Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Earthenware
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.217
Context
Made by The United States Pottery Co. in Bennington, Vermont.
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Rockinghamware (or flint enameled) pitcher. The fluted body of the pitcher flares outward at both the bottom and top. The spout is shaped like an acanthus leaf and begins halfway down the body of the pitcher.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.1
Context
Made in Bennington, Vermont
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Faceted black pitcher with semi-gloss glaze. The pitcher is shaped into 6 facets, each with the molded decoration of a rose on the bottom and three leaves on the top. The handle arches upward into a point that extends higher than the rim of the pitcher.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
Norton and Fenton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.9
Context
Made by Norton & Fenton in Bennington, Vermont
Pitcher
Name/Title
Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Ceramic pitcher with a brown streaked glaze. The pitcher is molded into 8 facets and sits on a short base. The spout rises slightly higher than the rest of the pitcher and is decorated with a molded leaf.
Acquisition
Accession
1957.1
Made/Created
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1957.1.16
Plaque
Name/Title
Plaque
Lexicon
Description
Metal plate with black background attached by 4 corner screws to a brown wooden base. Engraved text reads: Jim Milne / Barre City Clerk and Treasurer / 1988-1995 / With appreciation and admiration from your friends and neighbors. Label on back: Braults Engraving & Custom Framing, Barre, Vermont ...
Acquisition
Accession
2011.70
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Milne, James F. (b. 1950)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1988-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
2011.70.74
Plaque
Name/Title
Plaque
Lexicon
Description
Framed printed plaque honoring Robert T. Stafford's joining of the United States Senate. The award is printed both on paper within the frame and reverse-printed on the glass. The paper features a watermark image of the Senate Chambers at the top and the lines, "ROBERT T. STAFFORD / of Vermont," "17th day of September, 1971," and the signatures and titles for both Francis R. Valeo, Secretary of the Senate, and Spiro T. Agnew, President of the Senate. There are also gold foil leaf-motif outlines for the first letter of each word "The Senate of the United States" and the red and green backing for the United States Senate seal in the lower left corner. The words, "THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES / Acknowledges and honors the membership of," "Who being duly selected by the people of his state was first sworn to office this" before the lines printed on the paper. The plaque resides within a heavy molded wooden frame with bronze interior edging.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.8
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Stafford, Robert Theodore (1913-2006)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2024.8.1
Context
Robert Theodore Stafford (1913-2006) was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy political career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont (1959-1961), a United States Representative (1961-1971), and a U.S. Senator (1971-1989). A Republican, Stafford was generally considered a liberal, or "Rockefeller" Republican.
Stafford is best remembered for his staunch environmentalism, his work on higher education, and his support, as an elder statesman, for the 2000 Vermont law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
The Federal Stafford Loan Program for high education is named in his honor.
Stafford is best remembered for his staunch environmentalism, his work on higher education, and his support, as an elder statesman, for the 2000 Vermont law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
The Federal Stafford Loan Program for high education is named in his honor.
Plaque
Name/Title
Plaque
Lexicon
Description
Decoupaged photo on wood of a covered bridge with church in background. Photo has a scalloped edge. On back is a small ring attached near center top for hanging.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.2
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Arlington
Town
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Paper, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.2.6
Context
Shows the West Arlington, Vermont, covered bridge.
Plaque
Name/Title
Plaque
Lexicon
Description
Decoupaged close-up photo on wood of a covered bridge. Photo has a scalloped edge. On back is a small ring attached near center top for hanging.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.2
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.2.7
Plate
Name/Title
Plate
Lexicon
Description
Round tin plate with folded edge. The label, "Fifer/True B. Walter/15th Regt Co E Vt Vol." is scratched into the bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.37
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Walker, True Blake (1841-1863)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burke
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
1982.37.16
Context
Owned by True Blake Walter during the Civil War. Walter served as a musician in Company E, 15th Regiment Vermont.
Plate, Coffin
Name/Title
Plate, Coffin
Lexicon
Description
Coffin plate engraved: "Achsa W. Sprague / Agd 34 ys 8 mo. Passed away July 6th 1862" Rectangular in shape with scrolled edges. Silver colored metal. Tiny hole in each corner for mounting. Stamped out of a sheet of metal, the edges roll slightly down.
Acquisition
Accession
2017.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Sprague, Ascha W. (1827-1862)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1862
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2017.6
Plate, Commemorative
Name/Title
Plate, Commemorative
Lexicon
Description
Smokey gray glass "Governor" Aiken plate with artwork by the donor. The designs and writing is applied to the front of the plate with white paint(?). Central to the design is a bust of George Aiken with the following written around the plate in two rows (starting at top, clockwise): "UNITED STATES SENATOR.GOVERNOR.LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.SPEAKER VERMONT HOUSE. MEMBER VERMONT HOUSE. THANK YOU, "GOVERNOR" AIKEN / VERMONT LEAGUE OF CITIES AND TOWNS / 1974 TOWN FAIR" The plate is in its original box.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.56
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Aiken, George David (1892-1984)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2011.56
Plate, License
Name/Title
Plate, License
Lexicon
Description
License plate, white with green lettering, imprinted as follows: "125th WORLD'S FAIR/ TUNBRIDGE, VT/ SEPT. 12-15, 1996/ A Fair to Remember" Paper label on back reads: "It is ILLEGAL to use this World's Fair number plate in replacement of, or over, your current state number plate."
Acquisition
Accession
2008.48
Made/Created
Date made
1996
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin, Paper
Entry/Object ID
2008.48.9
Plate, License
Name/Title
Plate, License
Lexicon
Description
a= License plate commemorating the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial celebration. In center in black, green and blue letters is "VERMONT/CELEBRATES/CHAMPLAIN". On left, in red numbers, is "400" (placed vertically) with the logo of the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial to the right with "1609-2009" below. Green border at top and blue border at bottom with "CelebrateChamplain.org" There are two holes on top and two on bottom for attaching the plate. Taped to back is a printout of the Vermont statute which gives authority for this license plate.
b= Brown paper envelope to be used as a mailer for license plate and registration. In upper left corner is address of Vermont Agency of Transportation along with instructions for removal of plate from envelope, instructions as to inspection stickers, phone number and web site for Department of Motor Vehicles, and in upper right corner, stamped first class postage permit.
b= Brown paper envelope to be used as a mailer for license plate and registration. In upper left corner is address of Vermont Agency of Transportation along with instructions for removal of plate from envelope, instructions as to inspection stickers, phone number and web site for Department of Motor Vehicles, and in upper right corner, stamped first class postage permit.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.3
Relationships
Related Events
400 Years of the Champlain Valley
Event
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2008-2010
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
2013.3.1ab
Playing Cards
Name/Title
Playing Cards
Lexicon
Description
Deck of 53 cards showing scenes of Vermont. The back of each card has a picture of Vermont State capital with state seal and border of state flower, the red clover. The deck is in its original green box, which has the gold label, "VERMONT "THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE" SOUVENIR PLAYING CARDS 53 Views of Especial Natural and Historic interest PUBLISHED BY CHISHOLM BROS. PORTLAND, MAINE."
Acquisition
Accession
1957.29
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Manufacturer
Chisholm Bros.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (box)
Materials
Material
Paperboard, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1957.29
Pocket Flask
Name/Title
Pocket Flask
Lexicon
Description
67 cardboard box forms for holding sputum; scored to fold into the correct pocket shape. The interior is coated with wax. The boxes are orange-red with the black inscription, "To be Certain----Burn it All/POCKET SPUTUM FLASK "XL"/Patented/BURNITOL MANUFACTURING CO./Boston, Massachusetts/Patent Numbers/1,719,876/Made in U.S.A." The Burnitol Trade Mark (Burnitol within a black circle) appears above all the lettering.
Use
To hold and dispose of the highly contagious phlegm of people with tuberculosis.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.78
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Brown's Pharmacy
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1918
Manufacturer
Burnitol Manufacturing Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Waxed Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2006.78.8.1 -- .67
Context
Distributed by doctors to workers in the granite industry. (Never used.)
Web Links and URLs
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Round yellow button printed with the inscription, "RECYCLE TODAY... / TOMORROW IS TOO LATE" around the edge and the triangular recycling symbol in the center. The symbol, which consists of three arrows pointing around a triangle, is filled with a pattern of the earth seen from space.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.4
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2022.4.2
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
A light pink pin with an equilateral triangle in the center. "ALLY" is written within the triangle.
light pink
light pink
Acquisition
Accession
1997.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Montpelier High School, Outright Vermont
Made/Created
Date made
May 1997
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1997.15.4
Context
The pin was worn by Montpelier High School students in May 1997 as part of the Outright Vermont program at the school. The mission of Outright Vermont is to foster sensitivity and understanding of the issues facing gay, lesbian and bisexual youth. Wearing the pin signaled the wearer was an "ally" or friend of gay, lesbian and bisexual youth.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Campaign button from Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign for Mayor of Burlington. The round button has "EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK" in white on a blue ground with "for MAYOR" in blue across a yellow banner in the lower third of the button. The bottom edge of the button has the colors of the transgender flag: blue on the outer edges, pink just inside, and white in the middle.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mo O'Hara
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.3
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Blue with green image of state of Vermont in background and "DEMOCRATS ARE PEOPLE WHO CARE" in white lettering.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.32
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Democratic Party
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Votes Unlimited
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.32.32
Context
No date associated with this button.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Pink political pin that says in black printing, "Not running for Lt. Governor !!"
Acquisition
Accession
2023.24
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Continent
Vermont State House
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2023.24.2
Context
No information as to when this "joke" pin was created or why.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Vermont Women are Valuable in dark blue letters on a white background. The center has a dark blue background with a white bird and the female symbol. The pin on the back is of the clasp variety.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.50
Made/Created
Date made
1974-1987
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2015.50.12
Context
Rita K. Edwards, the donor of this pin, was on the staff of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women and active in the women's rights movement in the 1970s. In advance of the Vermont Women's Town Meeting in 1977, Rita Edwards and Faire Edwards (not related) of the Vermont Gray Panthers came up with this pin. An account in the Burlington Free Press on March 2, 1977, gives a brief history of the pin and the event.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
White button with the inscription, "VERMONTERS DECLARE YOUR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE" in blue and red letters. There is a logo for the movement that is a lowercase E with an arrow as the center line.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.9
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1970-circa 1980
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.9.7
Context
Made for the locally based "Declare you Energy Independence" movement, which pushed for the commercial use of solar energy as an alternative for fossil fuels.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
White square metal button with the black inscription, "SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF ALL VERMONTERS" over a pink triangle.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.9
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Colt Buttons
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.9.22
Context
Made to show support for gay rights. The pink triangle was originally a symbol used in Nazi concentration camps to identify gay men, but it was reclaimed in the 1970s by gay activists as a rallying symbol for equal rights.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Dark green pin with white writing- "VERMONT- FIRST IN EQUALITY"
Designed by Rev. (Ms) Lee Crawford, rector at St. Mary's Church, Northfield, VT. and handed out at the 2000 Episcopal Diocesan Convention to celebrate the Civil Union Bill.
Designed by Rev. (Ms) Lee Crawford, rector at St. Mary's Church, Northfield, VT. and handed out at the 2000 Episcopal Diocesan Convention to celebrate the Civil Union Bill.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.18
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2001.18.3
Context
Civil unions were established in Vermont in 2000 to provide same-sex couples all the benefits, protections and responsibilities under law as are granted to spouses in a marriage. The marriage equality act, effective September 1, 2009 allows same-sex couples to marry in Vermont.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
White button with green lettering: "I'M AN ENERGY SAVER'' Green silhouette of State of Vt. next to slogan. Label on back: "1976 distributed by Vermont branch of American Automobile Assoc., Montpelier."
Acquisition
Accession
1976.37
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
American Automobile Association
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1975
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1976.37.6
Context
Gas price spikes and supply disruptions beginning in 1973 led to a national discussion about how to respond. One result was nationwide maximum speed limit of 55 mph. The American Automobile Association created a "Gas Watchers Guide" in 1975 that offered ways that its members -- car drivers -- could cut their gasoline costs and use. This pin may have been part of that campaign that encouraged car pooling, modest speeds, consolidating trips and keeping cars in tune.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Yellow/green button/pin reading "Vermonters/ Organized for/ Clean-Up/ JOIN US". In lower center are 4 images: Chemistry bottle, test tube, an oil drum(?), and 3 smoke stacks with fumes. The writing is in calligraphy. The words are arranged so the letters VOC fall one above the other. Pin has safety clasp.
Acquisition
Accession
1985.18
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermonters Organized for Clean-Up
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Williamstown
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1985.18.1
Context
The organization, Vermonters Organized for Clean-up" was incorporated on April 19, 1984 as an environmental protection business. It is listed in 2020 as inactive. It's official address was Williamstown, also the address for its two directors, Theresa Freeman and Marianne Miller.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Vermont Freedom to Marry pin. Yellow background with green lettering. Outline of the State of Vermont with "Vermont Freedom to Marry" beside it and printed below: "From legal rights/ to EQUAL rights". Identical to 2010.ll.17
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2009
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.16
Context
Vermont Freedom to Marry was the nonprofit, all-volunteer resource for marriage equality in Vermont that spearheaded the successful effort to secure the freedom to marry for the state’s same-sex couples.
Source for history below as of 3/24/2021 (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Freedom+to+Marry+vermont )
"The Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force formed in 1996 with the mission of achieving civil marriage equality in Vermont. At the time, marriage equality did not exist in any nation in the world, and the concept of same-sex couples having the freedom to marry was foreign to many.
In the 20 years between VFMTF’s formation and the momentous U.S. Supreme Court decision that led to nationwide marriage equality, Vermont milestones marked the progress of the marriage-equality movement. Those milestones include the landmark 1999 Vermont Supreme Court Baker v. Vermont ruling, which found that same-sex couples in the state were entitled to the same benefits and protections as opposite-sex couples; the 2000 civil union legislation that was the first of its kind in the U.S.; and the 2009 override of Governor Douglas’s veto of the marriage bill, making Vermont the first state to successfully enact marriage equality via the legislative process."
Source for history below as of 3/24/2021 (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Freedom+to+Marry+vermont )
"The Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force formed in 1996 with the mission of achieving civil marriage equality in Vermont. At the time, marriage equality did not exist in any nation in the world, and the concept of same-sex couples having the freedom to marry was foreign to many.
In the 20 years between VFMTF’s formation and the momentous U.S. Supreme Court decision that led to nationwide marriage equality, Vermont milestones marked the progress of the marriage-equality movement. Those milestones include the landmark 1999 Vermont Supreme Court Baker v. Vermont ruling, which found that same-sex couples in the state were entitled to the same benefits and protections as opposite-sex couples; the 2000 civil union legislation that was the first of its kind in the U.S.; and the 2009 override of Governor Douglas’s veto of the marriage bill, making Vermont the first state to successfully enact marriage equality via the legislative process."
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
"Save the Long Trail" pin. Black printing on pale green paper - mounted on a pin back.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.14
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green Mountain Club
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Long Trail
* Untyped Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2000-2009
Manufacturer
Badge-a-Minit
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.14.2
Context
No information was found to explain the purpose of this pin. However, the following excerpt from the Green Mountain Club's website (https://www.greenmountainclub.org/conservation/protecting-long-trail/)
explains the ongoing efforts to protect the trail from one end of the state to the other.
"Since the 1980s, the Green Mountain Club has sought to secure a permanent route for the Long Trail. While in the early years, the club could rely on simple handshake agreements with landowners, a few threats of trail closure and development near the trail inspired the club to kick off its Long Trail Protection Campaign.
The Long Trail Protection Campaign has resulted in the conservation of more than 25,000 acres of Vermont forest land through which the Long Trail and its side trails cross. The club has protected more than 78 miles of the Long Trail and continues to strive to conserve the remaining 6.5 miles of the trail (Note: much of the trail was conserved before this campaign thanks to the national forest and state lands). With only a few miles left unprotected, the club continues to work with willing landowners to provide the public with long term certainty that the trail will never close.
The club’s Long Trail Protection Campaign has always relied exclusively on willing landowner sales and easements. The club has partnered with the state of Vermont to transfer many of the lands it has conserved into the state forest system."
explains the ongoing efforts to protect the trail from one end of the state to the other.
"Since the 1980s, the Green Mountain Club has sought to secure a permanent route for the Long Trail. While in the early years, the club could rely on simple handshake agreements with landowners, a few threats of trail closure and development near the trail inspired the club to kick off its Long Trail Protection Campaign.
The Long Trail Protection Campaign has resulted in the conservation of more than 25,000 acres of Vermont forest land through which the Long Trail and its side trails cross. The club has protected more than 78 miles of the Long Trail and continues to strive to conserve the remaining 6.5 miles of the trail (Note: much of the trail was conserved before this campaign thanks to the national forest and state lands). With only a few miles left unprotected, the club continues to work with willing landowners to provide the public with long term certainty that the trail will never close.
The club’s Long Trail Protection Campaign has always relied exclusively on willing landowner sales and easements. The club has partnered with the state of Vermont to transfer many of the lands it has conserved into the state forest system."
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Round button with a wide red border and a red line spanning the white center. Beneath the line is the black silhouette of a fighter jet, and on the line is the white inscription, "STOPtheF35.COM".
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont National Guard
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2010-2013
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.18
Context
Made to oppose the basing of the F-35, a Joint Strike Fighter at the Vermont Air National Guard Station in Burlington, Vermont.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Green button with bold white lettering that reads, "ERA YES" from the 1986 campaign to add an equal rights amendment to the state constitution.
Acquisition
Accession
1988.28
Made/Created
Date made
1986
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1988.28.21
Context
Vermonters voted on and rejected an equal rights amendment to the state constitution in 1986. Here is an Associated Press account at the time.
" Vermonters have defeated an equal rights amendment to the state Constitution by a narrow margin, according to unofficial returns. With 88 percent of the precincts reporting today, 49 percent of the voters cast ballots in favor of the amendment, while 51 percent voted against the ERA. Sixteen states have ERAs in their constitution. The amendment read: ?Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the State of Vermont or any of its political subdivisions on account of the sex of the individual.?
" Vermonters have defeated an equal rights amendment to the state Constitution by a narrow margin, according to unofficial returns. With 88 percent of the precincts reporting today, 49 percent of the voters cast ballots in favor of the amendment, while 51 percent voted against the ERA. Sixteen states have ERAs in their constitution. The amendment read: ?Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the State of Vermont or any of its political subdivisions on account of the sex of the individual.?
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white pin with red lettering and images. At the top, the word, "Vermont." At the bottom, the words, "Conservation Celebration" in a scroll. In the middle, two hands seems to release two birds, a fish, a flower and leaves (one oak and the other a maple).
Acquisition
Accession
1989.47
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Natural Resources Council
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1989
Entry/Object ID
1989.47.1
Context
An all-day (9 a.m. -6 p.m.) Conservation Celebration was held by the Vermont Natural Resources Council on Sept. 16, 1989 on the lawn of the Statehouse. The event included workshops by various environmental organizations on topics such as town planning, weather, forestlands, woodcarving, composting and recycling. Gov. Madeleine Kunin spoke as did environmental advocates. there was music and other entertainment and activities for children.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Purple pin with white lettering that promotes the organization, Out in the Mountains, that began publishing a periodic newspaper for gay and lesbian Vermonters in February of 1986.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.57
Relationships
Related Events
Lesbian and Gay Pride March
Event
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.57.2
Context
June 1984 would have been when the second Gay and Lesbian Pride March was held in Burlington.
Web Links and URLs
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
White pin on which is printed in green and red, "On Me Not In Me," and "AIDS Action Committee."
Acquisition
Accession
2000.57
Relationships
Related Events
Lesbian and Gay Pride March
Event
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.57.3
Context
The slogan "On me not in me" was a slogan that became popular in the gay community in the Northeast after the AIDS epidemic broke out in the 1980's. It related to safe sex practices. It is unclear who the AIDS Action Committee was or whether it was a Vermont organization.
Web Links and URLs
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Bright pink button/pin with black printing. In the center is an upside down equilateral triangle with two linked rings (bands) running through it. Above the triangle "I SUPPORT" and on either side and around the bottom: "CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GAY/LESBIAN COUPLES"
No makers stamp or mark. Silver/chrome pin back.
No makers stamp or mark. Silver/chrome pin back.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, Vermont Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Manufacturer
Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.25.2
Context
Pin of the Vermont Freedom To Marry Task Force, established in 1995 as an offshoot of the Vermont Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The task force helped three same-sex couples with their 1997 lawsuit against the state after they were refused marriage licenses. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 20, 1999 that same-sex couples were entitled under the Vermont Constitution to the same benefits and protections as married opposite sex couples, but the court left it to the Legislature to devise a solution. In 2000, the Legislature's solution was civil unions, a "separate but equal" legal union for same-sex couples. In 2009, the Legislature revisited the issue and approved marriage for same-sex couples.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Black political pin with red outline of the state of Vermont, which is white, a red slash across the state image and the words, "Act-60, Statewide property tax.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Legislature
Vermont Agency of Education
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.21.1
Context
There was fierce opposition to the creation in 1997 of a statewide property tax to fund education and thus this pin.
"Act 60, known as "The Equal Educational Opportunity Act", was a Vermont law enacted in June 1997 by the Vermont legislature intended to achieve a fair balance of educational spending across school districts, independent of the degree of prosperity within each district.[1] The law was in response to a Vermont Supreme Court decision in the Brigham vs. State of Vermont case,[2] wherein the court ruled that Vermont’s then existing educational funding system was unconstitutional, because it allowed students in towns with higher total property values to receive a higher level of education funding per pupil than students in towns with lower property values. Act 60 was followed by Acts 68 and 130, which addressed some imbalances caused by Act 60."
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_60_(Vermont_law)
"Act 60, known as "The Equal Educational Opportunity Act", was a Vermont law enacted in June 1997 by the Vermont legislature intended to achieve a fair balance of educational spending across school districts, independent of the degree of prosperity within each district.[1] The law was in response to a Vermont Supreme Court decision in the Brigham vs. State of Vermont case,[2] wherein the court ruled that Vermont’s then existing educational funding system was unconstitutional, because it allowed students in towns with higher total property values to receive a higher level of education funding per pupil than students in towns with lower property values. Act 60 was followed by Acts 68 and 130, which addressed some imbalances caused by Act 60."
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_60_(Vermont_law)
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular white button with black lettering, with image of a standing cow in center, and printed at top: "VERMONT/ Proud," and below: "not cowed/ LESBIAN - GAY - BISEXUAL (on a pink background)/ pride '93" Black fiber backing with pin attached and at bottom edge, maker: "Amazing Promotions"
Acquisition
Accession
2014.48
Made/Created
Date made
1993
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.48.8
Context
The first Lesbian and Gay Pride March took place on June 25, 1983 in Burlington. This pin is dated 1993, a decade after the first march. There is no information about whether this pin was for statewide events planned in 1993 or tied to a specific march or celebration.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Lavender button with design in center and in white letters: "Nov./ 15-16/ '81" Printed around edge in blue letters: "Women's Pentagon Action/ Accion de Mujeres al Pentagono" Pin on back. Maker printed along bottom edge: "Donnelly Colt Buttons" with address, and "Women's Pentagon Action, 339 Lafayette St., NYC" with telephone number.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.48
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bread and Puppet Theater
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1981
Manufacturer
Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.48.16
Context
About this group and the event on the pin from https://activistswithattitude.com/womens-pentagon-action/
"In November 1980 and again in ‘81, women gathered at the Pentagon to mourn, rage, empower, and defy, in a pageant-like demonstration that combined rational thought with deep emotion. The idea for the Women’s Pentagon Action (WPA) emerged from an ecofeminism conference on Women and Life on Earth held in Amherst, MA in spring, 1980. The next fall, a spinoff group met to examine the connections between violence against women, racism, and the destruction of the earth.
In the first stage, thousands of women walked to the beat of a slow drum through Arlington Cemetery, past endless neat rows of tombstones. They were led by a giant Bread and Puppet Theatre papier-mâché figure. (The first year it was draped in black, the second in white....
The drumbeat changed to a faster, more insistent beat, and a fiery red puppet took the lead for the second stage. To the astonishment of the cynical press and Pentagon personnel who peered from the windows, women began to circle the building chanting, “No more war,” and “Take the toys away from the boys.”...
From rage evolved the third stage. Another puppet appeared to lead the way (the first year gold, the second year black). The empowerment puppet held a basket of scarves. The women helped themselves as they began to encircle the Pentagon, a building one mile in circumference. ...
The fourth stage began. Women who had taken workshops on nonviolent civil disobedience began the work of blocking three of the five major entrances to the Pentagon.
Other women, led by the Spinsters, a Vermont affinity group of feminist activists, began spinning webs of multi-colored yarns across two of the entrances to express their conviction that all life is connected. They decorated the webs with flowers, feathers, leaves and bells.
Another description:
"Four huge female puppets created by Bread and Puppet Theatre ( from Vermont) led some 2,000 women in a march past Arlington Cemetery to the Pentagon. There they encircled the building, put gravestones in the lawn, wove yarn across the entrances to symbolically reweave the web of life, and created rituals of mourning and defiance by chanting, yelling, and banging on cans. Over 140 women were arrested for blocking the doors at two entrances. They also blocked the Mall entrance, but no arrests were made there. Most arrestees pled "no contest" and were immediately sentenced to 10 days for first offenders or 30 days—the maximum—for second offenders. Thirty-four of the second offenders who received longer sentences were shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles and immediately sent 300 miles to a federal prison for women." -- Historic Pentagon Actions: 1980s to Present
"In November 1980 and again in ‘81, women gathered at the Pentagon to mourn, rage, empower, and defy, in a pageant-like demonstration that combined rational thought with deep emotion. The idea for the Women’s Pentagon Action (WPA) emerged from an ecofeminism conference on Women and Life on Earth held in Amherst, MA in spring, 1980. The next fall, a spinoff group met to examine the connections between violence against women, racism, and the destruction of the earth.
In the first stage, thousands of women walked to the beat of a slow drum through Arlington Cemetery, past endless neat rows of tombstones. They were led by a giant Bread and Puppet Theatre papier-mâché figure. (The first year it was draped in black, the second in white....
The drumbeat changed to a faster, more insistent beat, and a fiery red puppet took the lead for the second stage. To the astonishment of the cynical press and Pentagon personnel who peered from the windows, women began to circle the building chanting, “No more war,” and “Take the toys away from the boys.”...
From rage evolved the third stage. Another puppet appeared to lead the way (the first year gold, the second year black). The empowerment puppet held a basket of scarves. The women helped themselves as they began to encircle the Pentagon, a building one mile in circumference. ...
The fourth stage began. Women who had taken workshops on nonviolent civil disobedience began the work of blocking three of the five major entrances to the Pentagon.
Other women, led by the Spinsters, a Vermont affinity group of feminist activists, began spinning webs of multi-colored yarns across two of the entrances to express their conviction that all life is connected. They decorated the webs with flowers, feathers, leaves and bells.
Another description:
"Four huge female puppets created by Bread and Puppet Theatre ( from Vermont) led some 2,000 women in a march past Arlington Cemetery to the Pentagon. There they encircled the building, put gravestones in the lawn, wove yarn across the entrances to symbolically reweave the web of life, and created rituals of mourning and defiance by chanting, yelling, and banging on cans. Over 140 women were arrested for blocking the doors at two entrances. They also blocked the Mall entrance, but no arrests were made there. Most arrestees pled "no contest" and were immediately sentenced to 10 days for first offenders or 30 days—the maximum—for second offenders. Thirty-four of the second offenders who received longer sentences were shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles and immediately sent 300 miles to a federal prison for women." -- Historic Pentagon Actions: 1980s to Present
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
White button with blue lettering: "I OWN/ MY BODY/ BUT I/ SHARE" Pin on back. Maker along bottom edge: "Ferne Sales" with address, etc.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.48
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Houston
City
Texas
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.48.24
Context
A button that was available at the First National Women's Conference held in November 1977 in Houston, Texas. There is no information if this button was picked up there and if so, by whom. There also is no information as to what group might have produced this button.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
This blue button/pin has an image of water, a loon, and pond grass or reeds. Black letters state: "PROTECT BERLIN POND". There is a pin attached to the back.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Berlin
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.15
Context
Background from a commentary published in 2014 by "Page Guertin, a Montpelier resident and member of Citizens to Protect Berlin Pond, the group that has filed a petition with the Agency of Natural Resources to protect the pond from recreational access.
Berlin Pond has been Montpelier’s water supply source for 130 years, and during most of that time it was protected from human access, and therefore a relatively pure water supply. Now a combination of governmental action (or inaction) and a Vermont Supreme Court ruling has turned that history on its head, and Montpelier’s water supply is seriously threatened by human recreation on the pond. Montpelier owns most of the land around the pond, but a disputed area is being surveyed for the possibility of installing a gravel launch ramp for boats, to be built and financed by our Department of Fish and Wildlife (F&W).
The ramp was built and opened in 2018.
Berlin Pond has been Montpelier’s water supply source for 130 years, and during most of that time it was protected from human access, and therefore a relatively pure water supply. Now a combination of governmental action (or inaction) and a Vermont Supreme Court ruling has turned that history on its head, and Montpelier’s water supply is seriously threatened by human recreation on the pond. Montpelier owns most of the land around the pond, but a disputed area is being surveyed for the possibility of installing a gravel launch ramp for boats, to be built and financed by our Department of Fish and Wildlife (F&W).
The ramp was built and opened in 2018.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Campaign button from Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign for Mayor of Burlington. The round button has "EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK" in white on a blue ground with "for MAYOR" in blue across a yellow banner in the lower third of the button. The bottom edge of the button shows the LGBT rainbow flag colors.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mo O'Hara
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.4
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
Political Button
Name/Title
Political Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with green lettering and image of a silhouette showing a child in a tree with a ladder leaning against the trunk, with another child looking up. Text on the button: Be a Voice for Children / Vermont Children's Forum. (See Notes field for more information.)
Acquisition
Accession
2000.19
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Voices for Vermont's Children
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2000.19.6
Context
Established in 1983, Voices for Vermont’s Children (formerly Vermont Children’s Forum) began as an informal alliance of human service and education advocates concerned about the status of children and youth in Vermont.
Voices has evolved into a statewide membership organization of several hundred individuals and organizations. Membership dues and contributions support our advocacy, outreach and community organizing on behalf of Vermont’s children and youth.
Voices addresses the full spectrum of child, youth and family issues – from child care and access to health care coverage for children and youth to juvenile justice and child welfare. Voices for Vermont’s Children works on behalf of children and youth by:
--Advocating during the Vermont Legislative session;
--Organizing and working in state and regional coalitions;
--Providing up-to-date information, policy briefs and fact sheets on issues important to children and youth. This includes publishing Vermont KIDS COUNT child and family data reports; and
--Co-sponsoring workshops, trainings and conferences.
From the website: http://www.voicesforvtkids.org/ (viewed 10/4/2016)
Voices has evolved into a statewide membership organization of several hundred individuals and organizations. Membership dues and contributions support our advocacy, outreach and community organizing on behalf of Vermont’s children and youth.
Voices addresses the full spectrum of child, youth and family issues – from child care and access to health care coverage for children and youth to juvenile justice and child welfare. Voices for Vermont’s Children works on behalf of children and youth by:
--Advocating during the Vermont Legislative session;
--Organizing and working in state and regional coalitions;
--Providing up-to-date information, policy briefs and fact sheets on issues important to children and youth. This includes publishing Vermont KIDS COUNT child and family data reports; and
--Co-sponsoring workshops, trainings and conferences.
From the website: http://www.voicesforvtkids.org/ (viewed 10/4/2016)
Political Ribbon
Name/Title
Political Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
White satin-woven silk ribbon printed in black with a bust of Abraham Lincoln between two American flags with an eagle. The image is labeled "HONEST ABE." Above the image is the inscription, "National Republican Nominee for OUR NEXT PRESIDENT." Below the image is a poem that reads, "The "Slaveocrats" must "pull up stakes" / Before the LINCOLN "Wide Awakes;" / For ABE'S the man whom we intend / Next Spring to WASHINGTON to send ; / Then "DEMOCRATS" and "UNION" men / May rest four years--THEN TRY AGAIN." The name "William" is handwritten in pencil at the top of the ribbon. The name "Cas gilchrist" is written on the reverse.
Acquisition
Accession
1946.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), Richardson, James
Woven Textile Details
Warp
Silk
Warp Materials
Weave Type
Satin Weave
Weft
Silk
Weft Materials
Made/Created
Date made
1860
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silk
Entry/Object ID
1946.15.12
Context
Made for the 1860 Republican National Convention, during which Abraham Lincoln was given the presidential nomination. Worn by James Richardson of Warren, Vermont.
Political Sign
Name/Title
Political Sign
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular sign. The front of the sign is oriented vertically and is hand-decorated with in permanent markers with an outline silhouette of Donald Trump with a red tie extending from his collar to the bottom edge of the sign. The top of the sign bears the date, "1, 20, 21" in permanent marker, with pencil marks from drafting the design visible behind. The bottom of the sign bears the inscription, "THE END OF AN ERROR". The back of the sign is oriented horizontally and commercially printed with an alarm clock, the number 4, a wooden block with the letter M, and peach, and a wrapped mint candy ("Time for impeachment").
Acquisition
Accession
2021.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Trump, Donald (b. 1946)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Tracy, Roberta
Artist
Date made
2021
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2021.29.1
Context
Made by Roberta Tracy and displayed in Montpelier, Vermont
Political Sign
Name/Title
Political Sign
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular, coroplast sign. The front of the sign is hand-decorated with in red and black permanent markers with the inscription, "AND ONE DAY LIKE A MIRACLE HE'LL BE GONE". The back of the sign is oriented horizontally and commercially printed with an alarm clock, the number 4, a wooden block with the letter M, and peach, and a wrapped mint candy ("Time for impeachment").
Acquisition
Accession
2021.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Trump, Donald (b. 1946)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Tracy, Roberta
Artist
Date made
2021
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2021.29.2
Context
Made by Roberta Tracy and displayed in Montpelier, Vermont
Portrait
Name/Title
Portrait
Type of Painting
Description
Oil on canvas portrait of Colonel William Austine. The Colonel stands in a simple interior space with a pale gray/green wall behind him. He is wearing glasses and his dress uniform with simple rectangular epaulettes, tan gloves, crimson sword belt and black belt over top with gold buckle. He holds his sword in his left hand and black hat with gold band in his right. There is a painting on the wall just behind his left shoulder, and a stack of books and papers on a desk by his left hand. The painting is signed "Scott C CARBEE 1917" in the lower right corner and rests in a simple geometric-carved gilt frame. There is a name plate attached to the bottom center of the frame that reads, "COL. WILLIAM AUSTINE, U.S.A. / BORN JAN. 8, 1815, DIED, SEPT. 4, 1904 / PORTRAIT PRESENTED BY / HON. HENRY D. HOLTON A.M., M.D. / BRATTLEBORO, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Subject
Colonel William Austine
Made/Created
Artist Information
Scott Clifton Carbee
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1917
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.14
Context
Colonel William Austine graduated the University of Chicago in 1838 and joined the 2nd Dragoons as Second Lieutenant, shortly after this he joined the 3rd Artillery also as Second Lieutenant a rank he held for much of his military career. He served in the Florida War (1838-1842), in the Mexican-American War in the Siege of Vera Cruz (1847), Battle of Cero Gordo (1847), Skirmish of Amazoque (1847), Capture of San Antonio (1847), and the Battle of Churubusco (1847) during which time he was promoted to Captain. He then served in Ft Adams R.I (1848-1849), in the Florida hostilities against the Seminole Tribe (1849-1850), back in Ft. Adams until 1852, Ft. Constitution N.H. (1852-1853), Ft. Wood N.Y. until 1854, 1854-1861 on sick leave. 1861 he served in San Francisco during the Rebellion of the Seceding States as Superintendent for Mustering and Recruiting for the State of Vermont until 1866. In 1865 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and then Colonel. He retired from active duty after this.
According to the Austine School for the Deaf, in his will, the Colonel specified a sum of $50,000 to create a hospital for "the treatment of strangers or local residents with extraordinary circumstances." According to school history, "five prominent local citizens incorporated the Austine Insititute in 1904." In the end it was the decision of the Vermont Attorney General to open a school for deaf and blind students in 1912.
According to the Austine School for the Deaf, in his will, the Colonel specified a sum of $50,000 to create a hospital for "the treatment of strangers or local residents with extraordinary circumstances." According to school history, "five prominent local citizens incorporated the Austine Insititute in 1904." In the end it was the decision of the Vermont Attorney General to open a school for deaf and blind students in 1912.
Web Links and URLs
Portrait
Name/Title
Portrait
Type of Painting
Description
Oil on canvas portrait of Henry Holton by Scott C. Carbee. Dr. Holton stands tall against a dark background, looking just over the viewer's right shoulder and has short white hair and a medium-length white beard. He is dressed in a dark black coat and the white sleeves of his shirt are just visible at the wrists. His left hand rests on a stack of books. The painting is signed "Scott C CARBEE 1918" in red in the lower left corner and resides within a simple geometric-carved gilt frame. There is a name plate at the lower center of the frame that reads, "HON. HENRY DWIGHT HOLTON A.M, M.D. / BORN JULY 24, 1838, DIED FEB. 12, 1917. / FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND A MUNIFICENT BENEFACTOR OF THE AUSTINE INSTITUTION, BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Subject
Dr. Henry Holton
Made/Created
Artist Information
Scott Clifton Carbee
Artist
Painter
Role
Date made
1918
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.13
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Dr. Henry Dwight Holton (July 24, 1838-Feb. 12, 1917) was a general physician who moved to Brattleboro in his later life. He was involved in or established almost every medically-related institution of Brattleboro including the Holton Home for the Elderly and was one of the very first board members of the Austine School for the Deaf. His main concerns during his lifetime were for the betterment of medicine and education within the State of Vermont, and eventually rose to secretary of the Vermont State Board of Health, raising the health standards of the State of Vermont from 18th to 3rd in the United States. In his life he was president, or board member in many different organizations from international business to politics and taught surgery and medicine at multiple universities.
Dr. Henry Dwight Holton (July 24, 1838-Feb. 12, 1917) was a general physician who moved to Brattleboro in his later life. He was involved in or established almost every medically-related institution of Brattleboro including the Holton Home for the Elderly and was one of the very first board members of the Austine School for the Deaf. His main concerns during his lifetime were for the betterment of medicine and education within the State of Vermont, and eventually rose to secretary of the Vermont State Board of Health, raising the health standards of the State of Vermont from 18th to 3rd in the United States. In his life he was president, or board member in many different organizations from international business to politics and taught surgery and medicine at multiple universities.
Web Links and URLs
Portrait
Name/Title
Portrait
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Portrait of Gertrude Croker
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Croker, Gertrude (1881-1994)
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.63
Context
Though born in Iowa, Gertrude Croker moved to Newfane, Vermont when she was 6 months old. Her family traced their roots back generations to southeast Vermont. She attended school in Newfane and graduated from Brattleboro High School in 1900. She decided to become a teacher of the deaf due to her own hearing impairment (tone deafness).
She attended the Clarke School in Northhampton, Massachusetts for a year and then started teaching at the Lexington School for the Deaf in NYC. In 1912 she moved to the Manhattan School for the Deaf where she taught until her retirement in 1946. In 1914 she wrote a series of books and workbooks for teaching language skills. These works were translated into a number of languages and can still be purchased today.
Upon her retirement, she moved back to Brattleboro where she became involved with the Austine School for the Deaf. She lived a remarkably long life, passing away at the age of 113. At the time of her death she was believed to be the oldest Vermont resident.
This portrait of her hung at the Austine School for the Deaf until its closure.
She attended the Clarke School in Northhampton, Massachusetts for a year and then started teaching at the Lexington School for the Deaf in NYC. In 1912 she moved to the Manhattan School for the Deaf where she taught until her retirement in 1946. In 1914 she wrote a series of books and workbooks for teaching language skills. These works were translated into a number of languages and can still be purchased today.
Upon her retirement, she moved back to Brattleboro where she became involved with the Austine School for the Deaf. She lived a remarkably long life, passing away at the age of 113. At the time of her death she was believed to be the oldest Vermont resident.
This portrait of her hung at the Austine School for the Deaf until its closure.
Postcard
Name/Title
Postcard
Lexicon
Description
Wood-burned postcard with a scene of a covered bridge and trees, and a scalloped edge. On obverse, also wood burned, "Post Card" in script at top, a line burned down center to separate address from greeting, and on left side, in script: "Greetings/ from/ Vermont" In one corner, written in pencil: "3 (cent) / stamp" Also on obverse, remnant of a grey plastic hanger.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.2
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2004.2.5
Postcard
Name/Title
Postcard
Lexicon
Description
Postcard cut into the shape of the state of Vermont attached to a miniature wooden covered bridge. The postcard is printed with the inscription, "Don't Cross Your Covered Bridges until you come to them in VERMONT". On the other side is a space for writing a mailing address and placing a stamp. The bridge has a black roof and red sides.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.21
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Gag-Tags
Materials
Material
Paper, Wood, Metal, Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2022.21.2
Context
Produced by the Vermont Development Commission to promote tourism in Vermont
Poster
Name/Title
Poster
Lexicon
Description
One of 16 signs made by the donors and used by them and their fellow protesters in weekly peace vigils in Montpelier. This placard/poster is two-sided; one side has yellow and blue, the other does not.The words "Support Our Troops... " are black lettering on a yellow background. The words "BRING THEM HOME NOW!!" are black lettering on a blue background. The words " VERMONT SAYS NO TO WAR" are red lettering on a white background and surround a black military tank with a red flower fire-burst. The words at the bottom state: " centralvermontpeace.org"
Acquisition
Accession
2010.20
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2010.20.1
Powder Horn
Name/Title
Powder Horn
Lexicon
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Horn
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.55
Powder Horn
Name/Title
Powder Horn
Lexicon
Description
Undecorated powder horn mounted onto a plaque with two metal U rings. The end is sealed with a round wooden plug, and there is a leather strap tied to the center of the plug and the narrow end of the horn. The plaque indicates that the horn was taken from a dead British soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Jacob Peeler of Vernon, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
1938.2
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Horn
Entry/Object ID
1938.2
Context
Taken from a dead British soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Jacob Peeler of Vernon, Vermont.
Print
Name/Title
Print
Description
Print on paper. Stacked perspective landscape with blue-lined lake in foreground, a green shore/beach, dark-blue hills in the middle-ground, light-blue mountain in the background with a beige sky. Print entitled, "Lake Near Mountains, Summer."
Acquisition
Accession
2021.42
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Field, Sabra Johnson (b. 1935)
Artist
Print Maker
Role
Date made
1982
Entry/Object ID
2021.42.1
Context
In 1982 Sabra Field was commissioned by IBM to produce four prints in celebration of 25 years at the Vermont plant. A limited run of 60 prints of each work was distributed to management and VIPs. A poster, including all four prints, IBMs logo with the word "Burlington" and a stylized 25 was produced in larger quantities for employees. The four prints depicted Vermont in four seasons. See objects 2021.42.1-5.
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Print
Name/Title
Print
Lexicon
Description
Print on paper. Stacked-perspective landscape with blue-lined lake in the foreground with green beach. Two green hills in the middle-ground, the closest textured in three shades of green. Blue mountain in the background with light blue sky.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.42
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Field, Sabra Johnson (b. 1935)
Artist
Print Maker
Role
Date made
1982
Entry/Object ID
2021.42.2
Context
In 1982 Sabra Field was commissioned by IBM to produce four prints in celebration of 25 years at the Vermont plant. A limited run of 60 prints of each work was distributed to management and VIPs. A poster, including all four prints, IBMs logo with the word "Burlington" and a stylized 25 was produced in larger quantities for employees. The four prints depicted Vermont in four seasons. See objects 2021.42.1-5.
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Print
Name/Title
Print
Lexicon
Description
Print on paper. Stacked-perspective landscape with dark-blue, lined lake in foreground with white beach. Textured grey and blue hills in the middle-ground with dark blue mountain in the background. Sky is grey, white, and blue.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.42
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Field, Sabra Johnson (b. 1935)
Artist
Print Maker
Role
Date made
1982
Entry/Object ID
2021.42.3
Context
In 1982 Sabra Field was commissioned by IBM to produce four prints in celebration of 25 years at the Vermont plant. A limited run of 60 prints of each work was distributed to management and VIPs. A poster, including all four prints, IBMs logo with the word "Burlington" and a stylized 25 was produced in larger quantities for employees. The four prints depicted Vermont in four seasons. See objects 2021.42.1-5.
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Print
Name/Title
Print
Lexicon
Description
Print on paper. Stacked perspective with blue-lined lake in foreground, yellow beach, beige hill with sylized trees in middle-ground, blue mountains in background with grey sky. Entitled "Lake Near Mountains, Autumn."
Acquisition
Accession
2021.42
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Field, Sabra Johnson (b. 1935)
Artist
Print Maker
Role
Date made
1982
Entry/Object ID
2021.42.4
Context
In 1982 Sabra Field was commissioned by IBM to produce four prints in celebration of 25 years at the Vermont plant. A limited run of 60 prints of each work was distributed to management and VIPs. A poster, including all four prints, IBMs logo with the word "Burlington" and a stylized 25 was produced in larger quantities for employees. The four prints depicted Vermont in four seasons. See objects 2021.42.1-5.
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Sabra Field was born in Oklahoma, grew up in New York, and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1957. Influenced by her art teachers Joseph Ablow and Arthur K. D. Healy, she resolved to become an artist. After further study at Wesleyan College, where she made her first woodcut prints, she taught art at various prep schools in Connecticut. Although married and the mother of two young sons, she was committed to pursuing her career as an artist. In 1965 she acquired a derelict 19th-century tavern “waiting to fall down” in the White River Valley, which she eventually restored and converted to a permanent home and studio.
Her work, much of it pastoral, became strongly associated with Vermont and the Vermont Landscape. She was commissioned to design the commemorative stamp for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991. The stamp sold over 60 million units and was one of the postal services best selling stamps of all time. She also designed imagery for calendars, credit cards, wine bottle labels, UNICEF cards, and hot air balloons. IBM, the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, Billings Farm in Woodstock, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Life magazine, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Middlebury College.
-Adapted from Middlebury College press release
Print
Name/Title
Print
Lexicon
Description
Print on cotton fabric showing striped circus tents in front of Montpelier public buildings. The tents' central poles bear green pennants that read "MIDSUMMER" and "1981-1991". The buildings shown are the dome of the State House, the façade of the Pavilion Building, and the clock tower on City Hall. A smiling sun is at the top left corner. The composition is split into two square panels. The words "MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL / 1981-1991 / & MONTPELIER BICENTENNIAL 1791-1991".
Acquisition
Accession
1991.59
Relationships
Related Events
Midsummer
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Made/Created
Artist Information
Burgess, Maureen O'Connor
Artist
Date made
1991
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1991.59.1
Print, Photographic
Name/Title
Print, Photographic
Lexicon
Description
Framed and autographed print of Fred Tuttle by Peter Miller. Photograph of Fred Herman Tuttle (1919-2003) holding a framed photo of his father Joe Tuttle (1897-1994) holding a framed photograph of his father Fred Tuttle (1857-1916). This is a print out of Miller's book "Vermont People" Signed "Fred"
Acquisition
Accession
2005.54
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Tuttle, Frederick Herman (1919-2003)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Miller, Peter
Artist
Date made
1998
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2005.54.1
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Medium printing block with irregular sides. Delineating in positive is a backwards image of the state of Vermont with the word, "VERMONT" in negative, backwards, and stick letters above. There are traces of green ink.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Height and width at widest and longest (see note)
Materials
Material Notes
Wood represents the material of the block itself carved by the student to create the design wanted. The ink was then applied in order to create the prints.
Material
Wood, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.8
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular. printing block depicting scene with two people in background. One holding skis, the other holding a snowshoe. They are standing next to something ornamented. On the ground are various tracks in snowshoes, skis going downhill and herringboning up, animal footprints and human's shoes. Along the bottom are (from left to right) a squirrel perching, a running rabbit, and a walking fox. All outlines and full figures are in positive from the block.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Hand-carved wood block (probably using special gouge) with ink that was applied later in order to create the image of the print
Material
Wood, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.10
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular printing block depicting scene with a bow and an analogue clock the hands of which are showing one or two minutes before midnight. Behind this are two ornamented bells slightly tilting as if ringing. (Programme for a New Year's Eve event is included wherein the printing stamp was used as the centerpiece of the main title) Traces of both green and an under-color of ink both a bit visible.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Block only (see note)
Materials
Material Notes
Hand-carved on wood block (likely using some kind of particular gouge) while the ink was applied later in order to create the image (see photograph)
Material
Wood, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.11
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Small square printing block depicting a small well. On the bottom is inscription in small backwards lettering "QUOTA CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO Brattleboro, Vermont 05301"
Depicting and describing the "Quota Club" also known as "Quota International," which was (until 2020) a network designed to empower specifically women, children, and the deaf community to ensure end of poverty and hunger within those communities.
Depicting and describing the "Quota Club" also known as "Quota International," which was (until 2020) a network designed to empower specifically women, children, and the deaf community to ensure end of poverty and hunger within those communities.
Use
Created by a student during printing classes held at the Austine School for the Deaf.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Metal is the material of the block itself while ink would have been applied for the act of printing.
Material
Metal, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.7
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Web Links and URLs
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
"T" shaped printing block with sign language hand gestures spelling out "ARCHER" backwards and circular school logo in center inscribing, "THE AUSTINE SCHOOL BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT" backwards with "1904" inscribed backwards within the circle and the crossing arrows in center. On the bottom the school year "1971-72" is inscribed backwards. All outlines of shapes, lettering, and hand gestures are in positive relief from the block with traces of orange ink still present.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Rectangle not including arms of "T" (see note)
Materials
Material Notes
The wood refers to the material of the block itself, that was carved into (likely by a student) in order to achieve this desired design in positive relief. Later ink was applied in order to create the stamp and any copies of the image.
Material
Wood, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.18
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular, horizontal printing block depicting mountains with conifer trees in front of each. On the side of the block is a tag with "Border" written on it.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
The block itself is made of wood and was carved into (likely by a student) to achieve the desired and subsequent design. Later the ink was applied to create the print itself.
Material
Wood, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.15
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Printing Block
Name/Title
Printing Block
Lexicon
Description
Thin, long printing block only containing inscription: "The Austine Institutional News" backwards. It has copperish sheen
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Metal machine-created lettering for official uses.
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.9
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Private Bank Note
Name/Title
Private Bank Note
Lexicon
Description
Uncut paper money in two denominations, 20 and 50. Both notes are inscribed in the center with, "The West River Bank/Will pay [denomination] Dollars in demand/to the bearer. Jamaica, 185" The denomination is also written in red letters with grey shadows in a different font and offset to the lower right. The denominations also appear in numerical form in the upper right within a circular seal. The twenty is also labeled in the upper left with Roman numerals (XX), and the fifty is also labeled in the lower left written out.
The upper note (the 20) has an illustration on the left of a woman draped in cloth and holding a spear and shield. She is wearing a five-pointed star on the top of her head, and brooch in the shape of a face at her center breast. At the center top is a woman on the shore sitting on a rock and leaning against a shield and a sheaf of wheat. She is wearing a tiara and holding a short staff. Ships and a lighthouse are visible in the background. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman sitting on a plow and holding a sheaf of wheat in one arm and a scythe in the other. She is next to a basket overflowing with fruits and berries.
The lower note (the 50) has an illustration on the left of a woman draped in fabric and holding a downward-point sworn and a balance scale. She is wearing a coronet or wreath, and one of her breasts is bared. At the center top is an illustration of a woman sitting on a flying black eagle. The bird is holding one side of a length of striped fabric, while the woman holds the other end to shield her head. In the lower right corner is a portrait of Andrew Jackson.
Both notes are labeled, "STATE OF VERMONT." across the top. They each have unfilled signature lines at the bottom for "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New-York./Cashr." and "New England Bank Note Co. Boston./Prest."
The upper note (the 20) has an illustration on the left of a woman draped in cloth and holding a spear and shield. She is wearing a five-pointed star on the top of her head, and brooch in the shape of a face at her center breast. At the center top is a woman on the shore sitting on a rock and leaning against a shield and a sheaf of wheat. She is wearing a tiara and holding a short staff. Ships and a lighthouse are visible in the background. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman sitting on a plow and holding a sheaf of wheat in one arm and a scythe in the other. She is next to a basket overflowing with fruits and berries.
The lower note (the 50) has an illustration on the left of a woman draped in fabric and holding a downward-point sworn and a balance scale. She is wearing a coronet or wreath, and one of her breasts is bared. At the center top is an illustration of a woman sitting on a flying black eagle. The bird is holding one side of a length of striped fabric, while the woman holds the other end to shield her head. In the lower right corner is a portrait of Andrew Jackson.
Both notes are labeled, "STATE OF VERMONT." across the top. They each have unfilled signature lines at the bottom for "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New-York./Cashr." and "New England Bank Note Co. Boston./Prest."
Acquisition
Accession
1937.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The West River Bank
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Jamaica
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Designer or Engraver Information
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson
Designer or Engraver
Date made
1850-1859
Bureau
The West River Bank
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Composition
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1937.9
Context
Made for The West River Bank of Jamaica, Vermont.
Private Bank Note
Name/Title
Private Bank Note
Lexicon
Description
Uncut paper money in four denominations, 1, 2, 3, and 5. All the notes are inscribed in the center with, "The West River Bank/Will pay [denomination] Dollars in demand/to the bearer. Jamaica, July 1st, 18__" The denomination is also written in red letters with grey shadows in a different font and offset to the lower left. The denominations also appear in numerical form in the upper right within a circular seal, and in the lower left within a decorative cartouche. (The 1, 2, and 3 are in Arabic numerals, and the 5 is in Roman numerals.)
The upper note (the 1) has an illustration on the left of two women: one is carrying a spear and shield, and the other is carrying a sword and a set of balance scales. At the center top is a cherub flying above a city carrying a giant coin. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman holding a floral pillar. She is next to a sheaf of wheat.
The second note (the 2) has an illustration on the left of two young men carrying a woman on their shoulders. At the center top, two cherubs are fighting and using large coins as shields. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman churning butter.
The third note (the 3) has an illustration on the left of a woman holding a pair of balance scales and gesturing behind her At the center top are three cherubs lounging on coins with accessories of learning, such as paints and a globe. In the bottom right is the Vermont state seal.
The bottom note (the 5) has a portrait of a young women at the upper left. At the center top are five cherubs lounging with five giant coins. In the bottom right is an illustration of a European man and an indigenous American sitting with a large shield with the word "FIVE" written across it.
All notes are labeled, "STATE OF VERMONT." across the top. They each have unfilled signature lines at the bottom for "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New-York./Cashr." and "New England Bank Note Co. Boston./Prest."
The upper note (the 1) has an illustration on the left of two women: one is carrying a spear and shield, and the other is carrying a sword and a set of balance scales. At the center top is a cherub flying above a city carrying a giant coin. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman holding a floral pillar. She is next to a sheaf of wheat.
The second note (the 2) has an illustration on the left of two young men carrying a woman on their shoulders. At the center top, two cherubs are fighting and using large coins as shields. In the bottom right is an illustration of a woman churning butter.
The third note (the 3) has an illustration on the left of a woman holding a pair of balance scales and gesturing behind her At the center top are three cherubs lounging on coins with accessories of learning, such as paints and a globe. In the bottom right is the Vermont state seal.
The bottom note (the 5) has a portrait of a young women at the upper left. At the center top are five cherubs lounging with five giant coins. In the bottom right is an illustration of a European man and an indigenous American sitting with a large shield with the word "FIVE" written across it.
All notes are labeled, "STATE OF VERMONT." across the top. They each have unfilled signature lines at the bottom for "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New-York./Cashr." and "New England Bank Note Co. Boston./Prest."
Acquisition
Accession
2004.60
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The West River Bank
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Jamaica
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1854
Manufacturer
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New England Bank Note Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
2004.60.5
Context
Made for The West River Bank of Jamaica, Vermont.
Private Bank Note
Name/Title
Private Bank Note
Lexicon
Description
South Royalton Bank; $1; No. 2178 (handwritten in red ink); Nov. 26, 1856; signed (including name of register in red ink); apparent signature in ink on back at one end "--- Fox," also number "30/3"; two round holes cut through note (cancellation holes?); badly frayed with several tears.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.11
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.11.1
Prize Ribbon
Name/Title
Prize Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
Blue silk ribbon printed with an image of a sheep and the inscription, "VT. STATE FAIR. 1851."
Acquisition
Accession
1951.5
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont State Fair
Event
Related Places
Place
Middlebury
Town
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Woven Textile Details
Weave Type
Plain Weave
Made/Created
Date made
1851
Manufacturer
Vermont State Fair
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Silk
Entry/Object ID
1951.5
Context
Awarded at the Vermont State Fair held in Middlebury, Vermont, in 1851
Product Model
Name/Title
Product Model
Lexicon
Description
A salesman's model of a silo with its carrying case. The miniature silo is made of red stained wood with a wooden roof. The side of the model is painted with the label, "THE GREEN MOUNTAIN SILO". The inside of the model has a sticker with the inscription, "MANNING MANUFACTURING CO./MANUFACTURERS OF DAIRY & CREAMERY APPARATUS/RUTLAND, VERMONT". The roof comes off the model to show the inside and has a wedge-shaped opening secured with strap hinges. Each level up the side of the silo has a functioning, removable square door. The sample kit comes with two silo board samples. The leather carrying case is shaped to fit the model, with a tightly-fitted removable lid, and a carrying handle on the side.
Use
Used as an example by traveling salespeople in order to sell full-sized silos.
Acquisition
Accession
1994.31
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1914
Manufacturer
Manning Manufacturing Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1994.31a-d
Context
Made in Rutland, VT by Manning Manufacturing Company.
Product Model
Interpretative Labels
Label
Portable Voting Booth Product Model, 1911
Made by David Mayo (1847 – 1934)
Montpelier, VT
Wood, metal, leather, fabric
Gift of Earl Templeton, 1983.10.11a-c
Vermont has long been proud of its democratic traditions, from Town Meeting Day debates to strong participation in local government. Much of our polling takes place in multi-use locations – school gymnasiums, church basements, grange halls, and other community gathering spaces. With this in mind, David Mayo’s design for a portable voting booth that could be folded up and stored flat when not in use made a lot of sense.
Each modular booth attaches to the next in line, forming a bank of booths to fit any space. The writing platform folds down and faces a wall, and a curtain hangs at the back to preserve privacy. This model was constructed at the scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot. A fully constructed voting booth in this style would stand just over 6 feet tall.
In 1911, Mayo developed this device specifically for use in Montpelier City Hall’s large auditorium, a multi-use space that required free-standing furniture without the use of floor or wall anchors. He used this small product model to demonstrate his system to Montpelier residents and City Council. On January 16, 1912, Montpelier City Council voted to acquire 66 panels of Mayo’s design, which would join to make 60 booths. The total cost for production was $287.75, or about $8,300 today. Unfortunately, none of the full-scale booths have survived to the present day.
David Mayo was born in Chazy, New York, and came to Montpelier in the 1870s to apprentice as a wheelwright. He worked as a wheelwright, carriage maker, and general handyman for 47 years and retired to live with his daughter in Newport, Vermont, in 1914. He passed away in 1934. He constructed a number of small scale models that are today in the collections of the Vermont Historical Society. He does not seem to have applied for patents for any of them.
Name/Title
Product Model
Lexicon
Description
Scale model of portable election booths. The model consists of three panels and two curtains. Each panel consists of two legs connected by a stretcher, solid upper halves, an upper stretcher connected with a leather hinged, and a table connected with a leather hinge. The panels connect together via the tables and upper stretchers. The curtains are blue and white cotton with a wire rod across the top. The rod is inserted to eye rings for hanging between the panels.
One panel is inked with the label, "portable voting Booth / Scale 1 1/2 inch to foot / David Mayo / Montpelier Vt / May 22 / 1911". Another panel is inked with the label, "Portable voting & folding Booth."
One panel is inked with the label, "portable voting Booth / Scale 1 1/2 inch to foot / David Mayo / Montpelier Vt / May 22 / 1911". Another panel is inked with the label, "Portable voting & folding Booth."
Acquisition
Accession
1983.10
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mayo, David (1847-1934)
Artist
Date made
1911
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1983.10.11a-e
Context
Developed by David Mayo as a model for a portable system of election booths to be used at Montpelier City Hall
From an exhibit label:
"David Mayo was born in 1847 or 1848 in Chazy, New York. He moved to Montpelier in 1867 to apprentice as a wheelwright in the carriage-making shop of H.N. Taplin. Several of the inventors in this exhibit were wheelwrights, or wheel makers. They learned how to work with both wood and metal, two materials essential to most inventions of the time.
Mayo opened his own shop on Elm Street in 1871 and remained there for 42 years. He is a prime example of the ingenious Yankee, and his many models and drawings show his solutions to his customers' needs. When Mayo retired, the local newspaper reported on "the many models of things manufactured by him such as dump carts and sleds, snow scrapers, potato planters and potato hoes, hay wagons, sheep rack and snow roller, also election booths." To our knowledge, Mayo never patented any of his creations."
From an exhibit label:
"David Mayo was born in 1847 or 1848 in Chazy, New York. He moved to Montpelier in 1867 to apprentice as a wheelwright in the carriage-making shop of H.N. Taplin. Several of the inventors in this exhibit were wheelwrights, or wheel makers. They learned how to work with both wood and metal, two materials essential to most inventions of the time.
Mayo opened his own shop on Elm Street in 1871 and remained there for 42 years. He is a prime example of the ingenious Yankee, and his many models and drawings show his solutions to his customers' needs. When Mayo retired, the local newspaper reported on "the many models of things manufactured by him such as dump carts and sleds, snow scrapers, potato planters and potato hoes, hay wagons, sheep rack and snow roller, also election booths." To our knowledge, Mayo never patented any of his creations."
Product Models
Name/Title
Product Models
Lexicon
Description
Screen door and window patent models in a leather carrying case. The worn leather carrying case (a) has a leather handle on the top, two leather straps with white string where metal buckles once were, and visible stitching around the front and the leather straps. The six model screen doors are composed of wooden frames and metal screens. The designs for the windows are, a simple dark wood frame (b) with overlapped screens, a black wood window (c) with a sliding screen in the frame, a dark wood window (d) with metal plates reading “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN / PATENT APPLIED FOR,” and a natural wood window (e) with a two layer screen and the paper label reading, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s. / Star Screen.” and a chart for “No./ High / Closed / Open.” The designs for the doors are, a dark wood (f) with three bars and a paper label reading, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s. / Style 45 Door. / 4-inch stiles, 1 ?- inch thick. / Old English Oak finish. / Standard sizes.,” a dark wood door (g) with a plus sign design and a paper label that reads “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s. / Style 15 Door. / 4-inch stiles, ?-inch thick / Old English Oak finish. Standard sizes.,” a light wood door (h) with a plus-like design and scrolled braces in the corners and reads, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s. / Style 17 Door. / Four-inch stiles, ?- inch thick. / Two coats varnish.,” a light wood door (i) with two middle rails intersected with wooden dowels, a quarter-wheel design in diagonal corners, and a label reading, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s / Style G Door. / 4-inch stiles, ?-inch thick./ Two coats varnish. Regular sizes. / Landscaped to order at special prices.,” a light wood door (j) with a middle rail and t-shape design above the bottom rail and reads, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s / Style 41 Door. / Natural color, filled and varnished. / 4-inch stiles, 1 ?-inch thick. / Style 42 - Painted green. Standard sizes.,” and finally, a light wood door (k) with parallel middle rails encasing dowels and scroll designs in diagonal corners, reading, “QUEEN ANNE SCREEN CO’s / Style 34 Door./ 4-inch stiles, ?-inch thick./ Varnish finish. Standard sizes.”
Acquisition
Accession
1988.27
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Porter Screen Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Leather, Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1988.27.1a-k
Context
See 1988.27.1l-n for two model screens and one model louver.
According to an information sheet provided by the donor, F.P.Elwert of Rutland, the Queen Ann Screen Co. was listed as in business in Burlington in a 1906 issue of Walton's. The principals were listed as W. & D.G. Crane and E.A. Pope. The information sheet suggests that the carrying case was handmade. This salesman's kit included six models of Queen Anne Screen Co.'s screen doors and four adjustable window screens.
According to an information sheet provided by the donor, F.P.Elwert of Rutland, the Queen Ann Screen Co. was listed as in business in Burlington in a 1906 issue of Walton's. The principals were listed as W. & D.G. Crane and E.A. Pope. The information sheet suggests that the carrying case was handmade. This salesman's kit included six models of Queen Anne Screen Co.'s screen doors and four adjustable window screens.
Product Models
Name/Title
Product Models
Lexicon
Description
Screens and louver that accompany the Carrying case and sample collection of screens and doors from the Porter Screen Co. of Burlington, Vt.
1l = defender screen; 1m leader screen; 1n sliding wooden louver with a label of Burlington Blind Co. with the patent date of May 3, 1892 on the label.
Porter Screen Co. catalogs for 1904 and 1906, plus a distribution list for 1906 are in VHS Library.
1l = defender screen; 1m leader screen; 1n sliding wooden louver with a label of Burlington Blind Co. with the patent date of May 3, 1892 on the label.
Porter Screen Co. catalogs for 1904 and 1906, plus a distribution list for 1906 are in VHS Library.
Acquisition
Accession
1988.27
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Porter Screen Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1988.27.1l-n
Context
See 1988.27.1a-k for the carrying case and additional screen and screened door models.
According to an information sheet provided by the donor, F.P.Elwert of Rutland, the Queen Ann Screen Co. was listed as in business in Burlington in a 1906 issue of Walton's. The principals were listed as W. & D.G. Crane and E.A. Pope. The information sheet suggests that the carrying case was handmade. This salesman's kit included six models of Queen Anne Screen Co.'s screen doors and four adjustable window screens.
According to an information sheet provided by the donor, F.P.Elwert of Rutland, the Queen Ann Screen Co. was listed as in business in Burlington in a 1906 issue of Walton's. The principals were listed as W. & D.G. Crane and E.A. Pope. The information sheet suggests that the carrying case was handmade. This salesman's kit included six models of Queen Anne Screen Co.'s screen doors and four adjustable window screens.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
White button with a green image of an open book with stereotypical scene of Vermont and underneath the words, "Vermont Reads."
Acquisition
Accession
2004.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Humanities Council
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.63.13
Context
About the Vermont Reads program from https://www.vermonthumanities.org/programs/book-a-program/vermont-reads/
"Since 2003, Vermont Humanities has invited students, adults, and seniors across the state to read the same book and participate in a wide variety of community activities related to the book’s themes. In 2021, we shifted this annual program to start each year on July 1.
Over 200 different Vermont towns, cities, and villages have participated in Vermont Reads to date. Schools, libraries, service organizations, churches, businesses, or other community-based organizations can start by filling out a brief application."
"Since 2003, Vermont Humanities has invited students, adults, and seniors across the state to read the same book and participate in a wide variety of community activities related to the book’s themes. In 2021, we shifted this annual program to start each year on July 1.
Over 200 different Vermont towns, cities, and villages have participated in Vermont Reads to date. Schools, libraries, service organizations, churches, businesses, or other community-based organizations can start by filling out a brief application."
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with an image of a jumping trout in the center. The words, "GUNNER BROOK FISHING DERBY 75TH ANNIVERSARY" are printed around the edge and the dates "1928-2003" are printed beneath the fish. The back of the button is signed, "Best Wishes! Susan Winter" in sharpie. There is a hinged pin on the back.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.56
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2003
Manufacturer
Winter, Susan
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2008.56.18
Context
The Gunner Brook Fishing Derby for children is sponsored by the Barre Fish and Game Club. The club was founded in 1919.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Barre/ The Granite Center 1895-1995 pin. White pin with blue graphics of a male granite cutter with tools in hand central. Around him is an oval of text "1895 BARRE 1995 THE GRANITE CENTER" With a safety clasp pin back.
Acquisition
Accession
1995.22
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1995.22
Context
Here is some history to explain the tag "The Granite Center" associated with Barre, Vermont, provided by the Barre Granite Association. (http://barregranite.org/BGAmobile/index.php/pid/5)
" Barre Gray Granite was used extensively in the early 1800’s for millstones, paving stones and home and building construction. It was at that time that Robert Parker became Barre’s first professional quarryman and the first granite manufacturer. Slowly, but steadily the granite industry grew, causing Barre’s population to expand to 2,012 by the year 1830. A few years later the industry would get a tremendous boost with the contract for a new Vermont Statehouse to be built of Barre Gray granite in Montpelier, VT. It was the first major building project to use Barre granite. Then, in 1875, the railroad came to town, giving Barre access to the markets of the world.
In the 1880’s, Barre experienced a technological boom. Emery L. Smith, who later became the first mayor of Barre City, pioneered new quarrying technology, including a permanent derrick, electrically detonated explosives, the steam drill and the pneumatic plug drill. Electricity came to the region in 1885, giving rise to power cutting, polishing, surfacing, carving and stone transferring with overhead cranes.
With rapid growth in the granite industry, immigrants began flooding into Barre, and by 1890 the population had more than to 6,790. The first workers to arrive were Scots, followed by Italians, Scandinavians, Spanish, English, Irish, Greeks, and French-Canadians. When an order for 10 million hand-cut paving stones for the city of Troy, New York, was received, this gave Barre’s granite industry a big boost in the 1890’s. At that time about 40 quarries were cutting granite, primarily for monuments and memorials, and by 1902 Barre became the Granite Center of the World, with 68 quarries producing granite valued at more than $1.5 million."
" Barre Gray Granite was used extensively in the early 1800’s for millstones, paving stones and home and building construction. It was at that time that Robert Parker became Barre’s first professional quarryman and the first granite manufacturer. Slowly, but steadily the granite industry grew, causing Barre’s population to expand to 2,012 by the year 1830. A few years later the industry would get a tremendous boost with the contract for a new Vermont Statehouse to be built of Barre Gray granite in Montpelier, VT. It was the first major building project to use Barre granite. Then, in 1875, the railroad came to town, giving Barre access to the markets of the world.
In the 1880’s, Barre experienced a technological boom. Emery L. Smith, who later became the first mayor of Barre City, pioneered new quarrying technology, including a permanent derrick, electrically detonated explosives, the steam drill and the pneumatic plug drill. Electricity came to the region in 1885, giving rise to power cutting, polishing, surfacing, carving and stone transferring with overhead cranes.
With rapid growth in the granite industry, immigrants began flooding into Barre, and by 1890 the population had more than to 6,790. The first workers to arrive were Scots, followed by Italians, Scandinavians, Spanish, English, Irish, Greeks, and French-Canadians. When an order for 10 million hand-cut paving stones for the city of Troy, New York, was received, this gave Barre’s granite industry a big boost in the 1890’s. At that time about 40 quarries were cutting granite, primarily for monuments and memorials, and by 1902 Barre became the Granite Center of the World, with 68 quarries producing granite valued at more than $1.5 million."
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round metal button that is blue on the top half and pink on the bottom half. It is printed in white with the inscription, "CENTRAL VERMONT RAILWAY 100 years DEC. 15, 1945".
Acquisition
Accession
1945.36
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Central Vermont Railway
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1945
Manufacturer
Label Union
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1945.36.1a
Context
Produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Central Vermont Railway
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round, pink-and-white button showing two men shaking hands. The man on the left has white hair and a full beard and is wearing a grey suit. The man on the right has black hair and a small chin beard and is wearing a red-and-white striped suit. The button reads, "BROTHER of the BRUSH / BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL JULY 18-25 1970."
Acquisition
Accession
2006.61
Relationships
Related Events
Barre Heritage Festival
Event
Related Person or Organization
Barre Ethnic Heritage Association, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1970
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2006.61.20
Context
Produced to commemorate a group of men who grew beards during the Barre Ethnic Heritage Festival in 1970. In this period (1960s-70s) having beard-growing "brothers of the brush" contests was common for community anniversary celebrations. The idea was to look like men did at the founding. "Sisters of the swish" was for women and the swish referred to the swish of long skirts.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Square First Night 2009 (Montpelier) button. White background with orange, purple and yellow writing. Reads: "Central Vermont's New Year's Eve / Celebrating our 15th Year / First / 2009 / Night / Montpelier" Multi colored stars 'swirl' around "First Night."
Use
by donor as their admission ticket to the event.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.1
Relationships
Related Events
First Night - Montpelier
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2009
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Paperboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2009.1.1
Context
In 2012-13, the city of Montpelier discontinued the First Night event that had run for 15 previous years.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round yellow button with red hand-drawn illustration of a hand holding several small flags, including a United States, Canadian, and Japanese flag. The handwritten inscription "JULY 1980 BARRE, VT. ETHNIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL" rings the edge. The back is stamped with the inscription, "Badge-a-Minit Lasalle. Ill. 61301".
Acquisition
Accession
2012.58
Relationships
Related Events
Barre Heritage Festival
Event
Related Person or Organization
Barre Ethnic Heritage Association, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1980
Manufacturer
Badge-a-Minit
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2012.58.2
Context
Made for the Barre Heritage Festival in 1980
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Large round metal red button with the blue inscription, "July 26, 2003 SHS'68 35th Reunion".
Acquisition
Accession
2016.29
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Spaulding High School
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2003
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2016.29.11a
Context
Made for the 35th reunion of Spaulding High School's class of 1968 in Barre, Vermont. The donor, Ruth Partridge Roy, was in the class of 1968 at Spaulding High School and 2003 would have been her 35th high school reunion.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round promotional button printed in blue with an illustration of a train in front of a town. The train has a car holding 2 giraffes, and there is a large, striped circus ten in the center of the town's main street. There is the inscription, "COUNTRY / '93 / NORTHFIELD, VT. / CIRCUS".
Acquisition
Accession
1995.29
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Northfield
Town
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1993
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1995.29.4
Context
Produced for the Northfield Labor Day Celebration in 1993
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
White pin / button with berry pink design and lettering. It reads (around perimeter): "MARDI GRAS/ NORTHFIELD. VERMONT.1998" In the center is a masked cartoon face.
white/berry pink
white/berry pink
Acquisition
Accession
1998.41
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Northfield
Town
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1998
Manufacturer
Northfield Observances, Inc.
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1998.41
Context
The tag attached to this button says Northfield Observances Inc. which is the organization that run the town's annual Labor Day weekend parade/festival. No information could be found tying that organization to a Mardi Gras event now (2021) or in the past.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Rough white metal button printed in the center with a blue violin and around the edge with the red inscription, "CRAFTSBURY, VT. FIDDLERS' CONTEST".
Acquisition
Accession
2013.9
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Craftsbury
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.9.24
Context
Souvenir of the Craftsbury Fiddlers' Contest, founded in 1966
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round button celebrating Woodstock (VT) in 2000. Design has 'WOODSTOCK.VERMONT' along top edge and "Celebrate/2000" on bottom. In center is a profile of a hill/mountain (below it in black, above in hues of blue) with colorful fireworks/swirls/star shapes in green, pink, turquoise and orange.
multi
multi
Acquisition
Accession
2000.22
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Woodstock
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1999
Materials
Material
Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2000.22
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Description
A pink, white and blue pin with the image of a woman in a bonnet on the top left and the words "heritage belle." Below in blue lettering are the words, "Barre Heritage Festival, July 18-25, 1970."
Acquisition
Accession
2003.89
Relationships
Related Events
Barre Heritage Festival
Event
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2003.89.14
Context
The donor, Ruth R. Smith of Barre, was active in Republican politics and in many communities organizations.
Her obituary from https://www.hookerwhitcomb.com/obituary/4000351
Ruth R. Smith, 91, of Camp Street, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 5, 2016, at home with her family at her bedside.
Born on December 27, 1924 in Northampton, MA, she was the daughter of the late Ralph Ernest and Maria W. Reynolds.
Ruth graduated from Northampton High School in Northampton, MA with the class of 1942. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA in 1946 and continued her graduate studies in the field of economics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.
On October 11, 1947, she married Donald Ladd Smith of Barre Town, VT in Northampton, MA. He died on March 7, 2001. After their marriage, the couple moved to Vermont.
Ruth worked in the office of Cook, Watkins, and Patch before working as a reporter for the Montpelier Argus and Burlington Free Press for several years. In 1969, and she and her husband bought Windy Wood Orchard which she continued to operate until 2004. Ruth was also a licensed Casualty Insurance Agent and a Welcome Wagon Hostess for several years.
In addition to raising her family and working, Ruth was a member and former chair of the Barre Town School Board for 7 years, and Chair of the Barre Town Bicentennial Committee. She was also very involved in politics, she was a member of Washington County Republican Committee, former chair and secretary of the Barre Town Republican Committee, and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1987-1994 representing Barre Town. Ruth served as Secretary of the Vermont State Republican Committee for 4 years, Chair of the Republican Mental Health Task Force for 6 years, Treasurer of the Vermont Federation of Republican Women, and as past President of the Vermont Legislative Women’s Auxiliary. She was an Incorporator and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Austine School for Deaf in Brattleboro, former member of the Vermont Federal Bank Advisory Board and a former member and co-chair of the Barre Granite Museum Study Committee.
In 1984, Ruth received a Greater Barre Community Service award, she was also presented with an Outstanding Legislator of the Year Award from the Sportsmen’s Alliance for Vermont’s Environment in 1988, and in 1996 she was awarded the Barre Town Citizenship and Service Award.
Ruth was the founding member and President of the ABH Extension Homemakers Club, as well as President of the Washington County Extension Homemakers. She was a Girl Scout troop leader and went on to serve as District Chairman and Officer of the Board of the Vermont Girl Scout Council. Ruth was a former officer of the Cobble Hill Grange and a member of the State and National Granges. She also served as Treasurer, Vice-President and eventually President of Altrusa International of Barre from 1995-1997. In 1948, Ruth joined the Barre Congregational Church and served in the roles of clerk and treasurer.
In her spare time, she enjoyed playing Contract Bridge, reading and travel.
She is survived by her son, Donald Reynolds Smith of Barre; her daughter Rebecca Ruth Smith Miracle of East Montpelier; and her granddaughters Brittany Jane and Halen Elizabeth Miracle of East Montpelier.
Besides her parents and husband, she is predeceased by her sisters Ernestine Moore and Marilyn Gray.
Her obituary from https://www.hookerwhitcomb.com/obituary/4000351
Ruth R. Smith, 91, of Camp Street, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 5, 2016, at home with her family at her bedside.
Born on December 27, 1924 in Northampton, MA, she was the daughter of the late Ralph Ernest and Maria W. Reynolds.
Ruth graduated from Northampton High School in Northampton, MA with the class of 1942. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA in 1946 and continued her graduate studies in the field of economics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.
On October 11, 1947, she married Donald Ladd Smith of Barre Town, VT in Northampton, MA. He died on March 7, 2001. After their marriage, the couple moved to Vermont.
Ruth worked in the office of Cook, Watkins, and Patch before working as a reporter for the Montpelier Argus and Burlington Free Press for several years. In 1969, and she and her husband bought Windy Wood Orchard which she continued to operate until 2004. Ruth was also a licensed Casualty Insurance Agent and a Welcome Wagon Hostess for several years.
In addition to raising her family and working, Ruth was a member and former chair of the Barre Town School Board for 7 years, and Chair of the Barre Town Bicentennial Committee. She was also very involved in politics, she was a member of Washington County Republican Committee, former chair and secretary of the Barre Town Republican Committee, and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1987-1994 representing Barre Town. Ruth served as Secretary of the Vermont State Republican Committee for 4 years, Chair of the Republican Mental Health Task Force for 6 years, Treasurer of the Vermont Federation of Republican Women, and as past President of the Vermont Legislative Women’s Auxiliary. She was an Incorporator and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Austine School for Deaf in Brattleboro, former member of the Vermont Federal Bank Advisory Board and a former member and co-chair of the Barre Granite Museum Study Committee.
In 1984, Ruth received a Greater Barre Community Service award, she was also presented with an Outstanding Legislator of the Year Award from the Sportsmen’s Alliance for Vermont’s Environment in 1988, and in 1996 she was awarded the Barre Town Citizenship and Service Award.
Ruth was the founding member and President of the ABH Extension Homemakers Club, as well as President of the Washington County Extension Homemakers. She was a Girl Scout troop leader and went on to serve as District Chairman and Officer of the Board of the Vermont Girl Scout Council. Ruth was a former officer of the Cobble Hill Grange and a member of the State and National Granges. She also served as Treasurer, Vice-President and eventually President of Altrusa International of Barre from 1995-1997. In 1948, Ruth joined the Barre Congregational Church and served in the roles of clerk and treasurer.
In her spare time, she enjoyed playing Contract Bridge, reading and travel.
She is survived by her son, Donald Reynolds Smith of Barre; her daughter Rebecca Ruth Smith Miracle of East Montpelier; and her granddaughters Brittany Jane and Halen Elizabeth Miracle of East Montpelier.
Besides her parents and husband, she is predeceased by her sisters Ernestine Moore and Marilyn Gray.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Round white button with the purple inscription, "19 / BRATTLEBORO COLONELS / 74 / HOMECOMING", around the edge and an illustration of a football player catching a football with the word "WIN!" on it in the center.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Brattleboro High School
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1974
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.54
Context
Produced for the homecoming celebrations at Brattleboro High School in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1974.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
A red and white pin with three white banners on the red background. The top says, "Spaulding High School 1942-1987." The middle, biggest banner, says, "45th reuinion." The bottom has the name, "Don Smith" hand printed in black marker.
Acquisition
Accession
2003.89
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Smith, Donald R., Spaulding High School
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2003.89.15
Context
Don Ladd Smith (1924-2001) was the husband of the donor, Ruth R. Smith.
He graduated from Spaulding High School in 1942.
He graduated from Spaulding High School in 1942.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
White Button with green lettering reading "9TH ANNUAL OLD-TIME FIDDLERS' CONTEST" across the top with a green outlined image of a violin and bow in the center, on top of the date July 24, 1971. The words stamped across the bottom read: CRAFTSBURY COMMON, VERMONT
Acquisition
Accession
1998.39
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Craftsbury
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1971
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1998.39.17
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Description
Yellow, blue and white "First Night" pin. Printed at top and bottom: "10th Anniversary/ A Celebration of the New Year" and in the center, printed on a background of a night sky and snowflakes: "FIRST NIGHT/ BURLINGTON/ 1993"
Acquisition
Accession
2015.47
Relationships
Related Events
First Night - Burlington
Event
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1993
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2015.47.25
Context
First Night Burlington, "a sprawling variety show" that marked the new year for 35 years, was discontinued after the 2018 event after freezing temperatures reduced crowds and caused significant financial loss. Also the lead sponsor said it would reduce its future participation. First Night began in 1983 in Burlington. For the final First Night in 2018, "nearly 100 performers at 19 downtown venues performed music, dance, theater, storytelling and comedy from 11 a.m. Dec. 31 until a fireworks show in the early hours of Jan. 1."
Source: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/04/17/first-night-burlington-ends-35-year-run-done-cold-and-lack-money/525725002/
Source: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/04/17/first-night-burlington-ends-35-year-run-done-cold-and-lack-money/525725002/
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Description
Green pin with black lettering and graphics - Printed around outside edge: "HARDWICK, VT. FIDDLERS CONTEST/ 1991 10TH ANNUAL/ ALWLAYS LAST SATURDAY OF JULY" and in center, sketch of a violin and two fiddlers.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.47
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Hardwick
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1991
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2015.47.27
Context
Information wasn't immediately available about when the Hardwick Fiddle contest began nor when it was discontinued.
"Fiddle contests evolved from being endurance events to demonstrations of a set number of tunes, judged by certain criteria to determine who was the best.
These events helped raise money for local organizations of every description, and worked to preserve old-time fiddling. In recent years, the fiddle contest has declined significantly, due to the waning interest of competitors and spectators, as well as diminished financial viability."
https://www.vtcng.com/stowetoday/music/state-fiddle-history-explored-in-hardwick/article_c39e7e52-a5bb-5262-a0c5-bba79c623dbc.html
"Fiddle contests evolved from being endurance events to demonstrations of a set number of tunes, judged by certain criteria to determine who was the best.
These events helped raise money for local organizations of every description, and worked to preserve old-time fiddling. In recent years, the fiddle contest has declined significantly, due to the waning interest of competitors and spectators, as well as diminished financial viability."
https://www.vtcng.com/stowetoday/music/state-fiddle-history-explored-in-hardwick/article_c39e7e52-a5bb-5262-a0c5-bba79c623dbc.html
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Small oval-shaped advertising button, white background with red lettering. Graphics shows a stylized person playing a trumpet. Text: Stratton Arts Festival 25 Years." Has black paper backing.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.46
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Stratton
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Aluminum, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1998.46.7
Context
The Stratton Arts Festival has apparently been discontinued. No information could be found about when it started and when it stopped, but it obviously lasted 25 years.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Pink button with blue graphics. "Onion River Arts Council/ MIDSUMMER/ 1992" with logo in center. Pin on back.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.48
Relationships
Related Events
Midsummer
Event
Related Person or Organization
Onion River Arts Council
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1992
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.48.13
Context
From the finding aid for a collection of records for the Onion River Arts Council at the Vermont Historical Society Library:
"The Onion River Arts Council was founded in 1974. It served as the major
presenter of performing arts events in Montpelier and Barre, Vermont, until it ceased
operations at the end of the year in 2004. In the 1990s the organization’s mission
statement read, “To present quality arts programs to the widest possible audience in
central Vermont; to provide cultural education, both in schools and for the general public;
to coordinate and be an advocate for the arts in the community; and to provide
opportunities for Vermont artists.”
ORAC organized community arts programs, sponsored arts programming in area
schools, organized arts festivals such as “Midsummer” and “First Night,” and co-sponsored the “Celebration Series” with the Barre Opera House. The Midsummer Festival probably started in 1982, although the collection includes no material from this event. In 1983 the festival was billed as a celebration of Vermont’s folk life and heritage and was held at Vermont College in Montpelier. It evolved into a festival of the arts held on the State House lawn featuring theater, dance, popular and traditional music, story telling, and mime. The festival usually included a street dance and a “Pops” concert by
the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra. In its last two years, 1995 and 1996, the festival
was billed as a “Midsummer Medieval Festival of the Arts.”
"The Onion River Arts Council was founded in 1974. It served as the major
presenter of performing arts events in Montpelier and Barre, Vermont, until it ceased
operations at the end of the year in 2004. In the 1990s the organization’s mission
statement read, “To present quality arts programs to the widest possible audience in
central Vermont; to provide cultural education, both in schools and for the general public;
to coordinate and be an advocate for the arts in the community; and to provide
opportunities for Vermont artists.”
ORAC organized community arts programs, sponsored arts programming in area
schools, organized arts festivals such as “Midsummer” and “First Night,” and co-sponsored the “Celebration Series” with the Barre Opera House. The Midsummer Festival probably started in 1982, although the collection includes no material from this event. In 1983 the festival was billed as a celebration of Vermont’s folk life and heritage and was held at Vermont College in Montpelier. It evolved into a festival of the arts held on the State House lawn featuring theater, dance, popular and traditional music, story telling, and mime. The festival usually included a street dance and a “Pops” concert by
the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra. In its last two years, 1995 and 1996, the festival
was billed as a “Midsummer Medieval Festival of the Arts.”
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Metal pin, painted white with green lettering and graphics. Pin back has a safety clasp. Face reads: "Vermont/GREEN UP/VOLUNTEER"
white, green
white, green
Acquisition
Accession
1989.58
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Green Up, Inc.
Person or Organization
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1989.58.2
Context
The first Green Up Day was held on April 18, 1970. In a letter written in 1984, former Gov. Deane Davis explained the origin for the now annual event. Robert Babcock, reporter for the Burlington Free Press, came to Davis after being appalled at the roadside litter that appeared as the snow melted in March 1969. He suggested to Davis that the state should sponsor a clean-up day. Davis liked the idea and set up a planning committee. Rather than rush to hold the event in 1969, the committee scheduled it for 1970. Babcock got a leave from the newspaper to work full-time on planning the event. For the first event, the interstate was closed from 9 a.m. to noon.
Besides a copy of Davis' account, there are materials about the fifth anniversary in 1983 of the state's 1978 bottle return law.
Besides a copy of Davis' account, there are materials about the fifth anniversary in 1983 of the state's 1978 bottle return law.
Promotional Button
Name/Title
Promotional Button
Lexicon
Description
Large white pin with red lettering that says, "Read My Book! Vermont Humanities."
Acquisition
Accession
2004.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Humanities Council
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.63.12
Context
Vermont Humanities is a statewide nonprofit organization founded in 1974. It seeks to engage all Vermonters in the world of ideas, foster a culture of thoughtfulness, and inspire a lifelong love of reading and learning. It is a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/about-vermont-humanities/
Source: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/about-vermont-humanities/
Promotional Pin
Name/Title
Promotional Pin
Lexicon
Description
Round metal pin with green and white enamel. The silver metal pin shows two white mountains in the center surrounded by green mountains and a large green tree. The edge is ringed with the inscription, "VERMONT GREEN UP / BEAUTIFY".
Acquisition
Accession
1990.7
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Green Up, Inc.
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1990.7.1
Context
Produced for the 20th anniversary of Green Up day, in 1990.
Prosthesis
Name/Title
Prosthesis
Lexicon
Description
Right leg prosthesis. The top of the prosthesis has a leather cuff for the thigh with a leather lace threaded through grommets running down the front of the cuff. A similar piece of lace is threaded on the back of the cuff. The words “J.E. HANGER / WASH’N, D.C.” are imprinted on the leather. Two metal hinges connect the leather and the composite material of the calf. Six leather laces connect behind these metal hinges The calf section is hollow with scraps of cloth at the top. The calf section is a red color with obvious wear around the ankle and feet, and replicates the natural curves of a calf or a booted foot. A large circular hole is carved out of the outside above the ankle. A long leather loop is attached to the front to connect with a garter.
Use
Owned by James M. Ewen of Barre in the 1920s.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Ewen, James M. (1879-1927)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
J. E. Hanger
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Leather, Metal, Composition
Entry/Object ID
2013.35.2
Protest Sign
Name/Title
Protest Sign
Lexicon
Description
Cardboard sign that was cut in the shape of a plastic milk jug and painted white with red lettering. One side reads, "The land of Milk and Money." The other side says, "Milk of Human Blindness."
Acquisition
Accession
1994.57
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
All Together Now
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1994
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1994.57.1
Context
Likely used during the All Species Parade in Montpelier, Vermont.
Protest Sign
Name/Title
Protest Sign
Lexicon
Description
A single sided, white sign with handwritten lettering. It reads, "MAYBE THE DOG ATE THE WMDs?" in black marker. Below is one red, one white, and one blue question mark.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.59
Relationships
Related Events
Iraq War
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2006
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2004.59.54
Context
This sign was used in protest of the Iraq war.
Protest Sign
Name/Title
Protest Sign
Lexicon
Description
A light blue, wooden sign with the word, "PEACE" written in black block letters in an arch. Under the word, a white dove carrying an olive branch is drawn. The sign is single-sided.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.59
Relationships
Related Events
Iraq War
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2004.59.2
Context
This sign was used in protests of the Iraq war.
Protest Sign
Name/Title
Protest Sign
Lexicon
Description
A protest sign with a white background. The sign has children's drawing in marker showing a person in an archway, a United States flag, a sun, a rainbow, two red figures, and a rainbow-striped worm. Printed letters cut from paper and applied to the front of the sign read, "GRANDMA AGAINST BIGOTRY". The sign is single-sided.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.9
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Washington
City
District of Columbia
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Munkelwitz, Virginia
Artist
Date made
2016
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Styrofoam, Paper, Ink
Entry/Object ID
2021.9.3
Context
This sign was carried by Virginia Munkelwitz of Burlington, Vermont, at the Women's March in Washington, DC.
Pull Toy
Name/Title
Pull Toy
Lexicon
Description
Stuffed lamb on wheels. The lamb is made from fleece and has green plastic eyes and a mid-length tail. The feet are attached to axles, one at the front and one at the back, with wooden wheels at either end. There is a pink silk ribbon tied around the lamb's neck.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Made/Created
Materials
Material
Wool, Metal, Ribbon
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.195
Purse Fragment
Name/Title
Purse Fragment
Lexicon
Description
Beaded floral design on black fabric.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1840-1860
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.134
Quilled Pouch
Name/Title
Quilled Pouch
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Notes
Either Deer or Moose hide
Textile Details
Leather
Porcupine Quill
Hair
Material
Description
Hide pouch with drawstring closure. Decorated with dyed porcupine quills sewn onto the surface of the lower half of the pouch. Red, white, and blue border surrounds two white and red zig-zag vertical forms. Inner edge of the border includes beaded, scrolled forms. Six beaded and red hair drops are attached to the surface of the quilled design. Sixteen more drops are attaches to the bottom seam.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.27
Context
this beautifully quilled object is small but is one of the few known quillwork pieces surviving; and is therefore an exceedingly important example of the genre. Although found in the bureau of an old house in Central New Hampshire, it stylistically dates from the 1760’s-1790’s and from the Lake Champlain Area.
Quilt
Name/Title
Quilt
Lexicon
Description
Friendship quilt made by the friends of donor's maternal great-great-grandmother, Betsey Juckett Mears. The quilt has an off-white background with the pattern in various color print fabrics. The center of each colored pattern has been signed by a friend with a notation of their residence (Fletcher, Milton, Colchester, Fairfax, Fletcher Center, South Hero). One block is signed and dated: Loisa Boynton, April 4, 1850, Fletcher. The back of the quilt is a plain loosely woven off-white fabric. The quilt has "cut-outs" for the bed posts at the foot of the bed.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.39
Made/Created
Date made
1850
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2013.39.1
Context
Betsey Juckett was born September 6, 1820 and died September 3, 1896 in West Milton, Vermont. In 1841 she married Elias Tyler Mears (1807-1903). Her first marriage and his second, they set up home in West Milton where they lived their entire lives.
Friendship quilts were, and still are, a common form of communal gift to celebrate life milestones such as marriages, births, anniversaries, and housewarming. One of the squares is dated 1850 leading to an early construction date of that year. Betsey Mears had no big life events that year - that we know of. She did give birth to her second son in 1851 so this quilt may be for that event.
Friendship quilts were, and still are, a common form of communal gift to celebrate life milestones such as marriages, births, anniversaries, and housewarming. One of the squares is dated 1850 leading to an early construction date of that year. Betsey Mears had no big life events that year - that we know of. She did give birth to her second son in 1851 so this quilt may be for that event.
Quilt Blocks
Name/Title
Quilt Blocks
Lexicon
Description
A selection of 34 "biscuits" made by donor's family to piece into a biscuit quilt. Biscuits are two squares of material sewn together around edges and stuffed with batting. These biscuits were stored in a National Biscuit Company box with a picture of "Dandy Oyster Crackers, Salted" on the front. (See pictures of box).
Acquisition
Accession
2015.33
Made/Created
Date made
1930-1950
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2015.33.2
Racing Suit
Name/Title
Racing Suit
Lexicon
Description
Swix brand racing suit. The suit is mostly black with a textured hexagonal pattern across it, a short collar, and a zipper that extends from the waist up to the neck. The left should has a red and white striped pattern and the right shoulder has a white star pattern against a blue backdrop, meant to look like the American flag. The same pattern extends across the legs at an angle with the stars above the stripes. There is a decorative band across the chest with text that reads, "USA/ E - PLURIBUS - UNUM" and a small stylized version of the American flag with stars and stripes, similar to the pattern on the shoulders. This design has a thin white border line above and below it. On the right arm are the vertical letters "USA" in white near the wrist and the left arm has "Swix" printed across the forearm also in white.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.29
Relationships
Related Events
2022 Winter Olympics
Event
Related Person or Organization
Ben Ogden
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall dimensions from top of collar to base of legs and arm to arm.
Entry/Object ID
2024.29.3
Context
Worn by Olympic nordic skier Ben Ogden in the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Ben grew up and still lives in Vermont.
Radio
Name/Title
Radio
Lexicon
Description
Atwater Kent radio, 1923 type 5a, and headphones. The radio consists of a wooden board with beveled edges. On the surface, six different size cylindrical pieces are attached to a rectangular wooden slab with a concave curved trim. From the left, the largest cylinder has about six knobs attached to rubber covered wires that connect with the wooden slab. Three lightbulbs with chrome-like globes extend from the top and are showing some blackening inside the bulb. The metal label has a red circle in the center with gold lettering that says “AK” with “MADE IN THE U.S.A.” below the circle. The label reads, “ATWATER KENT / PHILA. TYPE TA / PATENTS PENDING / DETECTOR AND 2 STAGE A.F. AMPLIFIER. The next four cylinders alternate between a tall cylinder and squat cylinders with a silver painted light bulb attached. Three dials read 100 to 0 from left to right. The metal headphones connect to the largest cylinder and reads “FROST FONES / NO. 163 / 1500” on the speakers.
a=003/7/3d
b=003/7/3e
a=003/7/3d
b=003/7/3e
Acquisition
Accession
1962.42
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Kent, Arthur Atwater (1873-1949)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1923
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1962.42.2b
Radio
Name/Title
Radio
Lexicon
Description
A tuned frequency radio with vacuum tubes to detect radio signals and amplify the sount. it was built by Winn Taplin Sr. in the 1920s. He was supervising principal of schools in Fairfax, VT at the time. The son and donor of this radio equipment called it a crystal set, but a Houghton Cate of East Calais suggested several years later that it was a tuned frequency set. Cate built and repaired radios and electronic equipment as far back as the 1930s and was interviewed about this radio in 1996. ****The headphones are likely in a TBC box.****
Acquisition
Accession
1991.50
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Taplin, Winn Lowell (1893-1961)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Glass, Bakelite
Entry/Object ID
1991.50.1b
Context
Built by Winn Taplin, Sr., in Fairfax, Vermont.
Radio
Name/Title
Radio
Lexicon
Description
A tuned frequency radio with vacuum tubes to detect radio signals and amplify the sount. it was built by Winn Taplin Sr. in the 1920s. He was supervising principal of schools in Fairfax, VT at the time. The son and donor of this radio equipment called it a crystal set, but a Houghton Cate of East Calais suggested several years later that it was a tuned frequency set. Cate built and repaired radios and electronic equipment as far back as the 1930s and was interviewed about this radio in 1996. ****The headphones are likely in a TBC box.****
Acquisition
Accession
1991.50
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Taplin, Winn Lowell (1893-1961)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Glass, Bakelite
Entry/Object ID
1991.50.1a
Context
Built by Winn Taplin, Sr., in Fairfax, Vermont.
Radioptican
Name/Title
Radioptican
Lexicon
Description
Radioptican made by H.C. White Company of Bennington, Vermont. The device is a black metal box with holes, lamps and two lenses that make it possible to project images from postcards onto a screen. A stamped metal label on the front of the machine reads, "NO. 357/ PATENTS PENDING/ RADIOPTICAN/ H.C. WHITE CO./ NORTH BENNINGTON, V.T., U.S.A." The patent number was stamped over several times. An old wire plug extends from the back base to power the lamp.
Use
To project postcards onto a screen
Acquisition
Accession
2024.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
H.C. White Co.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1915
Manufacturer
H.C. White Co.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2024.2.2a-g
Red Pound Bead
Name/Title
Red Pound Bead
Lexicon
Description
Red Pound pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1625
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.201
Relic, Historic
Name/Title
Relic, Historic
Lexicon
Description
Section of State of Vermont Seal Pine. Varnished and has two hanging devices nailed onto back. A paper label is covered with plexiglass and is nailed onto the front of the wood section.
Written on plaque on the tree: "A section from the State of Vermont Seal Pine. The Eastern White Pine from which this section was cut is believed to be the tree depicted on the 1779 official State Seal of the State of Vermont. The ancient tree grew in Arlington, Vemont and was felled by a strong wind on May 9, 1978. It measured six feet in diameter and was one of the largest white pines in the United States. State of Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Agency of Environmental Conservation.
Written on plaque on the tree: "A section from the State of Vermont Seal Pine. The Eastern White Pine from which this section was cut is believed to be the tree depicted on the 1779 official State Seal of the State of Vermont. The ancient tree grew in Arlington, Vemont and was felled by a strong wind on May 9, 1978. It measured six feet in diameter and was one of the largest white pines in the United States. State of Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Agency of Environmental Conservation.
Acquisition
Accession
1979.7
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Allen, Ira (1751-1814)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1978
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1979.7.2
Context
The State Seal Pine was an eastern white pine tree that grew near Governor Thomas Chittenden's first Vermont home in Arlington. The tree was toppled by high winds in 1978 and replaced with a new white pine sapling by Governor Richard Snelling in 1979.
Relic, Historic
Name/Title
Relic, Historic
Lexicon
Description
Memento from dedication ceremony of DeForge Hydroelectric Station. Block of wood with two circles embedded on surface, one circle of stone and one circle of wood. Printed on one side: "Stone from the diversion tunnel and Wood from the original dam, built in 1898" Printed on opposite side: "DeForge Hydroelectric Station" Printed on one end: "Green Mountain Power Corporation" and company logo. Green felt bottom.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.24
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green Mountain Power
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Duxbury
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1986
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Wool, Stone
Entry/Object ID
2007.24.3
Relic, Historic
Name/Title
Relic, Historic
Lexicon
Description
Wood fragment from the birthplace home of Admiral George Dewey - A stamp on one side with the etching of the home and "This is wood taken from the house in which Admiral Dewey was born" The other side has paint on it, pale mustard color, crackled with age but only a few chips.
Acquisition
Accession
1980.25
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1980.25
Relic, Historic
Name/Title
Relic, Historic
Lexicon
Description
*Careful when handling, jagged glass*
Remains of champagne bottle, festooned with red, white and blue ribbons, used to christen the Battleship "Vermont" on August 31, 1905, and box containing bottle and ribbons. Pink foil covering on the top of the bottle shows the name G.H. Mumm & Co. The glass is green and cork is in place.
Jennie Bell (daughter of then governor Charles J. Bell) christened the "Vermont", attended by two Vermont "maids", Mary E. Morse (mother of the donor) and Virginia E. Perry. As described in "The Vermonter" Vol. XI, No. 3, October 1905, "... Miss Jennie Bell swung her right arm and struck a blow with the dangling, beribboned bottle squarely on the port side of the ram bow and cried, "I christen thee Vermont!""
.1= Champagn bottle and ribbons
.2a= lid of box
.2b= box5.5" x 5.5" x 15"
Remains of champagne bottle, festooned with red, white and blue ribbons, used to christen the Battleship "Vermont" on August 31, 1905, and box containing bottle and ribbons. Pink foil covering on the top of the bottle shows the name G.H. Mumm & Co. The glass is green and cork is in place.
Jennie Bell (daughter of then governor Charles J. Bell) christened the "Vermont", attended by two Vermont "maids", Mary E. Morse (mother of the donor) and Virginia E. Perry. As described in "The Vermonter" Vol. XI, No. 3, October 1905, "... Miss Jennie Bell swung her right arm and struck a blow with the dangling, beribboned bottle squarely on the port side of the ram bow and cried, "I christen thee Vermont!""
.1= Champagn bottle and ribbons
.2a= lid of box
.2b= box5.5" x 5.5" x 15"
Acquisition
Accession
1988.13
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bell, Charles J. (1845-1909), Bell, Jennie, Morse, Mary E., Perry, Virginia E.
Made/Created
Date made
1905
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1988.13.1.1-.2a-b
Relic, Historic
Name/Title
Relic, Historic
Lexicon
Description
Photographic reproduction of the Bennington Declaration. Mounted in bronze plaque framed in glass.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-28
Ribbon
Name/Title
Ribbon
Lexicon
Description
Ribbon from the 75th Anniv. of the Women's Sufferage movement held August 26, 1995, in Montpelier, Vt. Lavender, satin finish, with purple lettering: "Woman Suffrage 1920-95." Accompanied by a 16-page booklet, containing mainly sponsors' advertisements with the day's schedule of activities.
Acquisition
Accession
1995.48
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Polyester
Entry/Object ID
1995.48
Ribbon Medal
Name/Title
Ribbon Medal
Description
Small dark Royal blue ribbon with inscription and outlined image of downhill skier in gold. Inscription: "B.O.C. JUNIOR SKI MEISTER 1947 BRATTLEBORO VERMONT." Includes snap where would have been fastened. Back small card reads: "Name: Herbie Holbrook, Class: 13-15, Award: 1st HODGES BADGE CO., BOSTON" with the details filled out in black script.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Given to Herbert Holbrook Austine School alumnus class of 1947 who was a class A award winning ski jumper.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Textile Details
Notes
Very very small textile made of sturdy dark royal blue ribbon with a silky sheen into the weaving.
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
The ribbon refers to the largest piece of material in the whole object which is the ribbon itself. This is secured to a small cardboard card in the back using a type of snap-like metal fastening (that is too tarnished at present to identify exact material of metal). The card is made of a thin cardboard-like material in order to be written on by a type of pen or ink writing.
Material
Ribbon, Metal, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.35
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Presented on the occasion of winning a competition from the Brattleboro Outing Club regarding ski jumping in 1947 (the year of his graduation from the Austine School for the Deaf) to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Presented on the occasion of winning a competition from the Brattleboro Outing Club regarding ski jumping in 1947 (the year of his graduation from the Austine School for the Deaf) to Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Ring
Name/Title
Ring
Lexicon
Description
Silver Montpelier High School Ring- Class of 1938 with a black rectangle topped with a tiny circular seal.
Acquisition
Accession
2000.14
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Montpelier High School, Franzi, Olive Romerio (1920-2018)
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
2000.14.1
Context
Olive Romerio Franzi (1920-2018) was a lifetime resident of Montpelier and a 1938 graduate of Montpelier High School. She was the daughter of Carlo and Elisa (Fornarelli) Romerio. She began working at Jackson's Pharmacy while still in high school and after graduation she worked for the Montpelier public schools before joining Green Mountain Power in 1941, staying 45 years and retiring as administrative assistant to the president in 1986. She married Gino C. Franzi of Barre in 1949. He died in 1961. They had no children. She was active in many organizations, including as a volunteer with the Vermont Historical Society and in 2008 Gov. Jim Douglas gave her the Governor's Outstanding Community Service Award.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Lexicon
Description
Ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.5
Context
Wiseman states: This brooch, along with L2024.3.4 and L2024.3.6-8, were found in a Riker mount in the group shop, with a Western NH provenance and an assurance that they were solid coin silver and old. They were in almost pristine condition without much if any crinkling of the central prong. I worry that they were good repros, but they are not embossed “India” like many modern reproductions. They were full price, so I bought them for the provenance, but am unsure of their age, since trade silver is not my specialty.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Small ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.2
Context
Wiseman states: as far as I know these three tiny, stamped ring brooches have not been reproduced for the reenactor trade. I purchased them from a reputable dealer who said in post purchased correspondence that they had a Salmon (Falls) River Valley (Border of Maine and NH) provenance and were found with some other 18th century personal items in an old house but would not give me the village they came from. They are in almost pristine condition.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Small ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.1
Context
Wiseman states: as far as I know these three tiny, stamped ring brooches have not been reproduced for the reenactor trade. I purchased them from a reputable dealer who said in post purchased correspondence that they had a Salmon (Falls) River Valley (Border of Maine and NH) provenance and were found with some other 18th century personal items in an old house but would not give me the village they came from. They are in almost pristine condition.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.6
Context
Wiseman states: This brooch, along with L2024.3.4-5 and L2024.3.7-8, were found in a Riker mount in the group shop, with a Western NH provenance and an assurance that they were solid coin silver and old. They were in almost pristine condition without much if any crinkling of the central prong. I worry that they were good repros, but they are not embossed “India” like many modern reproductions. They were full price, so I bought them for the provenance, but am unsure of their age, since trade silver is not my specialty.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Small ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.3
Context
Wiseman states: as far as I know these three tiny, stamped ring brooches have not been reproduced for the reenactor trade. I purchased them from a reputable dealer who said in post purchased correspondence that they had a Salmon (Falls) River Valley (Border of Maine and NH) provenance and were found with some other 18th century personal items in an old house but would not give me the village they came from. They are in almost pristine condition.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.7
Context
Wiseman states: This brooch, along with L2024.3.4-6 and L2024.3.8, were found in a Riker mount in the group shop, with a Western NH provenance and an assurance that they were solid coin silver and old. They were in almost pristine condition without much if any crinkling of the central prong. I worry that they were good repros, but they are not embossed “India” like many modern reproductions. They were full price, so I bought them for the provenance, but am unsure of their age, since trade silver is not my specialty.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.8
Context
Wiseman states: This brooch, along with L2024.3.4-7, were found in a Riker mount in the group shop, with a Western NH provenance and an assurance that they were solid coin silver and old. They were in almost pristine condition without much if any crinkling of the central prong. I worry that they were good repros, but they are not embossed “India” like many modern reproductions. They were full price, so I bought them for the provenance, but am unsure of their age, since trade silver is not my specialty.
Ring Brooch
Name/Title
Ring Brooch
Item Type
Lexicon
Description
Ring brooch
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1800
Materials
Material
Silver
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.4
Context
Wiseman states: This brooch, along with L2024.3.5-8, were found in a Riker mount in the group shop, with a Western NH provenance and an assurance that they were solid coin silver and old. They were in almost pristine condition without much if any crinkling of the central prong. I worry that they were good repros, but they are not embossed “India” like many modern reproductions. They were full price, so I bought them for the provenance, but am unsure of their age, since trade silver is not my specialty.
Road to Sunderland
Name/Title
Road to Sunderland
Lexicon
Description
Small oil painting of a winter farm scene. A road in the foreground leads to a grey barn with other red outbuildings. A large tree appears behind the barn and mountains can be seen in the background. The painting is mostly in shades of greys and browns except for the two red buildings. A label affixed to the back entitles the painting, "Road to Sunderland."
Acquisition
Accession
2017.12
Artwork Details
Made/Created
Artist Information
Connaway, Jay Hall (1893-1970)
Artist
Date made
1955-1969
Entry/Object ID
2017.12.2
Context
Jay Connaway was born in Liberty, Indiana, November 27, 1893, the son of Cass Connaway, a lawyer and collector of Chinese art, and his wife May. Jay Connaway graduated from Emmerich Manual High School and undertook his first art training from William Forsyth, known for coastal Oregon views, at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis in 1910 and 1911. Connaway left home to tour the California and Oregon coasts, working his way across the country and then back to the East Coast as a stoker on engines for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.
In New York, Connaway enrolled at the National Academy of Design school in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he attended the Art Student's League at New York City, where he studied with George Bridgman and with William Merritt Chase. Another influence was Robert Henri, a New York Social Realist and leader of the Ashcan School, whom Connaway had met while attending night classes at the National Academy.
In 1917 he enlisted and shipped out to Contrexeville, France. After suffering a shoulder wound, he worked as a cartographer. Then he was assigned to what he called "the most wonderful work of my life"—making detailed watercolor drawings of lesions caused by mustard gas. This brought him to the attention of Lafayette Page, a physician who was so impressed with Connaway's draftsmanship that, at the close of the war, he sponsored his studies at the Académie Julian (1919–20) under Jean Paul Laurens and at the École des Beaux-Arts (1921) in Paris.
With backing from collectors and gallery owners, Connaway, "seeking to paint the lonely sea" found his way to uninhabited Head Harbor Island off the coast of Jonesport, Maine where he lived as an artistic hermit. He later worked dories with a Grand Banks fishing fleet, was also a cook for a lumber camp in Maine, and he enlisted in the Coast Guard.
In 1928 Connaway married Louise Boehle. During the depression, Connaway moved to Monhegan Island to paint and start the Connaway Art School.
The Connaways remained on Monhegan until 1947, when they moved to Vermont, residing in Dorset until 1953, then North Rupert. Connaway painted rural landscapes of the Vermont countryside and operated a summer art school, until 1966.
In 1962, Connaway merged his school with the Southern Vermont Arts Center and became the school's first director. During the 1960s, in addition to managing the art school Connaway painted in Portugal, Spain, California, and Arizona. In the last year of his life, troubled with poor eyesight and failing health, Connaway was no longer able to paint.
In New York, Connaway enrolled at the National Academy of Design school in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he attended the Art Student's League at New York City, where he studied with George Bridgman and with William Merritt Chase. Another influence was Robert Henri, a New York Social Realist and leader of the Ashcan School, whom Connaway had met while attending night classes at the National Academy.
In 1917 he enlisted and shipped out to Contrexeville, France. After suffering a shoulder wound, he worked as a cartographer. Then he was assigned to what he called "the most wonderful work of my life"—making detailed watercolor drawings of lesions caused by mustard gas. This brought him to the attention of Lafayette Page, a physician who was so impressed with Connaway's draftsmanship that, at the close of the war, he sponsored his studies at the Académie Julian (1919–20) under Jean Paul Laurens and at the École des Beaux-Arts (1921) in Paris.
With backing from collectors and gallery owners, Connaway, "seeking to paint the lonely sea" found his way to uninhabited Head Harbor Island off the coast of Jonesport, Maine where he lived as an artistic hermit. He later worked dories with a Grand Banks fishing fleet, was also a cook for a lumber camp in Maine, and he enlisted in the Coast Guard.
In 1928 Connaway married Louise Boehle. During the depression, Connaway moved to Monhegan Island to paint and start the Connaway Art School.
The Connaways remained on Monhegan until 1947, when they moved to Vermont, residing in Dorset until 1953, then North Rupert. Connaway painted rural landscapes of the Vermont countryside and operated a summer art school, until 1966.
In 1962, Connaway merged his school with the Southern Vermont Arts Center and became the school's first director. During the 1960s, in addition to managing the art school Connaway painted in Portugal, Spain, California, and Arizona. In the last year of his life, troubled with poor eyesight and failing health, Connaway was no longer able to paint.
Robert Frost
Name/Title
Robert Frost
Lexicon
Description
Framed print of Robert Frost signed lower left "Grant Reynard, N.A." Head only - Frost as an old man looking to his right.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.62
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Frost, Robert Lee (1874-1963)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Paper
Subject Person
Frost, Robert Lee (1874-1963)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Reynard, Grant Tyson (1887-1968)
Artist
Date made
May 1966
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2008.62.1
Context
Beloved poet Robert Frost spent a good part of his adult life in Vermont. Many of his most celebrated works were written at homes in Shaftsbury and Ripton. Though famous amongst literary circles for most of his life, Frost entered the world of popular culture with his recitation at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. From 1921 until his death, he maintained a summer cabin in Ripton, Vermont, near the Middlebury College's Breadloaf campus. This work was drawn from life at the college in 1966. Frost is buried in the Old Bennington Cemetery. His epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Grant Reynard was born on October 20, 1887, in Grand Island, Nebraska. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Reynard became a painter, etcher and lithographer in New Jersey. He drew illustrations for Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's and Cosmopolitan. He was the president of the Montclair Art Museum, and a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society
Grant Reynard was born on October 20, 1887, in Grand Island, Nebraska. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Reynard became a painter, etcher and lithographer in New Jersey. He drew illustrations for Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Bazaar, Collier's and Cosmopolitan. He was the president of the Montclair Art Museum, and a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society
Root Club
Name/Title
Root Club
Lexicon
Description
Club crafted from natural root ball
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1870
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.49
Ruler
Name/Title
Ruler
Lexicon
Description
Wooden ruler. One edge is marked in inches with hash lines every 1/8 inch. It is printed with the inscription, "BE SURE AND USE BROWN'S CAMPHORATED SAPONACIOUS DENTRIFRICE. PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTER A BOTTLE. IT IS REALLY A TOILET LUXURY."
Acquisition
Accession
1958.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Williams, George E.
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Time Period
20th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1958.1.629
Context
Made in Windsor, Vermont and sold at George E. Williams' drug store.
Rutland Herald
Name/Title
Rutland Herald
Lexicon
Description
Framed print showing the upper front page of two Rutland Herald newspapers. The top bears the headline, "Chittenden Poll Dooms Leahy", while the bottom bears the headline, "Leahy Upsets Mallary, Wins Aiken's Seat;".
The upper front page of the newspaper showing "RUTLAND" and "HERALD" in large, black, semi-thin, semi-thick lettering with a central rectangular image. The image has mountains in the background and a large tree in the foreground with a scroll covering the branches with the word "DAILY" in small but stylized lettering. Around the tree are radiating rays and beneath the tree to the left is a small church steeple, and two farmers surrounding a cow, the front farming kneeling to milk the cow. On the right is another farmer dressed in overalls with a sun hat and carrying on their back a yoke with two objects balanced on either side. Underneath the image bearing inscription, "ESTABLISHED IN 1794." On both headings are the weather, and the temperatures on either side and within a two-lined casing is the volume number, the date, and the price of the journal.
The top heading showing in darker, thicker lettering on the left hand side, "THE WEATHER/Friday:/Showers./Saturday:/Chance of Showers." On the right hand side, "LOCAL TEMPERATURES/Yesterday Year Ago/High 76 54/Low 51 45/Weather Yesterday: Cloudy./(Thursday, October 31). In between the double lines from left to write saying, "VOL. 121 NO. 262. RUTLAND, VERMONT, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1974 90¢ Week/Home Delivered 28 PAGES -- Price 15¢."
The bottom heading showing in darker, thicker lettering on the left hand side, "THE WEATHER/Wednesday:/Cloudy./Thursday:/Cooler." On the right hand side, "LOCAL TEMPERATURES/Yesterday Year Ago/High 58 45/Low 40 26/Weather Yesterday: Rain./(Tuesday, November 5)." In between the double lining borders from left to right, "VOL. 121. NO. 266. RUTLAND, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1974 90¢ Week/Home Delivered 28 PAGES Price 15¢."
The upper front page of the newspaper showing "RUTLAND" and "HERALD" in large, black, semi-thin, semi-thick lettering with a central rectangular image. The image has mountains in the background and a large tree in the foreground with a scroll covering the branches with the word "DAILY" in small but stylized lettering. Around the tree are radiating rays and beneath the tree to the left is a small church steeple, and two farmers surrounding a cow, the front farming kneeling to milk the cow. On the right is another farmer dressed in overalls with a sun hat and carrying on their back a yoke with two objects balanced on either side. Underneath the image bearing inscription, "ESTABLISHED IN 1794." On both headings are the weather, and the temperatures on either side and within a two-lined casing is the volume number, the date, and the price of the journal.
The top heading showing in darker, thicker lettering on the left hand side, "THE WEATHER/Friday:/Showers./Saturday:/Chance of Showers." On the right hand side, "LOCAL TEMPERATURES/Yesterday Year Ago/High 76 54/Low 51 45/Weather Yesterday: Cloudy./(Thursday, October 31). In between the double lines from left to write saying, "VOL. 121 NO. 262. RUTLAND, VERMONT, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1974 90¢ Week/Home Delivered 28 PAGES -- Price 15¢."
The bottom heading showing in darker, thicker lettering on the left hand side, "THE WEATHER/Wednesday:/Cloudy./Thursday:/Cooler." On the right hand side, "LOCAL TEMPERATURES/Yesterday Year Ago/High 58 45/Low 40 26/Weather Yesterday: Rain./(Tuesday, November 5)." In between the double lining borders from left to right, "VOL. 121. NO. 266. RUTLAND, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1974 90¢ Week/Home Delivered 28 PAGES Price 15¢."
Acquisition
Accession
2023.9
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Leahy, Patrick Joseph (b. 1940)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Materials
Material
Paper, Wood, Glass
Entry/Object ID
2023.9.1
Context
This print montage of two headlines from the same newspaper hung in Senator Patrick Leahy's Burlington office until his retirement in 2022. Leahy was the first Democratic Senator elected from Vermont since the Civil War and his win was not anticipated. He was ultimately the longest-serving Senator in Vermont History (3rd longest in U.S. history).
Saltcellar
Name/Title
Saltcellar
Lexicon
Description
Yellow molded glass salt cellar. The glass is molded into the shape of a dog laying in front of a faceted, rectangular holder. There are prominent seams from the mold.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Bayley, Elizabeth (1817-1856)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Newbury
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1825
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1981.21.7
Context
Owned by Elizabeth Bayley of Newbury, Vermont
Salver
Name/Title
Salver
Description
Medium silver-plated salver with copper underneath. Intricate leaf decoration etching into plate. Edging has wrapping pattern. Middle has smaller circle bearing inscription "SO. NE. SKI JUMP TOURNAMENT 1ST PLACE CLASS A 1954" On the back significant scratch perhaps removing mark of maker/manufacturer, is exposing copper-ish metal underneath silver plating but polished. Although both front and back have visible figure print marking (as shown).
Given to class of 1947 alumnus and class A ski jumper Herbert Holbrook during a 1954 race wherein he won first place.
Given to class of 1947 alumnus and class A ski jumper Herbert Holbrook during a 1954 race wherein he won first place.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Silver-plated something else (something with a copper-ish color). On back scratch and throughout foliate engraved designs silver has worn away to reveal the copper-ish tone underneath.
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.33
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Given to Herbert P. Holbrook on the occasion of winning first place in the Southern New England Ski Jump Tournament of 1954. Holbrook was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Given to Herbert P. Holbrook on the occasion of winning first place in the Southern New England Ski Jump Tournament of 1954. Holbrook was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Sap Bucket
Name/Title
Sap Bucket
Lexicon
Description
Brown-painted wooden sap bucket. The staves are secured by three hoops, one at the top just below the rim and two at the base. There is evidence of a second hoop at the top of the bucket, below the extant one, based on paint lines that show where the paint was applied when the bucket was completed. There is a hole drilled into the top of one stave approximately 1 inch from the top edge. The inset bottom has the initials "S.H.," likely for Samuel Hurlburt of Vergennes, Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hurlburt, Samuel
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vergennes
City
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hurlburt, Samuel
Artist
Date made
1850-1870
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Paint
Entry/Object ID
2024.5.1
Sap Bucket
Name/Title
Sap Bucket
Lexicon
Description
Included with this are a sap yoke (.2), two sap buckets (.3 + .4), this leather belt (.1) and two hooks (.5 + .6). Hand carved yoke with buckets in red stain/paint made by the grandfather of Dr. Herbert S. Carver of Marshfield when Herbert was a boy.
Belt is 72" long and 15/16" wide. It has buckle holes all along it, usually at 3/4" intervals.
The yoke is 37" long and 7 1/2" widest point. The under side is not painted. Edges worn with age and use. The buckets are both 10" dia at top, 11 3/4" at bottom and 10 1/2" high. The hooks are both 6 7/8" long and slightly different. .6 has a leather piece (part of a strap) on the ring end, it is also very rusty. .5 is silver colored metal and is flaking slight.y, it also has the smaller hook of the two.
Belt is 72" long and 15/16" wide. It has buckle holes all along it, usually at 3/4" intervals.
The yoke is 37" long and 7 1/2" widest point. The under side is not painted. Edges worn with age and use. The buckets are both 10" dia at top, 11 3/4" at bottom and 10 1/2" high. The hooks are both 6 7/8" long and slightly different. .6 has a leather piece (part of a strap) on the ring end, it is also very rusty. .5 is silver colored metal and is flaking slight.y, it also has the smaller hook of the two.
Acquisition
Accession
1981.13
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1981.13.5.4
Sap Spiles
Name/Title
Sap Spiles
Lexicon
Description
Sumac twig, cut to fit into hole bored in maple tree. Sumac twig is naturally hollow
Use
Used for collecting maple sap
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material Notes
Sumac
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.41a-e
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Sap spout made from a tree branch. The bark of the branch has been roughly removed. The branch is cut in half lengthwise, leaving one end intact. That end is carved to a flattened point with a hole drilled through the center.
Acquisition
Accession
1953.57
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1953.57.1
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Sap spout, silver colored, heavy metal. See diagram on Worksheet.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.32
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Ira
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1982.32.3
Context
Used on the Lincoln farm in Ira, Vermont.
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Sap spout. Former number is FS-NE-S-10C
Acquisition
Accession
1982.32
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Ira
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1982.32.13
Context
Used on the Lincoln farm in Ira, Vermont.
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1982.33
Entry/Object ID
1982.33.4
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1982.33
Entry/Object ID
1982.33.5
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Long, curved metal sap spout with a wire wrapped around the narrow end.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.33
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1982.33.7
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1982.33
Entry/Object ID
1982.33.14
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Metal spout (or spile) used for collecting sap from trees in order to make maple syrup. The spout is made of metal that is slightly curved, almost as if a completely cylindrical piece of metal was cut in half. There is a ridged lip on one end. Metal is a dark gray color with some rust on the inside. Object was clearly used.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.255
Context
No known VT connection.
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Sap spout with small curved hook on bottom, meant for holding sap collecting/gathering bucket. Made of metal; stamped "WARNER" on one side and "PAT-D" on the other. Silver, slightly rusted from usage.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.258
Context
No known VT connection.
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
A set of 3 spouts. Sheets of iron bent to form a trough along the length. One end (in section) has been filed to form a chisel point. The opposite end shows evidence of flattening from being hammered into a tree. This type of early sap spout was used with a bucket propped up against the tree or sitting on the ground. The chisel end of the spout made its own "hole" in the tree.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.14
Relationships
Related Places
Place
East Montpelier
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Entry/Object ID
1982.14.3
Sap Spout
Name/Title
Sap Spout
Lexicon
Description
Spouts for maple sugaring (card)
Acquisition
Accession
1966.15
Entry/Object ID
1966.15.29f
Sash
Name/Title
Sash
Lexicon
Description
Ceinture Flechee
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.190
Sauce Dish
Name/Title
Sauce Dish
Lexicon
Description
White, oval sauce dish with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.5
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Saucer
Name/Title
Saucer
Lexicon
Description
White ceramic saucer with decoratively molded rim. The molded rim alternates between shell pattern and basket weave pattern and is gilded along the edge. The center is printed with an image of a church with a central steeple. The image is labeled, "FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LYNDONVILL VT." The bottom is marked, "MADE IN GERMANY FOR A. W. BROCKWAY LYNDONVILLE, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2012.36
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
A. W. Brockway
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Lyndonville
Village
Lyndon
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2012.36.13
Context
Sold by A. W. Brockway in Lyndonville, Vermont
Scale Model
Name/Title
Scale Model
Lexicon
Description
Model of floating railroad bridge across Lake Champlain connecting Vermont and New York from Larrabee's Point to Ticonderoga. The bridge was composed of stationery piers from each shore joined by a floating barge hinged on one side. Powered by a steam engine. The barge would swing open for boats to pass through.
Acquisition
Accession
1970.11
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1970.11.1a-i
School Hearing Aid Device
Name/Title
School Hearing Aid Device
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular, beige hearing aid device with plastic exterior (a) with "PHONIC EAR" label on front and (c)rainbow patterning fabric ribbon straps with copper eagle crest snaps. It is standing within a slanted rectangular stand (b) also in a muted beige plastic with the inscription in the front inside a square, "PHONIC EAR CHARGER MIN CHARGE TIME 12 HRS MAX. 18 HRS HC ELECTRONICS INC TIBURON CALIF." It is standing on four grey feet and includes an attached thick white double stranded charging chord with a white wall plug. Also includes the earpiece (d) with a double stranded chord, a single prong plug, and a light pink disc for the ear insert.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Just device (see note for stand and earpiece)
Materials
Material Notes
The plastic refers to the outer casings of both the box of the device and the stand. The ribbon refers to the straps. The metal refers to some exterior parts of the earpiece. The interior mechanisms of the device are unknown.
Material
Plastic, Metal, Ribbon
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.17a-d
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Device originally came with plain black lanyards, due to intimacy of use devices were often personalized by students, in this case we see a different lanyard was used.
Device originally came with plain black lanyards, due to intimacy of use devices were often personalized by students, in this case we see a different lanyard was used.
Scissors
Name/Title
Scissors
Lexicon
Description
Large metal scissors or shears.
Acquisition
Accession
1925.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Riker, Rufus Russell (1807-1892)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1925.4
Context
Owned by Rufus Riker of Montpelier, Vermont
Scoop
Name/Title
Scoop
Lexicon
Description
Wide wooden scoop with shallow, round bowl. The bowl and handle are carved as one, and the end of the handle curves perpendicular to the rest.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.29
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1954.29.15
Context
Likely owned by a member of the Dewey family of Montpelier, Vermont
Self-Portrait
Name/Title
Self-Portrait
Lexicon
Description
Carved marble self-portrait bust by Larkin Mead. Mead wears a suit jacket, buttoned vest, and a shirt with a tall collar and textured silk-like bowtie. Mead's short hair is combed neatly back from his face and his mustache and goatee also appear combed and styled. The bust rests on a short columnar base with turned and flared top and base edges.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Marble
Subject Person
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (1835-1910)
Artist
Date made
1900-1910
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall dimensions; width measured across shoulders, depth from back lying face-up to tip of nose; diameter measured for the base. KFG 5/2024
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.2
Separator, Egg
Name/Title
Separator, Egg
Lexicon
Description
This yellow plastic egg separator advertises: SHADOW CROSS FARM/"Good Eggs To Deal With"/Colchester, VT./ Tel. 655-0444".
Acquisition
Accession
2014.52
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2014.52.41
Service Cap
Name/Title
Service Cap
Lexicon
Description
This US Navy service cap is designed with a dark blue wool crown and a black, rounded brim. The stiffener in the crown of the cap is missing. At the center front of the cap, there is an elaborate goldwork embroidery featuring an eagle on a federal shield with two crossed fouled anchors. The brim of the cap is also embroidered in goldwork with a pattern of oak leaves and acorns. The cap is adorned with a brass button on either side of the brim, and a gold strap that goes between them.
Acquisition
Accession
1921.10
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Clark, Charles E. (1843-1922)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1898
Materials
Material
Wool, Gold, Leather, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1921.10.1
Context
Worn by Admiral Charles E. Clark during the Spanish-American War.
Set, Communion
Name/Title
Set, Communion
Lexicon
Description
a= Black leatherette-covered box with attached cover lined in purple velvet. Bottom of box has metal piece with cutouts to hold (b) round covered container to hold the "host", (c) - (e) 3 wine glasses, and space for a bottle for wine (bottle missing). Also in box is a string of 21 military buttons of different sizes and types (f).
Acquisition
Accession
2016.11
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Made/Created
Date made
1942-1945
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Artificial Leather, Glass, Silverplate, Brass
Entry/Object ID
2016.11.70a-e
Context
Notes: http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/collection/hewitt.ead.xml
Arthur W. Hewitt was born in Riverton, Vermont, June 22, 1883. He attended Riverton schools and was a graduate of Northfield High School and Montpelier Seminary. On September 18, 1907 he married Nina Battles of Wilder.
Dr. Hewitt's pastoral life began in 1908 in Plainfield, Vermont, where he served as a minister of the Methodist Church until 1933. He served in Moretown, Vermont from 1933-35, and in Northfield and Northfield Falls until 1956.
Dr. Hewitt was also active in education. He was superintendent of schools in Glover, 1905-1906, and in Plainfield, 1910-1911. He was, for a time, the head of Montpelier Seminary, organized Vermont Junior College, and served as its president from 1923 to 1935. During the years 1912-1917, as Plainfield's representative in the Vermont General Assembly, he was chairman of the House Committee on Education. From 1923 to 1935 he was chairman of the Vermont Board of Education.
Hewitt was also a poet. He published five collections of poetry, including, Harp of the North (1916) and The Mountain Troubador (1962.) He also wrote a biography entitled The Old Brick Manse (1965). he was the head of the Poetry Society of Vermont (P.S.O.V.) for eight years, and in August of 1971 he was recommended by the state legislature to succeed Robert Frost as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He died November 6, 1971 in Berlin, Vermont.
Concerning the military buttons, it isn't clear if these belonged to Arthur Wentworth Hewitt. While he registered for the draft for World War I at age 35 and for WWII at age 58, there is no mention of military service in any obituaries or biographies.
Arthur W. Hewitt was born in Riverton, Vermont, June 22, 1883. He attended Riverton schools and was a graduate of Northfield High School and Montpelier Seminary. On September 18, 1907 he married Nina Battles of Wilder.
Dr. Hewitt's pastoral life began in 1908 in Plainfield, Vermont, where he served as a minister of the Methodist Church until 1933. He served in Moretown, Vermont from 1933-35, and in Northfield and Northfield Falls until 1956.
Dr. Hewitt was also active in education. He was superintendent of schools in Glover, 1905-1906, and in Plainfield, 1910-1911. He was, for a time, the head of Montpelier Seminary, organized Vermont Junior College, and served as its president from 1923 to 1935. During the years 1912-1917, as Plainfield's representative in the Vermont General Assembly, he was chairman of the House Committee on Education. From 1923 to 1935 he was chairman of the Vermont Board of Education.
Hewitt was also a poet. He published five collections of poetry, including, Harp of the North (1916) and The Mountain Troubador (1962.) He also wrote a biography entitled The Old Brick Manse (1965). he was the head of the Poetry Society of Vermont (P.S.O.V.) for eight years, and in August of 1971 he was recommended by the state legislature to succeed Robert Frost as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He died November 6, 1971 in Berlin, Vermont.
Concerning the military buttons, it isn't clear if these belonged to Arthur Wentworth Hewitt. While he registered for the draft for World War I at age 35 and for WWII at age 58, there is no mention of military service in any obituaries or biographies.
Sewing Basket
Name/Title
Sewing Basket
Lexicon
Description
Sweetgrass basket and lid with embroidery thread and binding ribbon
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Sweetgrass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.101a-b
Context
Probably Odanak
Shako
Name/Title
Shako
Lexicon
Description
Presentation shako with leather and felt crown and brim and large, black feather plume. A brass plaque on the top of the crown reads, "In Memory of Dr. Howard Reid 1912 Presented to Marjorie Strong of the Reid Family in appreciation for their dedication and support to the Norwich University Cavalry Troop". A heavy gold chain spans the front the of the hat, and a large brass medallion is at the center front that reads, "I WILL TRY CAVALRY UNIT NORWICH UNIVERSITY". The interior of the hat is marked, "Bayly, Inc. Size Medium Holywood, FLA."
Acquisition
Accession
2015.32
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Reid, Howard Hill (1889-1985), Norwich University
Made/Created
Date made
2012
Manufacturer
Bayly Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Leather, Wool, Metal, Feather
Entry/Object ID
2015.32
Sheep Bell
Name/Title
Sheep Bell
Lexicon
Description
Brass, traditionally shaped sheep bell. There is a wire loop at the top for attaching the bell to the sheep's collar. There is an iron clapper inside the bell.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Brass, Iron
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.5
Sheep Bell
Name/Title
Sheep Bell
Lexicon
Description
Sheep bell shaped like a cowbell. It is formed from one sheet of metal, folded into shape and bracketed on the sides. There is a rectangular handle at the top and a metal clapper in the interior.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.6
Sheep Shears
Name/Title
Sheep Shears
Lexicon
Description
Metal sheep shears consisting of two triangular blades attached to a U-shaped metal strip. The blades are slightly misaligned, allowing them to overlap when squeezed. The shape of the metal strip causes is to spring back open when not squeezed.
Use
Used to cut woolen fleece from sheep
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Kent's Corner
Village
Calais
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.188
Context
Possibly used at the Kent Tavern in Calais, Vermont
Shirt Panel
Name/Title
Shirt Panel
Lexicon
Description
Red fabric with beaded flower and leaf design surrounded by blue zig-zag border.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.125
Shoe
Name/Title
Shoe
Lexicon
Description
Miniature ceramic shoe. The top is printed with a full-color illustration of a boat on a lake with the label, "STEAMER 'ANTHEMIS' AT OWL'S HEAD WHARF". The rest of the shoe's exterior is gilded. The bottom is marked, "MADE IN GERMANY FOR True & Blanchard Co. Newport, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2008.83
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
True & Blanchard Co.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Newport
City
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2008.83.33
Context
Sold by True & Blanchard Company in Newport, Vermont
Sickle
Name/Title
Sickle
Lexicon
Description
Metal sickle with wooden handle. The blade is an upside down check mark shape with a serrated edge. Angled equidistant parallel lines are etched into the flat part of the blade above the serrated edge. The metal piece is inserted into a short, turned natural wood handle.
Acquisition
Accession
1947.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Green, Joshua Parker (1822-1911)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Plymouth
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1947.2.2
Context
Used by J. Parker Green, champion reaper, of Plymouth, Vermont
Sideboard
Name/Title
Sideboard
Lexicon
Description
Cherry sideboard. The four corners are reeded columns, and the serpentine front is decorated with intricately banded fruitwood inlays and beaded moldings. The drawer and cabinet pulls are original brass. There are two bottle drawers flanking a central bar cabinet over two wide drawers. The name "Albert Onion" is writted inside the top front copuboard section.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.21
Relationships
Related Publications
The Best the Country Affords
Publication
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1815
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Brass
Entry/Object ID
2001.21.1
Context
Family history states this half-sideboard was made by Albert Onion, of Chester, Vermont in 1840. Though inscribed with his name, the piece dates from earlier in the century, probably constructed around 1815 at the latest. A vibrant cabinetmaking industry existed in the early years of the 19th century in Chester and the nearby town of Windsor, Vermont. The half sideboard form was popular in northern Windsor county.
Cabinetmakers Sampson Warner, George Stedman, and Royal Gould all worked in Chester. It's thought that Stedman and perhaps Gould apprenticed to Warner. Stedman and Gould family members ran a mercantile business in Chester in close proximity to a similar business owned by the Onion family. The string inlay along the top and the complex shape of the front certainly relate to furniture made by both Gould and Stedman. Stedman ultimately moved to Norwich and Gould to Rutland. The Onion family, including Alfred, also moved to the Rutland area and may indicate a connection between the Goulds and the Onions.
This piece may have been purchased by the prosperous Onion family in the 1810s or Albert acquired it around the 1840 date. Albert partnered in mercantile businesses from the late 1820s to 1840 when he was listed in the census as owning a tanning factory.
Cabinetmakers Sampson Warner, George Stedman, and Royal Gould all worked in Chester. It's thought that Stedman and perhaps Gould apprenticed to Warner. Stedman and Gould family members ran a mercantile business in Chester in close proximity to a similar business owned by the Onion family. The string inlay along the top and the complex shape of the front certainly relate to furniture made by both Gould and Stedman. Stedman ultimately moved to Norwich and Gould to Rutland. The Onion family, including Alfred, also moved to the Rutland area and may indicate a connection between the Goulds and the Onions.
This piece may have been purchased by the prosperous Onion family in the 1810s or Albert acquired it around the 1840 date. Albert partnered in mercantile businesses from the late 1820s to 1840 when he was listed in the census as owning a tanning factory.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Wooden "Apocalypse Farms" sign made from a diagonal 'slice' of a tree. Bark is still attached all the way around the long, narrow piece. There are two metal hangers along the top edge. There doesn't appear to be any finish on the piece. The letters are routed out and painted white.
Use
at the farm in Walden, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.18
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Iron
Entry/Object ID
2012.18
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Plastic (mended) Vermont Transit door sign. White plastic with green laminate top. Lettering cut out to appear white. The piece has been taped to a surface so there is a 2" wide strip of tape residue on the back that goes almost the entire length of the piece.
Use
by Vermont Transit Lines
Acquisition
Accession
2008.53
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Transit Company, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2008.53.3
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Black road sign with white lettering, directing one to, "Cherry Tree Hill Bed and Breakfast". On the right side, an arrow points northeast with the letter 3 under it, indicating the distance in miles to the bed and breakfast. The sign is single-sided with the other side being black.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.21
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2023.21.20
Context
The B&B is located in St. Johnsbury, under the new name, "Cherry House Bed and Breakfast".
Web Links and URLs
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Wooden "Vermont Transit (in evenly thick yet simplistic lettering)/ Bus Depot"(in stylized thick stroke lettering) "V.T.C." (in painted looking letters, melting into the shape of the triangle with drip-looking curls and accentuated points) sign, top of center triangle is missing. Dark green with aqua blue/green/cream colored multi-band border around edge. Lettering painted in cream color. Screw eyes screwed into top edge for hanging.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.29
Made/Created
Date made
1945-1955
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.29.1
Context
Vermont Transit Company, later Vermont Transit Lines, was founded in 1929 by William Appleyard and served the route between Burlington and Barre, Vermont. It ultimately expanded to serve most of the state of Vermont with service to Boston, Montreal, and Portland, Maine. The line was acquired by Greyhound Lines in 1975, but retained its name and livery until 2008.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Wooden sign that reads: "SELECTIVE / SERVICE / LOCAL BOARD" Black lettering on white background with white border or edge.
Acquisition
Accession
1992.79
Relationships
Related Events
Vietnam War
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1992.79.2
Context
This sign hung at the offices of the Montpelier Selective Service Board during the Vietnam War. The Selective Service System is the government agency responsible for implementing the military draft.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Taft Lodge welcome sign: Blue and purple lettering. In the background is a pine tree in a circle. Written on the back of this wooden sign: This sign from Taft Lodge painted c. 1940 by Elton Ray Beal (1897-1971) of 77 Pomeroy St. of Burlington, VT. He was emloyed by the Engineering Dept. of the University of Vermont and was an active member of the GMC"
Acquisition
Accession
1989.1
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Long Trail
* Untyped Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Beal, Elton Ray (1897-1971)
Artist
Date made
circa 1940
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1989.1.1
Context
Taft lodge is the oldest and largest shelter for hikers along the Long Trail in Vermont.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Painted particle board sign for the Austine School. The sign is painted blue over yellow and reads "Welcome to Austine" in black stylized print across the top with the school's tri-mountain insignia in white behind the center. Below the black text is the same phrase in sign language, with each hand painted bright white with lighter black lines for finger and hand position and definition, with arrows pointing in various directions to signify how one's hands should move when signing the letters. There are ten holes drilled around the sides to hang the sign up--four each on the top and bottom edges and one each at the center of each lateral side. The sign is inscribed, "Mural Created By Jaclyn. FP, Steven. C, and Wayne. T Spring 2003"
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Made/Created
Date made
2003
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.12
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Sign
Interpretative Labels
Label
Green Up Day is an annual event when citizens of Vermont volunteer to pick up litter and trash in their communities. It was conceived of by Governor Dean Davis and started in 1970. This metal hand-painted sign was one of the earliest produced by the Vermont Department of Transportation to promote the day.
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
White metal sign printed in green with a simplified silhouette of a tulip and the words "green up". Beneath the words, the ground color is green with white line art of the bottom half of a clover (stem and two leaves).
Acquisition
Accession
1989.55
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Made/Created
Date made
1970
Manufacturer
Vermont Department of Transportation
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1989.55.1
Context
Produced to promote Green Up Day
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Covid-19 informational road sign
Acquisition
Accession
2021.25
Relationships
Related Events
Covid-19 Pandemic
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2020
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2021.25.1
Context
Produced by the State of Vermont during the Covid-19 pandemic. These were placed at all highway exits.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Description
Wooden sign with a scrolled top. The sign is painted with the inscription, "AT A TOWN MEETING HELD AT THIS SITE SEPT. 3-1793 OCCURRED A FIGHT BETWEEN JONATHAN SHERMAN OF BARRE, MASS. AND CAPT. THOMPSON OF HOLDEN, MASS. FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF NAMING THE TOWN. SHERMAN WON AND NAMED THE TOWN BARRE". There are tabs extending to the side at the top and bottom corners of both sides, each with a hole drilled through the center. There is a large round hole near the center of the side over the "F" of the word "OF".
Acquisition
Accession
2021.41
Entry/Object ID
2021.41.1
Context
The legend conveyed on this old historical marker made for a good story and was often repeated in history books. The actual history is a bit more tame. The area that we now know as Barre City and Barre Town was originally incorporated as Wildersburgh in 1780. In 1793 the citizens of the town voted to create a new house of worship. To raise the needed funds they offered the rights to rename the town to the person committing the most funds to the meeting house construction. Ezekiel Dodge Wheeler offered £62 and named the town Barre after Barre, Massachusetts.
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
A white yard sign (a) advertising a Frost Heaves game. Purple lettering reads, "It's Frost Heaves Game Day!" with a picture of their mascot, Bump -- a moose dressed in a Frost Heaves jersey -- pointing to the message. The sign (a) is attacked to a black plastic post (b) that is designed so one can use their foot to press the post into the ground. The sign (a) is double-sided with the same message printed on both sides.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.21
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2023.21.19a-b
Context
The Frost Heaves were a basketball team founded by Vermont resident and Sport Illustrated writer, Alexander Wolff. The team was founded in 2005 and disbanded in 2011 due to lack of funding.
Web Links and URLs
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Yellow metal vertical rectangular sign with "WARNING" printed in black letters at top. Printed below: "UNDERGROUND/ ELECTRIC/ CABLES" In center is a caricature ("Reddy Kilowatt") holding the letters "CV" Below that is "CALL/ C.V.P.S/ BEFORE/ DIGGING" At the bottom is a black and silver label with an phone number (1-800-622-4141). At top and bottom are holes for attaching sign. There are 9 identical signs and each one has a packet of hardware for installing. On four of the signs, the telephone number is in the center. The back of the sign is white.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.51
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.51.13a-i
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Yellow metal vertical rectangular sign with "CVPS" printed in black vertically down center. Printed above: "RIGHT/ OF WAY/ LIMIT" and below: "CENTRAL VERMONT/ PUBLIC SERVICE/ CORPORATION" At top is one hole and at bottom two holes for attaching sign. There are 4 identical signs and each one has a packet of hardware for installing. The back of the sign is white.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.51
Made/Created
Date made
2014
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.51.14a-d
Sign
Name/Title
Sign
Lexicon
Description
Granite sign, "Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union". Two iron eye bolts cemented into the top.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.18
Made/Created
Date made
1980-2016
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Granite
Entry/Object ID
2016.18
Context
This granite sign represented the former Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union, a school administrative district that dissolved on June 30, 2016. The district combined with the Orange-Windsor Supervisory Union to become the White River Valley Supervisory Union.
Sign, Campaign
Name/Title
Sign, Campaign
Description
Double sided green sign (a) with white lettering that reads, "VERMONT KEEP IT CIVIL". The word, "VERMONT" is underlined. The sign is held up by metal posts (b).
Acquisition
Accession
2000.35
Made/Created
Date made
1999-2000
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2000.35.3
Context
The sign is in favor of the introduction of civil unions.
Sign, Instructional
Interpretative Labels
Label
The Community Fallout Shelter Program was started in 1961 as a way to protect people from the after-effects of a nuclear bomb explosion. These shelters were housed in existing municipal buildings that had sufficient mass to lessen the effects of radiation fallout. Many communities in Vermont had basements in schools, town halls, and post offices designated as Fallout Shelters, Buildings designated as shelters were supposed to house people people for at least two weeks after the initial blasts. Each shelter was given provisions and supplies provided by the federal government. This sign was originally on the Woodstock Post Office. In 1962 the federal government contracted for the manufacturing of 400,000 exterior and one million interior Fallout Shelter signs.
Name/Title
Sign, Instructional
Lexicon
Description
Fallout Shelter sign that was salvaged by donor after removal from Post Office in Woodstock where it had been displayed outside for years. Reflective yellow and black.
In tiny printing near bottom of sign is: "DOD FS No 2 (Not to be reproduced or used without Department of Defense Permission)
Traces of mint green paint around edges.
Flash reflected on sign and changed the coloring.
In tiny printing near bottom of sign is: "DOD FS No 2 (Not to be reproduced or used without Department of Defense Permission)
Traces of mint green paint around edges.
Flash reflected on sign and changed the coloring.
Use
in Woodstock, VT
Acquisition
Accession
1992.55
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Woodstock
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1992.55.1
Sketch for First Normal School in America
Name/Title
Sketch for First Normal School in America
Lexicon
Description
Building. 8 windows on left side, chimney in left end of roof, door and 6 windows right end. Bushes, hills, clouds in background. Simply drawn.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink, Pencil
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-213
Type of Drawing
Ski Bib
Name/Title
Ski Bib
Lexicon
Description
White, double-sided cross country ski racing bib. The shoulders are striped with various shades of blue. Across the chest, blue text reads, "2022, NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SKIING CHAMPIONSHIPS/ PARK CITY AND MIDWAY, UT". To the left of the text is a white clip art image of a skier framed by a blue "ribbon" border. Above the text is a blue and white NCAA logo. Below the text is a black and white printed drawing of a mountain range. A black number "1" takes up most of the lower area of the bib. The bottom text reads, "HOSTED BY" in black, followed by, "UNIVERSITY OF UTAH" in red text. Finally, black text reads, "SOLDIER HOLLOW". The writing is the same on both the front and back. The bib was produced by World Cup Supply.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.29
Relationships
Related Events
2022 Nordic Skiing National Championships
Event
Related Person or Organization
Ben Ogden
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2022
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.29.2
Context
Used by Vermont resident, Ben Ogden.
Ski Bib
Name/Title
Ski Bib
Lexicon
Description
White canvas double-sided ski bib. The top of the bib shows white Olympic rings outlined by a purple box. The number, "26" takes up the center area in black. The bottom reads, "SAPPORO '72" in white text and is also outlined by a purple box. The text reads the same on both sides and the cloth panels are held together with cloth ties.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.30
Made/Created
Date made
1972
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.30.1
Context
The bib was used by Trina Hosmer in the 1972 Olympics that were held in Sapporo, Japan.
Ski Bib
Name/Title
Ski Bib
Description
Blue and white ski bib. The top half is dark blue and graduates to white. Just below the scoop neckline are the five Olympic rings in white on the darkest part of the blue background. As the bib graduates to white there is blue printing that reads, "BEIJING 2022 / 9 19 1". On the right hand strap is a white image of a cross country skier. The front and back are identical in design, but the back has an interior rectangular pouch behind the Olympic rings with a small Velcro closure at the top.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.29
Relationships
Related Events
2022 Winter Olympics
Event
Related Person or Organization
Ben Ogden
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2022
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.29.1
Context
Worn by Ben Ogden in the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Ben is a Vermont resident.
Ski Boots
Name/Title
Ski Boots
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Boots
Textile Details
Leather
Steel
Description
Pair of black leather ski boots. The black boots extend just above the ankles and have tan leather interiors. There are brown leather laces that extend horizontally across the shoe through stainless steel eyelets, and a leather strap and buckle across the top of the foot. The boots have thick soles with grooves around the heel to hold the back of the ski bindings in place. The toes of the soles are squared with pinned stainless steel clips to secure into the bear trap bindings of the skis. The boots are marked, "H. HOLBROOK - U.S.A." in black marker inside the top edge.
These boots were worn by internationally renowned ski jumper Herbert Holbrook.
These boots were worn by internationally renowned ski jumper Herbert Holbrook.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.47a-b
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Worn and used by Herbert P. Holbrook in the act of ski jumping alongside his skis (seeT2024.17.25a-b) for the act of ski jumping (see photo in archives). Holbrook was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Worn and used by Herbert P. Holbrook in the act of ski jumping alongside his skis (seeT2024.17.25a-b) for the act of ski jumping (see photo in archives). Holbrook was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Skimmer
Name/Title
Skimmer
Lexicon
Description
Brass skimmer used for skimming milk or maple sap in the evaporator.
Acquisition
Accession
1970.8
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Houghton, Josephine Durkee (1839-1927)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Pittsfield
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1860-1880
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Brass
Entry/Object ID
1970.8.25
Context
Owned by Josephine Durkee Houghton in Pittsfield, Vermont
Skimmer
Name/Title
Skimmer
Lexicon
Description
Skimmer with wooden handle. Handle is very loose. Former number is FS-NE-P-O1-A.-
Acquisition
Accession
1982.32
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Ira
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1982.32.10
Context
Used on the Lincoln farm in Ira, Vermont.
Skis
Name/Title
Skis
Description
Pair of wooden skis with bear-trap style bindings. The bindings are stamped "DOVRE KABEL" on the hinge. The skis have taped tips and additional blocks added to the backs, with a wooden shoe platform screwed in to help secure leather boots in place. The tape around the tip of each ski is marked "L" or "R" for left or right foot. There are deep grooves carved into the underside of each ski.
These skis were used by Austine School alumnus and internationally renowned Class A ski jumper Herbert Holbrook.
These skis were used by Austine School alumnus and internationally renowned Class A ski jumper Herbert Holbrook.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.25a-b
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Used specifically for ski jumping alongside his boots (see 2024.17.47a-b) by Herbert P. Holbrook, a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. (see photo in archives) He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Used specifically for ski jumping alongside his boots (see 2024.17.47a-b) by Herbert P. Holbrook, a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. (see photo in archives) He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Slate
Name/Title
Slate
Lexicon
Description
Eight-sided (sides vary in length) heavily marbleized slate block, with a hole cut through in the center. Probably made for a lamp base. The bottom is not marbleized. Predominant colors are: red, gray/green, beige on a dark background. No manufacturer mark.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.53
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Slate
Entry/Object ID
2013.53.9
Slate
Name/Title
Slate
Lexicon
Description
Eight-sided (sides are various lengths) marbleized slate with a hole cut through the center. Possibly made for a lamp base. Colors are: black background with green and orange veins. The bottom is not marbleized. No manufacturer mark.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.53
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Slate
Entry/Object ID
2013.53.18
Slide Frame
Name/Title
Slide Frame
Description
The slide holder comes out/off of the projector. Lens cap is lined with black velvet, front cover of lens cap is damaged.
black
black
Acquisition
Accession
1996.47
Made/Created
Date made
1895
Manufacturer
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1996.47.1b
Context
Used by the State of Vermont Department of Education.
Slide Rule
Name/Title
Slide Rule
Lexicon
Description
Circular slide rule. The dial (a) is two-levels of laminated paper with a plain white border, a blue circular fill and black curved lines with dashes and numbers covering the entire space. The black text on the dial reads, “NUCLEAR BOMB EFFECTS COMPUTER.” The back of the dial has black and red text and two series of semi-circular lines on opposite sides. The envelope (b) is a square manilla envelope with an upside down u-shape indentation at the opening. The envelope reads “NUCLEAR BOMB EFFECTS COMPUTER / (Revised Edition, 1962) / based on data from / “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” / developed by / The Lovelace Foundation / under contract to / The Division of Biology and Medicine / of the / U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.” The center of the envelope’s back flap is covered with a circular white residue. The instructions (c) are two-sided with black print on white paper.
Use
Peterson Jr., Dr. Oscar S. (1912-1988)
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1962
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Paper, Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.6a-c
Slide Rule
Name/Title
Slide Rule
Lexicon
Description
Plastic and paperboard slide rule. The slide rule is rectangular with a plastic sleeve containing a paperboard that has a white background, black lettering, and turquoise lined elements. Below the opening, a turquoise oval with a solid line black border and the words “PICKER / X-RAY.” The paperboard also has turquoise lined chart with a two rows, a section with a rectangular turquoise border labeled “EXPLANATORY NOTES” and rows of acronyms and corresponding meanings, and a final section reading “DARKROOM POINTERS” and many lines of black printed text. The bottom of the paper is the word “Picker” in large, turquoise cursive print and “pocket / slide-guide for radiography” in smaller, bolded black print.
Use
Peterson Jr., Dr. Oscar S. (1912-1988)
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Paperboard
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.7
Smoking Pipe
Name/Title
Smoking Pipe
Lexicon
Description
White clay and amber smoking pipe. The pipe bowl is a clay bust of a man with naturalistic features, such as a mustache and hair made with pronounced lines, and has a suit collar around his neck. The bust tapers into a square section that attaches to a metal piece with a triangle containing three dots etched to the side and marked with “W / D / C.” The amber stem is transparent and a white filter is visible.
Acquisition
Accession
1954.1
Relationships
Related Events
Dewey Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1899
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Amber, Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1954.1.5
Context
Produced as a souvenir of Dewey Day in Montpelier, Vermont
Snow Skis
Name/Title
Snow Skis
Lexicon
Description
Shortee skis.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.5
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Carnahan, John H.
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
1965
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1996.5.1a-b
Context
Used by John H. Carnahan of Brattleboro, Vermont.
Snow Skis
Name/Title
Snow Skis
Description
Modern skis. Top is blue with green lettering. Hexcel. USA. Strapped together.
Entry/Object ID
T2022.16.15a-b
Snow Snake
Name/Title
Snow Snake
Lexicon
Description
Snow Snake head - remnant
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.13
Snowshoe
Name/Title
Snowshoe
Lexicon
Description
Pair of wooden snowshoes with up-turned toe and rawhide webbing. The framed are formed of a single piece of wood bent into shape and secured with two bars across the middle. The webbing is woven in an open pattern, and the frames are highly varnished. One shoe is marked with the word "Right" in black across from the front crossbar. There are no bindings.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dean, Theron Skidmore (1877-1946)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Long Trail
* Untyped Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1918
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Rawhide
Entry/Object ID
2014.2a-b
Context
Used by Theron Skidmore Dean during work on the Long Trail.
Snowshoe
Name/Title
Snowshoe
Lexicon
Description
Wood frame snowshoes laced with rawhide webbing. Leather strap binding. Tufts of red yarn around perimeter denote women's snow shoes. Wool yarn is a substitute for moosehair.
(See 72.48.4 for miniature snow shoes with red yarn tufts.)
(See 72.48.4 for miniature snow shoes with red yarn tufts.)
Acquisition
Accession
2015.40
Ethnography
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2015.40.1a-b
Context
Made by a member of the Obomsawin family
Snowshoe
Name/Title
Snowshoe
Lexicon
Description
Tubbs snowshoes, style "Cross Country, 10 x 46". See page 16 of the catalog. Rawhide lacing, neoprene bindings (page 18 of catalog). The bindings are made up of straps that enclose the bood with a wide flap that comes up over the toe of the boot. Bent wooden frame pinned at end.
light brown
light brown
Acquisition
Accession
1974.38
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1970
Manufacturer
Vermont Tubbs, Inc.
Materials
Material
Neoprene
Entry/Object ID
1974.38a-b
Snowshoes
Name/Title
Snowshoes
Lexicon
Description
Snowshoes with an aluminum frame. The decking, made of Quadex, is a thin plastic material that is securely attached to the frame using plastic webbing. Adjustable nylon straps and a plastic frame are employed at the instep to accommodate different foot sizes and shapes. At the bottom of the instep, there is a metal crampon.
Acquisition
Accession
1996.37
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1995
Manufacturer
Vermont Tubbs, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (each)
Materials
Material
Polyurethane, Aluminum, Nylon
Entry/Object ID
1996.37a-b
Context
Made by Vermont Tubbs, Inc. of Stowe, Vermont.
Snuffbox
Name/Title
Snuffbox
Lexicon
Description
Oval, straight walled brass snuffbox with a hinged top. The hinge is not at the edge but 3/8"th of an inch in from the edge. On the back side of the hinge is "VT" engraved and on the other side of the hinge, on the large part of the lid is the "Eye of Providence" or "all-seeing" eye with rays going downward. Lid has a 3/16" wide lip.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.32
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Brass
Entry/Object ID
2012.32.1
Soap
Name/Title
Soap
Lexicon
Description
Souvenir bar of soap molded as a bust of a man with short hair and a large mustache (Admiral George Dewey). It is accompanied by a retail box printed on the lid with a blue flag and the words, ""OUR HERO" TOILET SOAP / MANHATTAN SOAP CO."
Acquisition
Accession
1974.16
Relationships
Related Events
Dewey Day, Spanish-American War
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1899
Manufacturer
Manhattan Soap Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall (soap)
Materials
Material
Soap, Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
1974.16
Context
Given as a gift to Lena Scribner by Fred Hall of South Cabot, Vermont, as a souvenir of their celebration of Dewey Day in Montpelier, Vermont, in 1899.
Soda Bottle
Name/Title
Soda Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Green glass soda bottle. The bottle has a white label printed in blue with an image of a bear and the inscription, "Drink Barr's Soda", along with production information. The word "Barr's" is written in fancy script on the neck of the bottle.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.40
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Barr's Better Beverages
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Hardwick Bottling Works
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2008.40.1
Context
Made by Hardwick Bottling Works in Hardwick, Vermont
Soda Bottle
Name/Title
Soda Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Mold-blown colorless glass soda bottle with metal spout and cap. The tall, cylindrical bottle has a green pyroglaze mark on the front that says "Venetian" in script within a scroll image and M. & F.C. DORN BURLINGTON, VT. at the base. The metal cap holds a glass straw inside the bottle.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
DORN'S Venetian Beverages
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1940
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Height includes bottle and cap together.
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2023.12.2
Context
Venetian/Dorn & Sons soda dispenser bottles
Web Links and URLs
Soda Bottle
Name/Title
Soda Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Mold-blown colorless glass soda bottle with metal spout and cap. The vertical cylindrical bottle has an etched oval mark impressed on the front identifying M. Dorn & Son of Burlington, Vermont, as the bottling firm. The same name is stamped into the metal cap.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
DORN'S Venetian Beverages
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Height includes bottle and cap together.
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2023.12.1
Context
Venetian/Dorn & Sons soda dispenser bottles
Web Links and URLs
Soda Bottle
Name/Title
Soda Bottle
Lexicon
Description
A collection of 144 bottles and medicine bottles. Not individually cataloged yet but listed and described on a master list in worksheet file.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.78
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
DORN'S Venetian Beverages
Entry/Object ID
2004.78.123
Solar Eclipse Burlington Paper Glasses
Name/Title
Solar Eclipse Burlington Paper Glasses
Description
Paper/cardboard mix glasses with glossy black-ish plastic windows. Black with chromatic rainbow waves and skyline delineations of Burlington, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.20
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
material of glasses hard to pinpoint
Material
Cardboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2024.20.1
Context
Donated by Katie Grant
Solar Eclipse Montpelier Paper Glasses
Name/Title
Solar Eclipse Montpelier Paper Glasses
Description
White to dark blue paper glasses with square black-ish plastic windows with images of stars invoking the night sky. The interior is white with a depiction of the sun eclipsing on the nose bridge.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.21
Dimensions
Materials
Material Notes
Unclear exact material of lenses
Material
Cardboard, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2024.21.1
Context
Donated by Kate Philips
Souvenir Paperweight
Name/Title
Souvenir Paperweight
Lexicon
Description
Pentagonal dodecahedron souvenir paperweight (a) with box (b). The white plastic paperweight's twelve sides each feature a different Vermont landmark with one side showing the outline of the state with the words "VERMONT THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE" in gold lettering. Landmarks are in metallic green, blue, black, red, and gold outlining. They feature the Lake Champlain ferries, making maple syrup, a covered bridge, the Hermit Thrush (Vermont's state bird) and red clover (Vermont's state flower), Bennington Battle Monument, Quechee Gulf Gorge, the State Capitol building, Granite Quarry at Barre, winter sports, Battery Park in Burlington, and a mountain chairlift. The blue cardboard box has white-edged pentagonal wording and cut-outs explaining the shape of the paperweight and identify it as "The Keepsake Souvenir Paperweight WITH YOUR FAVORITE VIEWS," and highlights that it will be, "A real conversation piece guaranteed to arouse curiosity and comment."
Acquisition
Accession
2024.12
Made/Created
Date made
1970-1980
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.12.5a-b
Spiral Auger
Name/Title
Spiral Auger
Lexicon
Description
Spiral auger. The auger is made of a turned wooden t-handle with rounded ends and three etched lines in the middle that line up with the tang of the auger's metal piece. The metal piece is a rounded shaft with spiral flighting starting from the middle and a feed screw at the tip. The metal is rusted and has no additional coloring on the handle or on the metal auger piece.
Acquisition
Accession
1967.95
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.95.1
Splint Gauge
Name/Title
Splint Gauge
Lexicon
Description
Small wooden board with sharp metal teeth inserted at regular lengths atop on end. Teeth point outward from long side of board. End-grain where teeth are located is capped with a small strip of wood. Small hole drilled in opposite end of board from teeth.
Use
Gauge used to measure and mark ash splints for basket making
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.46
Splint Gauge
Name/Title
Splint Gauge
Lexicon
Description
Shaped wooden form, square at end and tapering to a round handle at the other. Square end has twelve, small metal teeth embedded in the face of the form. The sides of the square end have low-relied floral carvings, probably depicting roses. The flat portion of the square end, opposite the teeth, has a low-relief (or chip) carving of a rose on stem with leaves. The stem descends part-way down the handle. Chip-carved, geometric forms are found on either side of the shoulder.
Use
Gauge used for measuring and marking ash splints for basket making
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.47
Splint Splitting Tool
Name/Title
Splint Splitting Tool
Description
Moveable, demilune (or half-moon) blade affixed to split metal post with set-screw. Assembly is inserted into a turned, wooden handle with metal collar at the shoulder.
Use
Used by basketmaker to split ash splints
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.45
Spoon
Name/Title
Spoon
Lexicon
Description
Hand carved wooden stirring spoon made by Michael J. Badamo, 81 East State Street/ Montpelier, VT. Blue tag is tied with navy blue yarn to the handle of the spoon. On the front is: "Hand Crafted Kitchen Utensils / by/ The Old Woodchuck" [image of woodchuck] and inside: "This individually sculpted kitchen tool is fashioned from native Vermont hardwood. It has been treated with natural vegetableoils. For a lifetime of service, occasionally refresh the finish with olive or other salad oil. This Utensil is carved from Maple (handwritten in). And on back: Hand made in Vermont [vermont flag image] Michael J. Badamo 81 East State Street, Montpelier, Vermont"
See also 1992.63.1 - "Elect Badamo State Senate"
See also 1992.63.1 - "Elect Badamo State Senate"
Acquisition
Accession
2000.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Badamo, Michael
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
2000.33
Spoon
Name/Title
Spoon
Description
Slotted advertising metal spoon. The handle is a single curved metal piece in a loop with a hollow center and a flattened middle section. On these flattened sections, the words “STEWART RANGES / H.E. SHAW, STOWE, VT.” are punched into the metal on either side of the handle. The metal loop is touching together at the neck and is nailed into the bowl of the spoon. The bowl has five slots pierced into the metal.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.69
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
H. E. Shaw
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Stowe
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1989.69.1
Spoon
Name/Title
Spoon
Lexicon
Description
Carved wooden spoon with double scrolls at head of handle.
Use
Possible indian use in St. Albans, Vermont
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.39
Context
This is an equivocal piece; it is hand carved with a very distinct pair of double scrolls carved into the end of the handle. The curvature of the spoon is unlike most European derived designs. It will require much more research including a determination of the wood to begin to figure this object out.
Spoon
Name/Title
Spoon
Lexicon
Description
Carved wooden spoon with scrolled handle. Stem and handle decorated with incised, floral decoration. Left edge of bowl shows significant wear.
Use
Maple sugar granulating spoon
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.62
Context
This is an important piece from a “picker” in South-Central New Hampshire. It has a distinctive “semi-chip carved” foliar or vining design on the handle with more traditional chip carving on the sides of the fiddlehead handle. This distinctive regional Abenaki tool was used with a small bowl for turning hardening maple sugar into granules. The evidence for this use are the distinctive wood-compression grooves on the back of the neck, just above the spoon bowl. This was where the rim of the bowl was used as a fulcrum for the spoon to “jack” the hardening sugar away from the bottom of the bowl. The left side of bowl of the spoon was also heavily worn from stirring the hardening syrup. This piece is an excellent example of “use-wear” as evidence of the purpose of an artifact.
Spoon
Name/Title
Spoon
Lexicon
Description
Maple burl spoon with curving handle carved in the form of a bird's head
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1750
Materials
Material Notes
Burl
Material
Maple
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.26
Context
The maple burl spoon has an effigy of a waterbird on the handle and is a wonderful example of the ceremonial spoon of the mid-18th century that continued to be used in the end of the century.
Spruce Gum Box
Name/Title
Spruce Gum Box
Lexicon
Description
Wooden box carved in the form of a book. Inlay cross, stars, and pinwheels on the cover with chip-carved decoration surrounding. Three pieces of spruce gum [resin] contained in the box.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.52
Context
This box, although typical of French culture, has typical Northeastern Native style triangular toothed chip carving. It is carved to look like a small missal or bible with a marquetry cross on one side. There are still oxidized pieces of spruce gum remaining inside.
Steam Engine
Interpretative Labels
Label
Steam Engine, ca. 1793
Samuel Morey
Fairlee, Vermont
Tin, brass
Gift of Amelia S. Morey Kibbey, 1900.2
Samuel Morey was an inventor from Fairlee, Vermont and Orford, New Hampshire. He first began experimenting with steam power in the 1780s, and his first patent, in 1793, was for a steam-powered spit (for cooking food). In the early 1790s, he began to develop a steam engine that he ultimately used to power a small boat that he drove up and down the Connecticut River. Legend has it that he snuck out to test his craft early on a Sunday morning, while the rest of the town was at church, so that he would be spared embarrassment in case of failure.
Morey continued to develop his ideas for steam-powered boats, but he was slow to patent them, and in the early 19th century Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston joined together to create the first steamship line in America. They have typically received credit for creating workable steam engines, though Morey disputed their claims and argued that they stole his ideas.
Morey continued to invent throughout his life, and in the 1820s he invented and attempted to sell an early internal combustion engine. He failed to attract buyers, but beginning in the 1890s, many automobile inventors credited his work as an inspiration.
This model of Morey’s original steam engine comes from the Morey family, and is one of the longest-tenured objects in our collections.
Name/Title
Steam Engine
Lexicon
Description
Steam engine patent model. A tin cylinder with soldered edges, closed off on all sides, with two concave metal handles creates the majority of the model. The drum has two openings: the steam outlet and a brass feed opening. The steam outlet ends in a t-shape that balances a rotating piston and rods.
Acquisition
Accession
1900.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Morey, Samuel (1762-1843)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Bradford
Town
Orange County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Morey, Samuel (1762-1843)
Artist
Date made
circa 1793
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Tin, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1900.2
Context
Invented by Samuel Morey of Fairlee, who used it to power a small boat, this was one of the earliest working piston steam engines in America.
Web Links and URLs
Stein
Name/Title
Stein
Lexicon
Description
Large stein with metal cover. The body of the stein is molded and painted with a bust portrait of Admiral George Dewey in a military coat. The portrait is within a circle and ringed with the inscription, "THE HERO OF MANILA ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY, U.S.N." Dewey is painted in shades of grey. The rest of the stein is molded with abstract florals, painted blue, pink, and red. The cover is heavily molded with floral decorations.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic, Pewter
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.22
Stereoscope
Name/Title
Stereoscope
Lexicon
Description
Stereoscope with a folding handle on the bottom. The stereoscope consists of a metal oval section with glass lenses, a central blinder, and an adjustable base for holding stereo view cards. The bottom of the viewer reads, "THE PERFECSCOPE TRADE MARK U.S.A. PATENT OCT. 15, 1895". The top of the viewer is marked, "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE INTERNATIONALE. 1900 H.C. White Co." It is accompanied by a stereograph labeled, "California Big Trees".
Acquisition
Accession
1958.29
Relationships
Related Events
Exposition Universelle 1900
Event
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Manufacturer
H. C. White Company
Materials
Material
Paper
Entry/Object ID
1958.29.2a-b
Context
Made by H. C. White Company in Bennington, Vermont
Sticker
Name/Title
Sticker
Lexicon
Description
4 strips of stickers, printed in red, white & blue: "Keep Cool-idge" Printed for 1972 Coolidge Centennial Celebration & official opening of Coolidge Visitor Center at Coolidge birthplace, Plymouth, Vt.
Acquisition
Accession
1972.56
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1972
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1972.56.2
Context
From https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/calvin_coolidge_homestead.html:
"At 2:47am on August 3, 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States when he took the oath of office in the sitting room of this modest frame and clapboard farmhouse. President Harding had died only a few hours earlier. Coolidge’s father, a notary public, administered the oath by the light of a kerosene lamp; he refused to install such modern conveniences as electricity. Located in the tiny community of Plymouth Notch in the beautiful hill country of Vermont, the house where he took the oath of office was also Calvin Coolidge’s boyhood home."
"At 2:47am on August 3, 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States when he took the oath of office in the sitting room of this modest frame and clapboard farmhouse. President Harding had died only a few hours earlier. Coolidge’s father, a notary public, administered the oath by the light of a kerosene lamp; he refused to install such modern conveniences as electricity. Located in the tiny community of Plymouth Notch in the beautiful hill country of Vermont, the house where he took the oath of office was also Calvin Coolidge’s boyhood home."
Still
Name/Title
Still
Lexicon
Description
Part of a copper grappa still.
Acquisition
Accession
2011.37
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
2011.37.1
Still Bank
Interpretative Labels
Label
Still Bank, 1975-1985
Vermont Castings (1975-present)
Randolph, Vermont
Cast iron
In memory of Joseph & Laura Algar and Raymond H. Adams, 2008.38.6
Duncan Syme was one of many innovators and tinkerers drawn to Vermont during the 1970s. A Yale-trained architect, he worked out of his wood shop in Warren, VT with the goal of building a better wood-burning stove. His quest fused back-to-the-land values of self-reliance with a new awareness of renewable and more efficient sources of energy. Heating with wood was a new concept to many who came to Vermont from more temperate climates, and the learning curve was steep.
Syme began production on his prototype and called it the “Defiant.” The company that grew around that original model was named Vermont Castings, headquartered in Randolph. Its growth was extraordinary – in five years, it was listed as the fastest growing stove company in America by Inc. The Defiant wasn’t just more efficient and better-constructed: it was elegant, combining art and practicality in a way that typified the spirit of invention at communes across Vermont.
Name/Title
Still Bank
Lexicon
Description
Still bank in the form of a Vermont Castings, Inc., Defiant wood stove. Has four legs and has the outline of doors on the front and on the side panels. Imprinted at the top on each side panel: "DEFIANT" and on the back along the bottom: "VERMONT CASTINGS INC". All sides, the top, and the bottom are cast separately and are puzzled together and held in place by a long bolt inserted into the bottom and threaded into the top interior. The coin slit is inside the short chimney.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.38
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Adams, Alice Elizabeth Alger (1921-2007)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1975-1985
Manufacturer
Vermont Castings, Inc.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Iron
Entry/Object ID
2008.38.6
Context
Produced by Vermont Castings, Inc. in Randolph, VT.
Stirrer
Name/Title
Stirrer
Lexicon
Description
Wooden stirring stick
Use
Used for stirring hominy, shows lye damage
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1850
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.42
Stirrer
Name/Title
Stirrer
Lexicon
Description
Blue plastic beverage stirrer. Gold letters: "Morrisville Beverage Store - Phone 888-3120".
Acquisition
Accession
1978.4
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Morrisville Beverage Store
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Morrisville
Village
Morristown
Town
Lamoille County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1978.4.4
Stopper
Name/Title
Stopper
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1983.10
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mayo, David (1847-1934)
Person or Organization
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1983.10.32
Storage Silos in Monkton
Name/Title
Storage Silos in Monkton
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas painting depicting several metal-clad tubes (silos) painted in shades of blue with red piping. A black streetlight illuminates the bottom-left corner. The artist's signature appears below the streetlight.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.22
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject
Silos
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mould, Ruth Greene (1894-1979)
Artist
Date made
1961
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1998.22.26
Context
Vermont portrait artist Ruth G. Mould was born in Morrisville, Vermont on May 22, 1894. She was a graduate of local schools, Peoples Academy and Johnson Normal School, which prepared her for an early career as a teacher in the Cadys Falls district school house, teaching Grades 1 - 8. The visual arts, however, commanded her interest as a young woman, and an uncle sponsored her further studies at the Institute of Art in St. Paul, Minnesota, from which she graduated with honors. From there, she went on to study at the Art Students League in New York City, before she married Willis Mould in 1919, and returned to Vermont.
Throughout her married life and beyond, whether she was teaching art students at Johnson Normal School, tutoring private art students, and while she was raising her son, Channing, Ruth Mould's husband made sure she had her own private art studio wherever his work as a mining engineer took his family. They lived in Vermont in Morristown, Monkton, Johnson, Williamstown and Barre, and in New York State in Keysville.
Mould was one of two artists whose work represented the State of Vermont at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. However, she was best known for her portraits, including a posthumous portrait of Edna Beard, first female member of both the Vermont House and Senate, which hangs in the State House, and portraits of three Vermont Chief Justices in the Vermont Supreme Court Building.
A selection of Mould's work is permanently installed in the lobby at the Dibden Center for the Arts at Johnson State College, and other works are represented in the permanent collections of the Fleming Museum, The Vermont Historical Society, and the Bennington Museum. The Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville represents Mould's estate with works for sale.
In addition to some book illustration, Mould also wrote a book on Refinishing and Decorating Furniture (1953.) She was a member of the Northern Vermont Artist Association and an honorary lifetime member of the Art Students League in New York.
Ruth Mould died on February 13, 1979.
Throughout her married life and beyond, whether she was teaching art students at Johnson Normal School, tutoring private art students, and while she was raising her son, Channing, Ruth Mould's husband made sure she had her own private art studio wherever his work as a mining engineer took his family. They lived in Vermont in Morristown, Monkton, Johnson, Williamstown and Barre, and in New York State in Keysville.
Mould was one of two artists whose work represented the State of Vermont at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. However, she was best known for her portraits, including a posthumous portrait of Edna Beard, first female member of both the Vermont House and Senate, which hangs in the State House, and portraits of three Vermont Chief Justices in the Vermont Supreme Court Building.
A selection of Mould's work is permanently installed in the lobby at the Dibden Center for the Arts at Johnson State College, and other works are represented in the permanent collections of the Fleming Museum, The Vermont Historical Society, and the Bennington Museum. The Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville represents Mould's estate with works for sale.
In addition to some book illustration, Mould also wrote a book on Refinishing and Decorating Furniture (1953.) She was a member of the Northern Vermont Artist Association and an honorary lifetime member of the Art Students League in New York.
Ruth Mould died on February 13, 1979.
Web Links and URLs
Strolling Beside Otter Creek
Interpretative Labels
Label
Martha Wood was born in England but moved to Schenectady, New York as a young girl. She studied art at Cooper Union in New York City and in Dresden and Munich, Germany. She came to Vermont to teach in Poultney. She built a house in Pittsford, VT, married and started a family there. She maintained a studio there even after moving for a time to New Jersey. She eventually moved back ti Vermont and shared a studio with her daughter, artist Hilda Belcher.
Name/Title
Strolling Beside Otter Creek
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas showing a river running through a flat landscape with mountains along the horizon. There is a path to the right of the river on which two people and several animals are walking.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.23
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Belcher, Martha Jane Wood (1844-1930)
Artist
Date made
circa 1875
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1993.23.2
Context
Martha Wood was born in England but moved to Schenectady, New York as a young girl. She studied art at Cooper Union in New York City and in Dresden and Munich, Germany. She came to Vermont to teach in Poultney. She built a house in Pittsford, VT, married and started a family there. She maintained a studio there even after moving for a time to New Jersey. She eventually moved back to Vermont and shared a studio with her daughter, artist Hilda Belcher.
Study #1
Interpretative Labels
Label
Janet McKenzie lives in Island Pond and is known for her powerful paintings of women. In the exhibition catalog, Art of Action: Ideas + Action= Change, she wrote about her artwork, "My paintings, created for the Art of Action project, celebrate humanity and speak through our people- Vermonters... This project provided an opportunity to pull back the 'veil of invisibility' that seems to cloak many of our Vermont-born ethnic minorities. Within our cities- and even with our most remote communities- people of all races, many here for generations, continue to contribute to and help define Vermont's diverse cultural reality."
The Art in Action Project was created by Lyman Orton, Janet Izzi, and the Vermont Arts Council to raise awareness and inspire citizen action around issues and challenges that shape Vermont social, political, and economic landscape. Ten artists were commissioned t examine the issues Vermonters deemed critical to our future and create two-dimensional works of art that articulate those issues. The suites of artwork, totaling 105 pieces, were completed in August 2009. The work then embarked on a tour of 27 venues, beginning in September 2009 and culminating in July 2010.
Name/Title
Study #1
Lexicon
Description
Portrait of a young woman of color wearing a veil. She is wearing a dark V neck garment and one of her head veils have a large geometric design. Pink tones throughout the piece.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.34
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
McKenzie, Janet
Artist
Date made
2009
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2010.34.1
Stuffed Animal
Name/Title
Stuffed Animal
Lexicon
Description
Small stuffed advertising moose for the Vermont Frost Heaves. Light brown moose made with plush fabric, with red/white/blue beanie on top of head (sewn in, not a separate piece), white sleeveless shirt (removable) with "Frost Heaves / 1" logo on front and a light brown diamond on back with "Bump" in black letters. Feet are red/white/blue sneakers (sewn on, not separate) with string for laces. He has yellow antlers, a stitched mouth, black felt dots for his nostrils, and blue/black/white plastic eyes. Tag attached to right ear, "Curto Toy."
Acquisition
Accession
2016.52
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Frost Heaves
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Cornwall
Town
Addison County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2005-2011
Manufacturer
Curto Toy Manufacturing
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Polyester, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2016.52.3
Web Links and URLs
Stuffed Animal
Name/Title
Stuffed Animal
Lexicon
Description
Stuffed animal representing "Champ", the mascot for the Vermont Expos baseball team. Green velour body with blue-trimmed eyes, large blue and white shoes, and wearing a white and blue-striped shirt with Vermont Expos logo at left breast. On back of shirt, in red letters: "CHAMP/ 0" Label under tail gives maker and fabric content.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.50
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Expos
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
2000-2001
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Synthetic
Entry/Object ID
2001.50.2
Sugar
Name/Title
Sugar
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1967.118
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1967.118.1
Context
Found on the John Morrill Farm in Marshfield, Vermont
Sugar Bowl
Name/Title
Sugar Bowl
Lexicon
Description
White porcelain sugar bowl with two handles. The bowl sits on 6 small feet. It narrows in the upper portion before flaring at the rim. One side of the bowl is printed with a scenic illustration of a town seen from above. The town is in a valley with rolling mountains behind. The image is labeled, "READSBORO, VERMONT." The bottom of the bowl is marked, "MADE IN GERMANY FOR H. T. GOODELL, READSBORO, VERMONT."
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005), H. T. Goodell
Related Places
Place
Readsboro
Town
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.114
Context
Sold by H. T. Goodell in Readsboro, Vermont
Sugar Bowl
Name/Title
Sugar Bowl
Lexicon
Description
White, lidded sugar bowl with two handles and a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Lid: 3 in. diameter x 1-3/8 in. high. Bowl dimensions below.
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.8a-b
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Sunshine on the Farm
Name/Title
Sunshine on the Farm
Lexicon
Description
Landscape. Fence lower left corner, barn, left, doors open, tree next to barn, center. A Farmer sitting in wagon filled with hay, pulled by two horses. Lower right corner house in background at bottom of hill. Buggy right center.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Unknown
Relationships
Related Publications
James Franklin Gilman
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Gilman, James Franklin (1850-1929)
Artist
Date made
1888
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
VHS-A-257
Context
James Franklin Gilman was born in 1850 in Woburn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth Gilman. His father was a cordwainer and his mother a seamstress. Early census records indicate his mother was born in Vermont. Little is known of his early life or education.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s or early 1890s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church found Mary Baker Eddy. He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to a lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty.
By the late 1860s he evidently made his living as an itinerant artist, often depicting the farm landscape and/or portraits of those providing him with room and board. Works remain of farms and people in Chelmsford, Groton, and Billerica, MA.
In 1872 he arrived in Barre, Vermont, a tall man with red hair and a distinctive red beard. He spent over twenty years in the general vicinity of Barre, Montpelier, Plainfield, and Calais. Most of the time was spent boarding with various farm families, though he did open a studio and school in Montpelier for a time.
At some point in the late 1880s or early 1890s he joined the Church of Christian Scientists and became acquainted with church found Mary Baker Eddy. He ultimately sold all of his works and the contents of his studio, some say in reaction to a lost love, and moved back to Massachusetts. He famously illustrated a poem entitled "Christ and Christmas" by Eddy.
The last decade of his life was spent in Athol, MA were he lived on the edge of poverty.
Surgical Mask
Name/Title
Surgical Mask
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Mask
Textile Details
White
Color
Jersey
Fabric
Cotton
Material
Clothing Sex
Unisex
Description
White, jersey-knit cotton surgical-style mask. The word "VOTE" is screen printed onto the center front in dark blue. The O is light blue and completely filled in except for a silhouette of Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2021.3
Relationships
Related Events
Covid-19 Pandemic
Event
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2020
Entry/Object ID
2021.3.1
Context
Produced for the Vermont Democratic Party for the 2020 election.
Survival Kit
Name/Title
Survival Kit
Lexicon
Description
Ration kit, 1950s-1960s. Originally would have been at 133 State Street, Montpelier, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.29
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1950-1969
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2001.29
Context
Used in Montpelier, Vermont.
Survival Kit
Name/Title
Survival Kit
Lexicon
Description
Empty, water resistent plastic container with "DIRECTIONS" printed in white on the face including: "DIRECTIONS / CHOCOLATE RATIONS - Eat slowly as desired. / CHEWING GUM - Use as desired. / BOUILLON POWDER... / RAZOR BLADES... / LEADER KIT... / FISH HOOK KIT... /...COMPASS... / SHARPENING STONE... / NOTE; - When no longer needed, destroy or hide flask and all wrappers." Rectangular with a wire bale holding on top. Smokey colored plastic.
Acquisition
Accession
2004.35
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Peterson, Oscar S., Jr. (1912-1988), Federal Civil Defense Administration
Made/Created
Date made
1960-1970
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2004.35.9
Context
Dr. Oscar S. Peterson, Jr. was the radiological officer for the State Civil Defense Agency from the 1950s to early 1970s. This was part of his personal kit.
Sweat Scraper
Name/Title
Sweat Scraper
Lexicon
Description
Concave, extended wooden scoop with leather thongs, beads and feathers. Attached instruction book with note of maker, Louis Annance. Includes cardboard box with advertising as "Indian Towel."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Annance, Louis
Artist
Date made
circa 1990
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.93a-b
Sweater
Name/Title
Sweater
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Sweater
Textile Details
Red
Black
Color
Knit
Description
Red and black knit wool sweater. The crew neck sweater is red with a ribbed stitch pattern. The collar, cuffs, and waist have a short black border and there is a thicker black stripe across the chest and sleeves. The sweater has a patch sewn onto the right arm just below the black stripe that is blue with a ski jumper in a red snowsuit. Around the image are the words "UNITED STATES EASTERN AMATEUR SKI ASSOCIATION" in black lettering.
The sweater has a label that reads "The Kandahar by Bert Charon N.Y. 100% all virgin wool" sewn into the back of the neck.
This sweater was worn by Herbert Holbrook during ski jump practices and competitions.
The sweater has a label that reads "The Kandahar by Bert Charon N.Y. 100% all virgin wool" sewn into the back of the neck.
This sweater was worn by Herbert Holbrook during ski jump practices and competitions.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.46
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Worn by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979. The sweater refers to the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association, an Olympic skiing organization established 1922 by Doctor Raymond S. Elmer (Vermonter) in Saranac Lake, NY. (Likely earned by Holbrook when he was funneled from the Brattleboro Outing Club into the association)
Worn by Herbert P. Holbrook who was a class A ski jumper and olympic cross-country skier. He was an alumnus of the Austine School for the Deaf, and admitted to the AAAD (American Athletic Association for the Deaf) in 1964, when he also made the New York Times News twice that year. He competed in Berchtesgaden (West Germany) in the 60's and in the Meribel Olympics in France in 1979. The sweater refers to the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association, an Olympic skiing organization established 1922 by Doctor Raymond S. Elmer (Vermonter) in Saranac Lake, NY. (Likely earned by Holbrook when he was funneled from the Brattleboro Outing Club into the association)
Web Links and URLs
Sweetgrass
Name/Title
Sweetgrass
Lexicon
Description
Bundle of sweetgrass
Use
for basketmaking or room scent
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Artist Information
Doris Minckler
Artist
Date made
1995
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.50
Sweetgrass Bundles
Name/Title
Sweetgrass Bundles
Lexicon
Description
Two bundles of sweetgrass tied with torn strips of bedsheet
Use
Scent air in home or drawer
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.64a-b
Context
This set of sweetgrass bundles, collected by Swanton basketmakers in the early 20th century, are tied with rip-strips of cotton sheets. Swanton historian Ben Gravel said that he collected these from a Back Bay family in whose house they had hung for fifty years. They were traditionally used to sweeten the air in a home or put in drawers to keep away mustiness.
Sweetgrass Comb
Name/Title
Sweetgrass Comb
Lexicon
Description
Wooden comb with eight tines
Use
Processing sweetgrass for baskets
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.17
Context
A sweetgrass comb is easily distinguished from the very similar sheep wool comb used to extract burs and other large objects from shorn sheep wool. The lanolin in the sheep wool permeates those combs and creates a slippery dark coating to the tines. This piece from Northwest Central Vermont has no evidence of lanolin and presumably was used for other things, such as straightening and aligning hanks of sweetgrass before braiding or tying it for making baskets.
Sweetgrass Sewing Basket
Name/Title
Sweetgrass Sewing Basket
Lexicon
Description
a & b: woven ash splint and sweetgrass round basket with lid. Varying width ash weavers and sweetgrass bundles. Lid has a raised, looped design (cowiss) and small ring handle.
c: Pin Cushion of velvet with woven ash splint base
d: Woven sweetgrass scissor case
e: Woven sweetgrass Needle case (etui)
c: Pin Cushion of velvet with woven ash splint base
d: Woven sweetgrass scissor case
e: Woven sweetgrass Needle case (etui)
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Ash Splint, Sweetgrass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.104a-e
Context
This is a very rare piece, there are hundreds of baskets like this all over Vermont in antique shops, never with any good provenance. They could be made by Akwesasne Mohawks, Canadian Abenakis or Maine Indians, we will probably never know until a comprehensive stylistic research project can delimit tribal origins. This may not be possible. This basket was purchased from “a Local Indian family” (presumably the Lapans) by Mrs. Bell of Swanton Vermont in the early 20th century. All other Swanton-made baskets are coarse utility baskets or open work baskets without any Sweetgrass interweaving like this one. The basket depth and cowiss over weave decoration are atypical of Quebec Abenaki production. This was from the collection of Swanton Historian Ben Gravel who received the basket during the 1959 Champlain celebration.
Swift
Name/Title
Swift
Lexicon
Description
Wooden swift made by Grace Coolidge's father. Swift that has ribs & goes up and down like an umbrella. At end of each rib (there are 6) there is a cut-away section to hold the yarn while it is being wound. On top there is an upside down acorn. Some maple, some other wood. It screws onto a flat surface. See diagram on Worksheet. Nice conition, a beautiful piece.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.24
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Coolidge, Grace Anna Goodhue (1879-1957)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Goodhue, Andrew Issachar (1848-1923)
Artist
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1982.24.99
Context
Made by Andrew Issachar Goodhue of Burlington, Vermont.
Sword
Name/Title
Sword
Lexicon
Description
Ornate sword and accompanying scabbard. The grip of the sword is white shagreen, wrapped with twisted gold wire and embellished with gold stars. The guard, knuckle guard, and pommel are ornately chased gold in a floral pattern with an eagle and United States shield at the front of the pommel. The blade is heavily engraved with the names of ships and heavy florals. The scabbard is silver with gold locket/mouthpiece, chase/tip protector, and hook attachement.
Acquisition
Accession
1921.10
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Clark, Charles E. (1843-1922)
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Oldenhiemer
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1921.10.6a-b
Context
Presented to Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark of Bradford, VT by the State of Oregon in commemoration of his action during the Battle of Santiago aboard the USS Oregon.
Sword
Name/Title
Sword
Lexicon
Description
Curved sword with leather scabbard. The handle of the sword is ivory, and the pommel is in the shape of an eagle's head. The blade is lightly engraved with an all-over floral design.
Acquisition
Accession
1928.3
Relationships
Related Events
Civil War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Thomas, Stephen (1809-1903), 8th Vermont Infantry
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1928.3a-b
Context
Used by Brigadier General Stephen Thomas of the 8th Vermont Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Sword
Name/Title
Sword
Lexicon
Description
Curved sword and scabbard. The sword has an Arabic inscription and an English initial (B) is engraved onto the hilt. The sword blade curves into a point, with a "heel" about a quarter up from the point. The handle has a straight rain guard and a pistol grip with three brass rosettes on each side. The scabbard is chased silver in a pattern or repeating, stylized flowers.
Acquisition
Accession
1900.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron (1788-1824), Miller, Jonathan Peckham (1797-1847)
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1820
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Steel, Brass, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1900.1.1a-c
Context
Originally belonged to Lord Byron; purchased by Johnathan Peckham Miller of Montpelier, VT, who fought in the Greek War of Independence and was an anti-slavery activist.
Syrup Bottle
Name/Title
Syrup Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Brown glass syrup bottle with metal twist-off cap. The front of the bottle has a paper label that reads, "Special Bicentennial flask/LOG CABIN SYRUP".
Acquisition
Accession
1996.16
Made/Created
Date made
1976
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1996.16.44
Context
Produced to commemorate the United States Bicentennial
Syrup Bottle
Name/Title
Syrup Bottle
Lexicon
Description
Round, clear glass syrup bottle with a paper label that reads, "PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP Grade A 1950 / Made & Put Up By STAFFORD BROS. SO. WALLINGFORD, VERMONT / Contents 1pt Lbs., Net-Weight We Ship By Parcel Post or Express".
Acquisition
Accession
1994.54
Made/Created
Date made
1950
Manufacturer
Stafford Bros.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1994.54.1
Context
Held syrup made by Stafford Bros. in South Wallingford, Vermont
Syrup Jug
Name/Title
Syrup Jug
Lexicon
Description
Tan plastic half gallon maple syrup jug and cover. Scenes of sugarhouse, with dark brown lettering: "Pure Vermont Maple Syrup/ 64 fl. oz (2 quarts)"
Acquisition
Accession
1978.4
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1978.4.5
Syrup Pitcher
Name/Title
Syrup Pitcher
Lexicon
Description
Small white ceramic pitcher with a design of palm trees. The handle is in the shape of a branch. A metal lid is mounted onto the top edge of the pitcher and opens on a hinge near the handle. The bottom is marked with a small ribbon with the initials "USP".
Acquisition
Accession
1960.1
Made/Created
Time Period
19th Century
Manufacturer
United States Pottery Company
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1960.1.30
Context
Made by the United States Pottery Company in Bennington, Vermont
Syrup Sampler
Name/Title
Syrup Sampler
Lexicon
Description
Sampler of four glass bottles of maple syrup inside a plywood display case. The case is made of five pieces of plywood and fronted with glass. The top of the case has a drawer handle and the handwritten label, "Pawlet VT." An index card secured to the inside of the glass panel reads, "THIS SYRUP MADE FROM SAME SUPER BUSH SAME FAMILY, ONE ON RIGHT MADE IN [IRON] KETTLE". Inside the case are four bottles, held within a custom divider system created from repurposed styrofoam packing materials. Each bottle has a handwritten paper label giving the year the syrup was tapped (left to right: 1945, 1922, 1888, 1877). In front of the divider is a wooden tap spout.
Acquisition
Accession
1994.35
Made/Created
Date made
1877-1945
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Glass, Metal, Paper, Wood, Styrofoam
Entry/Object ID
1994.35a-f
Context
Made by the Moore family of Pawlet, Vermont.
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
Purple t-shirt printed on the front with an illustration of 4 black-and-white cows and the words, "BEN & JERRY'S". The back is printed with the words, "VERMONT'S FINEST", flanked on the top and bottom by lines of ice cream cones.
Acquisition
Accession
1995.10
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Waterbury
Town
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Jackson, Woody
Artist
Date made
1995
Manufacturer
Fruit of the Loom
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1995.10.1
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
Light blue t-shirt printed in black with an illustration of a bird wearing hiking boots and a backpack and holding a branch of leaves in its mouth. It is surrounded by the words, "Vermont / Washington to Moscow Walk / For a Nuclear Arms Freeze / Aug. 6-9, 1981."
Acquisition
Accession
2018.2
Relationships
Related Events
Washington to Moscow Walk
Event
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
1981
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2018.2
Context
The Washington to Moscow Walk was organized as a call for the United States and the Soviet Union to agree to mutual nuclear disarmament. The march traveled from Washington, Vermont, to Moscow, Vermont.
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
White t-shirt with image in center of a green creature picking up trash. Printed above in green letters: "GREENASAURUS SAYS" and below: "GREEN UP VERMONT" Label at neck gives maker, washing instructions and size (L 42-44)
Acquisition
Accession
2001.31
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2001
Manufacturer
Hanes
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2001.31.15
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
White t-shirt with image in center of a white cow with green spots, Printed above in blue letters: "GREEN UP " and below: "VERMONT" Labels at neck gives maker (Fruit of the Loom)and size (L), care and fabric content. Printed on back in green: "GREEN UP VERMONT" in circle in center; "Proud Partners" printed above, with names of partners printed on either side, and below: "Green Up Day/ 2000/ 30th/ Anniversary" Also printed below circle: "Logo printing Donated by/ Bear-graphics/ Screen Printers/ Signmakers/ . . . . Brownington Ctr., VT"
Acquisition
Accession
2001.31
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Made/Created
Date made
2001
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2001.31.17
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
Child's t-shirt for Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's mayoral campaign. The lavender t-shirt has a crew neck and long sleeves. The front is printed, "EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK for MAYOR" in yellow iron-on patch graphics.
Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign purchased thrifted clothing and ironed on the logo for campaign attire.
Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign purchased thrifted clothing and ironed on the logo for campaign attire.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Britt Langdon
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.6
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
Purple cotton long-sleeved t-shirt with Vermont Quilt Festival logo on front and in white letters: "Vermont Quilt Festival/ 1999" Tags at neck give maker "HANES", size, fabric content, washing instructions, etc.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.41
Made/Created
Date made
1999
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2010.41.5
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Shirt
Textile Details
Jersey
Fabric
Cotton
Material
Overlock Stitch
Sewing Stitch Type
Clothing Sex
Unisex
Size
Medium
Description
White t-shirt printed with an illustration of a flooded city. The Vermont Statehouse is visible at the center horizon. There are people in a rowboat at the bottom center. The image is labeled, "MONTPELIER / FLOOD of '92." Size (M)edium.
Acquisition
Accession
2020.34
Relationships
Related Events
1992 Flood
Event
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Artist Information
Kohn-Saxe, Barbara
Artist
Date made
1992
Manufacturer
Fruit of the Loom, Deerfield & Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2020.34.1
Context
Produced to commemorate the flood in Montpelier, Vermont, in 1992.
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
White T-Shirt with purple and gold (metallic) decorations & lettering. On the left chest is a purple upside down equilateral triangle with two linked gold rings/bands across the center. Below is "VERMONT" in gold with a purple outline. Across the back is a purple rectangle with white "I Do SUPPORT the / Freedom to Marry."
Acquisition
Accession
2000.25
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Manufacturer
Gildan Activewear, Inc.
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2000.25.1
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
Adult t-shirt for Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's mayoral campaign. The gray shirt has a crew neck, short sleeves, and thin gold horizontal stripes across it.The front is printed, "EMMA MULVANEY-STANAK for MAYOR" in navy iron-on patch graphics.
Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign purchased thrifted clothing and ironed on the logo for campaign attire.
Mulvaney-Stanak's campaign purchased thrifted clothing and ironed on the logo for campaign attire.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.33
Made/Created
Artist Information
Britt Langdon
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2024.33.7
Context
Donated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, first female and openly LGBT person to serve as Mayor of Burlington.
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Description
White t-shirt with purple logo in center and printed above: "NEW VICTORIA" and below: "1975-1995" Labels at neck gives maker: "Hanes" with washing instructions, etc.
Acquisition
Accession
2015.5
Made/Created
Date made
1975-1995
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2015.5.2
Web Links and URLs
T-Shirt
Name/Title
T-Shirt
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Shirt
Textile Details
Blue
Color
Jersey
Fabric
Cotton
Material
Overlock Stitch
Sewing Stitch Type
Clothing Sex
Female
Size
Medium
Description
Blue t-shirt with a red-and-white printed logo of three women's faces in profile and the inscription "WOMEN'S/MARCH/ON VERMONT/JANUARY 20, 2018".
Acquisition
Accession
2020.6
Relationships
Related Events
Women's March
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dopp, Sarah L.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2018
Manufacturer
Hanes
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2020.6.1
Context
Worn by Sarah Dopp to the Women's March in Montpelier, Vermont, 2018.
T-shirt
Name/Title
T-shirt
Description
Yellow medium T-shirt with a pocket on the front left side. On that back are the words, " Rock Point" in red lettering and a cross on a stone wall. Rock Point is 130 acres of land along Lake Champlain in Burlington that is owned by the Episcopal Church in Vermont. The property has trails, a center for events and retreats, a camp, an alternative school and gardens.
Acquisition
Accession
1993.38
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Size medium
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
1993.38.6
T-shirt
Name/Title
T-shirt
Lexicon
Description
"Take Back Vermont" t-shirt. White cotton t-shirt with "TAKE BACK/ VERMONT" in 2.75" black letters across front.. Tags at neck indicate maker: "Fruit of the Loom" and fabric content, size and washing instructions.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.11
Made/Created
Date made
2000
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cotton
Entry/Object ID
2010.11.74
T-shirt
Name/Title
T-shirt
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Shirt
Textile Details
Black
White
Color
Cotton
Fabric
Clothing Sex
Unisex
Size
Large
Description
Black t-shirt with white printing to commemorate the 2023 flood in Barre, Vermont. The image on the front of the t-shirt shows a man in a collared work shirt, apron, and flat cap, and he is carrying a shovel. A ribbon swirling around the figure reads "WE ARE BARRE STRONG." Size (L)arge.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.7
Relationships
Related Events
2023 Flood
Event
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2023
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.7.1
Context
An account of the flood from the Year in Review in the Times Argus:
https://www.timesargus.com/news/local/year-in-review-the-flood-of-2023-and-its-lasting-effects/article_5df721ac-53bb-5875-8948-e09eba92ff79.html
“There is a lot of water,” Barre City Manager Nicolas Storellicastro said on July 10, after eight inches of rain had fallen on central Vermont, causing near-record flooding that left much of the Twin Cities and its neighboring towns under feet of water.
It did not match the infamous Flood of 1927, but it was close. A Barre man died as a result of the flooding, having fallen into waters in his basement. The damage to downtown Barre and Montpelier was staggering, as businesses and state government came to a halt. While the state’s offices could relocate, many businesses were stranded, with basement and first-floor inventory filled with water and toxic silt. Mountains of flood-damaged debris was stacked high on streets. Homes were destroyed — many of them in the north end of the Granite City.
For months, federal workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Association were taking inventory of the damage, and desperately trying to provide assistance to those who came forward.
The cleanup was a long, gross and tedious process. Ultimately, the flood claimed several central Vermont businesses and scores of homes in its wake."
https://www.timesargus.com/news/local/year-in-review-the-flood-of-2023-and-its-lasting-effects/article_5df721ac-53bb-5875-8948-e09eba92ff79.html
“There is a lot of water,” Barre City Manager Nicolas Storellicastro said on July 10, after eight inches of rain had fallen on central Vermont, causing near-record flooding that left much of the Twin Cities and its neighboring towns under feet of water.
It did not match the infamous Flood of 1927, but it was close. A Barre man died as a result of the flooding, having fallen into waters in his basement. The damage to downtown Barre and Montpelier was staggering, as businesses and state government came to a halt. While the state’s offices could relocate, many businesses were stranded, with basement and first-floor inventory filled with water and toxic silt. Mountains of flood-damaged debris was stacked high on streets. Homes were destroyed — many of them in the north end of the Granite City.
For months, federal workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Association were taking inventory of the damage, and desperately trying to provide assistance to those who came forward.
The cleanup was a long, gross and tedious process. Ultimately, the flood claimed several central Vermont businesses and scores of homes in its wake."
Tallit
Name/Title
Tallit
Lexicon
Description
A blue and white silk tallit, or prayer shawl for Jewish services, with long white tassels at each end and decorative band of gold and white on one edge with Hebrew writing.
Accompanied by a plush maroon velvet zippered case, 2008.22.13b.
Accompanied by a plush maroon velvet zippered case, 2008.22.13b.
Use
Used in Jewish services at the Ira Allen Chapel at the University of Vermont prior to 1980. Given to Lilian Baker Carlisle in 1980 by David Blow who was the archivist at the University of Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.22
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
David Blow
University of Vermont
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Rabbi M. Lipschitz
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Dimensions for the woven part of the shawl, excluding the fringe.
Materials
Material
Silk
Entry/Object ID
2008.22.13a
Context
From Encyclopedia Britannica,
"A ?allit, also spelled ?alit, tallis, or tallith, plural ?allithim, ?alithim, tallithim, or tallisim, prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (sha?arit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (min?a). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service.
Rectangular in shape, the wool (or sometimes silk) shawl has black or blue stripes with fringes (tzitzit) affixed to the four corners as the Bible prescribes (Numbers 15:38). Two fringes fall in front, two behind. Often an embroidered collar is added, inscribed with the blessing to be recited when the ?allit is put on. A pious Jew is often buried in his ?allit after one of the fringes has been removed."
"A ?allit, also spelled ?alit, tallis, or tallith, plural ?allithim, ?alithim, tallithim, or tallisim, prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (sha?arit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (min?a). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service.
Rectangular in shape, the wool (or sometimes silk) shawl has black or blue stripes with fringes (tzitzit) affixed to the four corners as the Bible prescribes (Numbers 15:38). Two fringes fall in front, two behind. Often an embroidered collar is added, inscribed with the blessing to be recited when the ?allit is put on. A pious Jew is often buried in his ?allit after one of the fringes has been removed."
Tallit bag
Name/Title
Tallit bag
Lexicon
Description
Maroon plush velvet zippered case for the tallit 2008.22.31a, with a gold star of David and gold embroidered floral vine design.
Use
Used in Jewish services at the Ira Allen Chapel at the University of Vermont prior to 1980. Given to Lilian Baker Carlisle in 1980 by David Blow who was the archivist at the University of Vermont.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.22
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
David Blow
University of Vermont
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Rabbi M. Lipschitz
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Velvet
Entry/Object ID
2008.22.31b
Context
From Encyclopedia Britannica,
"A ?allit, also spelled ?alit, tallis, or tallith, plural ?allithim, ?alithim, tallithim, or tallisim, prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (sha?arit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (min?a). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service.
Rectangular in shape, the wool (or sometimes silk) shawl has black or blue stripes with fringes (tzitzit) affixed to the four corners as the Bible prescribes (Numbers 15:38). Two fringes fall in front, two behind. Often an embroidered collar is added, inscribed with the blessing to be recited when the ?allit is put on. A pious Jew is often buried in his ?allit after one of the fringes has been removed."
"A ?allit, also spelled ?alit, tallis, or tallith, plural ?allithim, ?alithim, tallithim, or tallisim, prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (sha?arit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (min?a). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service.
Rectangular in shape, the wool (or sometimes silk) shawl has black or blue stripes with fringes (tzitzit) affixed to the four corners as the Bible prescribes (Numbers 15:38). Two fringes fall in front, two behind. Often an embroidered collar is added, inscribed with the blessing to be recited when the ?allit is put on. A pious Jew is often buried in his ?allit after one of the fringes has been removed."
Tankard
Name/Title
Tankard
Lexicon
Description
Wooden tankard constructed similarly to a barrel. The tankard is straight-sided, tapering inward from the base to the top. It is constructed of straight wooden slats, and there are four wooden rings nailed to the slats around the outside. A wooden handle is nailed to one side and spans from the mid-point to the top.
Acquisition
Accession
1936.5
Made/Created
Artist Information
Smith, Ithamar (1787-1862)
Artist
Date made
circa 1820
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1936.5.2
Context
Made by Ithamar Smith of Waitsfield, Vermont, circa 1820
Taper Auger
Name/Title
Taper Auger
Lexicon
Description
Auger with rough cut handle.
Acquisition
Accession
1966.15
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1966.15.14
Tassel
Name/Title
Tassel
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Tassel
Textile Details
Silk
Metal
Description
Green silk graduation tassel. The tassel has braided strands and a gold clasp at the top with a gold charm. The charm is round and is stamped with a laurel wreath border and a bell in the center with "76" on it to commemorate the United States' Bicentennial.
Worn by a member of the Class of 1976 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Worn by a member of the Class of 1976 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.49
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Tassel
Name/Title
Tassel
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Tassel
Textile Details
Silk
Metal
Description
Cream-colored silk graduation tassel. The tassel has braided strands and a gold clasp at the top with a gold charm. The charm has the year "66" enclosed in a rectangle with a decorative drop at the center of the bottom edge.
Worn by a member of the Class of 1966 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Worn by a member of the Class of 1966 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.48
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Tassel
Name/Title
Tassel
Description
Tassel from Montpelier High School, class of 1939, owned by donor's mother Una Clark Trepto (1920-2014). Dark blue tricot tassel on a cord / long loop, the kind that often goes on an academic cap or mortarboard.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.10
Made/Created
Date made
1939
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Nylon
Entry/Object ID
2014.10
Tassel
Name/Title
Tassel
Lexicon
Clothing/Dress/Costume Details
Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume
Tassel
Textile Details
Silk
Metal
Description
Green and white silk graduation tassel. The tassel has braided strands and a gold clasp at the top with a gold charm. The charm is the number "10" in stylized script for the Class of 2010.
Worn by a member of the Class of 2010 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Worn by a member of the Class of 2010 at their graduation from the Austine School.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.50
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Tax Stamp
Interpretative Labels
Label
In 1797 the U.S. Congress passed the "Stamp Act" authorizing each state to stamp bills of exchange, licenses, commissions, bonds, and similar documents. This act was passed to support the war with France and to increase the circulation of paper currency. There were three federal issues of this act. The first issue was in effect from July 1, 1798 to February 28, 1801. For this issue the U.S. Congress sent a press and a set of steel dies to each of the then sixteen states. Officers of each state were obligated to mark all documents with the proper stamp. Each of the dies represented a denomination and was engraved with the name of the state that used it. Stamps range in denomination from four cents to ten dollars (4c, 10c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 50c, 75c, $1, $2, $4, $5 and $10).
This may be the only surviving complete set of the sixteen that were issued.
Name/Title
Tax Stamp
Lexicon
Description
Wooden box containing 17 stamp dies, a press, and metal pick. The dies are all engraved in reverse, and are as follows:
A spread eagle carrying an American shield in its talons with the words "FOUR CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield in its talons with the words "TEN CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield in its talons with the words "TWENTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a rock holding an American shield by a chain from its beak and the words "TWENTYFIVE CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
An eagle with its wings raised twisting its head around an American shield. It is standing on a branch with an olive branch and arrows under its feet and the words "THIRTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a branch with an American shield in front of it and the words 'FIFTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield by a chain from its beak and the words "SEVENTYFIVE CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield over its chest holding an olive branch and arrows in its talons. Above the eagle are 13 6-pointed stars and 6 oval clouds. The words "ONE DOLLAR VERMONT" are around the edge.
An eagle on a branch with one wing outstretched and one wing partially stretched with an American shield in front of it to the left and the words, "TWO DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a rock with an American shield in front of it to the right and the words "THREE DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield in front of its chest holding an olive branch and arrows in its talons with the words "FOUR DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle perched on a branch with an American shield in front of it to the left and the words "FIVE DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
An eagle with its wings raised twisting its head around an American shield. It is standing on a branch with an olive branch and arrows under its feet and the words "TEN DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A wreath of 14 oval clouds surrounding 13 6-pointed stars with the words "TEN CENTS P.CENTUM VERMONT" around the edge.
A wreath of 14 oval clouds surrounding 13 6-pointed stars with the words "SIX MILLS P.DOLLAR VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with one foot on the ground and the other on top of an American shield that is in front of it to the left and the words "VERMONT SUPERVISORS OFFICE" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield in front of its chest carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons. The letter O is to the left of the eagle, and there are 13 6-pointed stars above its head. The words "UNITED STATES OF AMERCA" ring the edge, and there is an outer border of dots.
A spread eagle carrying an American shield in its talons with the words "FOUR CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield in its talons with the words "TEN CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield in its talons with the words "TWENTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a rock holding an American shield by a chain from its beak and the words "TWENTYFIVE CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
An eagle with its wings raised twisting its head around an American shield. It is standing on a branch with an olive branch and arrows under its feet and the words "THIRTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a branch with an American shield in front of it and the words 'FIFTY CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle holding an American shield by a chain from its beak and the words "SEVENTYFIVE CENTS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield over its chest holding an olive branch and arrows in its talons. Above the eagle are 13 6-pointed stars and 6 oval clouds. The words "ONE DOLLAR VERMONT" are around the edge.
An eagle on a branch with one wing outstretched and one wing partially stretched with an American shield in front of it to the left and the words, "TWO DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle standing on a rock with an American shield in front of it to the right and the words "THREE DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield in front of its chest holding an olive branch and arrows in its talons with the words "FOUR DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle perched on a branch with an American shield in front of it to the left and the words "FIVE DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
An eagle with its wings raised twisting its head around an American shield. It is standing on a branch with an olive branch and arrows under its feet and the words "TEN DOLLARS VERMONT" around the edge.
A wreath of 14 oval clouds surrounding 13 6-pointed stars with the words "TEN CENTS P.CENTUM VERMONT" around the edge.
A wreath of 14 oval clouds surrounding 13 6-pointed stars with the words "SIX MILLS P.DOLLAR VERMONT" around the edge.
A spread eagle with one foot on the ground and the other on top of an American shield that is in front of it to the left and the words "VERMONT SUPERVISORS OFFICE" around the edge.
A spread eagle with an American shield in front of its chest carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons. The letter O is to the left of the eagle, and there are 13 6-pointed stars above its head. The words "UNITED STATES OF AMERCA" ring the edge, and there is an outer border of dots.
Use
Used to mark that taxes had been paid on applicable documents
Acquisition
Accession
1902.1
Made/Created
Date made
1797
Manufacturer
Eckfeldt, Adam
Materials
Material
Steel, Wood, Brass
Entry/Object ID
1902.1.3a-u
Context
Issued to the State of Vermont in compliance with the 1797 stamp Act.
Web Links and URLs
Teakettle
Name/Title
Teakettle
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1955.23
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Copper
Entry/Object ID
1955.23.2
Context
Used at the Tory Tavern
Television
Interpretative Labels
Label
Television, 1948
The Hallicrafters Company
Chicago, Illinois
Metal, glass, plastic
Museum purchase, 2007.51
Television was not invented in Vermont, but when it arrived on the scene many Vermonters were eager to experiment with the new technology. George Dilley, owner of a radio store in St. Johnsbury, was one of them. He carried this Hallicrafter television - reportedly one of the first in Vermont - to the top of Burke Mountain in an attempt to get a signal strong enough watch a Boston Braves game in July 1948. He was partially successful; he and his family could hear the baseball game, but the picture that came through was of a trapeze artist at a circus. The baseball game, broadcast from Boston, was crossing paths with a signal from Schenectady, NY on the same channel.
Name/Title
Television
Lexicon
Description
Gray and black metal television with a small glass screen on the front. The rectangular screen is placed behind a round, slightly convex piece of glass set into the proper left side of the machine. The top half of the front as well as the body is covered in silver metal punched throughout with small holes to allow both sound from the speakers and heat from the machine to escape. The lower half of the front panel is black metal with three large openings for knobs (now missing) and fourteen small openings for knobs (still in place). The front is labeled in two places with the manufacturer's logo and name, "the hallicrafters co."
Acquisition
Accession
2007.51
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dilley, George
Person or Organization
Related Places
, ,
Made/Created
Time Period
20th Century
Date made
1948
Manufacturer
The Hallicrafters Company
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Glass, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2007.51
Context
Used by George Dilley in his first and second attempts to watch TV atop Burke Mountain; described as one of the first televisions in Vermont. Vermont did not have a TV Station/Signal until 1954 when WCAX built the first transmitter atop Mt. Mansfield.
Web Links and URLs
Thaddeus Fairbanks tests his new scale + 1830
Name/Title
Thaddeus Fairbanks tests his new scale + 1830
Lexicon
Description
This artwork is a linocut print that portrays a central scene featuring a full hay wagon positioned on a platform scale. To the left of the wagon, there is a team of yoked oxen standing and facing us, while to the right of the wagon, there is a group of seven men and one boy gathered together with waistcoats, tops hats, and canes. All are watching the wagon or facing each other. Adjacent to the oxen, there is a lone man standing nearby his back to us he is holding a prod and wearing boots. He is facing the wagon and the action. In the background, a picturesque country landscape unfolding, showcasing two clusters of buildings. On the right cluster are two medium buildings on a hilltop, perpendicular to each other. On the adjacent hilltop is a tall building next to a long building and two more perpendicular buildings, behind this is rising the pointed spire of a church and behind this s another smaller building with two faces facing us. Another potential square structure lies behind this. On the left cluster are two rectangular, perpendicular buildings, one with a shadowed face towards us and the other all white. In front of this is an "L" shaped building. All over the hill is dappled with shrubbery. Towards the far left, there is a garage or barn structure with four men running out of it. One man in the foreground his legs and arms gesture towards the wagon, one man in the middle with striped pants and suspenders is bending his arms as if running. Two men in the shadow of the doorway outlining in thin white lines showing one aproned man with a tool in hand and the other in a coat. The title of the print is located below the image, "THADDEUS FAIRBANKS" in tall, serif lettering with "test his new scale + 1830" in handwritten style, large, stylistically lowercased lettering and to the right of the title, there is an image of the scale. Additionally, there are pencil notations on the print from left to right, including "Fairbanks 2005," "4/50," and "M. Simpson." On the back dust cover, an information sheet about the inventor is pasted. The print itself is mounted on light beige paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.2
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Fairbanks, Thaddeus (1796-1886), Fairbanks Company
Related Places
Place
St. Johnsbury
Town
Caledonia County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject Person
Fairbanks, Thaddeus (1796-1886)
Subject
Fairbanks Scales
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2005
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.2.3
Context
Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886) was an engineer and inventor who, along with his brother Erastus, developed and sold a large number of mechanical devices from their workshop in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Around 1830 Thaddeus created the world's first workable platform scale. This invention revolutionized commerce, shipping, and manufacturing. In 1834, he and his brother incorporated the E & T Fairbanks Company to manufacture and sell these scales worldwide. The company expanded with factories in Asia, Africa, and the Carribean as global sales skyrocketed.
The Fairbanks family became very wealthy and founded St. Johnsbury Academy and the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. Erastus served two separate terms as Vermont governor and helped found the Republican party.
Fairbanks scales are still produced in St. Johnsbury today.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
The Fairbanks family became very wealthy and founded St. Johnsbury Academy and the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. Erastus served two separate terms as Vermont governor and helped found the Republican party.
Fairbanks scales are still produced in St. Johnsbury today.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Web Links and URLs
The Clouded Moon
Name/Title
The Clouded Moon
Lexicon
Description
Framed black and white drawing of a cloudy night sky overlooking a lone country road. In the center of the drawing is a cloudy sky, with a large patch of whiteness representing the moon. Below the sky are trees, three on the left of the drawing, one on the right. The ground is a very dark color, with a road cutting the dark ground in the middle. In the background of the drawing are mountains, spreading across the entire back of the drawing. On the bottom left of the drawing is the title of the piece, "The Clouded Moon." On the right side of the drawing, on the drawing itself is the artists signature. The picture is matted in a blue and gold frame. On the back of the frame the matt board is exposed, taped to the frame. Written on the back are the words, "Dusk/Charcoal SK." There is also a white card taped to the back of the matt, it reads, "Al Comi/ca 1927-37/charcoal on paper/Gift of the Estate of Ines Ruvera Comi,/2000
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Charcoal, Paper
Made/Created
Artist Information
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Artist
Date made
1927-1937
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1364
Type of Drawing
Context
Alfred Joseph Peter Comi was, born in Barre, Vermont. He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1919, and went to work for Jones Brothers Granite Company in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston he furthered his artistic studies by taking life drawing courses at the Copley Studios. He returned to Vermont in the early 1920's and was employed by the Vermont Marble Company in Proctor as a designer. In 1925 he became the chief designer for the Marr and Gordon Granite Company of Barre.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
The Discoverer
Name/Title
The Discoverer
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Watercolor painting of "The Discoverer" by Jane Maria Hunt. The painting shows four classically robed female figures: Fortune, Hope, Science, and Faith; and a male figure, Columbus, in black coat and trousers. Columbus stands on a rock jutting into the sea while the four allegories are posed around him. The painting is on artist board, floated within a cream-colored mat, and enclosed in a simple wooden frame.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.6
Relationships
Related Publications
Exploration, Vision & Influence
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Subject Person
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506)
Subject
The Discoverer
Made/Created
Artist Information
Hunt, Jane Maria (1821-1907)
Artist
Date made
1878-1879
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2024.6.9
Context
In 1878 Vermont-born painter William Morris Hunt was commissioned to create two large, allegorical murals for the New York State House in Albany. Completed in 1879, the murals depicted "The Flight of Night" and "The Discoverer." The Flight of Night, utilizing imagery from a Persian poem, was meant to represent barbarism and ignorance leaving the American continent. The Discoverer, featuring Columbus surrounded by classical muses, represented the coming of European enlightenment and culture to America. Shortly after completion, a roof leak severely damaged the murals and permanent drop ceiling was installed that further destroyed the works.
William Morris Hunt, one of the most famous artists of his day, suffered from severe depression and possibly other mental illness. His older sister, Jane Maria Hunt, served as his companion and support during the creation of these murals. A fine artist herself, she created the watercolor of his finished mural you see here. William died by drowning shortly after these murals were completed in a suspect suicide.
William Morris Hunt, one of the most famous artists of his day, suffered from severe depression and possibly other mental illness. His older sister, Jane Maria Hunt, served as his companion and support during the creation of these murals. A fine artist herself, she created the watercolor of his finished mural you see here. William died by drowning shortly after these murals were completed in a suspect suicide.
The Masons
Name/Title
The Masons
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Folk art portrait showing an adult woman, two children, and an adult man. The woman is at the left of the composition. She has white skin and dark hair, parted in the center. She is wearing a black dress and a white neckerchief or collar. At the center is a child (boy) wearing a pink dress. He has white skin and brown hair parted at the side. He is holding a green bird. Behind him is an older child (girl) wearing a black dress with red accents. She has white skin and brown hair parted at the center. At the left is the adult man. He has white skin and dark hair. He is wearing a white shirt, black stock, black vest, and black jacket.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.56
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Mason, Norman (1803-1843), Mason, Caroline Betsy Weaver (1807-1841), Huntington, Caroline Amanda Mason (1834-1912), Mason, Norman Nelson (1937-1914)
Related Places
Place
Lowell
City
Massachusetts
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Howes, Samuel P.
Artist
Date made
1839-1841
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1976.56.1
Context
Depicts the Mason family (Betsy, Norman, Caroline, and Norman) of Lowell, Massachusetts
The Memphremagog House
Name/Title
The Memphremagog House
Lexicon
Description
"The Memphremagog House", Newport
Acquisition
Accession
2006.69
Artwork Details
Medium
Ink
Subject
Memphremagog House
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2006.69.3
Context
The Memphremagog House was built in stages over the course of about 40 years. Initially opened in 1830, the hotel reached its full capacity in 1870 with over 300 rooms, running water, steam heat, and gas lighting. For much of the second half of the 19th century, the hotel was a business and tourist anchor for the city of Newport.
The hotel, built immediately on the shore of Lake Memphremagog, had its own rail spur from the south and its own steamship line from the north. Visitors from around the northeast and Canada flocked to Newport in the summer to enjoy the amenities and activities available at the resort.
In 1907, sparks from a passing train, set the hotel on fire. Though valiant efforts of Vermont and Quebec firefighters kept the fire from spreading to the entire city, the hotel was a complete loss. Lieutenant Governor George Prouty helped lead the firefighting and the press relating to his actions that day was said to have propelled him into the Governorship.
The hotel, built immediately on the shore of Lake Memphremagog, had its own rail spur from the south and its own steamship line from the north. Visitors from around the northeast and Canada flocked to Newport in the summer to enjoy the amenities and activities available at the resort.
In 1907, sparks from a passing train, set the hotel on fire. Though valiant efforts of Vermont and Quebec firefighters kept the fire from spreading to the entire city, the hotel was a complete loss. Lieutenant Governor George Prouty helped lead the firefighting and the press relating to his actions that day was said to have propelled him into the Governorship.
Web Links and URLs
The Old Homestead
Name/Title
The Old Homestead
Lexicon
Description
Framed color picture of an old farm house. The farmhouse is built in a T-shape, with the lower half of the house facing the viewer. The lower half has two doors, and a porch with a pair of shorts hanging on the cloths. To the right of the porch are two open wooden doors leading into what appears to be a shed. Next to the open doors is another clothesline with long underwear hanging. The top half of the building is paneled with wood, and has a tiled roof with a brick chimney, smoke is coming out of the chimney. There is a dirt path leading to the door of the house. On both sides of the path there is a green lawn. The right side lawn has a large tree in the foreground of the drawing. The left side lawn has a bush that is right against the house. Some branches of a tree are sticking out of the left side of the frame. On the left side of the frame is the title, "The Old Homestead." On the right bottom corner, written on the picture is the artists signature, and the date, "1929." The back of the frame is covered in cardboard, which is taped to the frame. Written on the cardboard is, "House in East Barre VT/By Al Comi/Barre VT." There is also a white card tapped to the cardboard which reads, "Al Comi/The Old Homestead/1929/colored pencil on cameo paper/Gift of the Estate of Ines Ruvera Comi/2000."
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper
Made/Created
Artist Information
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Artist
Date made
1929
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1366
Type of Drawing
Context
Alfred Joseph Peter Comi was, born in Barre, Vermont. He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1919, and went to work for Jones Brothers Granite Company in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston he furthered his artistic studies by taking life drawing courses at the Copley Studios. He returned to Vermont in the early 1920's and was employed by the Vermont Marble Company in Proctor as a designer. In 1925 he became the chief designer for the Marr and Gordon Granite Company of Barre.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
The Sugar House
Name/Title
The Sugar House
Lexicon
Description
Charcoal drawing of a sugar house. There are two trees on the right side of the house and one on the left next to a bush. They are all bare. A fence and road continue towards the right, and there are evergreen trees and mountains in the distance.
The frame is wood painted blue with gold patterns on the edge. The drawing is surrounded by black paper with a white line in the center. "The Sugar House" is written in the lower left of the drawing, and the signature is on the right side below the road.
On the back, "Now/Site 7. Redfield Hoare's Residence/Barre--E.MPR. Road" is written in pencil on the brown paper. In pen: "Charcoal Sketch/AL. Comi/3 Adams St./Barre VT". On a label, "Al Comi/The Sugar House/ca. 1927-37/charcoal on paper/Gift of the Estate of Ines Ruvera Comi, 2000" is typed.
The frame is wood painted blue with gold patterns on the edge. The drawing is surrounded by black paper with a white line in the center. "The Sugar House" is written in the lower left of the drawing, and the signature is on the right side below the road.
On the back, "Now/Site 7. Redfield Hoare's Residence/Barre--E.MPR. Road" is written in pencil on the brown paper. In pen: "Charcoal Sketch/AL. Comi/3 Adams St./Barre VT". On a label, "Al Comi/The Sugar House/ca. 1927-37/charcoal on paper/Gift of the Estate of Ines Ruvera Comi, 2000" is typed.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Charcoal
Made/Created
Artist Information
Comi, Alfred Joseph Peter (1900-1986)
Artist
Date made
1927-1937
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1365
Context
Alfred Joseph Peter Comi was, born in Barre, Vermont. He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1919, and went to work for Jones Brothers Granite Company in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston he furthered his artistic studies by taking life drawing courses at the Copley Studios. He returned to Vermont in the early 1920's and was employed by the Vermont Marble Company in Proctor as a designer. In 1925 he became the chief designer for the Marr and Gordon Granite Company of Barre.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
In 1927 he opened the Barre Design Studio, which he operated for several decades. That same year he married Ines Rivera of Barre and they resided in Montpelier until 1935 when they moved permanently to Barre.
He was very highly regarded and sought after in the granite industry. In fact, Anderson-Friberg's owner, Melvin Friberg noted "the unanimous respect of the manufacturers and dealers for Comi's designs, saying he is tops among professional designers and an elder statesman in the industry". He further stated "that outstanding orders were still received requesting his expertise and artistry...." long after Mr. Comi had retired.
Al Comi learned to paint with oils at the age of 54, studying under Stan Marc Wright, of Stowe, Vermont in 1954. By 1957 he and other local artists started an art exhibit at the Park on Main St. which attracted several thousand people.
He was the founding member of the Barre Paletteers, served as its president for eleven years and exhibited in every Paletters Art show from 1957 until his death. He was also a member of the Southern Vermont Artists Association, Vermont Art Association, the Chaffee Art Museum of Rutland, and Northern Vermont Artists.
The Village Blacksmith
Interpretative Labels
Label
Napoleon DeGuise was born in 1894 and began whittling in 1932, "to save the old ways...for the younger generation."
DeGuise whittled during his free time while running his barber shop. He gave many pieces away, but his work also traveled to craft shows around the country and was featured in The Saturday Evening Post in 1944 and the book Handicrafts of New England by Allen Eaton in 1949.
DeGuise was born in Burlington and used Vermont pine and a knife or his own electric barber's clipper to create most of his carvings. DeGuise's work not only depicted life at the time, but showcased New England traditions of handcrafts and woodcarving.
The Village Blacksmith contains about 20 pieces, from a large bellows to a tiny horseshoe. This diorama seems to highlight the bustle of a blacksmith shop, with one man working the forge and another shoeing a horse. Even the two men not at work appear to be having a discussion, possibly about the horse next to them. While both dioramas are places of work, the Blacksmith's shows a busier side.
Name/Title
The Village Blacksmith
Lexicon
Description
Carved wooden diorama showing the interior of a building in which several men are working. One is shoeing a horse or donkey, two are talking, and another is working a large, ceiling-mounted bellows and forging an object within a fire. Objects around the room include tools, a barrel/bucket, a broom, a tool case, and an anvil. The bottom front is carved with the title, "THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH". On the upper right corner is the inked label, "REPLICA PETE HURLBERT SHOP STOWE ST WATERBURY VT 1814".
Acquisition
Accession
1991.46
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood
Subject
Interior of a Pete Hurlbert's blacksmith shop
Made/Created
Artist Information
DeGuise, Napoleon F. (1894-1950)
Artist
Date made
1945-1950
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
1991.46.3
Context
Made by Napoleon DeGuise of Waterbury, Vermont
The Welden House
Name/Title
The Welden House
Lexicon
Description
Print showing a large white building with several groupings of people in the foreground. The building is 6 stories tall, 9 bays wide, and 6 bays deep. Beneath the print is the title, "WELDEN HOUSE. ST. ALBANS, VT." and information about the hotel within the building.
Acquisition
Accession
2006.69
Artwork Details
Subject
Welden House Hotel
Made/Created
Artist Information
Newcomb, J.
Artist
Date made
1870-1897
Manufacturer
Bufford's Lithography
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Entry/Object ID
2006.69.2
Context
The Welden House, developed by Elinus J. Morrison, was in the process of being built at the time of the St. Albans Raid. Morrison was walking on Main Street and was shot by the Confederate raiders, the only fatality of this northernmost raid of the Civil War.
The finished hotel was the finest in St. Albans and featured 200 rooms, gas and electric lighting, steam heat, electric call bells, and an Otis elevator. A large interior courtyard allowed natural light into all rooms. In addition to the hotel, the building also housed a U.S. Post Office, Western Union telegraph office, restaurant, theater, billiards hall, and livery stable.
It was destroyed by fire on July 17, 1897.
The finished hotel was the finest in St. Albans and featured 200 rooms, gas and electric lighting, steam heat, electric call bells, and an Otis elevator. A large interior courtyard allowed natural light into all rooms. In addition to the hotel, the building also housed a U.S. Post Office, Western Union telegraph office, restaurant, theater, billiards hall, and livery stable.
It was destroyed by fire on July 17, 1897.
Web Links and URLs
Time Clock
Name/Title
Time Clock
Lexicon
Description
Wood and glass case housing analog clock atop metal and wood base. Base has slot for inserting time card and readout for employment settings. Lever on left is for employment settings. Large lever on the right is for punching the time card.
Acquisition
Accession
2022.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Porter Screen Company
Person or Organization
Related Places
,
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Manufacturer
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2022.12.1
Context
During the usage of this time clock, the Porter Screen Company was the largest window and door screen company in the world. Started by E. N. Porter of Hardwick, Vermont at an early business incubator space in Burlington in 1881. The company quickly outgrew the shared mill space on the waterfront and moved to Winooski in 1893. After that facility burned in 1900, the company built its large factory on Spring Street that still stands today.
The Porter Screen Company thrived in the first half of the 20th century, manufacturing the iconic wood and metal sliding window screens. By 1952, with a national love of aluminum taking over the marketplace, the Porter Screen Company and its wooden products, went out of business. This time clock represents the rapid industrialization of Vermont in early 20th century. As an added connection, the maker of this clock was a subsidiary of the Computing - Recording - Tabulating company, later known as IBM, and the top employer in Vermont in the decades following the Porter Screen Company closure.
The Porter Screen Company thrived in the first half of the 20th century, manufacturing the iconic wood and metal sliding window screens. By 1952, with a national love of aluminum taking over the marketplace, the Porter Screen Company and its wooden products, went out of business. This time clock represents the rapid industrialization of Vermont in early 20th century. As an added connection, the maker of this clock was a subsidiary of the Computing - Recording - Tabulating company, later known as IBM, and the top employer in Vermont in the decades following the Porter Screen Company closure.
Web Links and URLs
Tin
Name/Title
Tin
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular tin that was filled with "Our Husbands' Co." ointment. The tine is black with cream colored areas. The top is printed in red. The ointment was primarily used on cows.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.27
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Our Husbands Company
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1986.27.1
Toboggan
Name/Title
Toboggan
Lexicon
Description
Sled made from four wooden slats and six cross-braces
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1880
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.188
Context
The toboggan was purchased from an antique dealer at the Brimfield Antique market from a dealer who was amazed to have found it in a barn in central Vermont. It is one of the few native toboggans from south of the St. Lawrence River. It is definitely native made and shows the distinctive lashing holes that define the ethnic style. These were traditionally used to bring back the butchered body of a moose to the camp or village.
Tongs
Name/Title
Tongs
Lexicon
Description
Metal tongs. The handle is two warped tongs with the two sides curve outward and straighten and overlap one another. The hinge intersects the two tongs and flares into rounded arms which overlap at the points. There are no markings and it is rusted.
Acquisition
Accession
1978.15
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Stone, William Chester (1889-1972)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Springfield
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1978.15.7
Context
Owned by William Chester Stone in Springfield, Vermont.
Tool
Name/Title
Tool
Lexicon
Description
Metal and wood sizing tool. The metal sizing tool is hooked at one end with a straight middle section and a metal attachment between the hook and the dark wooden handle. The attachment has a winged metal screw, a small pointed metal piece with guides near the handle, and a thick rectangular band that overlaps the pointed piece and the straight section of the hook. The hand is made of a turned wood with double bands etched near the connection point and three etched bands by the end of the handle.
Entry/Object ID
T2022.16.2
Toothpick Holder
Name/Title
Toothpick Holder
Lexicon
Description
Custard glass toothpick holder. The cup flares outward from the base to the rim, and the top edge is gilded. One side is printed in red with the inscription, "Souvenir JAMAICA, VT.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.21
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Cleveland, Eugene R. (1911-2005)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Jamaica
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
2005.21.70
Context
Sold in Jamaica, Vermont
Toothpick Holder
Name/Title
Toothpick Holder
Lexicon
Description
Red Swanton marble sandwiched with Jasper green marble forming a block
Acquisition
Accession
1979.5
Made/Created
Date made
1920-1929
Manufacturer
Root, Frank A. (1881-1952)
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1979.5.2
Toy Car
Name/Title
Toy Car
Description
A windup metal toy Renault car, with rubber ties, a hole for a key, a switch to turn the front wheels, a painted license plate that says "Renault" and another diamond emblem on the back right that reads "4CV." This one is navy with white outline and its key is stuck in the turn hole.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Metal, Rubber
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.100
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Toy Cow
Name/Title
Toy Cow
Lexicon
Description
Unpainted wooden carving of a cow. The wood has prominent grainlines.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.39
Made/Created
Artist Information
Johnson, Erik John (1853-1938)
Artist
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1964.39.3
Context
Made by Erik Johnson in Proctor, Vermont
Web Links and URLs
Toy Sailboat
Name/Title
Toy Sailboat
Lexicon
Description
Solid wood toy sailboat with a metal fin. The exterior body of the boat and the fin are painted red. The top of the boat is painted white. There is a mast made from a dowel two two strings attached to the top. One string attaches to the front of the boat and the other attaches to the back. There is a triangular cotton sail printed with blue stripes and a blue star.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Fabric, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.194
Toy Train
Name/Title
Toy Train
Lexicon
Description
Painted, wooden toy train consisting of 6 pieces: a blue engine, a green coal car, a red box car, a blue automobile or trailer car, and 2 red cabooses. The coal car is labeled, "CHESAPEAKE & OHIO / C & O". The box car is labeled, "NORTHER PACIFIC / AUTOMOBILE". The automobile and cabooses are labeled, "ROCKLAND". Each car has yellow wheel except for the coal car, which has red. Each car has a downward facing hook at the front and a sideways facing hook at the rear.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.7
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Nuquist, Andrew S.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1940-1943
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2014.7a-f
Context
Used by Andrew S. Nuquist in Burlington, Vermont
Trade Blanket
Name/Title
Trade Blanket
Lexicon
Description
Woven wool blanket with black, yellow, red, and grey stripes.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Woven Textile Details
Weave Type
Plain Weave
Made/Created
Date made
1790-1810
Materials
Material
Wool
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.122
Context
This very well preserved “point blanket” was found in Stowe, Vermont and is exceedingly interesting. First, although well preserved, it had much of the wool nap worn from it compared to standard Hudson Bay and Whitney blankets that commonly came out of closets and cedar chests in turn of the century camps along Lake Champlain. Second, the “point” was inked in with indigo, indicating that the value could be assigned by the trader, something never seen in the later 19th and 20th century “Point” blankets. This was evidence of antiquity.
Web Links and URLs
Trade Sign
Name/Title
Trade Sign
Lexicon
Description
Semicircular metal and wooden sign painted in gold with the inscription, "Dr. LYMAN ALLEN HOURS 130 to 3 P.M." The front of the sign has a attached grains of sand, giving it a round texture. The back is hollow, using what appear to be scrap pieces of molding to hold the sign away from the wall.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.59
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Allen, Lyman (1872-1961)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1900-1920
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2012.59
Context
Used on the office of Dr. Lyman Allen on Main Street in Burlington, Vermont
Trade Sign
Name/Title
Trade Sign
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular black metal sign with protruding twisting border and the words, "VERMONT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO" in red with curly cues across the top. The center has a large oval painted with an illustration of a tall, Victorian style brick building with a blue roof, and small Greek cornice style overhangs. Extending vertically upwards from the center of the roof right hand face of the building is a metal flag poll with an American flag (small upper corner in blue with white stars and red and white stripes) blowing to the left. Pedestrians, a car, and a horse-drawn buggy heading towards us surround the building on the ground. The bottom left corner of the side has a round red seal with the Vermont state seal in it surrounded by two laurel branches, and the bottom right corner has an oval seal with the words, "CAPITAL 6,285,000,000". The center bottom says, "MONTPELIER, VERMONT" in bright red, letters with smaller curling ornamentation on the "M" of "MONTPELIER."
Acquisition
Accession
2018.22
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Mutual Fire
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1905-1915
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2018.22.1
Context
Vermont Mutual was one of the oldest and long-serving insurance companies in Vermont. This headquarters building was constructed in 1870 on the site of company founder's home at what is now 110 State Street in Montpelier. The structure still stands today and is the home of the State's Attorneys association and Sheriffs association.
Web Links and URLs
Trail Marker
Name/Title
Trail Marker
Lexicon
Description
Catamount Trail blue plastic sign, with black lettering. The sign shows a panther print above the "Catamount Trail" name. Along the sides are: "C.T.A., P.O. Box 897" and "Burlington, VT 05402."
Acquisition
Accession
1995.44
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1984-1995
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
1995.44.1
Context
Used to mark the Catamount Cross Country Ski Trail, a route that spans the length of Vermont
Trash Bag
Name/Title
Trash Bag
Lexicon
Description
Small, white plastic back printed in green with an illustration of a cow and the inscription, "GREEN UP VERMONT / 30 Yrs" above the logos of several sponsors. Sponsors include Chittenden Bank, Vermont Yankee, Pepsi, Casella Waste Systems, Inc., National Life, McDonalds, and Maplefields.
Acquisition
Accession
2001.31
Relationships
Related Events
Green Up Day
Event
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Green Up, Inc.
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1970-1999
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2001.31.10
Context
Produced for Green Up Day, 2000.
Travel cup set
Name/Title
Travel cup set
Lexicon
Description
Metal travel cup set in silver-color polish with lid (a), outer cup (b), and 5 nested cups (c-g). Each cup is slightly conical in shape with a rolled top edge. The lid has a rolled edge with two rectangular cut-outs opposite each other for easier removal.
These cups were used by Katherine and Leroy J. Dopp while hiking the Long Trail.
These cups were used by Katherine and Leroy J. Dopp while hiking the Long Trail.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.12
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dopp, Sarah L., Dopp, Katharine Eckley (1907-1999), Dopp, Leroy James, Jr. (1910-1995)
Dimensions
Dimension Description
overall exterior of cups stacked together
Materials
Material
Tin
Entry/Object ID
2024.12.1a-g
Tray
Name/Title
Tray
Lexicon
Description
Black-painted metal tray stenciled in shades of yellow and orange with an image of a folk art style bird on a branch with flowers. The tray is rectangular with rounded corners, and the rim is stenciled with floral vines.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.4
Made/Created
Artist Information
Cleveland, Susie Boyce Ditty Fiske (1894-1982)
Artist
Date made
1940-1960
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
2012.4.2
Context
Made by Susie Cleveland in Northfield, Vermont
Tribute to Vermont (study 1)
Name/Title
Tribute to Vermont (study 1)
Lexicon
Description
In the far left corner there is a scene of Native Americans paddling a canoe, and to their left is Samuel de Champlain. To the right of the Native American scene is a picture of a man with his fist raised wearing a colonial hat. Below him there is a man chopping wood and two horses plowing a field. To the right there is a drawing of a lake, next to the lake there is a drawing of a man on a horse. Below this man is an older man holding a piece of paper above the state house. To the right of the state house there is a scene of sap collecting. Two trees frame this scene. To the right of the sap scene there is a drawing of a man holding a gavel above a group of people. To the right of the group is a scene of a granite quarry. To the right of the granite quarry there is a drawing of a college graduation. Below the college drawing is a drawing of people skiing.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.39
Artwork Details
Medium
Pencil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Sample, Paul Starrett (1896-1974)
Artist
Date made
2016
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2016.39.2
Type of Drawing
Context
When National Life laid the cornerstone of its headquarters on the ridge overlooking Montpelier in 1958, their CEO approached well-known-muralist Paul Sample to create an iconic work of art to evoke the past, present, and future of Vermont as a centerpiece of the new structure. Sample worked closely with National Life to choose scenes and topics that reflected both Vermont's story and that of the company's rich Vermont roots. As he got closer to a final design, Sample produced scale drawings, called cartoons, of the mural in both pencil and paint for company approval. When he was ready to transfer the design to the full eight by fifty-foot canvas, he partitioned the final cartoon into numbered blocks to ease the enlargement of scenes. Notice how the composition and content of the mural changed from the bottom sketch to the top working design.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Tribute to Vermont (study 2)
Name/Title
Tribute to Vermont (study 2)
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
"Tribute to Vermont' by Paul Sample. A mural that measures 50' L x 8' H and depicts three-and-a-half centuries of Vermont history, from Samuel de Champlain's arrival in the Champlain Valley in 1609 to the development of Vermont's ski industry in the late 1950's." Same description as VHS-A-1153, however it is in color using colored pencil.
This is an acrylic study of the above mural, which is now housed in the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
This is an acrylic study of the above mural, which is now housed in the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.39
Artwork Details
Medium
Acrylic
Made/Created
Artist Information
Sample, Paul Starrett (1896-1974)
Artist
Date made
2016
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2016.39.3
Context
When National Life laid the cornerstone of its headquarters on the ridge overlooking Montpelier in 1958, their CEO approached well-known-muralist Paul Sample to create an iconic work of art to evoke the past, present, and future of Vermont as a centerpiece of the new structure. Sample worked closely with National Life to choose scenes and topics that reflected both Vermont's story and that of the company's rich Vermont roots. As he got closer to a final design, Sample produced scale drawings, called cartoons, of the mural in both pencil and paint for company approval. When he was ready to transfer the design to the full eight by fifty-foot canvas, he partitioned the final cartoon into numbered blocks to ease the enlargement of scenes. Notice how the composition and content of the mural changed from the bottom sketch to the top working design.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Tribute to Vermont (study 3)
Name/Title
Tribute to Vermont (study 3)
Lexicon
Description
The drawing is on brown paper. On the entire picture there is a grid. Numbers line the vertical axis, they go up to 25 in red ink then start over from 1 in yellow ink. On the vertical axis there are letters up to G. When these two axis meet they create a square inch box; these boxes are all along the picture. In the far left corner there is a scene of Native Americans paddling a canoe, and to their left is supposedly Samuel de Champlain. To the right of the Native American scene is a picture of a man with his fist raised wearing a colonial hat. Below him there is a man chopping wood and two horses pulling something. To the right of these scenes the sketches get darker in shade. There is a picture of a church with hands clasped in a prayer position. To the churches right there is a picture of a man and woman holding each other. Under them is a man holding a piece of paper, and below this man is a picture of the state house. To the right of the state house there is a large scene of sap collecting. Two trees frame this scene. To the right and a bit above that scene there is the front of a building, below the building there is a group of people, some of them are waving their hands. Next to the group of people and the building, on the right, there is a tree, to the right of the tree begins a new scene. This scene is of farmers. Miking cows, taking care of horses. Above the farm scene there is a granite workers scene. A man waving his hand to another man working in the granite quarry. To the right of these two scenes is another tree. To the right of that tree, in the upper right corner is a scene of a college graduation. Below that is a drawing of people skiing.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.39
Artwork Details
Medium
Pencil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Sample, Paul Starrett (1896-1974)
Artist
Date made
2016
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2016.39.4
Type of Drawing
Context
When National Life laid the cornerstone of its headquarters on the ridge overlooking Montpelier in 1958, their CEO approached well-known-muralist Paul Sample to create an iconic work of art to evoke the past, present, and future of Vermont as a centerpiece of the new structure. Sample worked closely with National Life to choose scenes and topics that reflected both Vermont's story and that of the company's rich Vermont roots. As he got closer to a final design, Sample produced scale drawings, called cartoons, of the mural in both pencil and paint for company approval. When he was ready to transfer the design to the full eight by fifty-foot canvas, he partitioned the final cartoon into numbered blocks to ease the enlargement of scenes. Notice how the composition and content of the mural changed from the bottom sketch to the top working design.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Paul Starrett Sample (September 14, 1896 – February 26, 1974) was an American artist who portrayed life in New England in the middle of the 20th Century with a style that showed elements of "Social Realism and Regionalism."
Sample was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1896. After having moved across the country with his family on several occasions, Sample attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There he studied architecture and graduated in 1921 after a year in the Naval Reserve during World War I. While visiting his brother, Donald, at a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, Sample contracted tuberculosis. He stayed for treatment of that disease in Saranac Lake for four years. There he met Sylvia Howland, whom he married in 1928.
At Saranac Lake, Sample studied drawing and painting under Jonas Lie. He then studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. There his work reflected social issues connected with the Great Depression with two noted paintings in 1931. In 1926 Sample joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the school of architecture, where he remained until 1938. In 1938, he returned to New Hampshire to become the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, a position which he held until 1962. In addition to his social and regional paintings, Sample produced artwork for various magazines during World War II.
Trinket Box
Name/Title
Trinket Box
Lexicon
Description
Small oval trinket box with lid. The box is lined with green-and-white marbled paper. The top of the lid is inset with a disk showing a red-and-white house with the label (ADMIRAL DEWEY'S BIRTHPLACE, MONTPELIER, VT." (now detached).
Acquisition
Accession
1959.58
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1898-1900
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Celluloid, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1959.58.5a-c
Context
Shows the family home of Admiral George Dewey in Montpelier, Vermont
Trivet
Interpretative Labels
Label
Trivet
Students at the College Moderne et Technique
Monceau-les-Mines, France
Metal
Gift of the State of Vermont, 1964.63.64
In 1949, the French people shipped 49 boxcars filled with tokens of gratitude for the trainloads of food, clothing, and medicine that the United States had sent in 1947 to assist France's recovery following World War II. The "Merci Train," a response to the "American Friendship Train," arrived in February.
There was an antique boxcar full of gifts and messages for each of the 48 states, plus one for Hawaii and the District of Columbia to share. Vermont's boxcar arrived in the state aboard a flatbed car on February 9. It made short stops in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, and White River Junction on its way to Montpelier. The official welcoming ceremony took place on February 10, and included Governor Ernest W. Gibson Jr. and Count Max de Montalembert, the French vice-consul in Boston.
Bermont's boxcar contained hundreds of items--dolls, toys, paintings, crafts, pencil boxes, embroidered collars, wooden puppets, ornamental fans, paintings, vases, trinkets, books, cards, and letters. Some of the artwork was given to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont in Burlington, some French books to Middlebury College, and individual items were sent via legislators to towns and libraries throughout the state. The remainder--nearly 200 items--has been in the custody of and stored at the Vermont Historical Society.
Pieces from the collection have been displayed twice since they arrived in that boxcar 70 years ago--in the 1950s and in 1988.
Name/Title
Trivet
Lexicon
Description
Eight-sided, metal trivet with four legs. The surface is punched with holes that make a picture of a butterfly. Two notes accompany the piece: one giving the origin of the piece and another asking to establish correspondence between the young makers and young Americans.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Made/Created
Manufacturer
College Moderne et Technique de Montceau-les-Mines
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Metal
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.64
Context
Made in a class of 12 year olds at the College Moderne et Technique and given to the State of Vermont by the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Trophy
Name/Title
Trophy
Description
Silvered metal cheerleading trophy. The trophy is in the shape of a lidded chalice with a female cheerleader in a skirt and long-sleeved shirt on the top. The chalice has a hammered textured surface to the lid and cup, and two laurel wreath applied "handles." The stem is a fluted urn-shaped form with a round pedestal base with a gadrooned edge. The trophy rests on a hollow stained wooden box. The silver label on the front reads, "N.E.S.D.B.A. / CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM / 1977" and was awarded to the Austine School Cheerleading Squad for a first-place win in the National Deaf Cheer Competition in 1977. The Austine School cheer squad won first place three times including this 1977 win.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Made/Created
Date made
1977
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood, Metal, Plastic
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.5
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Tub, Food Storage
Name/Title
Tub, Food Storage
Lexicon
Description
a=Kingdom Creamery yogurt container, b= plastic cover, c= foil seal
a= White plastic 32-oz tub with blue, green, black and red lettering and graphics. On front is "KINGDOM/ CREAMERY/ of Vermont/ Valiant Vanilla/ non-fat yogurt" with the logo in center of a cow and a knight against a farm background. On back is "Fresh from Our Kingdom to Your Castle!", giving information about the Michaud Family and Kingdom Creamery of Vermont in East Hardwick, Vt. Below and along sides are Nutrition Facts, Ingredients, contact information, bar code, sell-by date, etc.
b= Clear plastic cover
c= Light and dark blue foil cover imprinted "Kingdom/ Creamery/ of Vermont" with cow/knight logo.
a= White plastic 32-oz tub with blue, green, black and red lettering and graphics. On front is "KINGDOM/ CREAMERY/ of Vermont/ Valiant Vanilla/ non-fat yogurt" with the logo in center of a cow and a knight against a farm background. On back is "Fresh from Our Kingdom to Your Castle!", giving information about the Michaud Family and Kingdom Creamery of Vermont in East Hardwick, Vt. Below and along sides are Nutrition Facts, Ingredients, contact information, bar code, sell-by date, etc.
b= Clear plastic cover
c= Light and dark blue foil cover imprinted "Kingdom/ Creamery/ of Vermont" with cow/knight logo.
Acquisition
Accession
2013.52
Made/Created
Date made
2013
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Plastic, Metal
Entry/Object ID
2013.52.12a-c
Tumbler
Name/Title
Tumbler
Lexicon
Description
Pressed glass tumbler heavily molded with imagery of Admiral George Dewey and militaria. The glass is molded to have a rough ground, bordered on the top by a rope and the bottom by repeated stacks of cannonballs. One side shows a bust portrait of Dewey within a laurel wreath topped with a flying eagle. The other side shows crossed flags over a cannon.
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Time Period
20th Century
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.1
Tumbler
Name/Title
Tumbler
Lexicon
Description
Glass tumbler printed with a white wrap showing a photographic bust portrait of Admiral George Dewey within a laurel wreath. The wreath is topped with a flying eagle and flanked by United States flags and Puerto Rican flags. The bottom is labeled, "REAR ADMIRAL GEO. DEWEY U.S. NAVY. THE HERO OF MANILA".
Acquisition
Accession
1969.28
Relationships
Related Events
Spanish-American War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1969.28.3
Tuning Forks
Name/Title
Tuning Forks
Lexicon
Description
In 1899 former Vermont Governor Levi K. Fuller exhibited his collection of over 300 tuning forks at the Boston branch of the Estey Organ Company. A newspaper clipping reporting on the exhibit was included with this case of tuning forks that Vermont Historical Society purchased in 1999. The exterior of this case is stamped in gold with Fuller's name and inside the cover was the note, "These five forks have/controlled the Pitch/of the world, from/1751 to 1892." Each fork is marked in gold with Fuller's name, a pitch and a composer's name. According to the article, a fork that Fuller owned marked "A422.5 Handel" was used by the composer when he conducted the Messiah in 1751. In 1892 Governor Fuller, the founder and owner of the Estey Organ Company, adopted the international pitch A435. These forks all are stamped "Valantine & Carr/Sheffield England" and were most likely a set Fuller made in the late 1800s. The forks are marked (left to right):
AI- A422.5 Handel; A2- A423.5 Mozart; A3-A433.2 Sir George Smart; A4-A454.7 Sir M. Costa; and A5-A452.5 Sir M. Costa
5 tuning forks in a case separated/broken at the hinge. Each fork has a mark at the top of the neck. a= A / 4" b= "A / 1" c= "A / 2" d= "A / 5" e= "A / 3" Each of the forks has a double diamond (diamond within a diamond) on the opposite side as the mark. Each fork has in gold the pitch on one tine and "L.K. FULLER" on the other. On the outside of the case: "A 422.5 - 423.5- / 433.2-452. 5-454.7" and at the bottom "LEVI.K.FULLER" Also on the inside of the case there is a hand written note that reads: "These 5 Forks have/ controlled the Pitch/ of the world, from/ 1751. to 1892." The inside is lined with gold velveteen. The outside is a thin "leatherette" (?) purple/black.
dark gray almost black
AI- A422.5 Handel; A2- A423.5 Mozart; A3-A433.2 Sir George Smart; A4-A454.7 Sir M. Costa; and A5-A452.5 Sir M. Costa
5 tuning forks in a case separated/broken at the hinge. Each fork has a mark at the top of the neck. a= A / 4" b= "A / 1" c= "A / 2" d= "A / 5" e= "A / 3" Each of the forks has a double diamond (diamond within a diamond) on the opposite side as the mark. Each fork has in gold the pitch on one tine and "L.K. FULLER" on the other. On the outside of the case: "A 422.5 - 423.5- / 433.2-452. 5-454.7" and at the bottom "LEVI.K.FULLER" Also on the inside of the case there is a hand written note that reads: "These 5 Forks have/ controlled the Pitch/ of the world, from/ 1751. to 1892." The inside is lined with gold velveteen. The outside is a thin "leatherette" (?) purple/black.
dark gray almost black
Acquisition
Accession
1999.46
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Fuller, Levi Knight (1841-1896), J. Estey & Company
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1895
Manufacturer
Valantine & Carr
Materials
Material
Steel
Entry/Object ID
1999.46a-g
Context
Collected by Levi K. Fuller of Brattleboro, Vermont. In addition to serving as Governor of Vermont, Fuller worked at Estey Organ Company, during which time he developed and patented the international standard pitch notation.
Turkey Bell
Name/Title
Turkey Bell
Lexicon
Description
Small, round brass bell attached to a leather strap. The interior bell has two clappers. The number 356 is written on the inside of the bell. The strap is adjustable with a small buckle.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Brass, Leather
Entry/Object ID
1976.16.8
Typewriter
Interpretative Labels
Label
Permutation Typograph, ca. 1857
Benjamin Livermore
Harland, VT
Brass, steel
Transfer from Hartland Historical Society, 1982.6.1
Benjamin Livermore’s “Permutation Typograph” is a kind of early typewriter. He was far from the first to develop a machine for writing; many others had been experimenting with and tweaking mechanical devices for typing for decades before him.
Livermore, who lived in Hartland, patented his device and advertised it via pamphlets and public demonstrations. It’s not clear how widely it was produced. His innovation was in slimming down the device into something he could – and did – operate out of his own pocket. The six keys on the device could be used singly or in combination to select a letter or symbol, and could then type out notes in a kind of shorthand. The case held both type keys and a scroll of paper.
A family member recalled that he used the device personally: “He would print with it in the dark. He usually carried it in his pocket and could print it there, placing his hand in such a position that his fingers rested on the keys. After taking down the conversation of those he met, he placed it under his pillow at night to catch any stray thoughts, as he termed it.”
Livermore’s device, while not necessarily crucial in the larger story of printing, is a fascinating and highly personal story within that history. Livermore was a prolific inventor who also patented a machine for forming cement pipes and a boot crimper.
Name/Title
Typewriter
Lexicon
Description
Early typograph, or typewriter. Small rectangular metal box with six convex keys at one end in two rows, three to a row. The other end of the box is curved. The lid of the box opens to reveal an internal printing mechanism, with a roller for paper, printing keys, and levers. The device is broken and many of the internal components are loose; it’s not clear precisely how they would have fit together.
Acquisition
Accession
1982.6
Made/Created
Artist Information
Livermore, Benjamin
Artist
Date made
circa 1857
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Brass, Steel
Entry/Object ID
1982.6.1
Context
Made and used by Benjamin Livermore of Hartland, VT.
Uniform
Name/Title
Uniform
Entry/Object ID
T2023.1.7
Untitled Landscape
Name/Title
Untitled Landscape
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Small oil painting depicting a snowy landscape. The composition is framed on either side with trees, each with remnants of brown leaves attached to their branches. There is an equally sparse bush at the bottom of each tree, forming a U-shaped frame around the composition. At the center is a conical evergreen tree. The horizon is formed by a low hill, and the sky is a nearly uniform shade of blue. The lower right corner is signed, "Violetta Santo". The work is framed in a wood frame.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.14
Ethnography
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Santo, Pasquale "Patsy" (1893-1975)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Santo, Violetta Christine (1918-2011)
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2023.14.3
Context
Made by Violetta Santo of Bennington and later Rutland, Vermont and owned by her father, artist Patsy Santo. The painting came to the Vermont Historical Society with a group of personal items belonging to Patsy Santo.
Untitled Landscape
Name/Title
Untitled Landscape
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas of a country road, framed by birch trees with green leaves and stone wall, probably East Ryegate. Back is signed Mrs. J. F. Devins.
Acquisition
Accession
2007.63
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Made/Created
Artist Information
Devins, Laura
Artist
Date made
circa 1930
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2007.63.2
Context
Laura Devins lived in East Ryegate with her husband Joseph Devins, a foreman at the local paper mill. Painting was probably a hobby, as her work is not found on the market or in collecting institutions.
Urn
Name/Title
Urn
Lexicon
Description
a=Granite urn and b=ball that sits in it. Made by donor's grandfather's company Grearson and Lane. Turned Barre gray granite urn and Salisbury pink ball. The two urns (.1 & .2) are the same height but do not have the same size indentation in them. .1 is larger and has a larger ball.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.43
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lane, Willis A. (1861-1936)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Lane, Willis A. (1861-1936)
Artist
Date made
1920-1930
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Granite
Entry/Object ID
2012.43.2.1a-b
Urn
Name/Title
Urn
Lexicon
Description
Granite urn and ball that sits in it. Made by donor's grandfather's company Grearson and Lane. Turned Barre gray granite urn and Salisbury pink ball. The two urns (.1 & .2) are the same height but do not have the same size indentation in them. .1 is larger and has a larger ball.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.43
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Lane, Willis A. (1861-1936)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Artist Information
Lane, Willis A. (1861-1936)
Artist
Date made
1920-1930
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Granite
Entry/Object ID
2012.43.2.2a-b
Vamps
Name/Title
Vamps
Lexicon
Description
Two beaded, black velveteen tabs or vamps. The edge of the vamps are bordered by white beads. The central motif features a red and clear quatrefoil design with a blue leaf towards the narrow end (toe) of the vamp. The leaf emerges from a spray of blue and white beads and is surrounded by arms of both yellow and white beads.
Use
Top, decorative panel of moccasins
Acquisition
Accession
1989.10
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
1841-1903
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Silk, Beads, Paper
Entry/Object ID
1989.10.6a-b
Context
The distinctive quatrefoil design found on these vamps is indicative of Abenaki bead-work.
These particular pieces came into the Vermont Historical collection as part of a group of items from the Wilbur family. The envelope containing the vamps, along with cuffs 1989.10.7a-b, had the inscription, "James Wilbur's Beadwork." For a number of years, James Wilbur was listed as the maker with an origin date of 1840. Upon further research and close analysis of the beadwork, it's most likely these date from the 1820s and the inscription on the envelope is that of ownership as opposed to manufacture.
The Wilbur family was one of the early settler families in Waterville. 19th century Waterville written histories as well as recorded oral histories indicate there was a sizeable Abenaki village along the shores of the North Branch of the Lamoille River (called the Kelley River at the time). Wilbur's father-in-law, Isaac Merrick, is known to have partnered with Abenaki in his cross-boarder trade/smuggling in the 1810s and 1820s. A beautiful, Abenaki-produced, compass case belonging to Isaac Merrick is also part of this larger family gift. For more information on this relationship, please see object 1989.10.3.
It's highly likely that these vamps, and the now-missing moccasins, were produced in the local Abenaki community and gifted or traded to the extended Wilbur family.
These particular pieces came into the Vermont Historical collection as part of a group of items from the Wilbur family. The envelope containing the vamps, along with cuffs 1989.10.7a-b, had the inscription, "James Wilbur's Beadwork." For a number of years, James Wilbur was listed as the maker with an origin date of 1840. Upon further research and close analysis of the beadwork, it's most likely these date from the 1820s and the inscription on the envelope is that of ownership as opposed to manufacture.
The Wilbur family was one of the early settler families in Waterville. 19th century Waterville written histories as well as recorded oral histories indicate there was a sizeable Abenaki village along the shores of the North Branch of the Lamoille River (called the Kelley River at the time). Wilbur's father-in-law, Isaac Merrick, is known to have partnered with Abenaki in his cross-boarder trade/smuggling in the 1810s and 1820s. A beautiful, Abenaki-produced, compass case belonging to Isaac Merrick is also part of this larger family gift. For more information on this relationship, please see object 1989.10.3.
It's highly likely that these vamps, and the now-missing moccasins, were produced in the local Abenaki community and gifted or traded to the extended Wilbur family.
Varsity Letter
Name/Title
Varsity Letter
Lexicon
Description
White felted varsity letter "A" with thin, green, felt, outlining background.
Acquisition
Accession
2024.16
Dimensions
Dimension Description
General Height and Width (see note)
Materials
Material
Felt
Entry/Object ID
2024.16.3
Context
Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Miniature vase with a full-color illustration of a white house set among tall, green trees. The illustration is labeled, "Vermont Soldier's Home, Bennington, Vt." The rest of the vase is blue with gilded accents. The bottom is labeled, "Made in GERMANY".
Acquisition
Accession
1998.40
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Bennington
City
Bennington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.40.3
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Miniature pink-glazed ceramic vase with two gold handles. One side is printed with a color illustration of a brick building with a square cupola and arched entryway. The image is labeled, "BROOKS LIBRARY, BRATTLEBORO, VT."
Acquisition
Accession
2008.83
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Brattleboro
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1890-1930
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Porcelain
Entry/Object ID
2008.83.17
Vase
Interpretative Labels
Label
In 1949, the French people shipped 49 boxcars filled with tokens of gratitude for the trainloads of food, clothing, and medicine that the United States had sent in 1947 to assist France's recovery following World War II. The "Merci Train," a response to the "American Friendship Train," arrived in February.
There was an antique boxcar full of gifts and messages for each of the 48 states, plus one for Hawaii and the District of Columbia to share. Vermont's boxcar arrived in the state aboard a flatbed car on February 9. It made short stops in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, and White River Junction on its way to Montpelier. The official welcoming ceremony took place on February 10, and included Governor Ernest W. Gibson Jr. and Count Max de Montalembert, the French vice-consul in Boston.
Bermont's boxcar contained hundreds of items--dolls, toys, paintings, crafts, pencil boxes, embroidered collars, wooden puppets, ornamental fans, paintings, vases, trinkets, books, cards, and letters. Some of the artwork was given to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont in Burlington, some French books to Middlebury College, and individual items were sent via legislators to towns and libraries throughout the state. The remainder--nearly 200 items--has been in the custody of and stored at the Vermont Historical Society.
Pieces from the collection have been displayed twice since they arrived in that boxcar 70 years ago--in the 1950s and in 1988.
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Paper mache vase painted blue-gray, silver and gold. The vase has a short body that flares outward in a saucer shape and has a long neck. A card inside the vase says it was made by students at the College Moderne et Technique.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Events
World War II
Event
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Made/Created
Time Period
20th Century
Manufacturer
College Moderne et Technique de Montceau-les-Mines
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Papier-mâché
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.73
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Artillery shell turned into a vase with green background painted on and oak leaves. On the bottom the shell says August 1917 and that the shell is 87 percent copper.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Copper, Metal
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.133
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Tall black metal vase with copper-colored rim, flowers and church. It is marked on the bottom as being from M.Flour-Paris.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.141
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Description
Vase made from a World War I artillery shell. It has a pounded design of oak leaves and is partly painted green. On the bottom there is a date -- Sept. 1917. On the outside the word "souvenir" is etched onto a shield.
Acquisition
Accession
1964.63
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Merci Train
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
France
Country
Europe
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Brass
Entry/Object ID
1964.63.159
Context
Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.
Vase
Name/Title
Vase
Lexicon
Description
Miniature vase in the shape of a basket. The front has an illustration a large brick building The illustration is labeled, "POST OFFICE, MONTPELIER, VT." The rest of the vase is lustered in gold.
Acquisition
Accession
2020.23
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
2020.23.1
Vegetable Dish
Name/Title
Vegetable Dish
Lexicon
Description
White, oval vegetable dish with a brown and tan Greek key patterned border. The reverse is marked with "England/W.H. GRINDLEY" and the pattern name, "The Corfu."
Acquisition
Accession
1998.5
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Montpelier
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Manufacturer
W. H. Grindley
Materials
Material
Ceramic
Entry/Object ID
1998.5.1.9
Context
Used at the Poor Farm in Montpelier, Vermont
Vermont Farm Machine Company
Name/Title
Vermont Farm Machine Company
Lexicon
Description
This artwork is a linocut print depicting a rural interior scene. In the center of the image in front of an open, multi slatted, wooden door revealing leafy hedges, a woman in a long white apron can be seen pouring milk from a deep bucket into a square, vertical tray of a cream separator bearing a small shield design, while the man standing in profile with dark pants, collared shirt, rolled up sleeves, and a cap is resting his hand on the crank of the separator. The machine is separating into a large (probably tin) milk jug nearer to us and another smaller pot to the right bearing a flora-type design and perching on a square-topped stool. To the right of the couple, there is a swing churn resting along the wall of the room. Positioned above the churn, partially visible on the wall, is a piece of art displaying the text: "VT FARM/ ( ...)HINE CO / [an illustration of a building] / DAIRY / 1878." Along the right hand side of the image there is a four-paned window in the back with a leafy bush, the edge of a textured table and the edge of a rounded, vertical appliance with a rounded-top lid. In the bottom right, slanting towards us is another machine-like object with a central multi-armed horizontal bar attaching to a bent handle of another crank protruding from a rectangular box. Below the image, is the label, "Vermont Farm Machine Company (in large, simplistic lettering) Innovations for the Creamery" (in stylized handwritten-looking irregular lettering). On the left accompanying the tile is a box-like object with a vertically extending handle and two loops protruding on either side with petal-like tops and another horizontal, frontal, handle coming out the front and foreshortened. At the front of the box part of the object is inscription stating, "EUREKA" in stick, white lettering against the black object. The front face showing three white marks on either side like pins. On the left side of the print, there are pencil notations indicating "16/25" and "M. Simpson." The print itself is mounted on light beige paper.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.2
Relationships
Related Events
Vermont History Expo
Event
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Farm Machinery Company (1871-1921)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Bellows Falls
Village
Rockingham
Town
Windham County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Artwork Details
Subject
Vermont Farm Machine Company
Made/Created
Artist Information
Simpson, Mary Gorham (b.1945)
Artist
Date made
2008
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.2.1
Context
Originally named the Hartford Sorghum Machine Company of Hartford, Connecticut when it started in 1861, the firm manufactured equipment for boiling sap into syrup. In Vermont, that famously means maple syrup. In 1868 they opened a factory in Bellows Falls, Vermont. The Vermont operation was bought out in 1871 and renamed the Vermont Farm Machine Company. They quickly diversified their offerings to dairy processing machinery. Their cream separators and butter churns could be found on farms large and small throughout the country. At one point, it was the largest manufacturer of farm machinery in the world and employed hundreds of workers at its Bellows Falls plant. When raw materials and skilled labor became scarce during WWI, the company fell on hard times and ultimately shuttered its operations in 1921.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Currently residing in Lyndonville, Mary Gorham Simpson was born in northern Vermont and raised on a working dairy farm in Burke. After graduating from Lyndon State College, she and her husband, Wilder Simpson, taught school in the area for several years, then moved west. They lived for seven years in Wyoming and 14 years in Alaska, returning to Vermont in 1992.
While raising her three children, Simpson took art classes and worked on her own in various media - drawing, calligraphy, and painting. In Alaska, she worked as a graphic artist for the Imaginarium Science Center in Anchorage and as a scenic artist for the Alaska Festival Theater and Anchorage Civic Opera. She did scrimshaw for two shops and exhibit calligraphy for three years for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.
Now back in Vermont, she mostly works as a printmaker with subjects reflecting memories of Vermont agriculture.
Vermont Lime Company
Name/Title
Vermont Lime Company
Lexicon
Description
This artwork is a watercolor and ink drawing depicting an industrial scene. At the center of the composition stands a large industrial building or factory, distinguished by a prominent sign on its roof peak that reads "THE VERMONT LIME COMPANY." This building is connected to a shorter factory structure, characterized by two substantial chimneys or smokestacks. In the foreground, parallel to the factory, two railroad tracks are depicted, with trains positioned along them. Towards the bottom right corner, a river flows. On the left side of the composition, piles of timber can be seen. In the background, the horizon is marked by rolling hills. The railroad tracks form a bridge leading into the hills.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.30
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
The Vermont Lime Company
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Subject
Vermont Lime Company
Made/Created
Date made
1910-1913
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2005.30.1
Type of Drawing
Context
The Vermont Lime Company operated in Whitingham, Vermont from 1910 to 1913.
Vermont Scene
Name/Title
Vermont Scene
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Landscape painting depicting a meadow in the foreground with a clump of trees and shrubbery by a brook on the left. There is a road leading across the center horizontally to another group of trees covered in fall foliage.
Acquisition
Accession
1958.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Brown, Horace (1876-1949)
Person or Organization
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Brown, Horace (1876-1949)
Artist
Date made
1930
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1958.1.1570
Context
Horace Brown was born in Chicago, 1876, and died in New York City on Good Friday, 1949. He graduated from Yale with the class of 1900. After a brief unhappy period as an officer in the family business, he devoted himself to the study of art and landscape painting around the year 1906, winning occasional prizes and exhibiting widely in the East. His paintings form part of the permanent collections of the Springfield (MA) Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1914 he married Caroline H. Clement, daughter of former Vermont Governor, Percival H. Clement, and made "North Mowing" in Springfield, Vermont, his residence. This property had been built by his great grandfather in 1790, and has remained in the family since that time. He was one of the founders of the Southern Vermont Artists Association in Manchester, Vermont, and served on numerous local committees in Springfield. His interest in restricting billboards caused him to enter politics with the view of interesting the state legislature to pass restrictive laws against this menace. He served in the 1939 Assembly, representing the town of Springfield. His wife predeceased him in 1945. They had no children.
Vermont Splendor
Name/Title
Vermont Splendor
Lexicon
Description
Ink on paper print from etching by Luigi Lucioni entitled "American Splendor" and signed by the artist. Image depicts a plowed field in the foreground with a copse of trees to the right. A village with church steeple can be seen in the far middle-ground at the base of mountains rising left to right. About 1/2 of the image is sky with stylized clouds.
Acquisition
Accession
2014.60
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Made/Created
Artist Information
Lucioni, Luigi (1900-1988)
Artist
Date made
1942
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2014.60.1321
Context
Luigi Lucioni was born in Italy in 1900 but was raised in New York. He studied etching and engraving at Cooper Union and painting at the National Academy of Design. He split his time between New York and Vermont. At one point, Life Magazine called Vermont's "Painter Laureate."
A member of Southern Vermont Artists in Manchester, his paintings and prints of Vermont were regularly exhibited during their yearly shows. His traditional Vermont landscapes contrasted with his modern portrait paintings of such contemporary artists as Ethel Waters and Paul Cadmus.
Lucioni had connections to the Italian community of Barre and a number of his works ended up at the Aldrich Library and ultimately at the Vermont History Center. The contents of his Manchester studio were donated to Vermont Historical Society by later owners.
A member of Southern Vermont Artists in Manchester, his paintings and prints of Vermont were regularly exhibited during their yearly shows. His traditional Vermont landscapes contrasted with his modern portrait paintings of such contemporary artists as Ethel Waters and Paul Cadmus.
Lucioni had connections to the Italian community of Barre and a number of his works ended up at the Aldrich Library and ultimately at the Vermont History Center. The contents of his Manchester studio were donated to Vermont Historical Society by later owners.
Vermont Vietnam
Name/Title
Vermont Vietnam
Lexicon
Description
"Vermont Vietnam" political print - yellow and blue print on red paper. Matted with red.
Three Vietnamese, two wearing Asian rice hats are in the background.
Middleground is filled with agricultural images including barns, silos, tractors, plowed fields, animals, people and hills.
Foreground VERMONT with red outline and blue centers and VIETNAM in solid yellow.
Three Vietnamese, two wearing Asian rice hats are in the background.
Middleground is filled with agricultural images including barns, silos, tractors, plowed fields, animals, people and hills.
Foreground VERMONT with red outline and blue centers and VIETNAM in solid yellow.
Acquisition
Accession
2018.8
Made/Created
Artist Information
Douglas, John
Artist
Date made
1972
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2018.8.1
Vermont Winter
Name/Title
Vermont Winter
Lexicon
Description
Oil on canvas painting of a Vermont hill village on a gray winter day. Central to the painting is a cluster of three dwellings surrounded by hills, trees, brush and snow. Signed by artist Bernard Corey in lower left corner. Gallery label on back of work from Atlantic Gallery gives the title as "Vermont Winter."
Acquisition
Accession
2017.19
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Corey, Bernard (1914-2000)
Artist
Date made
1970-1980
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2017.19.1
Context
Bernard Corey (1914-2000) is a 20th-century American Impressionist painter. While Corey is identified with the historic Gloucester-Rockport Art Colony, he worked in many locations throughout New England and was associated with the Salmagundi Club in New York City, the Hudson Valley Art Association, the Providence Water Color Club, the Guild of Boston Artists, Allied Artists of America, as well as the Rockport Art Association.
A self-trained artist, Corey worked as a house painter as a young man, his landscape painting remaining a hobby. Then, in the early 1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to art and lived for some time in Rockport, honing his skills in the company of other artists. Throughout his life, Corey was admired by other artists for his dedication to painting on location, for long hours, in all kinds of weather. He went so far as to attach an easel to the dashboard of his car so that he could paint in rain, sleet or snow.
A self-trained artist, Corey worked as a house painter as a young man, his landscape painting remaining a hobby. Then, in the early 1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to art and lived for some time in Rockport, honing his skills in the company of other artists. Throughout his life, Corey was admired by other artists for his dedication to painting on location, for long hours, in all kinds of weather. He went so far as to attach an easel to the dashboard of his car so that he could paint in rain, sleet or snow.
View of Montpelier
Interpretative Labels
Name/Title
View of Montpelier
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Oil-on-masonite landscape painting showing Montpelier, Vermont from across the river. The painting is done in thick, heavy strokes. There is a metal bridge on the right side, and church steeple in the center.
Acquisition
Accession
1989.45
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Made/Created
Artist Information
Barnett, Herbert Phillip (1910-1972)
Artist
Date made
circa 1940
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1989.45.1
Context
The bulk of Herbert Barnett's work represents his life in New England. His distinctive style of painting draws upon both an American tradition of representation as well as the innovation of the Cubists.
Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Barnett grew up in Providence. While still in high school, he began to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1927-31, he studied at the Boston Museum School and soon acquired a reputation for technical proficiency. After art school, Barnett spent three years traveling and studying in Europe. From the time of his return to the United States in 1934 until 1940, he divided his time between Cape Ann, Mass. and New York City.
In 1940, he became the head of the Worcester Museum School and began summering in Vermont, where he produced a distinctive group of landscapes of quarries, farms, bridges and mills. In 1951, Barnett became dean of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the school of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Until his death in 1972, he remained at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, returning to central Massachusetts each summer to paint.
Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Barnett grew up in Providence. While still in high school, he began to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1927-31, he studied at the Boston Museum School and soon acquired a reputation for technical proficiency. After art school, Barnett spent three years traveling and studying in Europe. From the time of his return to the United States in 1934 until 1940, he divided his time between Cape Ann, Mass. and New York City.
In 1940, he became the head of the Worcester Museum School and began summering in Vermont, where he produced a distinctive group of landscapes of quarries, farms, bridges and mills. In 1951, Barnett became dean of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the school of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Until his death in 1972, he remained at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, returning to central Massachusetts each summer to paint.
Vigilio and Ruth Cecchini
Name/Title
Vigilio and Ruth Cecchini
Lexicon
Description
Vigilio and Ruth Cecchini. Formal black and white portrait with Ruth sitting slightly in front of Vigilio - he is balding with dark hair and wearing a shirt, tie (with a print) and jacket and she has short curled dark hair, and is wearing a jewel neck (dress?) with a double strand of pearls. She has a full smile and he just has a hint of a smile.
Framed at the "Bangor Picture Framing Co. 102 Exchange St., Bangor, ME." There is a green sticker in the upper right corner on the back. Written in pencil on the back (upper left corner) is: "25th Anniversary / 10-31-56 / at Mario's Restaurant / Barre, Vt."
Framed at the "Bangor Picture Framing Co. 102 Exchange St., Bangor, ME." There is a green sticker in the upper right corner on the back. Written in pencil on the back (upper left corner) is: "25th Anniversary / 10-31-56 / at Mario's Restaurant / Barre, Vt."
Acquisition
Accession
2010.72
Artwork Details
Medium
Pastel
Subject Person
Cecchini, Vigilio (1909-1997), Copping, Ruth Agnes (1912-2005)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Connelly, Bud
Artist
Date made
1956
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2010.72.24
Context
This composition was created by Bud Connelly for Vigilio (Jiggs) and Ruth (Maggie) Cecchini's 25th Wedding Anniversary in 1956. He used two photographs taken that night as source material to create what looks like a formal double portrait. Jiggs was a pharmacist and worked for pharmacies in Barre and St. Albans. His large and extended family were part of the vibrant Italian community in Barre, Vermont during the early and mid-twentieth century.
Violin
Name/Title
Violin
Lexicon
Description
Tin fiddle, bow and case. The fiddle and case were made by Forrest "Strad" Gray of East Calais, Vt. The fiddle has a tin body, a tin and wooden neck and a wooden bridge. The keys are both wooden and metal. The bow has been repaired and is commercial. The case is wooden and painted black. The body of the fiddle has been painted gold. This was used in "Always in Season," an exhibit of Vermont's folk art in 1982-3.
Forrest Gray was a tinsmith and self-taught musician. His began playing the fiddle as a young boy and was nicknamed "Stradivarius" which was shortened to "Strad" Gray made the body of this fiddle from the tin he was using to make water pails. If you look closely you will see other repairs he made using any materials that were convenient. A regular participant in concerts of the Northeast and Old Time Fiddler Associations, he won the Ninth Annual Old-Time Fiddlers Contest held at Craftsbury Common in 1971. Gray lived to be 103 and was a popular and entertaining member of the East Calais community.
See Worksheet for more information.
Forrest Gray was a tinsmith and self-taught musician. His began playing the fiddle as a young boy and was nicknamed "Stradivarius" which was shortened to "Strad" Gray made the body of this fiddle from the tin he was using to make water pails. If you look closely you will see other repairs he made using any materials that were convenient. A regular participant in concerts of the Northeast and Old Time Fiddler Associations, he won the Ninth Annual Old-Time Fiddlers Contest held at Craftsbury Common in 1971. Gray lived to be 103 and was a popular and entertaining member of the East Calais community.
See Worksheet for more information.
Acquisition
Accession
1986.26
Made/Created
Manufacturer
Gray, Forrest (1884-1987)
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood, Tin, Metal, Mother of Pearl
Entry/Object ID
1986.26.1a-c
Web Links and URLs
Wampum
Name/Title
Wampum
Lexicon
Description
Wampum (shell beads) on cotton string with red silk ribbon
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1780
Materials
Material
Shell
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.23
Context
This object is tiny but is one of the few known surviving Wabanaki wampum strings, and since it is from the southeastern quadrant of the American Abenaki region, is exceedingly important to our narrative. It probably dates from 1810-1850 by the string and silk ribbon.
Wampum Belt
Name/Title
Wampum Belt
Lexicon
Description
Mother-of-pearl, cylindrical beads arranged in five ranks on leather thongs.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Artist Information
Wiseman, Frederick M.
Artist
Date made
1962
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Beaded Section
Materials
Material
Mother of Pearl, Leather
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.166
Context
This is a wampum belt made in 1962 by Frederick Wiseman from the poorly dyed mother-of pearl wampum beads that were all that could be purchased at the time. He believes that he purchased the leather and shell beads from Grey Owl Indian Crafts Company. This was his first attempt at loom-beaded Native craft, the first of maybe 30 made since then.
Water Cooler
Name/Title
Water Cooler
Lexicon
Description
Large stoneware baluster- or vase-shaped water cooler with molded and painted decoration in blue. The front is decorated with a molded design of Diana, a woman in a short toga standing with a deer and reaching back for an arrow. The sides are molded with flowers. Between the molded decorations are blue slip designs of floral vines. Toward the bottom is a round hole. Above the hole is the incised inscription, "4/L. W. Fenton/St. Johnsbury".
Water cooler made by L.W. Fenton, St. Johnsbury, VT. Incised mark: "4 / L.W. Fenton / St. Johnsbury" Gray stoneware with blue slip and applied decorations including the figure of Diana, flowers, vines and foliage.
Water cooler made by L.W. Fenton, St. Johnsbury, VT. Incised mark: "4 / L.W. Fenton / St. Johnsbury" Gray stoneware with blue slip and applied decorations including the figure of Diana, flowers, vines and foliage.
Use
Used to insulate and dispense water or other cold beverages
Acquisition
Accession
1945.47
Made/Created
Date made
1845-1855
Manufacturer
L. W. Fenton
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Stoneware
Entry/Object ID
1945.47
Context
Made in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Water Drum
Name/Title
Water Drum
Lexicon
Description
Small drum made from wooden staves and banded with wooden hoops and metal staples. Probably an adapted firkin. Skin drumhead is stretched over the top. Red and black flannel, decorative band (probably added later). Interior of the drum is sealed with asphalt.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Materials
Material
Wood, Leather
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.84
Context
This typical Northeastern Water Drum was made from a mid/late 19th century firkin with stapled hoops. It was modified by thinning the lip of the firkin and sealing the inside with asphalt. Although this came from southern New Hampshire, there is no historical references for water drums being historically used in that area.
Water Serpent Carving
Name/Title
Water Serpent Carving
Lexicon
Description
Bowed wooden stick carved with stylized scales, head, and mouth.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood
Subject
Water Serpent
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1950
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.155
Waterville, Vermont
Name/Title
Waterville, Vermont
Type of Painting
Lexicon
Description
Landscape painting showing a town nestled amid rolling hills and mountains. The town consists of a white church with pointed steeple, a white municipal building with a cupola behind, and several red and white building before. The hills in the foreground are green with tall, thin trees. The hills in the middle ground are golden, indicating agricultural use, and the hills/mountains in the background are dark.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.28
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil, Wood
Made/Created
Artist Information
Barrett, Robert
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2009.28.2
Context
A card tacked to the back of the frame indicates this image is entitled "Waterville" and painted by Robert Barrett.
Weeder
Name/Title
Weeder
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1975.11
Entry/Object ID
1975.11.22
Context
Collected by J. Lee Murray; No prior provenance, No known VT connection.
Whiskey Glass
Name/Title
Whiskey Glass
Lexicon
Description
Clear whiskey glass. The whiskey glass has a thin rim on a slightly flared body and circular mouth that leads down into multi-faceted indentations around the bottom of the bowl and base. The heavy base of the glass has a hollowed arch on the bottom that mirrors the curve of the bowl.
Acquisition
Accession
1958.1
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Plymouth
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
1958.1.341
Context
Owned by Calvin Coolidge
White Biconical Bead
Name/Title
White Biconical Bead
Lexicon
Description
White Biconical bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1625
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.205
White Pound Bead
Name/Title
White Pound Bead
Lexicon
Description
White pound pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Gravel, Benjamin Frederick (1895-1988)
Person or Organization
Made/Created
Date made
1625-1800
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.195
White Pound Bead
Name/Title
White Pound Bead
Lexicon
Description
White Pound pattern bead
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Made/Created
Date made
1625-1800
Materials
Material
Glass
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.204
Willis Mould
Name/Title
Willis Mould
Lexicon
Description
Small portrait of a man wearing a green suit and red shirt. He has short white hair and glasses. He is shown seated with his legs crossed.
Acquisition
Accession
1998.22
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil
Subject Person
Mould, Willis Perry (1892-1961)
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mould, Ruth Greene (1894-1979)
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1998.22.14
Willoughby Lake House
Name/Title
Willoughby Lake House
Lexicon
Description
White, three-story hotel with outbuildings featured in lower right of print. Stage coach can be seen arriving. Two steep mountain peaks frame a lake in the middle and background. The lower left features visitors watching two chained bears fight.
The print is titled: Willoughby Lake House, Westmore, VT
The lithograph is noted as from a "Sketch by Hunter" and produced by "J.H. Bufford's Lith.-Boston."
Instructions for traveling to the resort by rail, stage, or road are printed at the bottom of the piece along with the resort ownership: Bemis, Hall & Company
The print is titled: Willoughby Lake House, Westmore, VT
The lithograph is noted as from a "Sketch by Hunter" and produced by "J.H. Bufford's Lith.-Boston."
Instructions for traveling to the resort by rail, stage, or road are printed at the bottom of the piece along with the resort ownership: Bemis, Hall & Company
Acquisition
Accession
2006.69
Relationships
Related Places
Place
Lake Willoughby
Lake
Westmore
Town
Orleans County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Related Publications
Northern Tourist
Publication
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink
Subject
Willoughby Lake House
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1854
Manufacturer
Bufford's Lithography
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
2006.69.9
Context
Alonzo Bemis of Lyndon, along with investors, constructed the Willoughby Lake House in 1852. By 1854, when this print was produced, the resort was very popular and growing fast. Summer guests took the Passumpsic Railroad and then the Willoughby Lake and White Mountains Stage Coach operated by resort owners Bemis, Hall & Co. Guests enjoyed boating excursions, guided angling, hikes up mounts Pisgah and Hor, or relaxation on the large lawns. The Lake House was a popular resort and large part of the Westmore economy right up until it was destroyed by fire in 1907. It was never rebuilt and much of the area is now a private campground.
Winter
Name/Title
Winter
Type of Painting
Description
Mostly black and white watercolor on paper depicting a small house in the background, viewed through two trees in the foreground. Titled by the artist in lower right, "Winter."
Acquisition
Accession
2023.10
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Made/Created
Artist Information
Healy, Arthur Kelly David (1902-1978)
Artist
Entry/Object ID
2023.10.1
Context
Artist Arthur Healy had an outsized impact on Middlebury College where he was artist-in-residence and the Sheldon Museum where he worked tirelessly to expand the archives and help shepherd the creation of the Stewart-Swift research center.
Woman with Cigarette
Name/Title
Woman with Cigarette
Lexicon
Acquisition
Accession
1998.22
Made/Created
Artist Information
Mould, Ruth Greene (1894-1979)
Artist
Dimensions
Entry/Object ID
1998.22.15
Woman's Outfit
Name/Title
Woman's Outfit
Lexicon
Description
Overall the outfit is mainly purple with extensive beading.
a. Blouse - Little, thin white edged “vine” leaves to stylistically link it to the skirt and belt; but that is it. All the larger blouse leaves have white, two- and three-bead wide margins with a colored fill beaded at 45-degrees to the leaf axis such as are commonly found in Maine and New Brunswick foliar examples. The leaves are interspersed with circular white sun/moon discs with a central “padre”-sized bead. They are all connected to each other with vines of red, white-heart beads, nary a transparent or clear bead to be seen! Edging is the old and typical zigzag band, executed in white. Everything is edged with metallic braid.
b. Skirt
c. Tasset Belt - The tassets have three-tone leaves with midribs and transparent red and clear beads, presaging the Late Niagara Style, as well as a five-pointed star with little starbursts in the corners, also occasionally seen on later Niagara beadwork. The tasset also has thin, white edged leaflets connected to the larger leaves and the star by vining stems executed in transparent, red beads. These colorful leaflets with white borders do not occur in other coeval examples of Iroquoian beadwork that I am familiar with. There are rare leaflets of similar design that occur (with colored, not white, margins) on much earlier Early Niagara Bead-work but nothing from the late 19th century.
d & e. Leggings - The leggings have the bead-work appliqued directly to the body. There is also a unique (to Wiseman's knowledge) flexible legging lacing system to allow the tapered legging tube to closely conform to the woman's calf shape.
f & g. Moccasins - Niagara-style (Haudenosaunee)
a. Blouse - Little, thin white edged “vine” leaves to stylistically link it to the skirt and belt; but that is it. All the larger blouse leaves have white, two- and three-bead wide margins with a colored fill beaded at 45-degrees to the leaf axis such as are commonly found in Maine and New Brunswick foliar examples. The leaves are interspersed with circular white sun/moon discs with a central “padre”-sized bead. They are all connected to each other with vines of red, white-heart beads, nary a transparent or clear bead to be seen! Edging is the old and typical zigzag band, executed in white. Everything is edged with metallic braid.
b. Skirt
c. Tasset Belt - The tassets have three-tone leaves with midribs and transparent red and clear beads, presaging the Late Niagara Style, as well as a five-pointed star with little starbursts in the corners, also occasionally seen on later Niagara beadwork. The tasset also has thin, white edged leaflets connected to the larger leaves and the star by vining stems executed in transparent, red beads. These colorful leaflets with white borders do not occur in other coeval examples of Iroquoian beadwork that I am familiar with. There are rare leaflets of similar design that occur (with colored, not white, margins) on much earlier Early Niagara Bead-work but nothing from the late 19th century.
d & e. Leggings - The leggings have the bead-work appliqued directly to the body. There is also a unique (to Wiseman's knowledge) flexible legging lacing system to allow the tapered legging tube to closely conform to the woman's calf shape.
f & g. Moccasins - Niagara-style (Haudenosaunee)
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Abenaki Cultural Conservancy
Ethnography
Notes
Kahnawake, Haudenosaunee
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1920
Entry/Object ID
L2024.3.137a-g
Context
Originally of Abenaki (or Kahnawake Mohawk) make, it was used in the Middle Connecticut River Valley and is in exquisite condition. It consists of a blouse, skirt, leggings and tasset belt covered with beautiful beadwork. There is a dated 1919 “whimsey” that has somewhat similar designs such as the “stars” on the tassets or the thin, white-outlined leaflets seen on all parts of the outfit. This is the only evidence of a date. Abenakis such as former Koas Chief Nancy Millette and Missisquoi Citizen Fred Ball had early 20th century ancestors who apparently wore such lavish outfits in traveling medicine shows.
This outfit is possibly the most complete and beautiful example of beadwork in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. It is possibly Abenaki made, almost certainly Abenaki worn, woman's ensemble purchased in Pennsylvania, it comes with a significant amount of oral history:
"It belonged to my great grandmother. It was stored in my great grandmother’s closet, then my grandmother’s, and then back in the '60s my father had it stored away in an old suitcase, and it's been sitting there ever since, so there's really not much discoloration or damage, as far as I can tell."
Peter-------
Pocono Lake, PA
10/26/2021
This outfit is possibly the most complete and beautiful example of beadwork in the Abenaki Cultural Conservancy collection. It is possibly Abenaki made, almost certainly Abenaki worn, woman's ensemble purchased in Pennsylvania, it comes with a significant amount of oral history:
"It belonged to my great grandmother. It was stored in my great grandmother’s closet, then my grandmother’s, and then back in the '60s my father had it stored away in an old suitcase, and it's been sitting there ever since, so there's really not much discoloration or damage, as far as I can tell."
Peter-------
Pocono Lake, PA
10/26/2021
Wood Fragment
Name/Title
Wood Fragment
Lexicon
Description
Roughly square wooden block. A typed card tacked to the wood reads, "Oak and cannon ball from the Royal Savage, Benedict Arnold's flagship, on Lake Champlain in the Revolution."
Acquisition
Accession
1960.57
Relationships
Related Events
American Revolutionary War
Event
Related Person or Organization
Arnold, Benedict (1741-1801), Howes, Phillip Sheridan (1875-1941)
Related Places
Place
Lake Champlain
Lake
Burlington
City
Chittenden County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1960.57.4a
Context
Taken from the Royal Savage, Benedict Arnold's flagship, in Lake Champlain.
Wool Finger
Name/Title
Wool Finger
Lexicon
Description
A one-piece wooden wool finger with a slightly bulbous handle. The bottom of the piece is rounded and the underside is concave.
Acquisition
Accession
1976.43
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Wood
Entry/Object ID
1976.43.204
Writing Slate
Name/Title
Writing Slate
Lexicon
Description
Writing slate framed in green-painted wood. Incised in slate at top of one side are the words, "Mary H. Green, Windsor, Vt. August 1846 - 1852".
Acquisition
Accession
1976.10
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Tucker, Mary Harriet Green (1838-1869)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Windsor
Town
Windsor County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
1846
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Slate, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1976.10.5
Context
Used by Mary Harriet Green of Windsor, Vermont at Meriden Academy. Though Mary died at the age of 30, she made a name for herself locally by publishing several poems in the newspaper.
Writing Slate
Name/Title
Writing Slate
Lexicon
Description
Rectangular slate surrounded by wooden frame. Animals and people are engraved on one side of the frame, and a ruler is engraved on the other side. There are holes around the edge of the frame through which natural yarn has been threaded. Red felt surrounds the wooden border, held on by the yarn.
Acquisition
Accession
1955.36
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Callan, Catherine Cutler Gove
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Poultney
Town
Rutland County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1885
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Materials
Material
Yarn, Wood, Slate
Entry/Object ID
1955.36
Context
Used by Catherine Gove in the Poultney village school
Writing Slate
Name/Title
Writing Slate
Lexicon
Description
Slate in wooden frame. There is a small piece of slate missing from one of the corners.
Acquisition
Accession
1958.26
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Hale, Jessie B. Gokey (1879-1962)
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Northfield
Town
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Slate, Wood
Entry/Object ID
1958.26.4
Context
Used by Jessie Gokey Hale at school in Northfield, Vermont
Yard Sign
Name/Title
Yard Sign
Lexicon
Description
A red, black, and green yard sign. White drawings of chains start in the upper left and lower right corners and continue until the primary message text starts. The sign reads, "Pass Proposal 2 ...slavery and indentured servitude in any form are prohibited. Abolish Slavery Vermont #AbolishSlaveryVT," in white text. The Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and Vermont Interfaith Action logos are printed in white in the bottom left corner. The sign is double-sided and has the same message printed on both sides.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.11
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Vermont Racial Justice Alliance
Vermont Interfaith Action
Made/Created
Date made
2022
Manufacturer
Allied Printing
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2023.11.3
Context
Proposal 2 was a suggested amendment to the Vermont constitution that would prohibit slavery and indentured servitude in any context. Previously, the Vermont constitution prohibited slavery, "unless bound by the person’s own consent,after arriving to such age, or bound by law for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, or the like" starting in 1777.
Web Links and URLs
Yard Sign
Name/Title
Yard Sign
Lexicon
Description
Yard or picket sign with a royal blue background and yellow lettering that reads, "Becca Balint For U.S. Congress". A smaller inscription at the bottom reads, "Paid for by Becca Balint for Vermont," written in the same yellow color and outlined by a yellow box. The sign is double-sided and has the same message on both sides.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.11
Made/Created
Date made
2022
Manufacturer
Allied Printing
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Cardboard
Entry/Object ID
2023.11.4
Yard Sign
Name/Title
Yard Sign
Lexicon
Description
A two-sided sign that features a picture of the park in downtown Barre with the words "BARRE STRONG" printed atop the scene in bold, white lettering. The other side is green with white printing that says, "DONATE TO THE BARRE COMMUNITY RELIEF FUND/BARRE STRONG". There is a qr code in the top left corner.
Acquisition
Accession
2023.26
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Barre Community Relief Fund
Person or Organization
Related Places
Place
Barre City
City
Washington County
County
Vermont
State/Province
United States of America
Country
North America
Made/Created
Date made
2023
Manufacturer
C.W. Creative
Dimensions
Materials
Material
Coroplast
Entry/Object ID
2023.26.1
Context
This sign was displayed in Barre City after flooding in July of 2023 and is in support of Barre residents who were affected by the catastrophe.
Web Links and URLs
