Museum Objects Monthly Archives: May 2007
Babcock's Revolutionary Dairy Invention
Babcock butterfat tester set used in Adams County, Wisconsin, c. 1895. (Museum Object #1948.589; donated to WHS by Elsie Schieber Patrick) Wisconsin will always be known as America's Dairyland, but there is more to the moniker than just catchy slogan...
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Posted May 31, 2007
UW Union Terrace Sunburst Chair
Deauville-style chair used at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota, 1930s. (Museum object #1982.271.9) When the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Union first opened on the shore of Madison's Lake Mendota on October 5, 1928, it was...
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Posted May 24, 2007
Warner's 'Newfangled' Speedometer
Warner "Auto-Meter," Model K-2, made by the Warner Instrument Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, c. 1906-1910. (Museum object #1989.81.1) When automobiles began taking over roads across the country in the late nineteenth century, their drivers had no reliable way to tell...
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Posted May 17, 2007
CCC Trunk
Trunk used by Werner Brunner while he worked on Civilian Conservation Corps projects in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1934-1935. (Museum object #1990.165.26,A) During the Depression of the 1930s, many young, unmarried, and unemployed men jumped at the opportunity to join...
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Posted May 10, 2007
Hopewellian Human Figurine
Human figurine fragment made of non-tempered, smoothed clay, c. 100 - 200 A.D., found at the Pine River site in Richland County, Wisconsin. (Museum object # 2004.5.1) From June to October 1998, archaeologists of Archaeological Research, Inc. of Middleton, Wisconsin...
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Posted May 3, 2007
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