Artifacts (object genre)

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This item is a vintage egg beater, probably from the early 20th century. This item was donated along with Artifcat-062, Hand Grinder.

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This item is a vintage hand grinder, probably from the early 20th century. It's a small jar with a screw-on lid, fitted with a spout and handcrank. Generally, these were suited for hand-grinding nuts or small quanities of dried fruit or grains. This item was donated along with Artifcat-061, Egg beater.

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The bottle is amber with a sticker label that wraps around majority of the bottle's body. The label has a brick pattern at the top, followed by an orange line, and below the line is all maroon. The front of the bottle says "HARDYWOOD" above a maroon gobbler that is inside a white diamond. Below the gobbler is the text "FIGHTIN' HOKIES LAGER ALCOHOL 5.0% BY VOL . 12 FL OZ." The same logo and text is repeated on the side of the bottle.

Abstract Vintage turn-key ice cream disher (aka scoop), c.1878. This disher has a faded stamp that reads, in part: "Clewell's / Pat. / Nov (12?) / (1878?). Given the history of this and similar items, it could be from as late as the 1910s. This item is not an exact match (handles differ), but it similar to a disher held by the National Museum of American...

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This collection includes a parade badge for Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization in Richmond, Virginia.

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This collection contains the photographs of Earl Palmer, an award-winning photographer from Cambria, Virginia, whose work depicted the landscape and traditional culture of rural Appalachia in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Materials date frome 1880 to 1989, but are primarily from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection is divided among the following series: photographs, duplicate photographs, written materials, oversize photographs, and artifacts.

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This collection contains five American politcal buttons from the first half of the 20th century, primarily during World War I. The collection contains a button from the Liberty Loan of 1917, a button from the United War Work Campaign (1918), a button from the Fourth Liberty Loan (1918), a button from the Virginia Council of Defense (ca. 1917-1918), and a U. S. Senate campaign button supporting Harry Byrd (1940).

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The VPI Dog Doll is a maroon doll with the letters "VPI" on its side in orange.