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Nursery 3D screen shot
3D Nursery Room
Log Cabin Pattern Quilt
Log Cabin Pattern Quilt
A plate that says
"Votes for Women" Plate
Cat figurine that says
Suffrage Porcelain Cat
Ivory colored flask that depicts Teddy Roosevelt wearing sash that says
Flask
wooden campaign ax
Wooden Ax
This small bale of cotton was presented to Mrs. Harrison during a Presidential visit to Galveston, Texas, April 18, 1891. It is covered on all sides with a grosgrain silk fabric, but the fabric comes around the two wide sides partially leaving a small
Small Bale of Cotton
William Henry Harrison Bootjack
Bootjack
Crazy quilt with velvet boarder, mostly silk fabric in the pattern. Signatures include, Rutherford B. Hayes, Mrs. James K. Polk, John Wanamaker, Julia D. Grant, W. T. Sherman / general, Benj. Butterworth / Ohio, Agnes Author McElroy, Grover Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, T. DeWitt Talmage, and John J. Ingalls.
Signature Crazy Quilt
Oak case with iron dumbbell shaped weights (5) on ropes to be pulled, eight sets of wooden dumbbells and pair of Indian clubs. Metal plate:
Gymnasium
Wooden cigar box with inlaid top that says
Cigar Box
Marked near bottom center:
Bird's Eye View of World's Columbian Exposition
Heavy white paper, brown of gold printing with cardboard mat attached.
Souvenir of trip to California Poem

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