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1. Blickensderfer Model 8 Typewriter - Typewriter

   This antique typewriter, with a metal letter cylinder on a wooden base, is a Blickensderfer Model 8 typewriter, made in Stanford, Connecticut. Introduced in 1908, this model was a consdierable success. About 20,000 of the Model 8 units were sold, through 2017, accounting for about 10% of all Blickensderfer model typewriters sold. Note that the layout of the letters on the keys is different than the standard (QWERTY) keyboard letter layout of t...

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2. Butter Churn - Churn, butter

   A rounded-bottom rectangular wooden tub with iron straps at each end with a handle on top. It has 3 wooden legs and a wooden lid with cross supports and a single knob handle in center. One end reads: "Union Churn - 1st premium awarded at the Ohio, Ind., Mich, Wis., Illinois and New York State Fairs in 1865, 1866 and 1868" Mfg. by Union Mfg. Co., Toledo, Ohio". The assembly is incomplete: handle and paddle are missing.

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3. Case for Duplicator - Case

   A large sheet metal cover, square at base and rounded at top, with a wire and wood carrying handle attached. The cover is painted black, with gold lettering near top and has clamps at the base to attach to the rotary printing machine 1994.009.001. Lettering says "Rotary Neostyle No. 8-F".

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4. Cast Iron Fire Starter Pot - Fireset

   A small black cast iron fire starter pot, with three small legs, a lid, and a wire handle. This pot would be filled with a flammable liquid to facilitate fire lighting or transfer, and would be found on the hearth or near a wood stove.

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5. Cultivator, walking - Cultivator, walking

   A hand-guided, walk-behind horse-drawn cultivator. The wrought iron "J" shaped metal portion has a long forward portion with loop, to attach a horse harness, and diverges into three down-curving branches with a 4" cultivator blade on each branch. Wood handles, curved at the upper end, are attached to the metal work, at the bottom, with bolts. This device was made by Charles Graf, at his blacksmith shop, for John M. Brown.

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6. "Cyclone" broadcast seeder - Seeder, Hand Centrifugal

   A canvas bag with a canvas shoulder strap attached to a wooden frame (painted orange), with a hand crank operating a rotating platform by a gear and crank system. The bag is printed in black ink: "Cyclone-trademark- Seed Sower - patented 1925 made at - Urbana, Indiana-USA" a paper tag attached inside wood frame gives operating instructions.

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7. Farm Wagon Model - Model, patent

   Farm wagon model built by Albert Graf in 1895, a blacksmith, as a model for a patented axle steering mechanism. The back wheels measure 20" and the front wheels measure 16". The box is painted green, the wheels orange and yellow, with black accents. The restoration of this wagon to original specification and colors was done by Andrew M. Harvey III (see notebook 2001.017.1)

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8. Fire extinguishers - Extinguisher, Fire

   Wire rack holding three blue glass diamond design sided bottles; 2 large and 1 small. The 2 larger ones contain a liquid and solid fragments - all three have clay or ceramic stoppers in various stages of deterioration. Bottles are flat on four sides. From the 1870s through the early 1900s, when a small fire broke out in the interior of the home, a glass orb, known as a fire grenade, was taken from a wall mounted bracket, and thrown at the base ...

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9. Frame, contact printing - Frame, camera

   A wooden frame with brass clips on back and 2 trap doors hinged in middle. It is used as a developing holder for the exposed glass-plate negative. The back is made in halves so that one half can be raised occasionally during the printing process to ascertain the progress of developement.

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10. Grading West River Road - Negative, Glass-plate

    A glass-plate negative of the grading of West River Road, with teams of horses. Helen Lyon Spafford remembered that the road was graded and paved with gravel around 1925.

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11. Hand planter - Planter, hand

    This seed planter consists of two wood slats, each 2.5" wide with a round handle bolted to the top of each and a rectangular metal piece attached at the bottom of each. Metal pieces are hinged together to form a "bill" or trough that opens and closes. A "U" shaped container is attached to one slat with a metal piece at bottom that slides in and out to deliver a seed from container and drops to bottom. The wood was originally painted red.

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12. Hand planter - Planter, hand

    This seed planter consists of a large canvas bag with a shoulder strap, attached with a metal buckle.At the bottom of the bag is a round metal "funnel" with an adjustable metal cap to change the size of the opening. A detachable telescoping long metal funnel friction fits over the end and has 2 wire loops, at right angles to each other, at the tip. Company logo on bag: "Horn - trademark - seed sower -mfg by the Cyclone Seeder co., Urbana, Ind. --...

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13. Jack, wagon - Jack, wagon

    A homemade device, consisting of two wooden 2" x 4" boards banded together with iron strips bolted through and a wooden handle with a rounded end as a cam to force the two wooden strips apart. One strip has two notches for axle. The wooden handle is 18" long.

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14. Meat grinder - Grinder, Meat

    Wooden sausage grinder with long handle and wooden teeth on rollers inside

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15. Meat Grinder - Grinder, meat

    A large metal meat grinder: hand-cranked auger inside, a wide flared opening on top of one end of metal cylinder and a threaded ring, holding flat piece with many holes, on the other end of the cylinder. Its four legs are screwed to a long oak plank. Embossed writing reads: "Enterprise Tinned Meat Chopper" & "Pat. Jan 30, 83 - APL 13.86 - Philadelphia, U". Hopper says "No. 22".

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16. Mimeograph - Duplicator

    This rotary hand-operated printing machine has a rotating (partial) cylinder of sheet brass full of small holes, a cylindrical ink container supported by a cast metal frame, all mounted on a mahagany-colored wood base. There is a matching wood paper collecting tray. Hand crank is broken off at base. This model has counting and adjustment mechanisms.

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17. Oliver No. 9 Printype typewriter - Typewriter

    This typewriter has a black heavy cast iron base with an "ear" on each side, consisting of the typebars, with an unusual type-arm arrangement: Inverted "U" shaped arm on left and right sides. Gold lettering on back " The Printype Oliver Typewriter-Pat Nov 5, 1912". Gold lettering on front of base " Manufactured by the The Oliver Typewriter Co., Chicago, USA No. 9" . There is also a black oilcloth cover which is in poor condition. This device...

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18. Seed planter - Planter, hand

    Hand-operated seed planter: consists of rectangular jaws of sheet metal hinged at top -- closed by 2 springs. Long curved metal piece attached to jaws: when shoved into ground, lever pops open jaws. Step pedal attached to wooden handle above jaws assembly attached to wooden handle 28" long.

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