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Apothecary Bottle

2010.72.9a-b

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".

Used at the Cecchini Pharmacy in Barre, Vermont

Basketball

2024.16.21

Orange-brown basketball with traditional black lines and numerous inscriptions. From top around the inscriptions read, "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"

Daryl Wetzel was a 1979 graduate of the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, Vermont, 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.).

Candy Dish

1964.63.139

Small Sevres porcelain dish. The dish has a dark blue glaze with gilt floral sprays inside the dish and two gilt bands around the outside. The dish rests on a shallow round pedestal base.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Cap

1964.63.107

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 Mme Marcel Hamet, Guingamp."

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Cap

1964.63.110

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Clock

1964.63.125

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Collar

1964.63.54

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Doll

1964.63.20

Doll with automatically-closing eyes. The doll has red hair and painted face and limbs. She wears a black velvet hat tied with a white ribbon and a white apron over a white blouse and green wool skirt.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Doll

1964.63.38

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

First Aid Kit

2006.61.28a-y

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. There are other directives and instructions printed and written throughout the box.

The box contains the following supplies:
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

Sent to Barre, Vermont to be used in case of evacuation to a fallout shelter, 1971.

Flask

2005.29

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"

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.

Medical Test

2022.11.1

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".

Given to donor by State of Vermont to be used for testing over Christmas 2021, when the testing labs were closed.

Medicine Bottle

1997.28.16

Green glass medicine bottle with the molded inscription, "DR BAXTER'S MANDRAKE BITTERS LORD BROS PROPRIETORS BURLINGTON VT". The bottle has 12 narrow, straight sides forming a dodecagon that extends to a shallow neck and narrow, cylindrical neck.

Made for Lord Brothers of Burlington, Vermont.

Megaphone

2024.16.19

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.

Austine School for the Deaf Brattleboro, VT

Pin, Political

2019.20.9

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.

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.

Pocket Flask

2006.78.8.1 -- .67

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.

Distributed by doctors to workers in the granite industry. (Never used.)

Salver

2024.16.33

Silver-plated salver with copper base metal. The flat surface features an intricate leaf decoration etching and the edges have a gadrooned border. The center of the plate has a polished center circle bearing the inscription, "SO. NE. SKI JUMP / TOURNAMENT / 1ST PLACE CLASS A / 1954."

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 in Brattleboro, Vermont, 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.

Surgical Mask

2021.3.1

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.

Produced for the Vermont Democratic Party for the 2020 election.

Toy Car

1964.63.100

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Trivet

1964.63.64

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.

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

2024.16.5

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" in engraved block lettering.

Trophy 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.

Vase

1964.63.73

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Vase

1964.63.133

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.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Vase

1964.63.141

A tall, oval, black metal vase with copper-colored details. The bottom third of the base is solid copper-colored and shows signs of light tarnishing. The middle of the vase has a church with large flowers surrounding it in the same copper color. The word "PARiS" can be found on the right of the church beneath a flower petal. The vase tapers to a straight neck which is the same copper coloring. The vase is marked on the bottom as being from M.Flour-Paris.

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.

Vase

1964.63.159

A vase constructed from a green World War I artillery shell. The top half of the vase has gold scalloping at the top and a gold oak leaf branch beneath it. Beside the branch is a shield with the word "souvenir" etched into it. The bottom half has vertical concave fluting and the same gold outlining the ridges of the vase. The underside of the base is dated "Sept. 1917."

Given to the people of Vermont from the people of France as part of the Merci Train after World War II.